#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
#42: The First 100 Days – and the Last 1,400
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt joins host Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss Jewish perspectives on the emerging Biden administration, what was “good for the Jews” and what was “bad for the Jews” about the Trump ...
26 Jan 202146min
#41: Vaccines and Politics
Journalists Isabel Kershner (The New York Times) and Ben Sales (JTA) join host Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the successes and failures to date of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Israel, Palestine, and th...
19 Jan 202144min
