Hill Havurahdcast

Havurahdcast #17 Chris Jaikaran (Our Newest Board Member, and a Poem For Tisha b'Av)

Episode Summary

In this midsummer episode, Rabbi Hannah interviews the Hill Havurah's newest elected Board member Chris Jaikaran - baseball fan, cybersecurity analyst, and one of many interfaith family members in the Havurah. Chris tells Rabbi Hannah about growing up in his own interfaith family in Guyana, and answers Rabbi Hannah with her own internet privacy questions. After talking to Chris, Rabbi Hannah marks this saddest day of the Jewish calendar, Tisha B'av (July 29-30), by reciting the entirety of a contemporary poem written for Tisha B'Av in the age of this pandemic: Eli Tsiyon v’Areha — Coronavirus, by Daniel Olson & Rabbi Benjamin Goldberg.