Group Chat: Are the Ninja Turtles Zionists? And more…

What happens when two very different Jews answer your most personal, random, and serious questions? We open up our chat for a mostly fun, sometime serious conversation about how we became friends and podcast partners, how an Orthodox matchmaker really works, what both of us got wrong about Judaism, and how we approach commemorating October 7th. We also weigh in on the very important issue of who’s our favorite from Beverly Hills 90210 and the Ninja Turtles. In this episode: How we went from a COVID-era Zoom to hosting a podcast together The unlikely friendship between a secular Israeli-New Yorker and a California Orthodox Jewish educator How does matchmaking actually work in the Chabad community? Why ChayaLeah’s grandfather’s old-school matchmaking system still inspires her Remembering October 7th: finding personal and communal ways to mourn Showing up for Jewish community even when group mourning isn’t your thing From the splitting of the Red Sea to manna from Heaven - what can you believe? This episode is normally available only to Ark+ subscribers. For our first week, we are giving you a taste of what you will get as a subscriber. 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲.  ____ More Ark Media: Listen to: Call Me Back Listen to: Ark News Daily Listen to: For Heaven Sake Listen to: Chosen People Problems Sign up for our weekly Newsletter  Follow us on social: Facebook I Instagram I X I TikTok Continue the conversation on THE FOLD, our private moderated community for Ark Media listeners. The Fold is where you can dig into all of the issues Jews around the world are facing. There you can ask questions, hear other takes, keep talking about it with people who care as much as you do. Learn more and join us at arkmedia.org/subscribe Credits: Beth Pearlman, Mindy Schaper, Ava Weiner, Andrej Todorovski, Martin Huergo, Mariangeles Burgos, Karina Logiohio, Leonardo Erhardt, and Ignacio Herbojo