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Jewish Ideas to Change the World

Jewish Ideas to Change the World delivers thought-provoking content by leading Jewish thinkers with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. It is produced by Valley Beit Midrash. Valley Beit Midrash (VBM) is dedicated to social justice as driven by Torah ethics. VBM's mission is to improve lives through Jewish learning, direct action, and leadership development. Listen to VBM's other podcasts: • Social Justice in the Parsha (weekly divrei Torah by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz) • Pearls of Jewish Wisdom on Living with Kindness (Rabbi Shmuly's class series) Stay Connected: • Website: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org Attended virtual programs live by becoming a member for just $18 per month...

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

84 hours 22 mins; March 13, 2018

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

72 hours 42 mins; March 09, 2018

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

74 hours 19 mins; March 09, 2018

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

77 hours 12 mins; March 05, 2018

Sharon Cohen Anisfeld - Mi Yodea: Humility and Hope in an Uncertain World

71 hours 32 mins; February 28, 2018

Sharon Cohen Anisfeld - Purim: The Jewish Holiday of Friendship

72 hours 18 mins; February 27, 2018

Rachel Tzvia Back Rachel - The Woman’s Voice in Modern Hebrew Poetry

62 hours 49 mins; February 23, 2018

Sid Schwarz - Judaism, Justice, and Holiness

86 hours 1 min; February 07, 2018

Sid Schwarz - Our Universe of Obligation: How Wide?

39 mins; February 07, 2018

Sid Schwarz - Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future

86 hours 46 mins; February 06, 2018

Pinchas Giller - Some Basic Principles on Kabbalistic Spirituality

85 hours 6 mins; January 30, 2018

Aaron Gross - What is a Jewish Response to Factory Farming?

69 hours 56 mins; January 29, 2018

Aaron Gross - Jewish Animal Ethics from Torah to Today

88 hours 18 mins; January 26, 2018

Geoffrey Claussen - Musar at a Time of War

6 mins; January 25, 2018

Geoffrey Claussen - Compassion and Cruelty: The Promise and Limits of the Musar Movement

76 hours 8 mins; January 23, 2018

Judy Firestone Singer - Tales on Saving Lives in Israel Through Inspiring Kidney Donations!

40 mins; January 18, 2018

Haim Ovadia - Why Are There No Reform or Conservative Sephardic Movements

85 hours 38 mins; January 17, 2018

David Sandmel - Interreligious Engagement & Building Community in 2018

53 mins; January 12, 2018

Yaffa Epstein - On the Road Again: Travel as Transformation in the Talmud

70 hours 5 mins; January 12, 2018

Yaffa Epstein - Because the Rabbi Said So: Exploring Power and Authority in the Rabbinate

70 hours 48 mins; January 11, 2018

Mark Hillel Kunis - Dancing With God: How to Connect With God Every Time You Pray

72 hours 7 mins; January 09, 2018

Pinchas Allouche - Jewish Wisdom on Actualizing Your Unique Life Potential Part 2

76 hours 51 mins; December 20, 2017

Martin Lockshin - Does Judaism Teach that Anti-Semitism is Universal and Inevitable?

79 hours 2 mins; December 15, 2017

Pinchas Allouche - Jewish Wisdom on Actualizing Your Unique Life Potential Part 1

65 hours 51 mins; December 13, 2017

Rabbi Roly Matalon - One Congregation's Approach to Intermarriage

34 mins; December 05, 2017

Shaul Magid - Why Should Progressive Jews be Interested in Hasidism?

83 hours 5 mins; December 04, 2017

Shaul Magid - How is Anti-Semitism Used in the American Jewish Conversation

93 hours 27 mins; December 01, 2017

Benjamin Shalva - Ambition Addiction: How to Go Slow, Give Thanks, and Discover Joy Within

63 hours 25 mins; November 21, 2017

Aaron Leibowitz - Can I Trust You? Kashrut, Social Dynamics, and Jewish Unity

78 hours 53 mins; November 14, 2017

Estelle Frankel - The Wisdom of Not Knowing

79 hours 6 mins; November 07, 2017

Asher Lopatin - Top 10 Challenges Facing Jews Today

84 hours 52 mins; November 02, 2017

Eugene Korn - What Did the Rabbis Think of Christianity?

82 hours 45 mins; October 31, 2017

Daniel Landes - The Poetry of Rav Kook: Finding The Lights in A New Dark Age

85 hours 59 mins; October 26, 2017

Yitz Greenberg - Principles and Laws That Reflect the Triumph of Life Principle

39 mins; October 25, 2017

Yitz Greenberg - The 10 Jewish Moral Imperatives: A Jewish Response to a Fractured Society

77 hours 30 mins; October 24, 2017

Sherre Hirsch - Becoming a Mindful Soul in a Mindbending World

58 mins; October 17, 2017

Mike Uram - Next Generation Judaism: How College Students and Hillel Reinvent Jewish Organizations

87 hours 6 mins; September 08, 2017

Bassem Eid - How Does the BDS Movement Harass the Palestinian People?

61 hours 32 mins; May 24, 2017

Bassem Eid - Palestinians’ Internal Politics and Conflicts

52 mins; May 24, 2017

Yehuda Gilad - The Culture of Debate in Israel

72 hours 56 mins; May 18, 2017

Binding of Yishmael: Balancing our National Interests with our Humanistic Values Then and Now

44 mins; May 17, 2017

Yehuda Gilad - The Ten Commandments: The Nexus Between Religion and Ethics

57 mins; May 15, 2017

Naomi Levy - Learning to Live Up to the Best in Our Souls

66 hours 37 mins; April 26, 2017

Danny Nevins - Drinking from Elijah’s Cup

77 hours 53 mins; April 07, 2017

Danny Nevins - Practicing Judaism: Flawed but Fulfilling Expeditions on the Path of Torah

66 hours 58 mins; April 06, 2017

The Pursuit of Truth & How Ancient Jewish Law Impacts Modern Secular Israeli Jurisprudence – Ian Pear

76 hours 27 mins; March 30, 2017

Amy Eilberg - Middot for Living in Troubled Times

47 mins; March 28, 2017

Amy Eilberg - Seeing You is Like Seeing the Face of God: Healing Interpersonal Conflict

75 hours 50 mins; March 28, 2017

Dov Weiss - Sins of the Parents: Ethics and Theology in Rabbinic Literature

81 hours 12 mins; March 24, 2017

Dov Weiss - Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism

79 hours 42 mins; March 23, 2017

Pinchas Allouche - What Is The Soul? Exploring Our Hidden Inner Wonders, Part 2

73 hours 24 mins; March 16, 2017

Aryeh Cohen - Deep Shabbos: On Doing Nothing as Doing Something

65 hours 21 mins; March 16, 2017

Developing & Maintaining Multiracial, Multicultural & Multi-Faith Alliances Toward Equity & Justice – Yavilah McCoy

62 hours 47 mins; March 14, 2017

Pinchas Allouche - What Is The Soul? Exploring Our Hidden Inner Wonders!

78 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2017

Danya Ruttenberg - Nurture the Wow!

55 mins; March 06, 2017

Gillian Steinberg - What Jews Can Learn From Christian Poets

72 hours 53 mins; February 28, 2017

Bill Berk - Healing Stories from the Jewish Tradition

65 hours 36 mins; February 17, 2017

Daniel Matt - Shekhinah: The Feminine Half of God

81 hours 2 mins; February 14, 2017

Daniel Matt - God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality

70 hours 16 mins; February 14, 2017

Michael Fishbane - The Trial of Jeremiah and the Trial of Socrates

66 hours 19 mins; February 13, 2017

Michael Fishbane - Seeing the ‘Other’: Contemporary and Traditional Jewish Ethical Perspectives

79 hours 49 mins; February 10, 2017

David Almog - Idols and Idealizing: The Jewish Encounter with Buddhism

79 hours 11 mins; February 03, 2017

Daniel Cohen - "What Will They Say About You When You’re Gone?"

71 hours 58 mins; January 31, 2017

Alan Morinis - Soul Journeys: Exploring Mussar - Session 2

30 mins; January 23, 2017

Alan Morinis - Soul Journeys: Exploring Mussar! - Session 1

28 mins; January 23, 2017

Joel Gereboff - The Emotional Impact of Jewish Ritual Objects

91 hours 22 mins; January 18, 2017

Wendy Zierler - Reel Theology: "The King's Speech"

78 hours 50 mins; January 17, 2017

David Novak - Is There a Right to Die? Physician-Assisted Suicide in Jewish Thought

81 hours 36 mins; December 16, 2016

Sarah Bunin Benor - Chutzpah to Chidush: A Century of Yiddish-Influenced English in America

50 mins; December 13, 2016

Alex Israel - The Origins of Violence

69 hours 19 mins; December 12, 2016

Alex Israel - Government, Corruption, and Self-Delusion

62 hours 24 mins; December 12, 2016

Mark Borowitz - Prisoner Re-entry, Drug Recovery, & the Building of a Jewish Halfway House

62 hours 32 mins; December 06, 2016

Jonah Pesner - Prophecy, Power and the Pursuit of Justice

79 hours 30 mins; December 01, 2016

Chaim Seidler-Feller - A Zionism of Power or A Zionism of Values?

91 hours 44 mins; November 22, 2016

Chaim Seidler-Feller - Inequality: What Can Be Done? The Biblical Economics of Sufficiency

88 hours 13 mins; November 22, 2016

David Jaffe - Spirituality and Social Change

77 hours 47 mins; November 18, 2016

David Jaffe - Jewish Peacemaking

52 mins; November 17, 2016

Yosef Kanefsky - The Practical Wisdom of the Siddur

89 hours 15 mins; November 10, 2016

David Myers - American Shtetl: Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Town in Suburban New York

83 hours 19 mins; November 08, 2016

Tova Hartman - Talmudic Women as Social Critics

74 hours 16 mins; November 04, 2016

Tova Hartman - Do We Have to Mean What We Pray?

59 mins; November 04, 2016

Ami Eden - The History of the Jewish Electorate

77 hours 34 mins; November 02, 2016

On Being a Good Person in a Morally Complicated World

74 hours 36 mins; October 31, 2016

Professor Tamar Ross - The Role of Doubt in Religious Belief as Developed in the Thought of Rav Kook

81 hours 23 mins; September 20, 2016

Yishai Fleisher - If Two-State is Dead, What’s the Alternative?

84 hours 51 mins; June 02, 2016

Avraham Infeld - Welcoming the New Jewish Family

76 hours 52 mins; May 19, 2016

Avi Weiss- Spiritual Activism: Leadership in the 21st Century

54 mins; April 18, 2016

Marc Gopin - Seven Steps Toward A Less Violent World: A View From Science & Torah

75 hours 23 mins; April 13, 2016

Christine Hayes - What's So Divine About Divine Law?

77 hours 12 mins; April 07, 2016

Christine Hayes - The Moses of Midrash: God’s Partner or Adversary

51 mins; April 06, 2016

Joel Gereboff - Is Forgiveness Necessary for Interpersonal Reconciliation

85 hours 56 mins; April 06, 2016

Rami Shapiro - JudaismNext

76 hours 7 mins; April 04, 2016

Shmuly Yanklowitz - 10 Jewish Contributions to Addressing Global Conflict!

27 mins; March 15, 2016

Simcha Raphael - Practical Guidelines for Conscious Living and Dying

74 hours 30 mins; March 07, 2016

Simcha Raphael - Exploring Jewish Views on the Afterlife

81 hours 45 mins; March 03, 2016

Pinchas Allouche - The Three Biggest Challenges Facing the Jewish World Today, Part 3

85 hours 35 mins; March 02, 2016

Haggai Resnikoff - Aaron the Cohen: Peacemaking and Leadership in the Jewish Community

70 hours 41 mins; February 25, 2016

Pinchas Allouche - The Three Biggest Challenges Facing the Jewish World Today, Part 2

85 hours 12 mins; February 24, 2016

Lawrence Kushner - What Really Happened on Sinai

79 hours 6 mins; February 18, 2016

Pinchas Allouche - The Three Biggest Challenges Facing the Jewish World Today, Part 1

80 hours 44 mins; February 17, 2016

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