How to Be a Jew ... And an Accidental Gunslinger

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Salvador Litvak, also known as the Accidental Talmudist, is the filmmaker behind the 2005 cult classic When Do We Eat and the author of Let My People Laugh: The Greatest Jewish Jokes of All Time!. He joins us to discuss his new film, Guns and Moses, in which a small-town rabbi becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community is attacked. Guns and Moses premiered at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival in 2024 and is expected to release nationwide this summer. Sponsors: The Institute for Jewish Spirituality invites you to Mindfulness for the Climate Crisis: Resilience in a Changing World. Register at Jewishspirituality.org Join the American Technion Society for an exclusive briefing with Technion Professor Brigadier General Jacob Nagel, as he shares key finding from his report to the government on Israel’s defense technology and security needs, and the Technion’s vital role in this evolving strategy. Register at link.ats.org/security

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0:00.0	Shalom, hello, what is up?
0:22.2	Welcome to How to Be a Jew.
0:23.4	I'm Courtney Hazelit, and I'm joined as ever by the radiant Rabbi Diana Fursko.
0:29.4	It's a beautiful day in New York.
0:30.7	Is it really?
0:31.5	Yeah, sunshining, 60 degrees, nothing better.
0:34.5	Oh my gosh, it's like your kissing spring right there.
0:37.0	It's right on the cusp. Also,
0:39.0	uh, in the spring sunshine is Josh Cross. Hello. Hello, way better than the 10 degrees in snow
0:44.8	that I woke up to yesterday. Was it even 10 degrees though? That's the question. Tell us where you were.
0:49.8	Where'd you wake up? I was in Lake Placid and I think you might have been too. I might have been too.
0:55.6	And coming from California to Lake Placid, where it's unspeakably cold, the number of layers,
1:01.5	it was something I hadn't experienced in a very, very long time. It was like, I'm actually
1:07.2	trying to think how many layers I had on. There was compression, there was long underwear, there was the actual clothing.
1:14.2	But we're bearing the lead here, which is you and I were in Lake Placid to support our own.
1:20.3	Actually, now we're claiming him, AJ Edelman, the Israeli bobsled driver who we had on this show.
1:27.0	It was wild, and I now have an official badge from the 2020. Israeli bobsled driver who we had on this show.
1:33.6	It was wild, and I now have an official badge from the 2025 IBSF bobsled and Skeleton World Championships that says Josh Cross coach Israel.
1:38.0	And I have that badge, too, and it might now be my most prize possession.
1:42.8	We felt very important there. Damn dear. Exactly.
1:46.4	And AJ had tablet on his helmet and in several places on his sled. And it was just a real delight.
1:53.2	It was it was a lot of Jewish joy in an unexpected place. And we were so glad to have that
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