How to Be a Jew … like a Shtisel

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Shtisel was a world wide phenomenon, and after the success of the original, co-creator Yehonatan Indursky is back with a new story, Kugel, focusing on Libbi and her dad Nuchem Shtisel during their days in Antwerp. Hadas Yaron, who stars as Libbi, joins us to talk about the difference between Shtisel and Kugel, and what makes them such compelling Jewish television. We also, of course, discuss the foodstuff that inspires the show’s title (are you team savory or sweet?). You can stream both Shtisel and Kugel on Izzy, a new streaming service from Israel. 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	Shalom, hello, and welcome to How to Be a Jew.
0:23.5	I'm your host, Courtney Hazelitt, and I'm joined as ever by Rabbi Diana Fur Scout.
0:27.4	Yay, Courtney Hazelan. I love you.
0:29.5	I love you more. I've also got Josh Cross on the line.
0:33.2	Howdy. Love for all.
0:35.0	Howdy. Guys, I hope I sound a little bit more awake than I feel.
0:40.2	It's not because I was out partying for Oscars night.
0:42.7	That's an old life of mine.
0:44.3	It's because my daughter has started to set her alarm for three in the morning on school nights slash school mornings so that she can experience the unique pleasure of getting to turn off
0:56.2	her alarm and go back to sleep. How's that going for you slash her? It's going terribly because,
1:04.6	first of all, I think there's an emergency because why is an alarm going off in the middle of the night?
1:09.2	That's how we're wired now that we're parents, right?
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:11.9	And then I don't have the unique abilities that a adolescent 13-year-old has,
1:17.9	which is like, you could just fall asleep at the drop of a hat.
1:20.4	So now I'm up.
1:21.4	And then I'm up in time for her to experience the same phenomenon at 430, 5, 530, and 6, all the things start to happen.
1:32.0	So I'm tired is what I'm saying.
1:33.5	It is deeply satisfying, you know, to go back to sleep, I guess.
1:37.8	So you're taking her side on this?
1:39.4	I mean, compassion all around.
1:41.6	I wish I could make my child go back to sleep.
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