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Episode 306: Circumcision -- Ignorance and Bris - Dan and Lex
Dan and Lex close out Judaism Unbound's 4-episode mini-series on Jewish circumcision. They explore, in particular, the treatment by Jewish institutio…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 305: The Jewish History of Circumcision - Shaye Cohen
Shaye Cohen, the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Harvard University, joins Dan and Lex for the 3rd conversation in a unit o…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 304: Circumcision and its Jewish Alternatives - Max Buckler, Charlene Thrope
Max Buckler, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Bruchim, and Charlene Thrope, a member of its extended team, join Dan and Lex for a conversation t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 303: "Bris" means "Covenant," not "Circumcision" - Lisa Braver Moss, Rebecca Wald, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon
Lisa Braver Moss, Rebecca Wald, and Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon are the founding members of B'ruchim's executive board. So what's B'ruchim? It's a recently-…
4 years, 7 months ago
Episode 302: Doing Jewish - Zack Bodner
Zack Bodner, CEO of The Oshman Family JCC and author of Why Do Jewish? A Manifesto for 21st Century Jewish Peoplehood, joins Dan and Lex for a conver…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 301: American Comics and Jewish Comedy - Jeremy Dauber
Jeremy Dauber, the author of American Comics: A History and Jewish Comedy: A Serious History, who serves as the Atran Professor of Yiddish Language, …
4 years, 8 months ago
Bonus Episode: The Dybbukast Season 2, Episode 1 - I Sing and I Pray
This bonus episode of Judaism Unbound is presented in partnership with Theatre Dybbuk. Once a month, their podcast -- called The Dybbukast -- release…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 300: You, Yes YOU, are a Jewish Leader! - Dan and Lex
Dan and Lex celebrate the 3-century mark of podcast episodes. They consider the drastic growth of Jewish creativity and experimentation, all around t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 299: Becoming a Golem - Julie Weitz
Julie Weitz, a performance artist whose work "uses humor and ritual to propose ethically-grounded and intersectional reconsiderations of pressing con…
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 298: Judaism, Inconveniently Itself - Ezra Furman
Musician and songwriter Ezra Furman, whose albums include Twelve Nudes (2019) and Transangelic Exodus (2018), and whose work serves as the soundtrack…
4 years, 8 months ago