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Episode 170: Queering the Jewish Bookshelf - Noam Sienna
Noam Sienna, author of the book A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969, joins Lex and Dan for a conversa…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 169: Jewish Language - Sarah Bunin Benor
Sarah Bunin Benor, Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and author of the award winning bo…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 168: American Mussar - Greg Marcus
Greg Marcus, founder of American Mussar and author of The Spiritual Practice of Good Actions: Finding Balance through the Soul Traits of Mussar, join…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 167: The Meaning of Mussar - David Jaffe
David Jaffe, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning book Changing the World from the Inside Out, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 166: The Freedom Seder - Arthur Waskow
Arthur Waskow, noted activist, author, and rabbi, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about 1969’s Freedom Seder. They look at the process that led …
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 165: SecularSynagogue.com - Denise Handlarski
Denise Handlarski, rabbi and founder of SecularSynagogue.com, joins Dan and Lex for a wide-ranging conversation, looking at digital Judaism, interfai…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 164: Going, Jewishly - Leon Wiener Dow
Leon Wiener Dow of the Shalom Hartman Institute and BINA Secular Yeshiva joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg in conversation about his new book, The …
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 163: Collective Effervescence - Lizzi Heydemann
Lizzi Heydemann, the rabbi and founder of Mishkan Chicago, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg in conversation about creating a 21st Century Jewish s…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 162: 100% Black, 100% Jewish - MaNishtana
MaNishtana joins Lex Rofeberg and Dan Libenson for a conversation about race and intersectionality in contemporary Jewish life. As a jumping off poin…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 161: The Zohar - Daniel Matt
Daniel Matt is a scholar of Kabbalah who translated and annotated the Zohar — a central text of Jewish mysticism — into English. He joins Dan Libenso…
7 years, 4 months ago