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Episode 402: In the Wilderness - Jory Hanselman Mayschak
Jory Handelsman Mayschak is the founder and CEO of BaMidbar, the nation’s first Jewish wilderness therapy program. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rof…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 401: Expanding the Jewish Canon - Hayley Finn, Zachariah Ezer
Expanding the Canon is an initiative from the Washington DC-based Theater J, which has commissioned seven racially and ethnically diverse Jewish writ…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 400: Becoming Jewish, Building Judaism Together - Dan and Lex
Conversion to Judaism is a process dating back to roughly the 2nd century BCE, but even with this long history, mainstream Jewish institutions often …
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 399: God? Gods? Goddesses? Godexes? - Tamar Kamionkowski
Tamar Kamionkowski serves as professor of Biblical Studies at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 398: Jewish Ritual Craft - Rachel Rose Reid
What are the purposes of ritual in our lives? What are the ingredients that go into a successful ritual? Rachel Rose Reid, a ritualist and storytelle…
2 years, 9 months ago
Bonus Episode: Your Body is a Sukkah - Yoshi Silverstein
Yoshi Silverstein is the founder and executive director of Mitsui Collective, an organization that seeks to "build resilient community, through embod…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 397: Yom Kippur -- Repentance and Repair - Danya Ruttenberg
Danya Ruttenberg, the Scholar-in-Residence for the National Council of Jewish Women -- and also (unofficially) the "Rabbi of Twitter" according to ma…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 396: Becoming Jewish...But Not a "Jew-By-Choice" - Amelia Dornbush
Some people become Jewish at some point in life after they are born. Typically, they're referred to as either "Jews-by-choice" (in contrast to "Jews-…
2 years, 10 months ago
Elul Unbound Bonus Episode #21: Second Chances
Elul is the 12th and final month of the Jewish calendar year. Elul Unbound is a Judaism Unbound initiative all about making Elul meaningful, through …
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 395: Becoming a Jewish Kind of Person - Benay Lappe
Benay Lappe, the founder of SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva -- and, way back in Judaism Unbound's earliest days, the first guest on our podcas…
2 years, 10 months ago