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Episode 12: Minhag America - Anita Diamant
Anita Diamant, author of The Red Tent and founder of Mayyim Hayyim Community Mikveh, visits Judaism Unbound for a discussion about trends in contempo…
10 years, 2 months ago
Episode 11: American Judaism - Jonathan Sarna
Dan and Lex welcome pre-eminent American Jewish historian Jonathan Sarna to the podcast for the first episode of a series entitled "Judaism in Americ…
10 years, 2 months ago
Episode 10: Deuteronomy II
Our Judaism Unbound podcast kicked off with five sets of two episodes, each of which connected to one book of the Torah. In this episode, connecting …
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 9: Deuteronomy - Dan Mendelsohn Aviv
How do all the pieces fit together? In episode 9, we synthesize key ideas from the previous episodes' conversations and try to lay out the lens throu…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 8: Numbers II
You might be familiar with these questions: How many Jews are there in the United States? How many Jewish children are they having? How can we ensure…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 7: Numbers - Barak Richman
How do Jewish institutions change? How do they resist change? Those are the key questions we wrestle with this week as Professor Barak Richman of Duk…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 6: Leviticus II
What do science and art have to do with Judaism? That's the core question of this week's episode. Listen in as we answer it as best we can, while exp…
10 years, 3 months ago
Episode 5: Leviticus - Vanessa Ochs
What does it mean to "invent" Jewish ritual? Aren't rituals something we inherit or learn? Professor Vanessa Ochs, author of Inventing Jewish Ritual,…
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 4: Exodus II
What, in Judaism, has crashed? Last episode, Rabbi Benay Lappe outlined her "Crash" Theory and in this episode, Dan and Lex engage with it further.
I…
10 years, 4 months ago
Episode 3: Exodus - Benay Lappe
Lex and Dan welcome Rabbi Benay Lappe onto the show to discuss ways in which Jews respond to various "crashes" throughout Jewish history. More than t…
10 years, 4 months ago