GOLDA Girls

·E7

Temple Dues and Hunky Jews with Noam Ash

June 5
57 mins

Episode Description

GOLDA founder Stephanie Butnick, journalist Gabby Deutch, novelist Esther Chehebar, and Rabbi Diana Fersko break down two hot topics: the rising cost of Jewish life in America, and Sacha Baron Cohen and Brett Goldstein’s unlikely turn as the summer’s leading men—and what it means when our funny guys are also the hunks. 

Our guest is Noam Ash, the screenwriter and star of Bookends, which premiered this week in New York City and is heading to film festivals across the country. He tells us about working alongside Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Caroline Aaron— who play the grandparents Noam’s character moves in with after a breakup—and what he learned while workshopping his film with the Jewish Writers Institute (applications are open for their Digital Storyteller’s Lab and Screenwriters Lab).

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