956 Episodes

  1. Stephen M. Flatow - A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror

    Published: 3/7/2019
  2. David Kasher - The Torah of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Published: 3/6/2019
  3. David Kasher - Thou Shalt Be a Mensch: The Jewish Line Between Law and Ethics

    Published: 3/6/2019
  4. Judith Hauptman - The Moral Obligation to Speak Out in the Face of Wrongdoing

    Published: 3/1/2019
  5. Judith Hauptman - Women’s Voices in the Talmud

    Published: 3/1/2019
  6. Naomi Levy - Einstein and the Rabbi

    Published: 2/21/2019
  7. Eitan Fishbane - Love of Neighbor, Love of God: How the Two are One in Jewish Mystical Thought

    Published: 2/19/2019
  8. Eitan Fishbane - Is the Human Being Divine? Soul and Body in Jewish Mystical Thought

    Published: 2/19/2019
  9. Eitan Fishbane - Discovering God in the Natural World: Insights from Kabbalah and Hasidism

    Published: 2/18/2019
  10. Elyse Goldstein - Women are from Genesis, Men are from Leviticus! Does Gender Read the Bible?

    Published: 2/14/2019
  11. Dina Najman - Withholding/Withdrawing Treatment of the Terminally Ill

    Published: 2/12/2019
  12. Dina Najman - Human Cloning and Embryo Research: The Ethical and Jewish Legal Implications

    Published: 2/12/2019
  13. Joshua Shanes - The (re)birth of Jewish Denominations in 19th-century Europe

    Published: 2/6/2019
  14. Joshua Shanes - The Galitsyaners: (Re)discovering Jewish Galicia

    Published: 2/6/2019
  15. Ariel Burger - The Life and Legacy of Elie Wiesel: A Student’s Perspective

    Published: 2/5/2019
  16. Ariel Burger - Rebbe Nachman on Joy and Suffering

    Published: 2/5/2019
  17. Elias Sacks - Does Christianity Matter for Judaism — and Vice Versa?

    Published: 1/30/2019
  18. Elias Sacks - Can Jews Be Citizens? Jewish Politics from the Enlightenment to Today

    Published: 1/29/2019
  19. Ed Feinstein - The Search for the Sacred: The Jewish Debate with Modernity

    Published: 1/29/2019
  20. Barry Scott Wimpfheimer - The Talmud: A Biography

    Published: 1/24/2019

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