26 Episodes

  1. Allyship at the Edge: Navigating Difference – with Jacob Feinspan

    Published: 7/11/2025

  2. Know Thy Enemy

    Published: 12/19/2024

  3. A Guide to Jealousy

    Published: 12/2/2024

  4. Gratitude and Sorrow

    Published: 11/18/2024

  5. The Ruling Authorities

    Published: 11/4/2024

  6. Finding Joy in Crisis

    Published: 10/21/2024

  7. Remembering and Forgetting: The High Holidays as a Time of Solidarity

    Published: 10/7/2024

  8. What’s Your Fish?

    Published: 9/23/2024

  9. Living with Dissonance

    Published: 9/9/2024

  10. Spiraling Upwards

    Published: 8/26/2024

  11. A Foundation for Hope

    Published: 8/12/2024

  12. TEXTing Live: The Rabbinic Panopticon

    Published: 7/29/2024

  13. Another Way

    Published: 7/15/2024

  14. Keeping Memory Alive

    Published: 7/1/2024

  15. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    Published: 6/18/2024

  16. In the Face of Change

    Published: 6/3/2024

  17. A Fish out of Babylon

    Published: 5/20/2024

  18. From Where I Sit

    Published: 5/6/2024

  19. Controlling Chaos

    Published: 4/19/2024

  20. Pride and Shame

    Published: 4/8/2024

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In this special series, TEXTing: IRL – Ideas for Real Life, Elana Stein Hain explores how classic and modern Jewish texts can help us wrestle with the big dilemmas of our time. Sitting down with guests who are accomplished practitioners in their fields, Elana explores how Jewish wisdom can guide us to act with integrity in the face of complex questions about allyship, gratitude toward flawed leaders, and navigating political relationships. TEXTing: IRL — Ideas for Real Life: accessible, relevant, and deeply Jewish.