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Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation Podcasts
by Rabbi Adam Chalom
Sermons from Rabbi Chalom of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation - a secular humanistic jewish congregation
Episodes
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 9
High Holidays 2025 It can be hard to forget the last, difficult weeks of a loved one’s life and to remember the good years before them. Anger, resentment, alienation do not simply disappear when someone dies. Looking back and living forward, how can we find the silver linings? [iTunes] Subscribe…
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 8
High Holidays 2025 Sermon: Jewish history has not always been disaster after disaster, but we have experienced our share of trauma, and then some. If the faith in divine favor that sustained our ancestors no longer resonates with us, where can we find the confidence to light our own way forward?...
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 7
High Holidays 2025 Literature: Jewish history has not always been disaster after disaster, but we have experienced our share of trauma, and then some. If the faith in divine favor that sustained our ancestors no longer resonates with us, where can we find the confidence to light our own way...
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 6
High Holidays 2025 Sermon: The world outside is in turmoil, and so is our psyche. Relationships crumble, the tension rises, family ties are fraying, stress is everywhere and always. Antisemitism and public unrest adds to our fear, and fear erodes our empathy and rationality. Is it time to give…
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 5
High Holidays 2025 Torah: The world outside is in turmoil, and so is our psyche. Relationships crumble, the tension rises, family ties are fraying, stress is everywhere and always. Antisemitism and public unrest adds to our fear, and fear erodes our empathy and rationality. Is it time to give up,...
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 4
High Holidays 2025 Sermon: The Jewish world is fractured. Zionists and anti-Zionists (and the conflicted center), the Orthodox versus everyone else, the indifferent and the engaged, looking back in despair or looking forward in hope. Is “peoplehood” enough to keep us together? [iTunes] Subscribe…
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 3
High Holidays 2025 Literature: The Jewish world is fractured. Zionists and anti-Zionists (and the conflicted center), the Orthodox versus everyone else, the indifferent and the engaged, looking back in despair or looking forward in hope. Is “peoplehood” enough to keep us together? [iTunes]...
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 2
High Holidays 2025 Sermon: In an era of rising ethnocentric nationalism, compassionate humanism is out of fashion. The formerly unthinkable is very real: political murder, militarized immigration and law enforcement, mass suffering and dehumanization. How can we deal with the damage? [iTunes]...
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Season 15: Here We Go Again Episode 1
High Holidays 2025 Torah Reading: In an era of rising ethnocentric nationalism, compassionate humanism is out of fashion. The formerly unthinkable is very real: political murder, militarized immigration and law enforcement, mass suffering and dehumanization. How can we deal with the damage?...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 9
High Holidays 2024 With all of our challenges, this may well be the best time in history to be alive, as a Jew and as a human being. There is more work to do, and we have already come so far. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 8
High Holidays 2024 Campus protests, vandalism and threats against Jewish schools and synagogues, political uses of antisemitism, and judging “good Jews” vs. “bad Jews” - we may wonder if an American Jewish golden age has ended, or never was. Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 7
High Holidays 2024 Campus protests, vandalism and threats against Jewish schools and synagogues, political uses of antisemitism, and judging “good Jews” vs. “bad Jews” - we may wonder if an American Jewish golden age has ended, or never was. Is it the best of times or the worst of times to be...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 6
High Holidays 2024 Can we live together any more? Individualism can create isolation and alienation, and secularism without a religion substitute can lead to nihilism. The generations are strained as change accelerates, and civility is losing to political and cultural tribalism. Jewish life may...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 5
High Holidays 2024 Can we live together any more? Individualism can create isolation and alienation, and secularism without a religion substitute can lead to nihilism. The generations are strained as change accelerates, and civility is losing to political and cultural tribalism. Jewish life may...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 4
High Holidays 2024 Technology: Triumph or Terror. Technology and the internet promised to make the world smaller, smarter, and more open-minded (oops). Today the machines are always watching, listening, and learning. We have more knowledge and power at our fingertips than ever, and so does AI. Do...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 3
High Holidays 2024 Technology: Triumph or Terror. Literary Reading [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 2
High Holidays 2024 Jewish Divisions: Us or Them. Has the Jewish world ever been this divided? Zionists vs. Antizionists, conservatives vs. liberals vs. socialists, the ultra-Orthodox vs. most everyone else, those open to the new Jewish diversity and those appalled by it. Israel is facing its most...
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Season 14: We Are Not Doomed Episode 1
High Holidays 2024 Jewish Divisions: Us or Them. Torah Reading [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 8 It's Complicated
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom discusses where Humanistic Judaism fits in Judaism in America. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 7 The Hotel
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom discusses where Humanistic Judaism fits in Judaism in America. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 6 Israel and the American Jew
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom discusses where Humanistic Judaism fits in Judaism in America. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 5 Yom Kippur Torah Reading
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom discusses where Humanistic Judaism fits in Judaism in America. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 4 When nonconformity is a form of conformity
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom discusses where Humanistic Judaism fits in Judaism in America. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 3 Reading from Literature
High Holidays 2023 Rabbi Chalom reads from Jewish Literature and reflects. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 2 Things change, people change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate
High Holidays 2023 If you disagree that this should be the final season of the Kol Hadadash Podcast, email [[email protected]] and request to continue providing the podcast. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 13: Episode 1 Exodus
High Holidays 2023 If you disagree that this should be the final season of the Kol Hadadash Podcast, email [[email protected]] and request to continue providing the podcast. [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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Season 12: Episode 9 Grief
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 8 Freedom and Autonomy
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 7 Shulem Deen
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 6 Isolation, Tribalism and Community
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 5 Deuteronomy
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 3 Talmudic Reading
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 4 Personal Values, Public Responsibility
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 2 Safety and Fear
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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Season 12: Episode 1 Genesis 4
High Holidays 2022 What do we do when it feels like the world is falling apart? Can Jewish culture and Humanistic values be relevant, even inspirational, in moments of crisis? And how can we find shared purpose and action in our personal diversity? [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in...
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High Holidays 2021: Memorial Sermon
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High Holidays 2021: Yom Kippur Morning Sermon
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High Holidays 2021: Yom Kippur Biblical Reading
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High Holidays 2021: Kol Nidre Sermon
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High Holidays 2021: Kol Nidre Biblical Reading
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High Holidays 2021: Rosh Hashana Morning Sermon
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High Holidays 2021: Rosh Hashana Literature Reading
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High Holidays 2021: Rosh Hashana Evening Sermon
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High Holidays 2021: Rosh Hashana Torah Reading
High Holidays 2021 [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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High Holidays 2020: Yom Kippur Morning Reading
High Holidays 2020 [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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High Holidays 2020: Yom Kippur Memorial
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High Holidays 2020: Yom Kippur Morning Sermon
High Holidays 2020 [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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High Holidays 2020: Yom Kippur Evening Sermon
High Holidays 2020 [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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High Holidays 2020: Yom Kippur Evening Reading
High Holidays 2020 [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes. [RSS MP3] Add the Kol Hadash Podcast feed (in MP3 format) Listen (MP3)
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High Holidays 2020: Rosh Hashana Morning Sermon
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Sermons from Rabbi Chalom of Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation - a secular humanistic jewish congregation
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Kol Hadash Humanistic Congregation Podcasts is created and hosted by Rabbi Adam Chalom.
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