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Your summer with Chutzpod
Welcome back to Chutzstack, the Substack for Chutzpod listeners, accomplices, spiritual seekers, and friends.
You can listen to every episode and donate to support the podcast any time on our website.
July 19, 2024 // 14 Tamuz 5784
Our bathing suits are drying on the rack, our ACs are cranked, and we’ve grabbed the aloe for our sunburns: we’re back! At least on Chutzstack.
We’re deep in preparations for our next season (returning in September) but need your help. We need your questions!
In honor of the month of Elul, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, we are exploring themes of the high holidays. Do you have questions about forgiveness, starting again, unfinished business, or what’s holding you back? We are here to help you.
If you have a Big Life Question that is burning in your pocket, please send it our way. We want to hear from you.
Send all your questions to chutzpod@gmail.com or submit on our website.
Chutzpod Book Club
This week we asked you what books by Jewish authors or books about Jews you’ve enjoyed recently (excluding the Torah, of course). We received some great suggestions so far, but keep them coming in the comments. May this inspire your summer reading our increase your TBR pile exponentially.
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
In 1980, Carl Fletcher was kidnapped from his driveway and held for ransom. After being returned a week later, his family moves on with their lives, knowing that their money may have endangered them but also gave them their safety. Now nearly 40 years later, it becomes clear that every member of the family hasn’t gotten over the kidnapping.
From publisher Random House:
“Long Island Compromise spans the entirety of one family's history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives' tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.”
Support your local bookstore by purchasing Long Island Compromise from Bookshop.
Before We Go…
Chutzpod is a labor of love from the entire production team: Rabbi Shira, Hanna, Heather Marie, and Robin, and we want to keep sharing your stories that help us all make meaning of our lives.
We cannot do this without you. So many of you have opened your hearts and wallets to support Chutzpod. We are grateful for your generosity, especially during this economic uncertainty.
Donate to Chutzpod. It can be your mitzvah for the week.1
Shabbat Shalom, Chutzsquad. We hope you’re surviving this heat.
Hopefully one of many, but we’ll take this one.