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What did your grandmother believe, with an imam and a rabbi

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Two grandmothers, two mornings

The first conversation seats Imam Faizal Rashid, who leads a neighbourhood mosque in Bedok, beside Rabbi Nathan Alvarez, who serves Singapore's small Jewish community. Priya asks the questions the show will ask everyone, starting with the grandmothers.

  • Fajr and Shacharit: what each man does before the city wakes
  • The grandmother who prayed in Malay and the one who sang in Ladino
  • The misconception each is tired of correcting, and how they answer it
  • The thing each admits to envying in the other's tradition

The episode ends with the two of them realising they buy bread from the same bakery and arranging to meet there.

Transcript
Hello and welcome to Same Sky, Different Doors. I am Priya Ramaswamy. I grew up in a Hindu home, I married into a Catholic one, and for nine years I locked teenagers of five religions in a room for a weekend and watched what happened. Mostly, they talked. This show is that, for grown-ups. Each episode, two guests, two faiths, the same ordinary questions. Today, an imam and a rabbi walk into a studio, and I promise that is not the start of a joke. Imam Faizal Rashid leads a mosque in Bedok. Rabbi Nathan Alvarez serves a community of a few hundred people. I want to know what they do before sunrise, what their grandmothers believed, and the thing each of them is tired of explaining. Stay to the end for the bakery. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.
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