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The Building of Open Orthodoxy – Rabbi Avi Weiss
20 mins; June 13, 2019
Race & Social Change: Our Inner Work as White Allies – Dr. Max Klau
12 mins; June 11, 2019
Alleviating Suffering in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Dr. Micah Goodman
11 mins; June 11, 2019
Justice for Restaurant Workers!
6 mins; June 04, 2019
Understanding Human Suffering: Theological, Moral, & Spiritual Explorations – Shmuly Yanklowitz
90 hours 30 mins; May 28, 2019
Is Hebrew Education in Sunday School Working?
9 mins; May 21, 2019
Orthodox Rabbis Censoring Truth?
14 mins; May 20, 2019
Emily Langowitz - Judaism and Reproductive Justice: Reframing the Jewish Conversation on Abortion
68 hours 1 min; May 17, 2019
Shmuly Yanklowitz - The Book of Jonah: A Rebellious Prophet We Can Relate To
78 hours 38 mins; May 16, 2019
Utilitarian Perspectives on Saving Lives, Organ Donation, & End-of-Life Ethics!
12 mins; May 15, 2019
The Grandfather of the Jewish Vegan Movement!
13 mins; May 13, 2019
Amichai Lau-Lavie - Interrupting the Bible: Five Tools to Reinvent the Jewish Story
76 hours 40 mins; April 11, 2019
Noa Kushner - Social Justice, Mitzvah, and God Then and Now: The writing of R. Arnold Jacob Wolf z”l
78 hours 54 mins; April 03, 2019
Noa Kushner - Jewish Thought in Three Acts: Creation, Revelation, Redemption
60 hours 3 mins; April 03, 2019
Jonathan K. Crane - Eating Ethically: Religion and Science for a Better Diet
74 hours 0 mins; April 02, 2019
Jonathan K. Crane - Dying to Die: Jewish Perspectives on End of Life Interventions
35 mins; April 02, 2019
Peter Beinart - Jewish Power and Jewish Vulnerability in the Age of Trump
89 hours 45 mins; March 28, 2019
Peter Beinart - The Coming Democratic Party Civil War Over Israel
39 mins; March 27, 2019
Samuel Brody - What Would God’s Economy Look Like?
85 hours 58 mins; March 26, 2019
Samuel Brody - A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber and Bi-nationalism in Palestine
81 hours 33 mins; March 26, 2019
Jordan B. Gorfinkel - Illustrating the Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel
69 hours 6 mins; March 19, 2019
Alexandra Birch - Music and the Holocaust
43 mins; March 15, 2019
Steven Windmueller - The Jewish Community in 2050
65 hours 54 mins; March 14, 2019
Steven Windmueller - Why Now, Why Here: Anti-Semitism in America
61 hours 59 mins; March 13, 2019
Stephen M. Flatow - A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror
56 mins; March 07, 2019
David Kasher - The Torah of Martin Luther King, Jr.
83 hours 2 mins; March 06, 2019
David Kasher - Thou Shalt Be a Mensch: The Jewish Line Between Law and Ethics
75 hours 12 mins; March 05, 2019
Judith Hauptman - The Moral Obligation to Speak Out in the Face of Wrongdoing
91 hours 1 min; March 01, 2019
Judith Hauptman - Women’s Voices in the Talmud
87 hours 8 mins; March 01, 2019
Naomi Levy - Einstein and the Rabbi
72 hours 41 mins; February 21, 2019
Eitan Fishbane - Love of Neighbor, Love of God: How the Two are One in Jewish Mystical Thought
86 hours 14 mins; February 19, 2019
Eitan Fishbane - Is the Human Being Divine? Soul and Body in Jewish Mystical Thought
68 hours 8 mins; February 19, 2019
Eitan Fishbane - Discovering God in the Natural World: Insights from Kabbalah and Hasidism
82 hours 30 mins; February 18, 2019
Elyse Goldstein - Women are from Genesis, Men are from Leviticus! Does Gender Read the Bible?
88 hours 32 mins; February 14, 2019
Dina Najman - Withholding/Withdrawing Treatment of the Terminally Ill
88 hours 5 mins; February 12, 2019
Dina Najman - Human Cloning and Embryo Research: The Ethical and Jewish Legal Implications
62 hours 31 mins; February 11, 2019
Joshua Shanes - The (re)birth of Jewish Denominations in 19th-century Europe
77 hours 35 mins; February 06, 2019
Joshua Shanes - The Galitsyaners: (Re)discovering Jewish Galicia
67 hours 2 mins; February 06, 2019
Ariel Burger - The Life and Legacy of Elie Wiesel: A Student’s Perspective
49 mins; February 05, 2019
Ariel Burger - Rebbe Nachman on Joy and Suffering
60 hours 21 mins; February 04, 2019
Elias Sacks - Does Christianity Matter for Judaism — and Vice Versa?
83 hours 13 mins; January 29, 2019
Elias Sacks - Can Jews Be Citizens? Jewish Politics from the Enlightenment to Today
76 hours 40 mins; January 29, 2019
Ed Feinstein - The Search for the Sacred: The Jewish Debate with Modernity
80 hours 43 mins; January 28, 2019
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer - The Talmud: A Biography
89 hours 18 mins; January 24, 2019
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer - Charity in the Talmud: Religious Feelings and Macroeconomics
72 hours 9 mins; January 24, 2019
Tirzah Firestone - Lighting the Way in a Dark World: The Tzaddik & The Bodhisattva
87 hours 39 mins; January 22, 2019
Tirzah Firestone - Shechinah, the Feminine Face of Gd in Torah, Mysticism, and Our World
59 mins; January 22, 2019
Manny Waks - Who Gave You Permission?
88 hours 19 mins; January 17, 2019
Emanuel Levinas: The Greatest Jewish Philosopher That Nobody’s Heard Of – Ira Stone
79 hours 57 mins; January 15, 2019
Ira Stone - Reading Classical Texts with a Contemporary Philosophic Lens
57 mins; January 15, 2019
David Z. Moster - Etrog: How a Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol
54 mins; January 11, 2019
Samuel Fleischacker - Maimonides on Who Wrote the Torah
82 hours 27 mins; January 10, 2019
Samuel Fleischacker - Existentialist Messianism
83 hours 23 mins; January 10, 2019
Ilana Kaufman - A Community of ‘Others’: Jews, Peoplehood, and Justice
76 hours 18 mins; December 19, 2018
Ilana Kaufman - Jewish Identity and Justice
59 mins; December 18, 2018
Paul Mendes-Flohr - Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue
84 hours 6 mins; December 12, 2018
Paul Mendes-Flohr - Franz Rosenzweig: Herald of a Jewish Renaissance
51 mins; December 11, 2018
Noam Weisbrod - Water and Food Security in Israel and Beyond: Can We Do Better?
61 hours 15 mins; December 11, 2018
Howard M. Markose - The Leadership of Aaron and Moses – A Look at Differing Styles
88 hours 17 mins; December 10, 2018
Howard M. Markose - Jacob and Esau’s Long-Awaited Meeting – Friendly or Antagonistic?
58 mins; December 10, 2018
Robert Eisen - The Peace and Violence of Judaism: From the Bible to Modern Zionism
69 hours 25 mins; November 20, 2018
Robert Eisen - Justifying Israel’s Wars in Jewish Law: Challenges and Solutions
66 hours 59 mins; November 19, 2018
Herbert Cohen - Mussar and Film: Movies That Help Us Grow!
54 mins; November 14, 2018
Samuel C. Heilman - The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America
74 hours 37 mins; November 14, 2018
Samuel C. Heilman - Orthodoxy in America
30 mins; November 14, 2018
Avram Mlotek - We Are Here: Spiritual Resistance During The Holocaust
73 hours 36 mins; November 07, 2018
Avram Mlotek - Songs of Generations: Jewish History through Yiddish Song
58 mins; November 07, 2018
Adrienne Krone - Sacred and Sustainable Space: Ancient Agriculture and Innovative Judaism
46 mins; October 30, 2018
Adrienne Krone - Saving Seeds: A Revived Historical Jewish Agricultural Settlement in New Jersey
43 mins; October 30, 2018
Aharon Ariel Lavi - About Economy and Sustenance: Judaism, Society, and Economics
85 hours 35 mins; October 26, 2018
Mel Gottlieb - Kabbala and Consciousness
78 hours 23 mins; October 25, 2018
Mel Gottlieb - Making Enemies Into Friends
55 mins; October 24, 2018
Shai Secunda - Jews on the Big Screen: Understanding New Israeli Film and Television
47 mins; October 19, 2018
Shai Secunda - Iran is Closer Than You Think: The ‘Iranian’ Talmud
81 hours 53 mins; October 19, 2018
Dov Linzer - Unequal Justice? Jew/Non-Jew Distinctions in Civil and Criminal Halakha
90 hours 47 mins; October 18, 2018
Laura Geller - Wise Aging: Getting Good at Getting Older
61 hours 25 mins; October 08, 2018
Laura Geller - Why Friendships Change As We Age
32 mins; October 08, 2018
Shmuly Yanklowitz & Laurence B. Hirsch - American, Israeli, and Jewish Legal Perspectives on Divorce
60 hours 13 mins; August 14, 2018
Uri Topolosky - Stumbling Stones: The Oldest Form of Jewish Spirituality
54 mins; August 09, 2018
Marianne Novak - From Punishment to Compassion
50 mins; July 26, 2018
Elad Nehorai - The Change-Making Power Of Community
60 hours 43 mins; July 18, 2018
Elad Nehorai - How To Break Out Of Tribalism and Still Be Proudly Jewish
61 hours 3 mins; July 17, 2018
Herzl Hefer - Saving God From True Believers
78 hours 27 mins; June 06, 2018
Herzl Hefter - Navigating Change and Tradition: A Case Study
61 hours 10 mins; June 06, 2018
Jeremy Dauber - Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
69 hours 15 mins; May 11, 2018
Zvi Zohar - The Rabbi and the Sheikh
83 hours 12 mins; May 04, 2018
Zvi Zohar - Sephardic Rabbinic Response to a Major Challenge of Modernity
87 hours 12 mins; May 03, 2018
Naftuli Moster - Secular Education in Hasidic Yeshivas: Why We Should All Care
82 hours 21 mins; May 03, 2018
Adam Chodorow - God’s Income Tax: Comparing Laws of Tithing to Federal Income Tax
53 mins; May 02, 2018
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: The Life and Thought of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel – Susannah Heschel
65 hours 45 mins; April 23, 2018
Susannah Heschel - What is ‘Human Dignity’ According to Judaism?
36 mins; April 23, 2018
Daniel Greyber - Forgotten Mourners
56 mins; April 17, 2018
Sheila Katz - Connecting with the Enemy: A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
76 hours 49 mins; April 13, 2018
Shmuly Yanklowitz & Benjamin Taylor - Crimes of Passion: The Extent of Human Responsibility
57 mins; April 11, 2018
Jeffrey K. Salkin - How to Re-Claim The Spiritual Meaning of Your Child’s Bar or Bat Mitzvah
58 mins; March 23, 2018
Jeffrey K. Salkin - The Gods Are Broken!
28 mins; March 23, 2018
Jeffrey K. Salkin - Righteous Gentiles of the Hebrew Bible: Ancient Models for Sacred Relationships
56 mins; March 23, 2018
Ariel Evan Mayse - The Soul in Jewish Mysticism: Opening the Heart to the Inner Life
75 hours 38 mins; March 20, 2018
Ariel Evan Mayse - Neo-Hasidism and the Theology of Halakhah
73 hours 54 mins; March 20, 2018
Marilyn Byfield Paul - An Oasis in Time: How a Day of Rest Can Save Your Life
54 mins; March 16, 2018
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