Hello and welcome to Reform a podcast examining the challenges and choices of America's

largest Jewish movement. I'm Josh Cross and I'm Rabbi Diana Fersko. This week we're taking a break

from our regular interviews because we got a bunch of great mail. So we wanted to do a

little mailbox episode. If you haven't been paying close attention to the end of our episodes,

usually Diana and I have a nice long conversation and I end it with a pitch to send me your feedback

because we want to hear from you.

And so maybe this episode will inspire more of you to write in. You can send an email to

to write in. You can send an email to podcasts at tablet mag.com or record a voice memo on

your phone and send it to that address and you'll sound even better and then we can play your voice as opposed to reading for you.

And let me just say this has been so much fun for me as a first time podcast co-host.

I love seeing your letters, hearing phone calls you know reading your really good

questions seeing all the compliments but also the critiques thanks for sort of being

on this ride with us.

So without further ado, first we just want to read a couple of really nice things that people said.

Diana, do you want to read these from the Facebook group, the two right there?

No, I don't like reading compliments. We're going to read

compliments? I'm going to read them. So Shelby wrote, I teach the high

schoolers at my local Hebrew school. This episode challenged my thinking as a lot of our learning and activities are social justice based.

This episode has made me reconsider how much emphasis to put on that versus foundational Jewish text learning.

Shelby, write us again in a year.

Tell us what you did, the changes you made.

We want to know.

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