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Michael Meyer: Hebrew Union College at 100 Years – 50 years ago!
Description: The historian behind the history of HUC: Michael Meyer takes us on a sesquicentennial journey of American Judaism.Biography: Michael A. Meyer received his B.A. from UCLA and his…
David Mendelsson: Looking at 56 Years of HUC in Israel
Description: Professor Emeritus David Mendelsson looks back at a half-century of momentous change for HUC in Israel.Biography: David Mendelsson recently stepped down as Director of the Year-in-Israel…
Judah Cohen: Soundscape of the Soul
Soundscape of the SoulJewish Music transplanted from Europe to American, via Hebrew Union College.Judah M. Cohen, Ph.D. is the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Provost at Hebrew Union College. Cohen…
Jessica Roda: Sacred Drugs - Jews, Psychedelics, and Healing (An HUC Connect Crossover Episode)
Jessica Roda: Sacred Drugs - Jews, Psychedelics, and Healing (An HUC Connect Crossover Episode)2026 Fritz A. Bamberger LectureAs interest in psychedelics grows once again, people from many…
Charlie Scheidt - Hidden in the Armoire: Living History of the Shoah
Charlie Scheidt follows the forgotten trail of his family from Europe to the United States.Charlie Scheidt is the chairman emeritus of Roland Foods, the company founded by his parents in 1939. Among…
David B. Oppenheimer: Great Minds, It Turns Out, Think Differently
David Oppenheimer traces the diversity principle back two centuries.Biography: David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Pro Bono Program, and the Director of the…
Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein: The rabbinate is changing faster than it’s shrinking (but it’s also shrinking)
Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein: The rabbinate is changing faster than it’s shrinking (but it’s also shrinking)Description: Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein breaks down a landmark study of road to the…
Rabbi Michael Zedek: Sit by the Fire and Tell a Story
Sit by the Fire and Tell a StoryDescription: Rabbi Michael Zedek shares his stories and the values the drive them.Biography: Michael Zedek is rabbi emeritus of two wonderful synagogues: Emanuel…
Hannah L. and Rabbi Harvey Winokur: Jewish and Twelve-Step Traditions at the Crossroads of Addiction
Jewish and Twelve-Step Traditions at the Crossroads of AddictionDescription: A Jewish ethical tradition called Mussar and a uniquely Jewish approach to twelve-step recovery.Hannah L. is the author of…
Adam Ferziger: A Patchwork of Jews
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesAdam Ferziger: A Patchwork of JewsOpinions and approaches inhabit the entire spectrum of Jewish thought and practice, but how do they speak to each other?Biography:…
Arnold Eisen: Dimensional and Complex Judaism
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesArnold Eisen: Dimensional and Complex JudaismMore than a religion, resisting extremes, but also hard to pin down, Judaism and Judaism’s God inspire Arnold Eisen’s…
Rabbi Dalia Marx: The Prayerbook as a Living Text
Advancing Ellenson's Legacy SeriesRabbi Dalia Marx: The Prayerbook As a Living TextRabbi Dalia Marx editor of the new Israeli Reform prayerbook muses on the siddur as both reflection and shaper of…
Rabbi Ed Feinstein: Every Sermon Tells a Story
For Rabbi Ed Feinstein meaning-making is story-telling, and the rabbi’s business.Biography: Rabbi Ed Feinstein came to Valley Beth Shalom in 1993 at the invitation of the renowned Rabbi Harold…
Aron Hirt-Manheimer: Story, Silence, and the Story of Silence
A second generation of Holocaust survivors re-examine their lives through the lens of their parents.Aron Hirt-Manheimer (he/him) is the Union for Reform Judaism's former editor-at-large, the former…
Rabbi Rachel Timoner: God Trumps Politics
Description: Spiritual and political dynamics that motivate and shape the pulpit of Rabbi Rachel Timoner.Biography: Rabbi Rachel Timoner is grateful and proud to serve as Senior Rabbi of Congregation…
Jordan D. Rosenblum: You Are What You Eat
When it comes to pigs, however, maybe you are what you don’t eat… Maybe…Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and Director of Religious Studies at the University of…
Hannah Pollin-Galay: Yiddish, Vibrant among the Ashes
Description: Hannah Pollin-Galay reveals the Yiddish of destruction, and its capacity to bring life and meaning.Biography: Hannah Pollin-Galay is a scholar of East European Jewish culture, with a…
Joshua Leifer: The Jigsaw Puzzle of American Judaism and its Future
Description: Complicated contours and tortuous fissures emerge as a picture of the American Jewish experience in Tablets Shattered.Biography: Joshua Leifer is a journalist and historian. He is a…
Ayelet Tsabari: “If music be the food of love, play on”
Love of family, culture, and home, set to the music of Yemenite Jews in Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel.Ayelet Tsabari is the author of Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a National Jewish…
Howard Langer: A Lost World in a New World
Novelist Howard Langer transplants a fictional Hasidic Dynasty to the heart of segregated America, to discover a truly New World.Biography: Howard Langer was born in New York and brought up on the…
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