Hebrew School Dropouts

religion, spirituality, society, culture · EN

Welcome to Hebrew School Dropouts! You don't need to have actually dropped out of Hebrew school to be a Hebrew School Dropout. Maybe you went for a few years and had a bar or bat mitzvah before calling it quits. Maybe you skipped the whole thing entirely. Maybe you're exploring Jewish identity for the first time after a 23andMe surprise. What matters is the mentality: you're skeptical of easy answers, allergic to platitudes, and curious whether Judaism might have more to offer than you assumed. Our show is for secular, spiritual-but-not-religious, unaffiliated, and questioning people who want to engage with Jewish wisdom as adults — honestly, irreverently, and with real substance. Hosted by Rabbis Rena Singer and Noah Westreich of Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, this show is about ideas, not identity politics. Every episode follows a three-part structure. We start with funny, surprising, and sometimes absurd stories from rabbinic life —