Episode two of True Jew asks a question that feels simple: What does Jewish safety actually mean? We talk about fear. The kind that lives in our bodies. The kind that gets fed to us daily. The kind that gets weaponized.

We’re joined by Nina Mehta, community educator and co-director of PARCEO (alongside the wonderful Donna Nevel), and Nora Lester Murad, writer, organizer, force behind Drop the ADL from Schools, and someone who spent more than a decade raising her children in the West Bank under occupation. Together, we examine how Jewish history has been narrated to us, often as an endless chain of persecution, and what that does to our sense of self, and our sense of  ...