Not That Kind Of Rabbi with Ralph Benmergui Podcast
1) Saul Rubinek
In this episode of Not That Kind of Rabbi, Ralph speaks with actor, director, producer, and playwright Saul Rubinek.
2) Rabbi Dr. David Seidenberg: Eco-spiritual, Eco-what?
On this episode of Not That Kind of Rabbi, Ralph Benmergui speaks with neohasid.org founder and author of the book, Kabbalah and Ecology, Rabbi David Seidenberg, on how we can restore the spiritual bo...Show More
3) Amichai Lau-Lavie, the 'Sabbath Queen', is forging his own traditions
When Amichai Lau-Lavie realized he was gay, he knew he had to make a choice: hide his identity to abide by his Orthodox upbringing, or be true to himself. It wasn't an easy call for a man whose ancest...Show More
4) For Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg, environmentalism isn't adjacent to Judaism—it's a core tenet
Rabbi Aaron Rotenberg realized at a young age he was drawn to Jewish studies. After graduating from Jewish day schools around Toronto, he decided to attend the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Conservat...Show More
5) 'You can forgive and seek justice at the same time': Robert Enright on how to learn forgiveness
With the recent news of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and the eventual return of the remaining Israeli hostages, tensions remain high between pro- and anti-Zionist communities here in Cana...Show More
6) How Gary Topp helped revolutionize Toronto's cultural landscape
Once upon a time, Toronto was a sleepy city. The atmosphere shut down at night. Red tape and cultural meekness kept things status quo. But through the 1970s and 1980s, the city's younger generations c...Show More
7) How Choir! Choir! Choir! grew out of a living room gathering into 2,500 strangers singing Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' in Montreal
On Oct. 9, around 2,500 strangers packed Montreal's Place des Arts concert hall to sing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in surprisingly perfect harmony. The melody was beautiful. In a video recording pos...Show More
8) Playwright Mark Leiren-Young explains why Shylock needed a revival in 2024
Mark Leiren-Young wrote Shylock in 1996, a play using Shakespeare's controversial Jewish character in The Merchant of Venice to explore modern-day cancel culture. While the script saw productions aoru...Show More
9) Filmmaker Allan Novak turns the camera on his family: the oldest living Holocaust survivors in the world
Growing up, Allan Novak assumed his family was fairly ordinary: modest, witty, hardworking Jewish immigrants who found a new live in Canada after the war. That his mother was one of four sibling survi...Show More
10) In his new memoir, Michael Coren recounts his life, from Jewish cabbie's son to Anglican priest
Michael Coren has lived many lives. Born to a Jewish cab driver in England, Coren converted to Catholocism in the 1980s, then Evangelicalism in the '90s; he grew into a bombastic right-wing Christian ...Show More