Ranked #1
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
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48mins
Ranked #2
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
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46mins
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Ranked #3
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
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57mins
Ranked #4
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
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47mins
Ranked #5
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
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44mins
Ranked #6
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
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47mins
Ranked #7
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
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47mins
Ranked #8
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
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44mins
Ranked #9
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
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44mins
Ranked #10
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
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44mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #12
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
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44mins
Ranked #13
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
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49mins
Ranked #14
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
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48mins
Ranked #15
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
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47mins
Ranked #16
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
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49mins
Ranked #17
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
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44mins
Ranked #18
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
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46mins
Ranked #19
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
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42mins
Ranked #20
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
7 Apr 2017
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57mins