Nisht For Me

Abigail and Arron chat about all the Jewish joy they've experienced in the break between series 3 and 4 before reaching peak podcasting by interviewing the one and only, kosher cake making legend, Estelle Shiers!

In this episode, we imagine our dream Friday night dinner, complete with fantasy guest list and the menu to end all Shabbos dinner menus.Here are a few links to some of the topics/people we discuss:

We mention two articles by Taffy Brodesser-Akner articles. One about Operation Mincemeat:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/magazine/operation-mincemeat-obsession-broadway.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

and the very powerful, This is the Holocaust Story I said I Wouldn’t Write:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/magazine/holocaust-story-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The chicken recipe Arron says is unbeatable by girlcooksboybakes:https://www.instagram.com/p/BdP6iQ3nW8j/?igsh=MXJ4aDRiaHFxeGJ3

Amy Poehler’s interview with Judy Judy is here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/good-hang-with-amy-poehler/id1795483480?i=1000724534033

Abigail and Arron sit down with Chutzpahdik Charedi activist and author Yehudis Fletcher to chat about her Jewish identity as an out and proud lesbian who chose to stay in the Manchester Charedi Community.

An interruption to regular programming for @nishtforme this week.
We had planned to record an upbeat, fun episode today to go out on Monday but, if we are honest, we just didn’t feel up to it.
It’s been a long week. It’s been a long month. It’s been a long 2.5 years. And today we both felt thoroughly exhausted.
So we decided to do something different with our episode. We have always found it helpful to discuss our feelings with one other, like we did after the Heaton Park attack in October, but this time we felt it would be more useful to both us and our audience to have a bit of professional help.
So we are delighted that psychotherapist Naomi Magnus could join us this morning, listening to how we feel, sharing her own feelings and helping us understand why a lot of us feel the way we do in this moment.
We certainly feel better having spoken to her. And we hope you will too after listening. So we have decided to put the episode out today.
Thanks for joining us. Shabbat shalom - and look after yourselves.

Abigail and Arron are joined by Guardian sports writer Daniel Harris to talk about all things Jews and Sport!