Should We Sympathize with Sexual Offenders? (Special Episode)
A podcast hosted by an Orthodox comedian recently featured a controversial interview with a child sex offender. In response, Rabbi Scott Kahn and Talli Rosenbaum created a panel to discuss whether th...
20 Aug 20231h 16min
A Blight Unto the Nations: The Decline and Fall of the Chief Rabbinate, with Rachel Stomel (172)
Is the biggest danger to Torah coming from Israel's own rabbinic establishment? Over the past thirty-plus weeks in Israel, there has been lots of talk about the pros and cons of judicial reform, and a...
14 Aug 20231h 7min
Hedonism, Materialism, and Conspicuous Consumption: What Is Orthodoxy's Upper Limit? With Rabbi Jeremy Wieder (171)
In Episode 99, entitled "The Orthodox Community's Obsession with Materialism," Scott spoke with Rabbi Jeremy Wieder about lavish weddings, luxurious vacations, over-the-top camp programs, and more. Bu...
7 Aug 20231h 3min
"Leadership Is Not Comfortable": Discussing Jewish Leadership, Role Models, Successes, and Failures with Dr. Erica Brown (170)
Many people are troubled by what appears to be a dearth of moral leadership in the Jewish world in general, and in the Orthodox world in particular. Of course, no one is asserting that there are no ad...
31 Jul 20231h 19min
Santa Claus, Tisha B'Av, and a Necessary Corrective to Our Theology: A New View of Megillat Eicha with Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman (169)
"What does Eichah have in common with climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, Holocaust deniers and those that claim that the 2020 presidential elections were stolen?" Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman sent this ...
24 Jul 20231h 8min
The High Price of Orthodox Life & the Dangers of Keeping Up with the Goldbergs, with Rabbi Avrohom Leventhal and Rachel Krich (168)
The high cost of living an Orthodox life is a big problem. In the United States, for example, the high cost of day school or yeshiva tuition, combined with everything from the need to purchase kosher ...
17 Jul 20231h 19min
Ascending the Temple Mount, and Finding Meaning During the Three Weeks, with Rabbi Danny Myers (167)
It's sometimes challenging to feel the aveilut, the mourning of the destruction, when the Jewish people live in a time of unparalleled prosperity, when we can visit and live in a thriving State of Isr...
10 Jul 202353min
Authority Versus Autonomy in Orthodoxy Today, with Rabbi Chaim Ozer Chait (166)
One of the most important conflicts that many Orthodox Jews face in the 21st century is the clash between authority and autonomy. Orthodox society is largely based upon following the tradition that ha...
3 Jul 20231h 1min
