0.43: Willow: Jewish, Witch, Jewitch?

Kristin is talking with with Rabbi Leah Jordan and Pam Grossman — writer, curator, and teacher of magical practice and history — to dig deep into Willow's Jewishness, her witchy-ness, and how those two identities are in conversation with each other (or how we *wish* they would have been!) across seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This episode contains spoilers through the end of Season 7 of Buffy! LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Rabbi Leah Jordan: @leah_solo; Kehillah North London Pam Grossman: @phantasmaphile; pamgrossman.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com MORE ON OUR GUESTS Leah Jordan is Rabbi of Kehillah North London Pam Grossman is the creator and host of internationally beloved podcast, The Witch Wave ("The Terry Gross of witches" - Vulture), the author of the critically acclaimed books, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power  (Gallery Books) and What is a Witch (Tin Can Forest Press), and the co-editor of the WITCHCRAFT volume of Taschen's Library of Esoterica series. +++ Links from Leah: how Antisemitism and white supremacy are intertwined Scholar Matthew Pateman on Willow's "disappearing Jewishness" great summary of representations of anti-Jewish archetypes in media, with scholar Jonathan Branfman Concepts in Jewish Tradition: Demons & Demonology, Is There a Jewish Afterlife?, Teshuva, or Repentance, Kabbalah and Mysticism 101, Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World, Maimonides (Rambam) and His Texts, Lilith: Lady Flying in the Darkness Genesis, chapter 4, verse 7: "Surely, if you try to do right, There is uplift. But if you do not do right Sin crouches at the door; Its urge is toward you, Yet you can be overcome it.” SVARA: a traditionally radical yeshiva, a queer yeshiva Nonbinary Hebrew Project AND kids now are doing Willow Rosenberg-themed b'nei mitzvah! Links from Pam: Ezra Rose Key of Solomon The Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia) Incantation bowls Hamsa Mezuzah Dori Midnight Rebekah Erev Kohonet Hebrew Priestess Institute Ashkenazi Herbalism by Adam Siegel and Deatra Cohen Margaret Murray Witch-cult hypothesis Gerald Gardner Wicca Starhawk Zsuzsanna Budapest Margot Adler Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Aleister Crowley Dion Fortune Tree of Life/Sefirot (Kabbalah) Kabbalah v. Cabala v. Qabalah Shedim (or sheydim) Golem opshprekherin +++ Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Learn more about our team at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/our-team  Produced by: Kristin Russo, Pam Grossman, and Leah Jordan With support from Alba Daza and Mackenzie MacDade Edited by: John Mark Nelson & Kristin Russo Logo: Kristine Thune +++ SUPPORT US ON PATREON! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast SCOOP SOME MERCH Smash the Patriarchy with Buffering T-Shirts, Hoodies, Sweatpants, Pins! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop +++ We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Alba occupies Tiohtià:ke of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. Mack, LaToya, Morgan, and John Mark occupy the lands of the Kizh Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Just Keep Fighting - Community Events Calendar: https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/just-keep-fighting-spotlight-on-community-anti-racism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices