College Commons Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) Ayelet Tsabari: “If music be the food of love, play on”
Love of family, culture, and home, set to the music of Yemenite Jews in Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel.Ayelet Tsabari is the author of Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a National Jewi...Show More
9) Howard Langer: A Lost World in a New World
Novelist Howard Langer transplants a fictional Hasidic Dynasty to the heart of segregated America, to discover a truly New World.Biography: Howard Langer was born in New York and brought up on the wes...Show More
10) Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Judaism’s Teaching for Repairing the Universe
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg takes us on a majestic odyssey of religious purpose and Covenant.Biography: Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg serves as the President of the J.J. Greenberg Institute for the Advanceme...Show More