Ancient Jewish Lesbians feat. Rachel Joravsky

Historical Homos

While Lucy is off gallivanting in Europe this week, spreading hetero cheer to the needy, we invited our dear friend, Rachel Joravsky, to talk about a fascinating, but oft-overlooked group: Ancient. Jewish. Lesbians.

Rachel is a TV writer, comedian, activist, educator, and self-acclaimed power Jewess, so naturally we took a gay look together at The Book of Ruth (shout out to all the Ketuvim) to discuss what could possibly be so gay about two women living together and raising a baby on their farm. We also delve into the medieval Rabbinic scholars' views on how to deal with lesbians (hint: flogging).

And we cap it all off with the story of a modern day Ruth and Naomi in honor of our guest's Jewish Socialist tendencies. Pauline Newman and Frieda Miller raised their daughter together in Greenwich Village in the 1920s and were fundamental to the US Labor movement's inclusion of women's rights. As always, come for the fabulously sexy history and stay for the jokes about Jewish pu$$y ("It's Chosen," says Rachel.)

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This episode was written, researched, and hosted by Bash, and edited by Alex Toskas.

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