956 Episodes

  1. Jeremy Dauber - Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

    Published: 5/12/2018

  2. Zvi Zohar - The Rabbi and the Sheikh

    Published: 5/4/2018

  3. Zvi Zohar - Sephardic Rabbinic Response to a Major Challenge of Modernity

    Published: 5/4/2018

  4. Naftuli Moster - Secular Education in Hasidic Yeshivas: Why We Should All Care

    Published: 5/3/2018

  5. Adam Chodorow - God’s Income Tax: Comparing Laws of Tithing to Federal Income Tax

    Published: 5/2/2018

  6. Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel – Susannah Heschel

    Published: 4/23/2018

  7. Susannah Heschel - What is ‘Human Dignity’ According to Judaism?

    Published: 4/23/2018

  8. Daniel Greyber - Forgotten Mourners

    Published: 4/17/2018

  9. Sheila Katz - Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

    Published: 4/14/2018

  10. Shmuly Yanklowitz & Benjamin Taylor - Crimes of Passion: The Extent of Human Responsibility

    Published: 4/11/2018

  11. Jeffrey K. Salkin - How to Re-Claim The Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah

    Published: 3/23/2018

  12. Jeffrey K. Salkin - The Gods Are Broken!

    Published: 3/23/2018

  13. Jeffrey K. Salkin - Righteous Gentiles of the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Models for Sacred Relationships

    Published: 3/23/2018

  14. Ariel Evan Mayse - The Soul in Jewish Mysticism: Opening the Heart to the Inner Life

    Published: 3/20/2018

  15. Ariel Evan Mayse - Neo-Hasidism and the Theology of Halakhah

    Published: 3/20/2018

  16. Marilyn Byfield Paul - An Oasis in Time: How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life

    Published: 3/16/2018

  17. Aaron J. Hahn Tapper - The Jewish Story? Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Jewish ‘Other’ Within

    Published: 3/13/2018

  18. Sam Intrator - Transcending the Great Right-Left Divide in Israel Through Spirituality

    Published: 3/10/2018

  19. Sam Intrator - The Radical and Modern Approach of Ishbitz Hasidic Thought

    Published: 3/9/2018

  20. Alan Brill - Rabbi on The Ganges: A Jewish Hindu Encounter

    Published: 3/6/2018

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