Featuring:
Evi Numen
Christopher Bartlett

Poetry:
Noor ('Ditee) Jaber

Music of:
Dan Blacksberg
Dot Rose
Rachel Winsberg

Kaddish listeners:
It’s been an incredible year of hearing your stories--connecting with listeners who shared the stories of their loved ones, who sought ritual, permission to own their stories and grief, who made space, who found company to walk alongside them on the path of grief.

We've released 9 episodes heard almost 7,000 times. Kaddish has hosted guests like poetess and author Dr. Joy Ladin, sex educator and death doula Megan Andelloux, organizer and preacher Pastor Naomi Leapheart, rabbis, artists, groundskeepers, academics, hospice nurses, and the people who made the Mushroom Suit at Coieo.

Before the Jewish new year sets in tonight at sunset, I wanted to share with you the final episode of Kaddish. You can listen on iTunes and Soundcloud, and you can watch the full show online, here.

At this time of year when the absence of our beloveds can feel particularly intense, may we feel them only more close. The distance between heaven and earth is shorter at this time of year than usual--tradition says that our prayers are more easily heard, our tshuvah (returning/repentance/repair) is more possible. May the separation between the dead and the living be a window, not a wall.

Kaddish will be on an indefinite hiatus after this episode. Thank you for all the ways you supported this project this year, thank you for sharing it with your friends, donating time or money to make the project happen! It is with deep gratitude we close this season. Thank you to our listeners, guests, makers and professionals behind the scenes. May the memory of those we hold close be for a blessing.
 

Love to you.

Ariana

Where is there room in the Jewish tradition to honor the role that chosen family, logical family, plays in our lives? How have others mourned the losses of chosen family?

Featuring the voices of Rabbi Vivie Mayer, as well as Rebecca, Noga, Meryl, and Sarah.

Music and lyrics by Ariel Wolpe and Mariangela Mihai

For full transcript of this episode:
https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode7

Learn more about FSWBG
Learn more about Coeio

For full transcript of this episode:
https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode6

Also featuring some crucial listener feedback at the top of the show, and this article.

Thank you so much to:

Naomi Christine Leapheart
Tiny Victor, for the music
Chelsea Noriega
Cyd Weissman
The Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford

For full transcript of this episode:

https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/bonusepisode5

For full transcript of this episode:
https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode4

"It takes some strength of soul and not just individual strength but collective understanding to avoid the void. And to stand up demanding to be seen and heard." Adrienne Rich

November 15 is Trans Day of Resilience

November 20 is Trans Day of Rememberence

Mentioned orgs and links:

Sacredstonecamp.org

indigenousrising.org

For full transcript of this episode:
https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode3

For full transcript of this episode:
https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode2

A conversation with Deidre Scherer, textile artist that often focuses on the faces of the elderly, they dying, and the deceased.

Content warning: storytelling includes audio of air raid sirens.

Follow Deidre's work

Thanks to Moment Magazine for covering Kaddish this month

For full transcript of this episode:

https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/bonusepisode1

For full transcript of this episode:

https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/bonusepisode1-cwxla

Featuring:
The liturgy of Black Lives Matter
Elliott batTzedek, poet and liturgist
The tale of Rabbi Akiva, a cemetery, and the origins of the mourner's prayer

For full transcript of this episode:

https://www.arianakatz.com/kaddish-episodes/episode0