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Episode 387: Converting to Judaism -- Beyond Blood Quantum - Juan Mejia
Juan Mejia, a conservative rabbi who serves as Jewish educator for Emanuel Synagogue in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation…
3 years ago
Episode 386: Converting to Judaism -- Becoming Ger-ish - Katie Kaestner-Frenchman
Katie Kaestner-Frenchman is Judaism Unbound’s amazing Marketing, Communications, and Creative Maven! They join their colleagues Dan and Lex for the f…
3 years ago
Episode 385: Unconditional Love - David Raphael, Ilene Vogelstein
David Raphael and Ilene Vogelstein are leaders of the Jewish Grandparents Network, a national organization that educates, connects, and supports gran…
3 years ago
Episode 384: Before Bat Mitzvah -- A Prequel - Melissa Klapper
Melissa Klapper, author of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860-1920, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation serving as a "pre…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 383: Jews of Summer Camp, A History - Sandra Fox
Sandra Fox, the Goldstein-Goren visiting assistant professor of American Jewish History at New York University, is the author of The Jews of Summer: …
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 382: What Should B Mitzvah Be? - Dan and Lex
B Mitzvah (a gender-neutral term for Jewish coming-of-age rituals, often but not exclusively associated with the age of 12-to-13) is an incredibly po…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 381: Rites (Rights?) of Passage - Amichai Lau-Lavie
Amichai Lau-Lavie is the co-founder and spiritual leader of Lab/Shul: an "artist-driven, everybody-friendly, god-optional, pop up, experimental commu…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 380: Summer Camp B Mitzvah - Meg Adler
What if B Mitzvahs weren't so thoroughly associated with synagogues, but were understood to take place in a rich diversity of other spaces in the wo…
3 years, 1 month ago
Bonus Episode: The Dybbukast, Season 3 Episode 6 - The Book of Tahkemoni
This bonus episode of Judaism Unbound is presented in partnership with Theatre Dybbuk. We are proud to feature their third season's fourth episode as…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 379: Be Mitzvah, Your Way - Amy Atkins, Amanda Schwartz
Open Tent Be Mitzvah is a two-year experience, offered by the organization Judaism Your Way, that is focused on a student’s coming-of-age journey wit…
3 years, 2 months ago