”With our youth and with our elders, with our sons and with our daughters we will go. For it is a feast of our Lord.” -Exodus 10:9
Welcome to the new season of the ‘Raising Holy Sparks’ podcast. This year, we will be focusing on Jewish concepts and will be experimenting with ways to take them out of the theoretical and turn them into the practical. Continue reading “Practical Judaism – Bo”
Episode 18: The Invisibility of Russian Speaking Jews w/Alex Zeldin
“You are a Jew, Sashinka. V soyuze, (in the Soviet Union) they made us feel dirty and ashamed of this. But you, you will be proud of it.”
— Alex’s babushka in Israel, excerpt from his Tablet Magazine article
Alexander Zeldin is the former Senior Communications Associate at the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He is currently a strategic planning senior analyst for American Express. Alex graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Political Science. As talented and creative as he is in his day job, Alex is also an active writer and political pundit. You can find his work in publications such as The Jewish Daily Forward and Tablet Magazine. You can always reach out to him directly at his Twitter account: @Wonko_the_sane_ just be sure you are bringing your A-game, because he sure will be.Continue reading “Episode 18: The Invisibility of Russian Speaking Jews w/Alex Zeldin”