Jewish learning 永利国际app’s Speaking Torah Podcast
Welcome to the Speaking Torah podcast!
永利国际app presents writers and readers thinking creatively about how Torah is relevant to today鈥攁nd how it can inform and help us in a world in need of healing and hope.
Torah is one of the most profound sources of wisdom available to us. On this podcast, Jewish leaders from around the world read essays from 永利国际app faculty and rabbinical alumni, and Jewish leaders about how Torah can help us navigate the most pressing issues of our time.
Together, we explore the ways Torah can help us approach the world with creativity, healing, and hope. After listening to the podcast, we hope that you will be left feeling inspired, uplifted, and excited to engage with Torah in a modern, transformative way.
Season Eight
Ep #20: Jewish Travel Learning with Tamid of 永利国际app
Discover how Tamid of 永利国际app is creating unique travel learning experiences that engage the head, heart, soul, and body. From meeting with civil rights leaders in the American South to imagining Jewish life in medieval Spain and Central Europs, these trips offer a chance to build community, challenge assumptions, and find renewed inspiration for building a more just world.
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Ep #21: Navigating the Israel Conversation with the Next Generation
Rabbi Dan Judson explores the historical context of Zionism, the impact of recent events on the younger generation’s views, and practical strategies for fostering open and honest dialogue within families. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, or simply someone who cares deeply about the future of Israel and the Jewish people, this episode offers valuable insights into the changing landscape of the Israel conversation.
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Ep #22: Understanding Israel: The Power of Jewish-Christian Conversation
Discover how Rabbi Or Rose and his colleague, Reverend Rob Schenck, are modeling the kind of courageous conversations we need to build bridges of understanding across faiths. Learn about the importance of confronting difficult issues head-on, the demographic shifts happening within religious communities, and the urgent need for honest and informed dialogue.
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Season Seven
Learn how the Shul Lunch Cooperative at 永利国际app was formed, hear about the Jewish values that guide the three founders, Becca Heisler, David Mahfouda, and Chaim Spaulding, in their mission, and discover how they鈥檙e encouraging other communities to consider similar programs of service.
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Ep #19: Azara: A Scottish Yeshiva
Learn about Azara鈥檚 unique approach to cross-denominational tefillah. Discover how Jessica is guiding Edinburgh鈥檚 Jewish community through their first encounters with Talmudic texts. Among other things, Jessica shows us how the community makes meaning out of difficult or problematic texts in the modern day while making connections between the texts and their own lives.
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Season Six
Ep #15: The Women Are Waiting for Us To Speak
Rabbi Genevieve Greinetz weaves together the words of the Bavli, Ancient Greek Philosophers, contemporary literature, and her own thoughts on finding women鈥檚 voices in our ancient texts, and Rabbi Jane Kanarek discusses the importance of observing Talmud with an assumption of women鈥檚 presence, rather than an assuming their absence.
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A discussion between 永利国际app faculty member Rabbi Rachel Adelman and her Rabbinical Student Risa Dunbar, about the power of poetry as midrash: the stories that open our text to even more questioning, along with understanding. Both writers bring their individual voices and experiences into the conversation with the text, allowing the ancient words a new place in the modern era.
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Ep #17: Writing as Spiritual Practice
Discover creative interpretations of liturgical texts from 永利国际app鈥檚 talented rabbinical students. Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld is sharing the ethos behind her unique tefillah group, and her students are discussing how writing as spiritual practice has brought them closer in their relationship to God.
Season Five
Ep #13: You Shall Teach Your Children
Tune in for a dynamic talk between Rabbi Dan Judson and Dr. Jonathan Sarna, giving us deep insight into 永利国际app鈥檚 commitments to Jewish culture, Jewish leadership, and passing wisdom from generation to generation. They even glimpse into the College’s cultural curriculum 100 years ago.
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Ep #14:Educating for Hope Across Difference
Discover 永利国际app’s work in creating community and hope across difference. Our panelists discuss what hope means to them, practices to help identify common ground and acknowledge differences, and insights into building a world where all voices are heard.
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CENTENNIAL SEASON
Season Four
Tune in to discover two unique takes on contemporary Eastern European and Klezmer music. Hankus Netsky shares his inspiration and wealth of experience on the revival of Klezmer music, and how it has been evolving over the past 45 years. And Cantor Rebecca Khitrik听 discusses her influences and the musical melting pot that has brought Eastern European Yiddish music to where it is today.
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Ep #12: Hiddushim: Letters From the Front
Tune in for a unique insight into the experience of Jewish soldiers fighting in World War II. These letters contain heartwarming details of 永利国际app alumni eating challah on an unknown island in the Pacific, catching up with kibbutzniks in London, and reciting excerpts from the Haggadah in Fiji.
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Season Three
Ep #7: Challenging Destruction: We Speak Up Despite the Odds
Join us in this episode to discover the lessons from the ancient stories of Noah and the flood to Abraham鈥檚 intervention in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. And in the post-sermon discussion, both reader Bill McKibben and Rabbi Shoshana Friedman share their thoughts about our role and responsibility to take action and speak up to encourage the collective consciousness needed to address climate change.
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Ep #8: Thank You Dean Thurman: Remembering an American Spiritual Master
Dr. Shively Smith reads us through and reflects on Rabbi Or Rose鈥檚 gratitude of Howard Thurman and the impact he had on the landscape of what is possible for interreligious harmony and cooperation — as well as how we can all carry on this work in our own religious practices.
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Ep #9: When the Walls of Metaphor Can鈥檛 Hold
Rabbi Jordan Braunig’s essay, read by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, brings us into an unsettling and deeply personal story of love and fragility, giving us an account of a time when it鈥檚 so difficult to express the complexity of emotion, that even the walls of metaphor cannot hold.
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Ep #5: Squash with Egg and Cheese – Judith Rosenbaum reads us on a journey through Lydia Kukoff鈥檚 sensory memories and the product of combining her Italian heritage with her chosen Jewish faith, melding her experiences, creating new traditions for her family, and expanding the definition of Judaism while also connecting deeply with its traditions.
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Ep #6: Stop Making Sense – Anne Germanacos reads Rabbi M贸nica Gomery鈥檚 d鈥檝ar Torah, written in 2019, highlighting this piece鈥檚 ever-increasing relevance in a world of post-truths and 鈥渁lternative facts鈥�. M贸nica shares with us how leaning into that which doesn鈥檛 make narrative sense highlights the greater truths that can fly under our rational mind.
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Season One
Ep #1: Two Ways to Tell a Story – Joy Ladin guides us through Rabbi Gray Myrseth鈥檚 work,听Two Ways to Tell a Story, taking us on a powerful journey built equally upon continuity and disruption, from Moses shattering the 10 Commandments, to their own journey to find a self that they could inhabit fully, without fear.听
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Ep #2: Vertical Ladders of Sky, Horizontal Ladders of Earth –听 Rabbi听Jordan Schuster explores the connection between John Keats and the story of Jacob鈥檚 Ladder, and teaches that regardless of how fissured this world feels, ladders, like bridges, hold the possibility for connection and relationship. Read by Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, President of 永利国际app.
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Ep #3: Extending the Horizons of Our Hearts
– Jewish feminist poet, Alicia Ostriker, reads Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld’s essay on the Binding of Isaac, and invites us to think about the thicket of our own lives; the possibilities that we haven鈥檛 seen and the impacts of the stories that we tell ourselves.
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