Latest Dahlialithwick Podcast Episodes
Finding Hope (with Fred Guttenberg)
Call Your Mother - December 01, 2020 21:39 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsOn February 14, 2018, like any other day, Fred Guttenberg's two children left the house to go to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But after a former student attacked the school with a semi-automatic weapon, 17 people did not come home that day, including Fred's daughter...
Having the Hard Convo (with Jenna Arnold)
Call Your Mother - November 10, 2020 19:27 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsIn recent years, entrepreneur, activist, author, and Jewish mom of two Jenna Arnold criss-crossed the U.S., having conversations with countless groups of white women about their identities and their roles in our country. The result is her book, Raising Our Hands: How White Women Can Stop Avoidin...
The Long Haul (with Deborah Copaken)
Call Your Mother - November 03, 2020 17:46 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsOn a “totally chill” late-fall day, Jordana and Shannon chat with multi-hyphenate author, photojournalist, and producer Deborah Copaken, who’s a columnist at The Atlantic and a writer for Netflix’s Emily in Paris. The mom of three was also once an avid biker — she’d bike 20 miles on the regular,...
The Fertility Roller Coaster (with Dana Sussman)
Call Your Mother - October 27, 2020 21:35 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsFertility struggles impact so many families in myriad ways — though often the burden and the blame fall on women. Dana Sussman's story flips the narrative, when she and her husband discover that her husband is not producing any sperm. Several uncomfortable and emotional surgeries later — plus co...
CYM Rewind: Contagion (With Blima Marcus)
Call Your Mother - October 20, 2020 19:09 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsRemember the measles outbreak in 2018 to 2019? Misinformation and distrust for the government were significant factors that contributed to the dangerous spread of the highly contagious disease within many ultra-Orthodox communities in New York. In December 2019 our hosts Jordana and Shannon spok...
The Israeli TV Episode (with Lior Zaltzman)
Call Your Mother - October 13, 2020 14:35 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsWe all need some good distraction right now. So this week, Jordana and Shannon chat with Lior Zaltzman — Kveller's associate editor and our in-house TV expert — about the best Jewish and Israeli TV to watch right now. From "Shtisel" to "Tehran," they discuss the recent shows that have brought th...
Rewind: None of Your Business
Call Your Mother - October 06, 2020 16:34 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsNow that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court, many people are worrying about and talking about access to abortion here in the U.S. As such, we've decided to bring back a previous episode, which originally aired June 2019, that focuses on a very timely topic: stories of women who were already ...
She Believed in Us with Dahlia Lithwick
Call Your Mother - September 29, 2020 15:25 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon reflect with journalist Dahlia Lithwick about the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Dahlia is a senior editor at Slate, the host of the podcast, Amicus, and one of the foremost experts on the Supreme Court of the United States. And perhaps even more impressive: She had...
During the Days of Awe (with Allie Barnes)
Call Your Mother - September 22, 2020 21:34 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsDuring the Days of Awe — the time of introspection between between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — Jordana and Shannon speak with educator, mom, and avid YouTuber Allie Barnes about setting intentions and goals for the coming year, staying positive, and finding connection with our community, eve...
The Kitchen Is Over There with Carly Pildis
Call Your Mother - September 15, 2020 16:57 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsIn this week's episode, Jordana and Shannon speak with Carly Pildis, a professional grassroots organizer and writer, about American attitudes towards Black Jewish identity, why BLM needs to be a Jewish issue, and her experience raising a black, Jewish child in America today. Music "Voicemail...
The Last Word (with Bess Kalb)
Call Your Mother - September 08, 2020 19:30 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon speak with comedy writer and author Bess Kalb about her quarantine life as a new mom living with her own parents, writing for Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and her recent memoir, No One Will Tell You This But Me. Her book is about an extraordinary love story — but not necessarily one y...
Covid and Chlamydia (with Taffy Brodesser-Akner)
Call Your Mother - September 01, 2020 02:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsAfter trying for a year to arrange an interview, Jordana and Shannon finally sit down with New York Times journalist and novelist Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Yes, there is talk of New Jersey. But also, the group gets into divorce, the plight of successful doctors, being raised in a religious family,...
Not So Big Summer
Call Your Mother - June 29, 2020 20:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJennifer Weiner, the fan favorite and longtime New York Times best-selling author returns to the podcast to chat with Shannon and Jordana about her quarantine bubble with bubbe, “zhuzhing” up her Zoom room, and why some people won’t wear a friggin’ mask. “It seems like such a basic thing to ask ...
How Not to Lose Your Shit
Call Your Mother - June 16, 2020 18:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsWell, here we all are, on the cusp of a summer which for many of us will be with no camp, no vacation trips and few playdates -- but many, many opportunities to lose our shit with our kids. Carla Naumburg is a clinical social worker and the author of three parenting books. But the parenting boo...
The Second Snip
Call Your Mother - December 31, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsA very special guest joins Jordana and Shannon for the last episode of Call Your Mother’s first season: Shannon’s husband Jonathan Goldberg, who shares the story of getting a vasectomy after the couple’s third child. The group talk about the theme of responsibility for birth control, while touch...
Vodkas & Latkes
Call Your Mother - December 24, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon talk with Alysia Reiner. Alysia is known for her roles in Orange Is The New Black and The Deuce, but she’s a woman who wears many hats. She talks with Jordana and Shannon about activism, Judaism, producing, her new projects and her unique take on the world in which we live. P...
Borderline
Call Your Mother - December 17, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon recorded this episode at a live Jewish National Fund event in New Jersey (on the very bima where little Jordana once became a bat mitzvah!), speaking with Israeli community center leader Michal Uziyahu about her life as a person and parent living in Israel next to the border ...
Contagion
Call Your Mother - December 10, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsShannon is back from maternity leave, and this week she and Jordana (and Shannon’s new baby Jude) sit down with ultra-Orthodox nurse practitioner Blima Marcus. Marcus helped stop the measles outbreak of 2019 in religious communities, and talks about how to confront and combat the spread of misin...
CYM Rewind: Modern Love
Call Your Mother - December 03, 2019 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsIn this reboot of a summer episode, Jordana and Shannon talk with Jason Rosenthal on the phone from his office in Chicago. Jason’s wife Amy, a well-known author, wrote a viral Modern Love piece in The New York Times entitled “You May Want To Marry My Husband,” which was published only days befor...
Red Flags
Call Your Mother - November 26, 2019 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana talks to Good Morning America’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton about her experience after Dr. Ashton’s long-time husband died by suicide. The two discuss the unique grief and blame cycle in the aftermath of suicide, as well as how Dr. Ashton managed her high-profile care...
Prince Charming
Call Your Mother - November 19, 2019 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana brings in Kveller editor Lisa Keys to talk to Mimi Lemay. Lemay was raised ultra-Orthodox, left that way of life and married a non-Jew. She talks about how her own life influenced the way she parents her three children, one of whom realized at age two and a half that he was not the gende...
Unplugged
Call Your Mother - November 12, 2019 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana chats with filmmaker Tiffany Shlain about giving up technology one day a week and about her special assistant, Clara, who just happens to be an AI bot. Then Gram tells us how keeping a paper calendar saved her from a wildlife invasion in her kitchen. Music: "Voicemail" by Khronos ...
The Waters We Swim In
Call Your Mother - November 05, 2019 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana talks to Darcy Lockman, author of All The Rage: Mothers, Fathers And The Myth of Equal Partnership. The two discuss everything from how even moms who work outside the home carry more of the mental and actual load than dads in heterosexual relationships, why that’s the case and what we ca...
CYM Rewind: Good as Gold
Call Your Mother - October 29, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon are recuperating from the onslaught of Jewish holidays, so we’ve decided to reboot this episode with the inimitable Judy Gold. Anti-Semitism, ageism, complaints that she's mocking her late mother — nothing's too precious for comedian Judy Gold to tackle. She discusses coming ...
Grown and Flown
Call Your Mother - October 22, 2019 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon talk with Lisa Heffernan, one of the creators of the wildly successful website Grown and Flown. They tackle the challenges of how to raise independent children and then discuss what happens when those children leave home. Lots of travel and sex? Or maybe depression? Results m...
The Mikvah was Hilarious
Call Your Mother - October 15, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsThis week, the tables are turned as Jordana and Shannon interview the interviewer. Juju Chang is ABC’s anchor for Nightline, mom to three boys and a Korean-born woman who came to Judaism later in life. From when she helped her mother clean hotel rooms as a young immigrant, to becoming a powerful...
Proximity to Power
Call Your Mother - October 08, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana talks with Sarah Hurwitz who was a speechwriter for both Barack and Michelle Obama and the sparks of meaning Sarah found from her search into Judaism that she details in her new book. Jordana also talks to Shannon about how weighing a baby on a scale is a lot like weighing a turkey, and ...
CYM Rewind: Jewish in the Winter, Indian in the Summer
Call Your Mother - October 01, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana and Shannon sit down with Mira Jacob, most recently the author of the graphic memoir “Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversations,” to talk about living as a woman of color married to a Jewish man and raising an Indian-Jewish son in 2019 America. Also, she talks about what it’s like to navigate...
We Nag You Because We Love You
Call Your Mother - September 24, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsJordana is hosting solo this week, and she’s given a run for her money by her two guests! Sharon Feldstein is mom to actors Beanie Feldstein and Jonah Hill, and Patsy Noah is mom to Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Noah and Feldstein have redirected their vicarious celebrity spotlight to their initiative...
The Bottle is No Place to Live
Call Your Mother - September 17, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 240 ratingsIn this week’s episode, Jordana and Shannon sit down with Leslie Shapiro, a suburban Jewish mom of three whose life took a dramatic turn when she went from being a social drinker to becoming an alcoholic. The three talk about Leslie’s struggle with alcohol, its effects on her life and relationsh...
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