Episodes 80
Avg. Duration 1h 26m
Activity Dormant
Since Sep 2017
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Weekly
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Conversations with artists, scholars, politicians, and mystics.

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#81 - Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Apr 24, 2025 1h 20m

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is the former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. Among other roles, she is the Secretary-General of Kol Israel at the WZO, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry's special envoy for…

#80 - Richard Kemp

May 29, 2024 1h 23m

Richard Kemp is a colonel of the British Army (retired). He now works as a security consultant and political commentator.

#79 - Elisha Ancselovits

Feb 07, 2024 2h 8m

Elisha Ancselovits is a rabbi, teacher, and researcher at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Yeshivat Maale Gilboa, and Yeshivat haHakshava.His most recent book is "When Jews Argue: Between the…

#78 - Azar Gat

Jan 03, 2024 1h 2m

Azar Gat is a professor at the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. He holds the Ezer Weitzman Chair for National Security.

#77 - Aleeza Ben Shalom

Nov 08, 2023 2h

Aleeza Ben Shalom is a matchmaker, author, and TV personality. She is most well-known as the star of the Netflix series "Jewish Matchmaking".

#76 - Rachmiel Travitz

May 31, 2022 2h 15m

Rachmiel Travitz is an ordained rabbi and a scholar of the Andalusian rabbinic tradition.

#75 - Charlie Solomon

May 25, 2022 1h 16m

Charlie Solomon is an old friend of my grandfather’s, who grew up in India when it was still under the British Raj. He will turn 100 this July.

#74 - Yehuda Niasoff

May 18, 2022 1h 21m

Yehuda Niasoff is a chazan, a shochet, and mohel (cantor, ritual slaughterer, and ritual circumciser). He is also a wedding singer, a medical first responder, and an amateur pilot.

#73 - Sam Benjamin

May 11, 2022 1h

Sam Benjamin bears the torch of a fascinating culture: the Baghdadi Jewish community of India. He teaches the traditional Iraqi method for reading from the Torah, and works at the Sephardi Synagogue.

#72 - Eddy Boas

Oct 15, 2019

Eddy Boas is a child survivor of the Holocaust and author of “I’m Not a Victim, I Am a Survivor”, which tells the story of how he and his family made it through the Holocaust.

#71 - Gershon Avtzon

Sep 17, 2019

Gershon Avtzon is the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Beis Menachem in Jerusalem, commonly know as "the RAP".

#70 - Tamara Samuel

Sep 11, 2019

Tamara Samuel is the CEO of Shalom.

#69 - Alan Solomon

Aug 27, 2019

Alan Solomon is the first cousin of my late grandfather. He and his wife Edna sat down with me, to tell stories of his youth growing up in Burma.

#68 - Jamie Roberts

Aug 20, 2019

My chat with Dr Jamie Q Roberts following his final lecture at the University of New South Wales: "The Death of Truth and Magnanimity at the University (and other Institutions)".

#67 - Jamie Roberts

Aug 13, 2019

Lecturer, novellist, and musician, Dr Jamie Q Roberts recently left the University of New South Wales. This is his final talk, "The Death of Truth at the University (and other Institutions)". Join us…

#66 - Jeremy Isaac

Aug 06, 2019

Jeremy Isaac is a partner in Australian health food company DJ&A, and an amateur games designer. We chat about coping with despair, listening as meditation, and the value of games.

#65 - Zevi Slavin

Jul 30, 2019

Zevi Slavin is a practitioner and teacher of Jewish mysticism. Find him on Youtube at: 'Seekers of Unity'.

#64 - David Sandmel

Jul 22, 2019

David Sandmel is the Director of Inter-Religious Engagement for the ADL. We discuss Jewish-Christian relations, Biblical interpretations, and his meetings with the Pope.

#63 - Rachel Rosenthal

Jul 16, 2019

Rachel Rosenthal recently finished her doctorate at the Jewish Theological Seminary, where she is on the Talmud faculty. She is a fellow at the Shalom Hartmann Institute, and teaches Talmud in…

#62 - MaNishtana

Jul 09, 2019

MaNishtana is a rabbi, writer, and speaker on racial and religious identity - particularly on how it manifests around American Jews.

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