Nisht For Me

Abigail and Arron pinch themselves as they chat all things Jewish with legendary broadcaster and journalist Emily Maitlis. Spoiler alert, she’s right nice!

Abigail and Arron reminisce about their experiences and learnings from many shared years on Jewish summer camps.

Today’s episode is one of our most mind-expanding yet. It’s a chat with the brilliant Charlotte Fischer who, ‘by day’ runs Love & Power, a feminist community organising network. ‘By night’ aka in her spare time, Charlotte runs L’Taken, an antisemitism training programme specifically targeted at ‘good people’, those who care about making the world a better place but have a blind-spot when it comes to antisemitism. We hear her story, why and how she does what she does. And learn some big words along the way.

Abigail and Arron chat to Kimberley Schwartz about her journey from traditional Hull-raised Jew to Rebbetzin!

Abigail and Arron chat about all the Jewish joy they've experienced in the break between series 3 and 4 before reaching peak podcasting by interviewing the one and only, kosher cake making legend, Estelle Shiers!

In this episode, we imagine our dream Friday night dinner, complete with fantasy guest list and the menu to end all Shabbos dinner menus.Here are a few links to some of the topics/people we discuss: We mention two articles by Taffy Brodesser-Akner articles. One about Operation Mincemeat:https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/magazine/operation-mincemeat-obsession-broadway.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share and the very powerful, This is the Holocaust Story I said I Wouldn’t Write:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/magazine/holocaust-story-education.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share The chicken recipe Arron says is unbeatable by girlcooksboybakes:https://www.instagram.com/p/BdP6iQ3nW8j/?igsh=MXJ4aDRiaHFxeGJ3 Amy Poehler’s interview with Judy Judy is here:https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/good-hang-with-amy-poehler/id1795483480?i=1000724534033

Abigail and Arron sit down with Chutzpahdik Charedi activist and author Yehudis Fletcher to chat about her Jewish identity as an out and proud lesbian who chose to stay in the Manchester Charedi Community.

An interruption to regular programming for @nishtforme this week. We had planned to record an upbeat, fun episode today to go out on Monday but, if we are honest, we just didn’t feel up to it. It’s been a long week. It’s been a long month. It’s been a long 2.5 years. And today we both felt thoroughly exhausted. So we decided to do something different with our episode. We have always found it helpful to discuss our feelings with one other, like we did after the Heaton Park attack in October, but this time we felt it would be more useful to both us and our audience to have a bit of professional help. So we are delighted that psychotherapist Naomi Magnus could join us this morning, listening to how we feel, sharing her own feelings and helping us understand why a lot of us feel the way we do in this moment. We certainly feel better having spoken to her. And we hope you will too after listening. So we have decided to put the episode out today. Thanks for joining us. Shabbat shalom - and look after yourselves.

Abigail and Arron are joined by Guardian sports writer Daniel Harris to talk about all things Jews and Sport!

Arron and Abigail talk to friend-of-the-pod Sophie about her unique perspective on Jewish identity.

Abigail and Arron are joined by podcasting queen Lennie Ware from Table Manners, to chat about her Manchester Jewish roots and incredible second career!

Arron and Abigail take us through their ghosts of Pesach Past, Present and Future.

Abigail and Arron are joined by writer and fellow Mancunian Jew, Josh Rose to talk about his Jewish identity and what it was like to move to Israel 5 days before a war broke out…

Abigail and Arron are joined by comedian and writer Max Olesker to talk about his brilliant new book 'Making the Cut', all about undertaking the Orthodox Jewish conversion process.

Abigail and Arron are back for Series 3 of Nisht For Me and they're chatting about some of the mad stuff they've learned from their kids.

For this final episode in Series 2, Abigail and Arron chat to singer, actor, impressionist and now published author of Life is Rosi - Grandma, me and our diaries at 23.

Abigail and Arron are joined by their old friend, broadcaster and journalist Emma Barnett to chat about Jewish identity and the time they were all in a kids' production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Abigail and Arron are joined by Darren Richman - writer, journalist and grandson of the late great Zigi Shipper to chat about Jewish identity and being 'third generation survivors'.

Arron and Abigail speak to Debbie Fine about her uber frum in-laws and how they navigate their differences.

In somewhat of a Heimishe Flex, Abigail and Arron chat to Rabbi Amir Elituv, the newly installed Chief Rabbi of the UK Sephardi community about his Jewish identity and who comes up trumps between Sephardim and Ashkenazim!