The Genesis: Conversations About Jewish Arts and Culture

By Joshua Rose

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We are right at the beginning of what some have called "The 21st Century Jewish Cultural Renaissance," and The Genesis is the podcast watching it unfold, in real time and up close. Each week Rabbi Josh Rose has a conversation with a different Jewish artist or cultural figure to explore questions of artistic creativity, individual Jewish identity, Jewish expression and how Jewish arts are reshaping what it means to be Jewish. Our main focus in on the artists from Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts and Culture, and Jewish artists in the Pacific Northwest. Rabbi Josh also engages national leaders (Rabbi Shai Held of Hadar, Seth Pinksy of New York's 92nd Street Y) about the broader world of Jewish culture. So, if you're interested in 21st century Jewish life, Jewish ideas, Jewish arts or just good conversation, you're in the right place. *The Genesis was originally a podcast of Co/Lab, founded by Rabbi Josh. Today the Genesis is a production of Art/Lab where Rabbi Josh continues to shape its unfolding.

Episode Date
S3E25 Why a Jewish Arts & Culture Program - And Why Now? (Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem)
Dec 10, 2025
S3E24 Creativity as Jewish Religious Experience (w/ Rabbi Adina Allen; Re-Release of S3E20)
Dec 03, 2025
S3E23 How is Puppetry Like the Torah? With Ora Fruchter
Dec 02, 2025
S3E22 What Happens When You Stop Comparing Yourself to Other Artists? (with Youki Imori)
Nov 25, 2025
S3E21 Is Creativity the Bridge Between the Jewish Past and Future? (with Leila Wice)
Nov 18, 2025
S3E20 Is Creativity a Path to Jewish Religious Experience? (with Rabbi Adina Allen)
Nov 13, 2025
S3E19 S3E19 What Can Yiddish Teach Us About Resistance (and Jewish Resistance)? (with Jessica Rehfield)
Nov 04, 2025
S3E18 How Creativity Helped One Jewish Artist Find His Way Back from a Traumatic Injury (with Justin Jude Carroll)
Oct 29, 2025
S3E17 The Sound of Meta-Modern Jewish Creativity (with Aaron Kahn)
Oct 22, 2025
S3E16 What Jewish Wisdom Does Bob Dylan Have for Us? (with Dr. Stephen Arnoff)
Oct 15, 2025
S3E15 How Individual Voice Can Thrive Within Community (with Holly Goodman)
Oct 08, 2025
S3E14 A Jewish Artist on Writing, Loneliness, and the Urge to Be Seen (with Daniel Elder)
Sep 30, 2025
S2E13 Can Dance Capture the Power of Jewish Teaching?
Sep 24, 2025
S3E12 How Particularism & Universalism Come Together in the Jewish - and American - Story
Sep 16, 2025
S3E11 When the Stories We Tell Ourselves Stop Working
Sep 09, 2025
S3E10 Autobiography of a Rabbi: From Religion to Culture
Sep 06, 2025
S3E9 Making Poetry Out of Anti-Semitic Hate: A Conversation with Daniela Molnar at Annie Blooms Books
Sep 02, 2025
S3E8 Can An Artist Repair The World Through Her Work?
Aug 26, 2025
S3E7 Is Judaism Fundamentally an Artistic Tradition?
Aug 23, 2025
S3E6 Is There a Line Between Jewish Religion and Jewish Culture?
Aug 19, 2025
S3E5 What Bruce Springsteen Just Proved About Art
Aug 15, 2025
S3E4 - WITH CORRECTION What the Art of Jewish Study - and Art Itself - Can Teach Us
Aug 13, 2025
S3E3 Does (Jewish) Art Owe Something to the World?
Aug 09, 2025
S3E2 Can Divided Jewish Community Still Join Under a Big Tent? The Case of the 92nd Street Y
Aug 05, 2025
S3E1 Season Three! How Does Our Past Tell Us Who We Are Now?
Jul 29, 2025
S2 E26 Rabbi Shai Held: Can Judaism Reclaim Love?
Jul 23, 2025
S2 E25 Can AI Help Us Understand The Secrets of Jewish Mysticism?
Jul 16, 2025
S2E24 Rabbi Josh's Talk with Oregon Book Award Winner Daniela Molnar
Jul 09, 2025
S2E23 What Does Jewish Music Sound Like Now?
Jul 02, 2025
S2E22 Can Art and Music Replace Religion?
Jun 27, 2025
S2E21 Can Jewish Culture Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century? (Lou Cove, Part II)
Jun 18, 2025
S2E20 What is the Jewish Cultural Renaissance and Why Does It Matter?
Jun 11, 2025
S2E19 When A Jewish Artist Makes a Golem
Jun 03, 2025
S2E18 Can Judaism Reclaim Love in a Divided World?
May 29, 2025
S2E17 How One Zionist Thinks About the War in Gaza
May 23, 2025
S2E16 Can Synagogues Help Create Meaning In a Post-Institutional Age?
May 22, 2025
S2E15 Can Jewish Food - or Culture - Evolve Without Losing Its Soul?
May 16, 2025
S2E14 How One Palestinian Activist is Helping to Make Israel Better
May 13, 2025
S2E13 How a Virtual Home of Jewish Study Is Rethinking Jewish Community
May 08, 2025
S2E12. Israel: We Contain Multitudes
May 02, 2025
S2E11 How One Jewish Artist Turns Hate Into Humor
May 01, 2025
S2E10 Can Spiritual Practice Create Jewish Art?
Apr 24, 2025
S2E9 End of Passover '25: Freedom, Politics, and Jewish Ideals
Apr 19, 2025
S2E8 What Does It Mean to Be a Jewish Artist After October 7th?
Apr 17, 2025
S2E7 Does Gaza Have a Place at the Seder?
Apr 12, 2025
S2E6 Jewish Federation, Adapting to a New Jewish World & Post-October 7th Realities: Marc Blattner
Apr 10, 2025
S2E5 A Very Jewish Tattoo, Trauma, and Trials of a Jewish Parent: Gadi Golan
Apr 02, 2025
S2E4 Idea of the Week: Pretending to Be
Mar 28, 2025
S2E3 Jewish Artists at this Jewish Moment: Art/Lab
Mar 26, 2025
S2E2 Idea of the Week: Trump Underneath the Mountain
Mar 21, 2025
S2E1 Alicia Jo Rabins: Jewish Art & Jewish Creativity
Mar 19, 2025
We're Back - Purim and More Jewish Content to Come....
Mar 14, 2025
A Surprising (Auto) Biography and What to Make of It: Jeff Alden
Jan 15, 2025
Art, self-criticism & Jewish creativity and Psychedelic Healing: Liz Asch Greenhill
Jan 03, 2025
Jewish Creativity Vs. Tradition and... Jewish AI?
Dec 06, 2024
Music, Jewish Culture & Connection: Aiden Kent & The Portland Niggun Circle
Nov 02, 2024
Israel - One Year Later: Three Rabbis Discuss Jewish Values, Jewish Pain and the Future
Oct 11, 2024
Jewish Values & Israel: Rabbi Josh & A Friend Wrestle with the Ongoing War
Sep 20, 2024
Jewish By Numbers and An Alphabet of God: Rabbi Brian Mayer
Sep 05, 2024
Daniela Molnar: Crazy Fecund World - Poetry, Spirituality and Jewish Identity
Aug 21, 2024
Eleyna Fugman: Marginalization, Inclusion, Synagogues & Small Communities
Aug 08, 2024
Why is This Episode Different From All Other Episodes? An Announcement.
Aug 01, 2024
Staying Off Script, Boring Services and Authenticity: Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder
Jul 25, 2024
Hope, Finding Truth, Quiet, and Zionisms: Moshe Rachmuth
Jul 17, 2024
Jewish Comedy, Justice, & Psychedelics: Roy Kaufmann
Jul 10, 2024
Metasabiya Habteyes & Rabbi Josh: Lefty Discomfort, Israel, Jews of Color & the Jewish Future (Oh, my)
Jul 03, 2024