| Updated April 30, 2021
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I join the Zoom call and a couple of people are in there already – one of them, Lili, is full of beans. “Shalom,” she says. “Hello. You want to see my bird?”
It turns out I’m early for the session – it doesn’t start for another 40 minutes. Lili, who is based in Israel, walks off camera briefly and comes back wearing a frog headband and a large, green plastic tie. She gets out a toy bird that records her voice and replays it back to me. Okay, I think to myself, this is