Jun 22, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
On today’s episode, we are joined by Netanya Cranford. Netanya is a Jewish activist in San Diego. She is a founder and member of the group of “Change Begins With Me,” a San Diego Indivisible chapter…
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Natanya CranfordGuest
Eli Cohn-PostelHost
Cara A. WilsonHost
Progressive Jew, you know, it's a funny label because I just, I mean, I was always progressive and I've always been a Jew and putting those together and has really added a lot to my life in challenges and benefits.
But I think it's strange for me to think of Jews not being progressive in many ways, because Jewish values are often progressive.
We have Tikkun Olam, we have the Pirkei Avot, you know, we have to all do our part.
And belonging really has been super important to me from my childhood when my mom somehow let me know, I'm not really sure, I must have been a little bit older, but she told me that she had her Orthodox conversion papers that she got in 1972 miniaturized and laminated because she needed to prove that she was a Jew.
When I was raising my kids within the synagogue life, I was on outreach committees because I wanted to make sure that people knew no matter what kind of Jew, no matter how they were a Jew, or if they were Jewish.
And taking all of those years of doing that, and just coincidentally, my kids were older and graduating high school when Trump was elected for his first term.
And we took all that energy, also having been in PTAs throughout their public school education.
We decided to go under the umbrella of Indivisible, which is a great nationwide organization that's really let each local group be what they want to be.
A lot of us coming from PTA background, we organized during committees, we had secretaries, I was the program director for many years.
I don't want to tell people what to do, but I want to give them the knowledge to make their own decision the best way they can.
Progressive Jew, you know, it's a funny label because I just, I mean, I was always progressive and I've always been a Jew and putting those together and has really added a lot to my life in challenges and benefits.
But I think it's strange for me to think of Jews not being progressive in many ways, because Jewish values are often progressive.
We have Tikkun Olam, we have the Pirkei Avot, you know, we have to all do our part.
And belonging really has been super important to me from my childhood when my mom somehow let me know, I'm not really sure, I must have been a little bit older, but she told me that she had her Orthodox conversion papers that she got in 1972 miniaturized and laminated because she needed to prove that she was a Jew.
When I was raising my kids within the synagogue life, I was on outreach committees because I wanted to make sure that people knew no matter what kind of Jew, no matter how they were a Jew, or if they were Jewish.
And taking all of those years of doing that, and just coincidentally, my kids were older and graduating high school when Trump was elected for his first term.
And we took all that energy, also having been in PTAs throughout their public school education.
We decided to go under the umbrella of Indivisible, which is a great nationwide organization that's really let each local group be what they want to be.
A lot of us coming from PTA background, we organized during committees, we had secretaries, I was the program director for many years.
I don't want to tell people what to do, but I want to give them the knowledge to make their own decision the best way they can.
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