Podcast Episodes

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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 7 months ago

Episode 2: Genesis II

Lex and Dan look back at Jewish history, using a historical lens to analyze contemporary American Judaism and its institutions.

If you're enjoying Ju…

10 years, 7 months ago

Episode 1: Genesis

Co-hosts Dan Libenson and Lex Rofes introduce listeners to their new podcast: Judaism Unbound. They discuss their framework of understanding 21st cen…

10 years, 7 months ago