Jewish Heretics Podcast

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview healer, author, visual artist and activist, Wendy Elisheva Somerson, also known as Wes. They joined us to discuss their upcoming book, "An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing", a fascinating exploration of the connections between liberationist political activism, somatic healing and Jewish identity.

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview Arielle Angel, editor-in-chief at Jewish Currents Magazine. The conversation covers a wide range of topics, including what it’s like to wrangle multiple perspectives at one of America’s most important Jewish/left institutions during a time of unprecedented Israeli violence and how to catch people when they leave Zio

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview Solomon J. Brager, the author of Heavyweight [William Morrow 2024] and other comics, a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective and the director of community engagement at Jewish Currents magazine.

In this instalment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview internationally celebrated artist, animator, writer and journalist Molly Crabapple. In a wide-ranging discussion, we touch on such topics as her long career as a visual artist, her unique relationship to language and her recent work researching and writing about the Jewish Labour Bund."

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview a distinguished panel of Toronto-based movers and shakers from the legal and activist worlds about the University of Toronto student encampment in support of Gaza and the injunction legal case that took place in late June of 2024, leading to the eventual ending of the encampment. On the panel are Professor Alejandro Pa

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview internationally celebrated singer, songwriter, actor and Yiddishist, Daniel Kahn. In this wide-ranging discussion, we discuss his Jewish upbringing in suburban Michigan; his political activism at a young age; his discovery of Klezmer and Yiddish culture; his career as a songwriter and translator on the vanguard of Jewis

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview celebrated journalist, filmmaker, professor, activist and Federal NDP candidate, Avi Lewis. We discuss his remarkable family legacy; how his Jewish upbringing has informed his politics and work; and how the horrors of the ongoing genocide in Gaza have created the potential for international solidarity and moral clarity.

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview celebrated Jewish, lesbian poet, academic, activist and author Irena Klepfisz, delving into her life-long journeys through language; the legacies of the Holocaust and the Labour Bund; and histories of queer and anti-Zionist activism. Along the way we learn about the challenges (and privileges) of coming out in the early

In this installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview members of the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition, a loose group of like-minded, Pro-Palestinian, anti-oppression organizations, formed in Toronto in the wake of the Hamas attack on Southern Israel on October 7 and the Israeli invasion of Gaza that followed. We discuss the coalition’s formation, its activities and the

In this special, bonus installment of the official UJPO Podcast, we interview Eitan Bronstein Aparicio and Eléonore Merza Bronstein, who were both guest speakers at the upcoming Split Screens Film Festival, on Sunday, October 22 at OCAD University in Toronto. Eitan and Eléonore are activists, academics, writers and founders of organizations such as Zochrot, which seeks to educate