Jew Talkin’ To Me? with Hilary Freeman & Alastair Falk

06/18/21 • 39 min

Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are journalist and agony aunt Hilary Freeman & educator turned festival producer Alastair Falk

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Hilary Freeman

Twitter: @HFreemanauthor

Instagram: @noveliser

Website: www.hilaryfreeman.com

Hilary Freeman is an experienced freelance journalist, novelist and agony aunt, as well as a frequent contributor to radio and TV programmes. Hilary's articles have appeared in newspapers including: Daily Mail, The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror, and The Independent, as well as Grazia, You Magazine, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Good Housekeeping. Some of her pieces have gone viral, attracting thousands of shares, tweets, blogs and correspondence. Others have been used as teaching aids in schools and universities. She's also a ghostwriter and associate lecturer, and a media consultant/trainer. Hilary has had seven novels published, including When I Was Me, Loving Danny and the Camden Town Tales series.

Alastair Falk

Twitter: @tsitsitfringe

Instagram: @tsitsitfringe

Website: www.tsitsitfringe.org

Within Jewish circles Alastair is possibly most recognisable as the founder of Limmud, a Jewish festival offering sessions on everything spanning arts, culture, social justice, Torah, philosophy, politics, history, and more. Limmud began in the UK but now has satellites all over the world. An experienced ex Head of three schools and education charity professional, Alastair came to the attention of the press when he was appointed as the UK's first "superhead" in Tony Blair's academy scheme. He currently works with the Foundation for Education Development on a project bringing together diverse voices and ideas in order to construct a long term strategy for education policy. But it was his experience with touring his one man show 'Much Ado About Noshing', that led him to develop his new project, Tsitsit, the world's first Jewish themed Fringe Festival. Happening across the UK in October 2021, Tsitsit will showcase grassroots Jewish themed music, theatre, comedy and (all being well!) a new children's musical Alastair himself is currently writing.

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*This episode was recorded under lockdown conditions.

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Hilary Freeman

Twitter: @HFreemanauthor

Instagram: @noveliser

Website: www.hilaryfreeman.com

Alastair Falk

Twitter: @tsitsitfringe

Instagram: @tsitsitfringe

Website: www.tsitsitfringe.org

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*This episode was recorded under lockdown conditions.

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Jew Talkin' To Me? with Mark Maier & Rachel Berger

Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Mark Maier & Rachel Berger.

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Mark Maier

Twitter: @markgmaier

Instagram: @markgmaier

Websites: www.markmaier.co.uk and www.markmaierdraws.com

Talented award-winning writer and stand-up, Mark Maier, is an established and highly sought after performer on both the national and international comedy circuits. He has worked the comedy clubs of Germany, Holland, Ireland, Hong Kong, The Bahamas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Mark has also appeared in Harry Hill The Movie and in various cameo roles in the series Harry Hill’s TEA-TIME. Mark has taught and performed improvisation with Catherine Tate in London and has had a string of successful radio series, in which he was both writer and performer. More recently he has rediscovered his artistic roots as a pet and person portrait artist. His TV credits include Boy Meets Girl (BBC2), Edinburgh Nights for the BBC, World Stands Up (Paramount), Dating The Enemy (ITV), Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment (Ch5), The Stand Up Show (BBC1), Five’s Company (Ch5), Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Ch4) and Rove Live for Australian television. His awards include 3 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – humour), 2 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – utilities), Aerial Award (radio writing), Radio Writing and Television Award – Hollywood International Broadcast Award (radio writing), and Jewish performer of the year.

Rachel Berger

Twitter: @boom_berger

Website: https://www.rachelberger.com/

One of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, Rachel Berger has worked as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer. Political, passionate and armed only with her material, Rachel has been prowling the stand-up circuit like a tigress for 30 years. Rachel's high public profile has done much to establish the position of women in comedy, providing a distinctive voice for women’s opinions and viewpoints. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and her dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas. Her debut novel for Penguin, Whaddya Mean You’re Allergic To Rubber? sold out faster than Judas. Rachel's media credits include: Appearing on Statesmen of Comedy, Good Morning Australia, Good News Week, Tonite Live, The Big Gig, The Midday Show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, hosting UPFRONT, an all women line-up, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for ABC TV, featuring on Punchlines, a documentary about twenty years of Australian comedy and The Smallest Room in the House, ABC-TV. She’s written for The Weekly Review, The Age, The Sunday Age, Sunday Herald Sun as well as national magazines such as New Woman and Rolling Stone.

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Jew Talkin' To Me? with YidLife Crisis (Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman)

Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman best known as Leizer and Chaimie from the cult hit web series Yidlife Crisis.

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Yidlife Crisis

Twitter: @YidLifeCrisis

Instagram: @yidlifecrisis

Website: www.yidlifecrisis.com

Created by Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman, YidLife Crisis is the world’s first 18 and over/Chai+ Yiddish web series. It’s won numerous awards and been described* as “One of the Top 1000 Things to Happen to the Yiddish Language in the Last 1000 Years”. (*By Eli and Jamie)

They will be appearing at JW3 in London as part of “Oy Canada: A Celebration of Canadian Jews” on 1st July 2021, here is the link https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/oy-canada-celebration-canadian-jews

Wanting to pay homage to the yiddishkayt in their upbringing and the Jewish comedic lens on life with which they were raised, Eli and Jamie developed the YidLife Crisis web series and cultural brand. They describe YidLife Crisis as a love letter about modern Jewish identity, set mostly in Yiddish, making Jewish identity inclusive to all through the ice-breaking power of comedy. What started as a passion project turned into a hit with over 3,000,000 video views and 30,000 subscribers, global press, awards and accolades, the collaboration of talent such as Mayim Bialik and Howie Mandel, and a chance to work with various organizations from Jewish community centers through academic institutions through comedy festivals.

Jamie Elman

Twitter: @JamieElman

Jamie has appeared on many of television's most acclaimed series including Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Without A Trace, CSI: NY, The Closer and The Young and the Restless. He also played Luke, the resident piano-playing record store guy and boyfriend, for three seasons on NBC's award winning and critically lauded drama American Dreams. His breakout role was Cody on the FOX/YTV hit teen sitcom Student Bodies. Jamie has starred in "California Dreamin'" (Grand Prix, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival), "When Nietzsche Wept", "Shattered Glass", "The Chicago 8", "Saving Lincoln", and "Random Encounters". He has done extensive voice work for video games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and animated films including Disney's Wreck-It Ralph and the blockbuster Frozen. He also wrote and starred in the web series "crazy/sexy/awkward," produced by Howie Mandel, and "YidLife Crisis," the world's first 18+ Yiddish comedy series. He recently appeared in the finale of Canadian series "Bomb Girls." Jamie is also an accomplished blues and jazz pianist and singer.

Eli Batalion

Twitter: @EliBatalion

Instagram: @elibatalion

Eli Batalion is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage who has taken his love of the arts into the realm of social entrepreneurship. Hei began his career in musical theatre with the award-winning internationally touring play "JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical." He and partner Jerome Sable evolved their work to the screen with the musical horror comedy short "The Legend of Beaver Dam" selected to TIFF, Sundance, Berlinale and over 75 global film festivals. From there, they evolved to feature horror musical comedy Stage Fright featuring Minne Driver and Meat Loaf. "YidLife Crisis," Eli's project done with partner Jamie Elman, uses the disarming power...