The Torah of TikTok
Miriam Anzovin is a millennial TikToker who is transforming Talmud study for the social media age. Her “hot takes” on Daf Yomi, where a person learns one page of Talmud every day, have drawn viral att...
8 Feb 202247min
The Making of an American Shtetl
How did a small contingent of Hasidic families establish a thriving, insular enclave with a powerful local government? Authors Nomi Stolzenberg and David Myers join Yehuda Kurtzer to chronicle how th...
1 Feb 202241min
Norman Lamm and American Orthodoxy
Norman Lamm was a rabbi and the longtime leader of Yeshiva University who championed the idea that Orthodox Jews could maintain their faith while engaging with modern society. Our special guest host, ...
25 Jan 202243min
Between Charlottesville and Colleyville
We have never had the national reckoning that we need over the August 2017 events in Charlottesville, and this week’s synagogue hostage crisis in Colleyville, TX, reminds us that more than four years ...
19 Jan 202244min
Challenging Wokeness: Jews & The American Narrative
Jews have a significant interest in the world of ideas and playing a role in them. In this episode Yehuda Kurtzer chats with Bret Stephens, Pulitzer Prize winning conservative journalist, Editor of t...
11 Jan 202242min
Protecting a Predator: Chaim Walder & the Haredi Defense
This episode covers sexual abuse and suicide. Listener discretion advised. Chaim Walder, an Israeli rabbi, author of literature for children, and one of the most trusted voices on child psychology in...
6 Jan 202241min
Jews and Muslims in a Fractured America
In the wake of recent Antisemitic comments by Zahra Billoo and CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Imam Abdullah Antepli (Duke University, Co-Director of Hartman’s Muslim Leadership Initi...
22 Dec 202147min
A Word from the Rabbi's Spouse
The role of the Rebbetzin in Jewish life has always been significant. But what happens when the rabbi’s spouse is a successful professional with a career? What implicit and explicit expectations persi...
16 Dec 202140min
