#64: Sociology, Ideology, and Pew 2020 (Corrected)
Hartman Director of Faculty Elana Stein Hain and Scholar-in-Residence Mijal Bitton discuss the Pew 2020 study, and the conversations Jews are - and aren't - having about it. What about our conversatio...
2 Aug 202150min
#63: A Quintessentially American Jewish Institution
Shuly Rubin Schwartz (JTS) joins Yehuda Kurtzer to reflect on her new role as Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the integrative learning that happens there. Together they discuss the i...
22 Jul 202136min
#62: Foundational Judaism: What is It, and How Do We Teach It?
Elana Stein Hain (Shalom Hartman Institute) joins Yehuda Kurtzer to introduce Hartman's newest curricular offering, Foundations for a Thoughtful Judaism, a sophisticated yet accessible introduction to...
15 Jul 202144min
#61: What is Jewish Studies For?
Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College) and Pamela Nadell (American University) join Yehuda Kurtzer to take a broad view of the academic field of Jewish Studies: its origins, its uneasy relationship with the ...
1 Jul 202148min
#60: To Fight Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, Look at the Data
Eitan Hersh (Tufts University) recently published two sociological papers on antisemitism and sentiment about Israel in America's young adults. He joins Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss what the data says, t...
22 Jun 202140min
#59: The Canadian Jewish Difference
Yehuda Kurtzer and David Koffman (York University) chart out the unique questions that face Canadian Jews as citizens of a binational, bilingual, self-described settler state, and the way those questi...
14 Jun 202143min
#58: How to Lose Without Violence
Joel Braunold (S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace) joins Yehuda Kurtzer to talk about peace-making in the Middle East: its preconditions, the person-to-person work that might enable it, an...
8 Jun 202147min
#57: Learning How to Listen
Yona Shem-Tov and Leah Solomon of Encounter join Yehuda Kurtzer to talk about what Israeli and American Jews aren't seeing, what is simple and what is complicated about the ongoing conflict, and how t...
2 Jun 202153min
