This month Jason is joined by writer and comedian David Baddiel and the literary editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Gerald Jacobs.
Baddiel discusses why he and his brother Ivor decided to make a star-studded film, The Y-Word to kick antisemitism out of football once and for all. But Jacobs, a lifelong Spurs fan, argues that the y-word is a badge of honour and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Baddiel also reads from his widely acclaimed new novel, The Death of Eli Gold, and explains why the great American Jewish writers from Philip Roth to Saul Bellow loom so large.
What about Roth's recent win of the International Man Booker? It prompted one of the three judges, Carmen Callil, to resign, accusing Roth of writing about the same subject over and over again, branding his work suffocating and likening it to "someone sitting on your face". Some wonder if what Callil was really saying was that Roth is too Jewish. What do our guests think?
And finally, from social networking to drug running, actor Jesse Eisenberg talks to Jason about his new, unexpected role in his upcoming film Holy Rollers, in which he plays a Hasidic teenager from Brooklyn lured into becoming an ecstasy dealer. Jason and guests discuss the current media obsession with Hasidism, typified most recently by a BBC2 documentary that followed a Stamford Hill Hasid who had served jail time for ... a drugs-related crime.
Sounds Jewish is produced by the Jewish Community Centre for London, who on 14 June will be screening Kick It Out, a film aimed at kicking racism out of Israeli football. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Ivor Baddiel and Itzik Shanan (founder and director of Kick Racism out of Football, Israel).
