Effie Meadows is here! She's a Comedy Store regular and the best roaster we know. There are literally so many hot takes in this episode. The gossip is hot!

We Yenta about:

1. Gender discourse vs real-life queerness

2. Effie hates drag

3. Taylor Swift as a spiritual figure

4. Religion, kink, humiliation, and shame

5. Sugar daddies, surgeries, and the real cost of transitioning

6. Comedy Store culture and roast comedy

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Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

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Rabbi Iggy is tattooed, gay, obsessed with Talmud, and the rabbinic voice behind Sinners Shabbat in NYC and Beit T'shuvah in LA (an addiction treatment center and spiritual community). He's a rabbi to a million celebrities, and most importantly, he was Raye's wedding rabbi! So he's a real Yenta VIP. This is an amazing Jewish conversaion about tension, pleasure, discipline, and belonging. I know, gross.

We Yenta about:

- Religion as kink

- Coldplay on Yom Kippur

- Spiritual discipline

- Cringe as a spiritual warning sign

- Gay life in yeshiva

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Sponsored by the Mandel Cultural Leadership Program: https://mandelinstitute.org/programs/cultural-leadership/cultural-leadership-application-faq/

Announcement! You're invited to take part in the Yenta Matchmaking Experiment!! If you want to be matched with a potential date from the Yenta listener universe, you can submit your profile now! We'll be releasing Patreon episodes of "Yenta Matchmaking" where we go in detail behind the scenes of the matchmaking process. More info here:

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Rabbi Iggy: https://www.rabbiiggy.com/

Raye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller

Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar

Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta

Timestamps:

0:00 – Cold open: pain, PT, and discipline

4:04 – Rabbi Iggy intro

6:25 – Yeshiva gossip

11:01 – Sinners Shabbat

16:16 – Tension and pleasure

20:23 – Cringe and belonging

28:39 – Teshuva explained

42:34 – Gossip!!

Tuli Skaist is a Jewish music legend, community builder, teacher, executive director of his shul, and one of the wisest Jews we know. He grew up ultra-Orthodox, went to elite yeshivas, rebelled his way out, and somehow became the guy we all go to for Torah, nigunim, and parenting advice. Deep Yenta-heads will also recognize him as Antonia's musical study partner! We love Tuli!We Yenta about: - Growing up ultra-Orthodox and rebelling in tiny ways- Getting kicked out of yeshiva (twice)- Liberal Jews vs Orthodox Jews - Why Torah isn’t owned by one kind of Jew- Nonbinary theology- Rabbis have too much power- Jewish music duh----------------------------------Sponsored by the Mandel Cultural Leadership Program: https://mandelinstitute.org/programs/cultural-leadership/cultural-leadership-application-faq/Announcement! You're invited to take part in the Yenta Matchmaking Experiment!! If you want to be matched with a potential date from the Yenta listener universe, you can submit your profile now! We'll be releasing Patreon episodes of "Yenta Matchmaking" where we go in detail behind the scenes of the matchmaking process. More info here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7TuxHM4DOMN_xfEDkfdhjE9EHjMH7mIoBlFu2N7sQEDiQyg/viewformRaye Schiller: https://www.instagram.com/rayeschiller Antonia Lassar: https://www.instagram.com/antonialastar Uncut and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/yenta-------------------------------------Timestamps:0:00 – Intro 3:53 – Growing up ultra-Orthodox7:53 – Kicked out of yeshiva11:09 – Belief vs meaning16:24 – God is nonbinary28:59 – LIberal jewish quirks44:01 – Secrets