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How to Be a Jew ... or an ally like Zarna Garg

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Tablet Magazine

Religion & Spirituality, Judaism, Society & Culture

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Zarna Garg is a comedian whose standup centers around her life as an Indian mom in America. She joins us to discuss her new book, This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir, as well as how she's supporting the Jews in a post 10/7 world.

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0:00.0

Shalom. Hello, what is up. Welcome to How to Be a Jew. I'm your host, Courtney Hazlett. I am joined as ever by the one, the only, the fantastic. Rabbi Diana Fursko, Rabbi, welcome.

0:30.8

Oh, thank you. You flatter me. So good to be with friends. You're literally glowing today, too, for those of you who can't see.

0:38.5

Not as glowing, but definitely cheerful today.

0:41.7

Our producer, Josh Cross.

0:43.4

Hello, namaste.

0:45.1

Wow, I didn't see that one coming.

0:46.5

I was going to say it might be the light of Hashem illuminating me, but I think it's the

0:50.1

overhead lighting fluorescent in my office, but whatever.

0:53.8

But hey, we'll take what we got. Tadomato.

0:55.6

We are pivoting this episode. We're doing something we have yet to do on how to be a Jew.

1:00.8

And that is bringing someone who is not a Jew into how to be a Jew.

1:04.9

But we have a really, really good reason this time around. It's because it is Zarnagard.

1:10.0

She's a comedian who has completely bootstrapped herself

1:12.9

to fame. She's a New Yorker, a mom, an immigrant from India, and has tremendous affection,

1:22.5

respect, alliances with the Jewish people. And so if ever there was a time to bring on someone who wasn't Jewish,

1:29.3

a time we are desperate for some levity, the time is now. Zarnagargh, welcome to How to Be a Jew.

1:36.5

It's a great honor to have you, our first non-Jewish guest on the show. Is that true? Oh my God.

1:43.0

Namaste to all your listeners. Thank you so much for having me.

1:46.5

I'm so honored to be here. I delighted in reading your new book. It's called This American Woman,

1:52.4

a one in a billion memoir. Got to be honest. I'm like, okay, memoir, I get it. I know what I'm going

1:57.9

into. Yeah. The bar was fine because you're lovely and you're very funny.

2:02.4

I knew it was going to be solid.

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