The College Commons Podcast
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The College Commons Podcast, passionate perspectives from Judaism's leading thinkers, is produced by Hebrew Union College, America's first Jewish institution of higher learning.
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Rabbi Ed Feinstein: Every Sermon Tells a Story
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Aron Hirt-Manheimer: Story, Silence, and the Story of Silence
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Rabbi Rachel Timoner: God Trumps Politics
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Jordan D. Rosenblum: You Are What You Eat
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Hannah Pollin-Galay: Yiddish, Vibrant among the Ashes
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Joshua Leifer: The Jigsaw Puzzle of American Judaism and its Future
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Ayelet Tsabari: “If music be the food of love, play on”
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Howard Langer: A Lost World in a New World
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Judaism’s Teaching for Repairing the Universe
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Danielle Sharkan: Culture Is a Crossroads
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: The Pulpit Isn’t a Pedestal
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Lihi Lapid: “In the End, It’s Family That’s Important”
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Lee Yaron: Weaving the Threads of October 7th
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Rabbi Marc Katz: A Civilization’s Inflection Point
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May 20, 2025 |
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Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: A New Era for Judaism and Israel
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May 06, 2025 |
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Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: What do We Even Mean by “Liberal Zionism”?
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Menachem Rosensaft: Burning Psalms
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Yariv Inbar: I, Spy
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium
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Nov 02, 2024 |
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Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Shai Held: What the World Needs Now
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Rabbi Yonatan Neril: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Paul Zeitz: Optimism as the Vehicle for Change
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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John Inazu: Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of Democracy
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe: The Bottom Line: Compassion
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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“My Heart Is in the East, though I Be in the Very West”
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May 28, 2024 |
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Centuries of Food at Your Table: A Medieval Sephardic Cookbook
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May 14, 2024 |
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Still Work To Do: Sexual Abuse in Jewish Institutions
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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A Tavola! Italian-Jewish Cuisine and the Stories Behind It
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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A Shtetl in the United States?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Jessica Marglin: The Citizen Who Didn’t Belong
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Dr. Sivan Zakai: Taking Children Seriously on Israel
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Ancient Renewed: Psalms for Every Day
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Poetry of Poetry in Translation
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Jeremy Leigh
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Rabbi Michael Strassfeld: Disrupting Judaism
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michael Marmur
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Joseph Skloot: The Secret Lives of Books
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michal Muszkat-Barkan
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Rabbi Barbara Symons: Is Prophetic Judaism Listening to the Prophets?
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with David Mendelsson
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Rabbi Zoë Klein: Brand New Stories from a Thousand Years Ago
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Michael Frank: The Lost World of Jewish Rhodes
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson: Jewish Mysticism Upside Down & Inside Out
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Elisheva Baumgarten: Mind the Gap
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Susan Wider: An Autobiography In Images
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sacha Lamb: Supernatural Jews
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Ashley Goldberg: Airing Our Dirty Laundry in Public
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Sarah Imhoff: The Unexpected Zionist
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Laura Hobson Faure: A 'Jewish Marshall Plan'
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Dani Shapiro: What Makes a Novel 'Jewish'?
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The Old Country: A Harrowing Tale of Escape from the Russian Empire
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The Crucible of Conflict: Setting the Terms for Israel/Palestine to This Day
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Discovering Israel in the Shadow of the Eichmann Trial
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May 23, 2023 |
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The Wrong Kind of Jew?
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May 09, 2023 |
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From Buchenwald to Brooklyn: A Story of Sabotage and Survival
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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A New View of a Newly Productive Congress
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Finding your family (and yourself)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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People Love Dead Jews: Provocative Book Title or Troubling Truth?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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A Grandmother’s Tale
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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The Early Zionist Spirit in Photographs
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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The Inside Story of Jean Carroll, The First Lady of Laughs
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Who Really Was Rashi, Anyway?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Old-World Jewish Music, Reborn in the New
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Iberian Adventures: 20th Century Sephardim in Mexico
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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The Orthodox Embrace of Legal Pluralism in Israel
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Senate 2022: The Game Is On & the Stakes Are High
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Radical Jewish Ethics Meets the Real World
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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A Tale of Travelers’ Checks, High Finance, and Antisemitism
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Warm and Welcoming? Institutionalized Biases and Barriers to Inclusion
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Not Your Grandparents’ Archives (Well, Actually, They Are)
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Immigrant “Aliens” – Literally
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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After Roe: A Jewish Response
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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James McAuley: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Neal Scheindlin: Untying Ethical Knots in Judaism
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Religious Freedom in America is Changing Fast, and It Matters
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Dear Mr. Dickens: A Real-Life Heroine Fights Anti-Semitism
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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A Jewish Musician Walks into a Shanghai Nightclub…
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Our Imagined Jewish Story: A Jewish Odyssey in Czarist Russia
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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The Netanyahus: An Allegory of the Jewish Experience
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May 24, 2022 |
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Rebel Daughter: Fierce Enemies Falling in Love
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May 10, 2022 |
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A Play for the End of the World: Love Stories Circling the Globe
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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The Telling: Re-Reading the Passover Haggadah for Year-Long Wisdom
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Torah in the Time of Plague: Historical and Contemporary Jewish Responses
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Rabbi Helen Plotkin: Learning Jewish/Being Jewish
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Roberta Kwall: Remix Judaism
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Paper Brigade with Editor Becca Kantor
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Noam Zion: Sanctified Sex - the Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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The Charlottesville Verdict: Taking Action in the Face of Extremism
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Social Justice Torah Commentary
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Rabbi Kari Tuling: Thinking about God in Jewish Terms
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Dr. Jonathan Sarna: Competing or Complementary? Americans and Jews
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Rabbi Wayne Allen: Jewish Thinking About Good And Evil
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Rabbi Zac Kamenetz: Psychedelic Judaism
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Rabbi Sergio Bergman: World Union for Progressive Judaism
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Catherine Collomp: The Untold Story of Jewish Labor in the Fight Against Nazism
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Dr. Joel Dimsdale: Brainwashing in History (and Today)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Max Gross: The Lost Shtetl
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Lesléa Newman: Jewish Stories in Children's Books
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Stefan Hertmans: The Convert
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Laura Leibman: Jewish History Renewed in the Experience of Women
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Ariana Neumann: Secrets of Her Father’s Past
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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The 2020 Pew Study: What does it mean to be Jewish in America?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Colum McCann: The Infinite Sides of Apeirogon
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May 25, 2021 |
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Rami Elhanan: From Pain to Peace
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May 12, 2021 |
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Posen Library Volume 1: Ancient Israel From Its Beginnings Through 332 BCE
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Keith Thomas: Horror and the Torah
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Ignacio Cano: Race & Democracy in the Americas
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Tamara Harkavy: Creative Placemaking
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Israel Crisis on Campus? Maybe, Maybe Not...
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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What Are We Missing?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Jews Refiguring Judaism
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Deborah Dash Moore: Editor of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, 1973-2005
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Rabbi Melissa Weintraub: Resetting the Table
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Sarah Hurwitz: Rediscovering Judaism
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Elisheva Carlebach: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Israel-UAE Deal Explained
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Fran Sepler: Harassment in the Workplace
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Rabbi Seth M. Limmer: Politics in Judaism and Judaism in Politics
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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HUC-JIR President Andrew Rehfeld: At the Intersection of Religious and Academic Values
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Kathryn Fleisher: Young Adults Against Gun Violence
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Pastor John Cager: Racial Justice & Religion
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Rabbi Noa Sattath: The Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC)
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Marra Gad: Racism in Progressive Jewish Communities
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Rabbi Richard Address: Jewish Sacred Aging
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May 26, 2020 |
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Mental Health in the Jewish Community
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May 12, 2020 |
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Rabbi Mike Uram: Next Generation Judaism
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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We All Look the Same to a Virus: Shared Human-ness in View of a Pandemic
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Rabbi Ariel Burger: Finding the Teacher Within
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Rita Fruman and Hernán Rustein: The Remarkable Dynamism of Global Reform Judaism
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Amanda Berman: The Zioness Movement
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Dean Phillip Bell and Michael Hogue: Religion, Vulnerability, and Resilience
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Dr. Alyssa Gray: Ancient Law Made Modern and Spiritual
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Dr. Lesley Litman and Jeremy Leigh: Israel Learned, Israel Experienced
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Rabbi Peter Berg: Political Diversity in American Judaism
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Rory Michelle Sullivan: Music is the Muse
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Ferne Pearlstein: The Last Laugh
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg: The Jewish New Wave
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Jordan Reimer: Meta Wars in the Middle East
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Michael S. Roth: “Safe” Spaces?
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Cole Imperi: Death Becomes Us
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Scott Shay: Religion, Atheism & the Golden Rule
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Yousef Bashir: Giving Peace a Chance
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Josh Bloch: Jews and Cults?
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Lauren Taus: Yoga in the Jewish Soul
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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Rabbi Dalia Marx: Israeli Judaism Meets Reform
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Evie Litwok: Jewish in Jail, and Jail in Judaism
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Mark Oppenheimer: Reform Isn’t Necessarily Unorthodox
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Yermiyahu Ahron Taub: Storytelling Traditions, Communicated Anew
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Dr. Doris E. Cohen: Déjà Jew
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Pearl Gluck: Straddling Jewish Worlds Through Filmmaking
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback: Music as a Tool for Healing
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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David Makovsky: Exploring the Two-State Solution
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May 13, 2019 |
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Dr. Marcie Lenk: Staying Open to the Faith of 'The Other'
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May 01, 2019 |
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Professor Benjamin Sommer: The Co-Evolution of Judaism and Christianity in America
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Dahlia Lithwick: American Jews' Love Affair with the Law
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Professor Marc Brettler: The Bible Says That?
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Dr. Gregory Mobley: A Baptist and a Jew Walk into a Bar...
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Dr. Melvin Konner, MD, Ph.D.: Darwin, Dogma & the Religious Experience
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Natalie Marcus and Asaf Beiser: Humor Across the Divide
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Rabbi Geoff Mitelman: Truths, Untruths, and the Problem of Perspective
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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Rabbi Sharon Brous: Engaging Tradition
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Dr. Ruhama Weiss: Peace in Fullness
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg: Peace and Justice
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Rabbi David Saperstein: Religious Freedom
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Imam Abdullah Antepli: The American Muslim Identity
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Rabbi Joshua Feigelson: Asking the Big Questions
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Rabbi Arthur Green: Serving God in Joy
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Cantor Ellen Dreskin: Prayer as Practice
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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Rabbi Donniel Hartman: Boundaries and Jewish Identity
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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David Fleischer: Deep Canvasing
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May 30, 2018 |
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Daphna Rosenberg: A Life in Music
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May 17, 2018 |
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Marques Hollie: At the Crossroads
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Dan Nichols: This is Why I Sing
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Rabbi Mike Comins: Making Prayer Real
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Anita Diamant: Our Untold Stories
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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Rabbi Andrew Hahn: Hebrew Mystical Chant
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, Ph.D.: Prayer is an Art Form
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D.: An Ethical Life
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Rabbi Gilad Kariv: Reform Judaism in Israel
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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Ruth Weisberg: A Life in Art
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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Bart Campolo: Secular Humanism
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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Ali Abu Awwad and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger: Partners for Peace
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin: The Evolution of B'nai Mitzvah
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Rachel Laser: Bridging the Racial Divide
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Oct 13, 2017 |
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Geoffrey Mitelman: Sinai and Synapses
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Charlottesville: HUC has SOMETHING to SAY
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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Rabbi Jonah Pesner: Advocacy & Activism
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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Alice Greenwald: Memory and Conscience
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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Rabbi Amy Scheinerman: Hospice, Interfaith and Halakha
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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Janet Walton: Interfaith Worship and Feminist Theology
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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Dr. Rachel Tzvia Back: Poetry and Translation
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Matan Koch: How We Talk About Disability
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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Dr. Neil Levin: Jewish Music and the Milken Archive
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May 19, 2017 |
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Rabbi Jennie Rosenn: Welcoming the Stranger
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May 10, 2017 |
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Alana Newhouse: Journalism, Jewish Identity and Society
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Erwin Chemerinsky: Immigration Ban and the Law
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Rabbi Michael Marmur: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Legacy, Promise and Possibility
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Dr. Vivian Mann: Medieval to Modern Perspectives in Jewish Art
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Mar 01, 2017 |
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Rabbi David Ellenson: What Makes Me a Reform Jew?
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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Rabbi Owen Gottlieb: Playing with Judaism in the Digital Age
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Cantor Elizabeth Sacks: Music that Speaks to Our Experience
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Jan 18, 2017 |
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Eric Segall: Supreme Myths
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Alan Cooperman: American and Israeli Jews: The Pew Study
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Dec 07, 2016 |
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Dr. Amir Hussain: Muslims and the Making of America
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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Rabbi Don Goor: American Jewish Identity and Dissent
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Rabbi Sally Priesand: Pioneer Rabbi
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Dr. Ron Wolfson: Relational Judaism
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Aug 31, 2016 |
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Rabbi Mark Washofsky: Jewish Law in Reform Judaism
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Rabbi Elyse Goldstein: Reach Up Reform Judaism
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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Rabbi Laura Geller: Aging Jewishly
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: Hebrew and Jewish Identity
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Rabbi Rick Jacobs: American Judaism in Israel
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May 25, 2016 |
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Rabbi Denise Eger: Torah for Our Times
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May 06, 2016 |
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Rabbi Paul Kipnes: Spiritual Parenting
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May 05, 2016 |
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Rabbi Aaron Panken: Jewish Texts Matter
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi: Critique and Rebuke
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Apr 06, 2016 |
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Reverend Jennifer Bailey: Faith Matters
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Mar 25, 2016 |
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Rabbi Dr. Samuel Joseph: Enriching Lay Leadership
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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Rabbi Edythe Mencher: Being on the Margins
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Rabbi William Cutter: The Right-to-Die Initiative
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Mar 09, 2016 |
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Rabbi Dr. Michael Marmur: How We Talk About God
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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Mohammad Darawshe: Shared Society in Israel
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Feb 17, 2016 |
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Dr. Steven Windmueller: Is the Jewish Vote Still Liberal in America?
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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Rabbi Dr. Reuven Firestone: Muslim Violence through a Jewish Lens
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Dec 03, 2015 |