
#66: Gen Z (and their Questions) Return to Campus
Rabbis Jessica Lott (Northwestern Hillel) and Charlie Schwartz (Center for Jewish and Israel Education at Hillel International) join Hartman's Director of Campus Initiatives, Danielle Kranjec, to shed...
31 Aug 202141min

#65: Tel Aviv's Spaceport
Internationally acclaimed Israeli science fiction author Lavie Tidhar joins guest host David Zvi Kalman to discuss the relative dearth of Jews in space, the state of the science fiction genre outside ...
11 Aug 202133min

#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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 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 Juni 202143min



















