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Episode 154: Ten New Commandments - Dan and Lex
Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg get a bit revolutionary, introducing (and debating) 10 New Commandments for contemporary Judaism.
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7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 153: Fiction Between Worlds - Ruby Namdar
Novelist Ruby Namdar, author of the award-winning The Ruined House, which interweaves the stories of an American-Jewish professor and an ancient Jude…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 152: Elie Wiesel's Classroom - Ariel Burger
Ariel Burger joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg to discuss his book Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom, winner of a 2018 National Jewish …
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 151: Judaism from a Transgender Perspective - Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin, author of The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conver…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 150: "Jews" of "No" "Religion"
Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg dig into conceptions of "Judaism,” “Jewish identity,” “Religion,” and a wide variety of other terms that should probabl…
7 years, 6 months ago
Episode 149: Judaism? - Daniel Boyarin
Daniel Boyarin, author of Judaism: The Genealogy of a Modern Notion, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg to ask whether Judaism exists (!!), and to e…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 148: Pennies for Heaven...and Building Upkeep - Dan Judson Part II
We continue our conversation with Dan Judson, Dean of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, in the second part of a two-episode series, turning ou…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 147: From Selling Pews to Temple Dues - Dan Judson Part I
Dan Judson, Dean of the Rabbinical School at Hebrew College, joins Judaism Unbound for the first of two episodes on the story of how synagogues have …
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 146: The Jewish American Paradox - Robert Mnookin
Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg are joined by Harvard Law School professor Robert Mnookin to discuss his new book, The Jewish American Paradox: Embraci…
7 years, 7 months ago
Episode 145: Studying Jews Differently - Tobin Belzer
Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg are joined by Tobin Belzer, an applied sociologist, for a conversation about why it might be time to re-conceptualize t…
7 years, 8 months ago