How to Be a Jew … in Los Angeles right now

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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History-making wild fires have been raging nearly out of control across the Los Angeles area, destroying homes, businesses, schools, and even synagogues. How is the community responding, and what can the greater jewish community do? Rabbi Beau Shapiro joins us to give a clergy’s eye view on how our faith helps us cope with loss and events beyond our control. Support Links: Nechama Disaster Relief Los Angeles Fire Department Fund Baby2Baby Wildfire GoFundMe spreadsheet for vetted families who are impacted MULAN Resources hub Hosted by Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, each episode of How to Be a Jew takes a look at a current, cultural topic and what it means for us as Jews, and how we react to it because we are Jews. Want to send us an email? Send it off to [email protected] For more podcasts, visit tabletmag.com/podcasts

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Be a Jew.
0:09.0	Typically, your Welcome to How to Be a Jew.
0:23.4	Typically, your weekly guide to traipsing through Jewish life in the most Jewish way possible.
0:30.0	But this isn't a typical week.
0:31.8	I'm your host, Courtney Hazlett, joined as always by Rabbi Diana Fursko and our intrepid producer Joshua Cross.
0:40.0	We're coming to you early and we're coming to you with a totally different type of episode
0:43.9	that you've gotten used to hearing and that's because Los Angeles is on fire.
0:49.2	So this is affecting so many of us, people we know, relatives, community members, family, friends, and strangers we just feel a ton of compassion for.
1:00.9	But Courtney, it's also affecting you.
1:03.2	So my first question is, how are you?
1:06.4	What's going on?
1:08.3	I don't know, actually.
1:10.5	I mean, I'm answering the first part of your question. How are you?
1:13.4	I truly don't know. I was in New York City, actually, when the fires broke out. So it was very
1:22.1	surreal and strange to have this disaster happening far away. You're not near your children.
1:28.9	You're not near your home. You're not near your home.
1:38.4	I might have been accused at some point my life of being a control freak. You know, I'm used to being in control of situations, pretty good in a crisis. And there I was on the other side of the country.
1:45.7	That's part one of that. I've never experienced that. When bad things have happened, it's always
1:50.9	been right there at the tip of my fingers, you know? Right. It's hard to be away. It's really
1:57.2	hard to be away, and it's hard to check in with kids and not scare them.
2:05.4	And it's, you know, it's just hard for a million reasons. So I earlyed up my flight, got on a
2:11.3	plane, arrived in Los Angeles, and it's interesting. I lived in New York, in the New York area during 9-11. I lived in New York
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