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Judaism Unbound

Listen in as Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg analyze pressing issues for 21st century American Judaism. Mixing their own analysis with interviews of leading thinkers, practitioners, and even "regular Je... Read more

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Episode 197: Religious Heresy - Jay Michaelson

Episode 197: Religious Heresy - Jay Michaelson

Jay Michaelson, who works as a columnist for The Daily Beast and as an editor for Ten Percent Happier, joins Dan Libenso... Read more

22 Nov 2019

48mins

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Episode 3: Exodus - Benay Lappe

Episode 3: Exodus - Benay Lappe

Lex and Dan welcome Rabbi Benay Lappe onto the show to discuss ways in which Jews respond to various "crashes" throughou... Read more

3 Mar 2016

46mins

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Episode 161: The Zohar - Daniel Matt

Episode 161: The Zohar - Daniel Matt

Daniel Matt is a scholar of Kabbalah who translated and annotated the Zohar — a central text of Jewish mysticism — into ... Read more

15 Mar 2019

57mins

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Episode 185: An Army of Translators - Sarah Hurwitz

Episode 185: An Army of Translators - Sarah Hurwitz

Sarah Hurwitz, former speechwriter for Michelle and Barack Obama, and author of Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spiritu... Read more

30 Aug 2019

47mins

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Episode 27: Who Wrote the Bible? - Richard Elliott Friedman

Episode 27: Who Wrote the Bible? - Richard Elliott Friedman

Professor Richard Elliott Friedman joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about modern Biblical scholarship, which his boo... Read more

19 Aug 2016

44mins

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Episode 53: Death and Rebirth - Irwin Kula Part I

Episode 53: Death and Rebirth - Irwin Kula Part I

What does it look like when one version of Judaism dies and another is born? Irwin Kula, President of CLAL: The National... Read more

17 Feb 2017

47mins

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Episode 186: Re-Imagining Jewish Education - Miriam Heller Stern

Episode 186: Re-Imagining Jewish Education - Miriam Heller Stern

Miriam Heller Stern, National Director of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Education, joi... Read more

6 Sep 2019

47mins

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Episode 36: What Jewish Looks Like Today - Benay Lappe

Episode 36: What Jewish Looks Like Today - Benay Lappe

Is being "welcoming" and "inclusive" enough? Is pain a necessary prerequisite to the successful implementation of radica... Read more

20 Oct 2016

44mins

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Episode 73: Being Both - Susan Katz Miller

Episode 73: Being Both - Susan Katz Miller

Dan and Lex are joined by writer and journalist Susan Katz Miller, author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One ... Read more

7 Jul 2017

44mins

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Episode 4: Exodus II

Episode 4: Exodus II

What, in Judaism, has crashed? Last episode, Rabbi Benay Lappe outlined her "Crash" Theory and in this episode, Dan and ... Read more

10 Mar 2016

44mins

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Episode 89: Reform Judaism Today and Tomorrow - Rick Jacobs

Episode 89: Reform Judaism Today and Tomorrow - Rick Jacobs

Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about what the Reform Movem... Read more

27 Oct 2017

1hr 5mins

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Episode 138: God and Gender - Rachel Adler

Episode 138: God and Gender - Rachel Adler

Theologian Rachel Adler, of Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, explores Judaism through lenses of metap... Read more

5 Oct 2018

44mins

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Episode 87: Reforming Judaism - Daniel Freelander I

Episode 87: Reforming Judaism - Daniel Freelander I

Daniel Freelander, President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, joins Dan and Lex for the first of a two-part c... Read more

13 Oct 2017

49mins

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Episode 154: Ten New Commandments - Dan and Lex

Episode 154: Ten New Commandments - Dan and Lex

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg get a bit revolutionary, introducing (and debating) 10 New Commandments for contemporary J... Read more

25 Jan 2019

48mins

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Episode 5: Leviticus - Vanessa Ochs

Episode 5: Leviticus - Vanessa Ochs

What does it mean to "invent" Jewish ritual? Aren't rituals something we inherit or learn? Professor Vanessa Ochs, autho... Read more

18 Mar 2016

47mins

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Episode 95: Doing Jewish For Yourself - Fredric Price

Episode 95: Doing Jewish For Yourself - Fredric Price

Dan and Lex are joined by Fredric Price, the founder of Fig Tree Books and a facilitator of multiple discussion groups f... Read more

8 Dec 2017

49mins

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Episode 117: Israel and American Jews Today - Peter Beinart

Episode 117: Israel and American Jews Today - Peter Beinart

As we launch a new series considering the role that Israel might or might not play in the future of American Judaism, Da... Read more

11 May 2018

44mins

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Episode 41: History and Memory - Yehuda Kurtzer

Episode 41: History and Memory - Yehuda Kurtzer

How should the Jewish present and future relate to the Jewish past? Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Inst... Read more

25 Nov 2016

46mins

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Episode 146: The Jewish American Paradox - Robert Mnookin

Episode 146: The Jewish American Paradox - Robert Mnookin

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg are joined by Harvard Law School professor Robert Mnookin to discuss his new book, The Jew... Read more

30 Nov 2018

42mins

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Holidays Unbound Episode 4: Passover Part III - The Passover Seder (Abigail Pogrebin, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Vanessa Ochs, Justin Goldstein)

Holidays Unbound Episode 4: Passover Part III - The Passover Seder (Abigail Pogrebin, Amichai Lau-Lavie, Vanessa Ochs, Justin Goldstein)

Dan and Ruth dive into the history of the seder and ideas about how to use—or not use—the traditional haggadah. They als... Read more

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