How to Be a Jew ... and an Accidental Gunslinger

Salvador Litvak, also known as the Accidental Talmudist, is the filmmaker behind the 2005 cult classic When Do We Eat and the author of Let My People Laugh: Greatest Jewish Jokes of All Time!. He joins us to discuss his new film, Guns & Moses, in which a small-town rabbi becomes an unlikely gunslinger after his community is attacked. Guns & Moses premiered at the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival in 2024 and is expected to be released nationwide this summer.

Hosted by Courtney Hazlett, Rabbi Diana Fersko, and Josh Kross, each episode of How to Be a Jew takes a look at a current, cultural topic and what it means for us as Jews, and how we react to it because we are Jews.

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