#50: The American Jewish Music Episode
Host Yehuda Kurtzer convenes a panel of guests to discuss the past and present of American Jewish religious music, from Mordechai Ben David to Nissim Black to Debbie Friedman. Featuring Dovid Bashevki...
22 Mar 202155min
#49: PJ Library: Children's Books, Grown-up Opinions
Guest host David Zvi Kalman asks Meredith Lewis (PJ Library) about how PJ Library works, how the organization is responding to criticism, and what the future of Jewish children's literature might look...
15 Mar 202135min
#48: Why Wasn't There a Jewish Institutional Apocalypse?
Felicia Herman (Natan Fund, Jewish Commmunity Response and Impact Fund), Hindy Poupko (UJA Federation of New York), and Andres Spokoiny (Jewish Funders Network) join Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the less...
8 Mar 202141min
#47: Our Pandemic Year: The Inner Life of Jewish Spaces
Yehuda Kurtzer gathers Rabbi Barry Dov Katz (Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale), Tilly Shemer (Hillel at University of Michigan), and Stephanie Ives (Beit Rabban Day School) to look bac...
1 Mar 202147min
#46: What is at the Center of American Religion?
During the Truth, Difference, and Loyalty interfaith symposium, Ross Douthat (The New York Times) joined Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the role of faith in presidential politics, the possibility of politi...
22 Feb 202149min
#45: Does Antisemitism Need a Legal Definition?
Stacy Burdett joins host Yehuda Kurtzer to dig deep into the IHRA definition of antisemitism she helped craft, which is currently causing waves in the American Jewish community - what it is, what it i...
16 Feb 202149min
#44: How California Jews Grappled with a New Curriculum
Sarah Levin (JIMENA) and Tye Gregory (JCRC of San Francisco) join Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the years of work that their organizations have done on the California Ethnic Studies model curriculum, and ...
9 Feb 202141min
#43: Nostalgic Religion, Religious Nostalgia
Rachel B. Gross (San Francisco State University) joins Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss her new book, Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice, and its central argument: that foodways, ch...
1 Feb 202138min
