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Ashamed to Admit

A podcast for anyone ashamed to admit they are not across the big issues and events affecting Jews in Australia, Israel and around the Jewish world.
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Published: 1 April 2024

Last updated: 12 March 2026

Are you ashamed to admit you're not across the big issues and events affecting Jews in Australia, Israel and around the Jewish world?

Join Jewish pop culture guru Shoshana Gottlieb-Beker and your third cousin Tami Sussman to explore all the weird and wonderful Jewish ideas you'll wish someone had told you about sooner.

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    Jen van Proctor13 September at 08:04 am

    Glad to have broken the drought on my podcast listening, Tami and Dash. I’m finding your interviews super insightful, enjoyable and timely. They’re a great mixture of people with all kinds of expertise, experience and insight on shame! Can I suggest you see if Lisa Pulver Jackson – a Jewish First Nations dynamo would like to do an interview with you? Jen van Proctor

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    rosie hersch20 August at 07:25 am

    I recently was in Sydney and met Alexis Fishman at a cousin’s place. A few weeks earlier, I had seen her concert Amy Winehouse Resurrected in Melbourne. Alexis performance was brilliant. But in person I found her to be a delightful personable young woman. Alexis is such a talent and I am sure we will hear many good things about her future theatrical performmances