College Commons Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) Danielle Sharkan: Culture Is a Crossroads
Author Danielle Sharkan finds cultural identity in multicultural community, in her picture book Sharing Shalom.Biography: Danielle grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and has sincehad the privilege ...Show More
5) Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: The Pulpit Isn’t a Pedestal
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl disentangles the power of the pulpit from the stature of its holder, by sharing the vulnerability, musicality and ethical of sermons.Biography: Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl serv...Show More
6) Lihi Lapid: “In the End, It’s Family That’s Important”
Author and activist Lihi Lapid follows characters who yearn for each other across space, time and even cognition.Biography:Lihi Lapid is a writer, journalist, lecturer and performer, symbolizing the v...Show More
7) Lee Yaron: Weaving the Threads of October 7th
Author Lee Yaron resists the simplification of politics, people, and, most of all, of October 7th — in favor of nuance and humanity.Biography:Lee Yaron is an award-winning Israeli journalist.Her new b...Show More
8) Louis Fishman, Ph.D.: At the Dawn of the State of Israel
Middle East Historian Louis Fishman reshapes our understanding of the birth of Zionism in its Ottoman context.
9) Rabbi Marc Katz: A Civilization’s Inflection Point
Rabbi Marc Katz uses the historical imagination to plumb the depths of Judaism’s greatest choice for survival.
10) Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: A New Era for Judaism and Israel
Rabbi Elliot asks us to approach difficult times with depth of mind and spirit.