College Commons Podcast
1) Hannah L. and Rabbi Harvey Winokur: Jewish and Twelve-Step Traditions at the Crossroads of Addiction
Jewish and Twelve-Step Traditions at the Crossroads of AddictionDescription: A Jewish ethical tradition called Mussar and a uniquely Jewish approach to twelve-step recovery.Hannah L. is the author of ...Show More
2) Adam Ferziger: A Patchwork of Jews
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesAdam Ferziger: A Patchwork of JewsOpinions and approaches inhabit the entire spectrum of Jewish thought and practice, but how do they speak to each other?Biography: A...Show More
3) Arnold Eisen: Dimensional and Complex Judaism
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesArnold Eisen: Dimensional and Complex JudaismMore than a religion, resisting extremes, but also hard to pin down, Judaism and Judaism’s God inspire Arnold Eisen’s spi...Show More
4) Rabbi Dalia Marx: The Prayerbook as a Living Text
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesRabbi Dalia Marx: The Prayerbook As a Living TextRabbi Dalia Marx editor of the new Israeli Reform prayerbook muses on the siddur as both reflection and shaper of com...Show More
5) Rabbi Ed Feinstein: Every Sermon Tells a Story
For Rabbi Ed Feinstein meaning-making is story-telling, and the rabbi’s business.Biography: Rabbi Ed Feinstein came to Valley Beth Shalom in 1993 at the invitation of the renowned Rabbi Haro...Show More
6) Aron Hirt-Manheimer: Story, Silence, and the Story of Silence
A second generation of Holocaust survivors re-examine their lives through the lens of their parents.Aron Hirt-Manheimer (he/him) is the Union for Reform Judaism's former editor-at-large, the...Show More
7) Rabbi Rachel Timoner: God Trumps Politics
Description: Spiritual and political dynamics that motivate and shape the pulpit of Rabbi Rachel Timoner.Biography: Rabbi Rachel Timoner is grateful and proud to serve as Senior Rabbi of Congregation ...Show More
8) Jordan D. Rosenblum: You Are What You Eat
When it comes to pigs, however, maybe you are what you don’t eat… Maybe…Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsi...Show More
9) Hannah Pollin-Galay: Yiddish, Vibrant among the Ashes
Description: Hannah Pollin-Galay reveals the Yiddish of destruction, and its capacity to bring life and meaning.Biography: Hannah Pollin-Galay is a scholar of East European Jewish culture, w...Show More
10) Joshua Leifer: The Jigsaw Puzzle of American Judaism and its Future
Description: Complicated contours and tortuous fissures emerge as a picture of the American Jewish experience in Tablets Shattered.Biography: Joshua Leifer is a journalist and historian. He is a colum...Show More