Results for: what it takes
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow
Jul 16, 2020 •
In Big Friendship, the hosts of the hit podcast “Call Your Girlfriend” tell the story of their equally messy and life-affirming friendship in an honest and hilarious book chronicling the first decade in each other’s lives.
Jia Tolentino
Jul 20, 2020 •
To celebrate the paperback release of her New York Times bestselling debut essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino speaks with Rabbi Aaron about the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time.
The World’s Largest Book Club
Jun 25, 2020 •
Surprise: the world’s largest book club is made up of a group of Jews reading a 1,500-year-old ancient Persian text that’s 5,422 pages. Every day, Jews around the world pick up the Talmud and read a page as part of Daf Yomi (“a page a day”). It takes 7.5 years to complete the whole cycle, but along the way, you get to encounter spiritual wisdom, powerfully human characters, and fantastical legends. With Rabbi Jesse and a group of Sixth & […]
Guest House
Jan 30, 2020 •
This feature documentary follows the stories of three women in a re-entry house as they attempt to acclimate to life after being released from incarceration and battling addiction. A Q&A with co-director Hannah Dweck and others connected to the film follows the screening.
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Jan 22, 2020 •
The best-selling authors of Half the Sky and A Path Appears address the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure in Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope.
Bill Bryson
Oct 15, 2019 •
In The Body: A Guide for Occupants, the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes us on a head-to-toe, comprehensive tour of the marvel that is the human body.
National Pride Shabbat
Jun 7, 2019 •
On the night before the Capital Pride Parade, Rabbi Shira, Rabbi Laurie Green of Bet Mishpachah, and members of GLOE lead an inclusive service celebrating the diversity of DC Jewish life.
Daniel Sloss: X
Mar 3, 2019 •
One of Scotland’s most successful comedians, the 28-year-old stand-up comic performs his tenth solo show with Daniel Sloss: X.
Lori Gottlieb
Apr 4, 2019 •
In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Gottlieb—a psychotherapist and the “Dear Therapist” columnist for The Atlantic—takes us behind the scenes of a therapist’s world where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).
Ashley Blaker
Feb 10, 2019 •
Described by The New York Times as slickly funny, the stand-up comic is the first Orthodox Jewish comedian to have his own BBC show.
