by Nathan Jordan Vaughan
<p>72 Miles features the stories of three separate interfaith Jewish families–two real, one not, and one mine. Together, they trace 150 years of Kentucky history, with experiences that resonate today—about being Jewish in America. About being Jewish and southern at the same time. About being Jewish, being interfaith, and the blending of the two. <br><br>This isn’t a podcast about the right way to be Jewish. Or what being Jewish even actually means. Mostly, this is a podcast about the lived experience of what it means to be Jewish in Kentucky. Along the way, I’ll speak with some folks who were there, or have been there, or can help bring context to these stories. And you’re invited too, because like all stories these experiences are meant to be shared. </p><p><br></p><p>So strap in, and take a ride with me, up and down I-65, or back and forth on the L&N railroad. In the end the when and the who don’t make as much difference and you might think. But the where sure does. My name is Nathan Jordan Vaughan. It’s 72 Miles til Kentucky. Let’s get moving.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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April 22, 2024
<p>When you’re Jewish, it seems like the holidays are always around the corner, and there always seems to be some sort of competition. Whether it’s the High Holidays just as school gets into full swing, or how Chanukah and Passover often, but confusingly not always, overlap with Christmas and Easter. There’s a lot of explaining to do, and partnerships to be built. <br/><br/>That’s what led my mother into my elementary school classrooms, where she fried latkes and read Herschel and Chanukah Goblins for me and my Christian classmates. It’s also what led her into interfaith clergy work, and a Passover partnership with the local Catholic Church. As for my father? Well, he used his engineering skills to build Chanukah holiday decorations for the front yard, which he still claims was easier than hanging Christmas lights on the house. <br/><br/>And by the time I got old enough to fully express myself, and my complicated Jewish identity, it was a holiday concert that finally tipped me over the edge. <br/><br/>This episode also features commentary from two important experts—1) Dr. Laura Yares of Michigan State, both on the experiences of 19th century American Jews, and her own experiences as a 21st century immigrant Jewish American, and 2) Rabbi Jen Gubitz, co-host of the OMFG Podcast and founder of Modern Jewish Couples where she trains clergy, counsels interfaith couples on how to build their own unique Jewish or Jew-“ish” home. <br/><br/></p><p>72 Miles features the stories of three separate interfaith Jewish families–two real, one not, and one mine. Together, they trace 150 years of Kentucky history, with experiences that resonate today—about being Jewish in America, about being Jewish and southern at the same time. About being Jewish, being interfaith, and the blending of the two. <br/><br/>So strap in, and take a ride with me, up and down I65, or back and forth on the L&N Railroad. In the end the when and the who don’t make as much difference and you might think. But the where sure does. My name is Nathan Jordan Vaughan. It’s 72 Miles til Kentucky. Let’s get moving.<br/><br/>72 Miles Til Kentucky was written and produced by Nathan J. Vaughan. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lofi Girl. Curricular components for each episodes are available on the show's <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com/72-miles-podcast'>website</a>.<br/><br/>You can learn more about me and any of my work on my website, <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com'>www.nathanjvaughan.com</a>.<br/><br/>Subscribe to my regular Torah podcast, Modern Torah anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening.</p>
February 8, 2024
<p>From Sunday School in Nashville to Sunday dinner at Granny's, my family bushogged our way towards a cohesive religious identity. Even as my mother was returning to the faith of her childhood, my father was moving further away from his, and towards an unlikely home — The American Society of Friends. <br/><br/>Introducing a third faith in our household seemed to solidify our identity, rather than shatter it, and my brother and I were quick to absorb the tenets of our father's new faith, a chance we got every summer, for a few years, when we attended SAYMA – the Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting, including a short stint in Quaker youth group. Still, as much as Quaker ideals of compassion, equality, love, and simplicity lined up with our own Jewish and family values, my mother was deeply uncomfortable with the idea of our being both, and she dearly wanted us to be Jewish. But towards the end of her life, having lived her own experience and used it in turn to counsel dozens of young interfaith couples, she changed her tune...slightly.<br/><br/>Special thanks this episode to <a href='https://www.jacobsladdermusic.com/'>Jacob’s Ladder</a>, for use of their original music in Chapter 7: Back & Forth. Check out all of their music on their website!</p><p><em>Jacob's Ladder is an internationally touring band seeking to push the boundaries of contemporary Jewish music and traditional American Roots music through Jewish communal singing and prayer. In melding these two musical worlds, they tell their story through Eastern European Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish traditions, but also through their American heritage and its influence on their unique musical style.<br/><br/></em><br/></p><p>72 Miles features the stories of three separate interfaith Jewish families–two real, one not, and one mine. Together, they trace 150 years of Kentucky history, with experiences that resonate today—about being Jewish in America, about being Jewish and southern at the same time. About being Jewish, being interfaith, and the blending of the two. <br/><br/>So strap in, and take a ride with me, up and down I65, or back and forth on the L&N Railroad. In the end the when and the who don’t make as much difference and you might think. But the where sure does. My name is Nathan Jordan Vaughan. It’s 72 Miles til Kentucky. Let’s get moving.<br/><br/>72 Miles Til Kentucky was written and produced by Nathan J. Vaughan. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lofi Girl. Curricular components for each episodes are available on the show's <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com/72-miles-podcast'>website</a>.<br/><br/>You can learn more about me and any of my work on my website, <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com'>www.nathanjvaughan.com</a>.<br/><br/>Subscribe to my regular Torah podcast, Modern Torah anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening.</p>
January 18, 2024
<p>My mother passed away on September 14, 2021 after a years-long battle with cancer that cost her control of the left side of her face. We had been recording for just over a year, but there was still so much more she wanted to say. After she died, I went through her journals, to learn the perspectives that she was hesitant to share with me even at the end of her life. My father contributed by archiving the family VHS tapes my mother had saved all these years, including a copy of my Bar Mitzvah and my mother's adult Bat Mitzvah. Together, with the stories she shared while still alive, they tell a complicated and often lonely journey of a woman struggling to find her place in life, and a community that she could call her own, which thankfully, and at long last, she finally did...in Judaism.<br/><br/>Special gratitude to my good friend, Caitlin, who took on the monumental challenge of reading my mother's journal entries for this episode.</p><p>72 Miles features the stories of three separate interfaith Jewish families–two real, one not, and one mine. Together, they trace 150 years of Kentucky history, with experiences that resonate today—about being Jewish in America, about being Jewish and southern at the same time. About being Jewish, being interfaith, and the blending of the two. <br/><br/>So strap in, and take a ride with me, up and down I65, or back and forth on the L&N Railroad. In the end the when and the who don’t make as much difference and you might think. But the where sure does. My name is Nathan Jordan Vaughan. It’s 72 Miles til Kentucky. Let’s get moving.<br/><br/>72 Miles Til Kentucky was written and produced by Nathan J. Vaughan. Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Lofi Girl. Curricular components for each episodes are available on the show's <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com/72-miles-podcast'>website</a>.<br/><br/>You can learn more about me and any of my work on my website, <a href='https://www.nathanjvaughan.com'>www.nathanjvaughan.com</a>.<br/><br/>Subscribe to my regular Torah podcast, Modern Torah anywhere you get your podcasts. Thanks for listening.</p>
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