All Episodes
Identity/Crisis — 311 episodes
Don't Believe in God? Try It Anyway – with Noa Kushner
Where Criticism Ends and Antisemitism Begins — with Dara Horn
Who Is American Jewish Literature For? – with Tali Rosenblatt-Cohen, Naomi Firestone-Teeter, and Lauren Wein
People of the Shuk – with Adeena Sussman
The Jewish Politics of Self-Destruction—with Amotz Asa-El
A Yiddish Renaissance: Language, Memory, and Modern Jewish Life — with Rukhl Schaechter (Re-run)
The Right to Belong: A Palestinian Perspective - with Rana Fahoum
Surviving, Thriving, and Excelling in Jewish Life – with Barry Finestone
Hip-Hop, Protest, and Patriotism After October 7 – with Shaanan Streett
The Promise and Peril of Jewish Power — with Zachary Truboff
Beyond the Myth of Jewish Wealth – with Ilana Horwitz
Teaching Jewish History in America — with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (Re-run)
Strong Beliefs and Open Minds: A Graduation Challenge — with Jonathan Kroll
The Role of Journalism in a Post-Truth Age — with Abigail Pogrebin
The American Jewish Past and What Comes Next — with Nicholas Lemann
American Catholics, the Pope, and the Jews – with Robert George
When Do We Speak Up? – with Abe Foxman (Re-release)
Rational or Reckless? War, Iran, and the Limits of Strategy— with Michael Koplow
When Mysticism Goes Mainstream — with Daniel Matt
Jewish Life in an Illiberal Age— with Jeffrey Goldberg
The Afterlife of Antisemitism — with Flora Cassen
Why Do We Pray?
Staying Human in the Age of AI — with David Zvi Kalman (Re-release)
A Hollywood Midrash: The Making of The Prince of Egypt
What Do We Owe the Stranger? — with Seyla Benhabib
The Zionist Paratroopers and the Meaning of Heroism — with Matti Friedman
Teaching Jewish History in America — with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Purim and Diaspora Power— with Barbara Spectre
On Not Standing Idly By
The Haredi Draft Crisis — with Yehoshua Pfeffer
Pathways to Hope in Israel – with Ayalan Dahan and Yonathan Machlis
America Betrays the Stranger
Antizionism and the American Left’s Jewish Problem — with Shaul Kelner
A Yiddish Renaissance: Language, Memory, and Modern Jewish Life — with Rukhl Schaechter
Power, Liberalism, and Moral Responsibility — with Shadi Hamid
Reporting on Antisemitism When No One Wants to Listen — with Jesse Brown
Live at Vilna Shul: Harvard, Leadership, and Free Speech – with Alan Garber
How Americans Reshaped Israeli Judaism — with Adam Ferziger
Christmastime for the Jews (Re-Release)
Can the Jewish Big Tent Hold After October 7? with Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin
What Broke the Black–Jewish Alliance? with Terrence Johnson
Covenant, Compromise, Sacrifice, and Kindness (Re-Release)
Carlson, Fuentes, and the New/Old Antisemitism – with Yair Rosenberg
Israel 2026: The Next Elections and What’s at Stake – with Tani Frank
Rabin, Oslo, and the Road Not Taken — with Yossi Beilin
The Jewish Paradoxes of Zohran Mamdani — with Howard Wolfson
Live with Abigail Pogrebin: Holding Hope During a Fragile Peace
Staying Human in the Age of AI — with David Zvi Kalman
Fighting Holocaust Fatigue — with Anita Friedman
Yehuda Kurtzer on Arc: The Podcast
God as King in an Age of Authoritarianism – with Ethan Tucker
What is Netanyahu Doing? with Michael Koplow
The Unapologetic Jewish Story — with Sarah Hurwitz
Non-Jewish in the Shadow of the Synagogue — with Christine Hayes
Live at JFN: What Ails American Judaism? with Franklin Foer and Sarah Hurwitz (Re-Release)
Future Tense: What Comes Next? with Yehuda Kurtzer
Genocide and the Burden of History
Concerning Camp Communities – with Adina Frydman
Holding it Together – with Donniel Hartman
Journalism in the Fog of War – with David Horovitz
Disagreeing without Baseless Hatred — with Daniel Taub
The State of Jewish Innovation - with Aaron Katler
When Crisis is the Job – with Barry Finestone
Power and Negotiations -- with Daniel Kurtzer
The Sound and the Fury
Hartman Summer, Interrupted
Hate Crimes in the Name of Resistance — with Amy Spitalnick
Is the War Still Worth it?– with Tal Becker
When Do We Speak Up? – with Abe Foxman
Jewish in the Heartland
A Jewish Paradigm for Caring for the Sick – with Sara Labaton
Naomi Shemer’s Soundtrack of Israel at 77 - with Moti Zeira
The Politics of Holocaust Memory in Israel – with Dani Dayan
How is this Seder Different from Other Seders?—with Dara Horn
Live at JFN: What Ails American Judaism? - with Franklin Foer and Sarah Hurwitz
Sources: Morality in Times of Fear – with Donniel Hartman
How Do You Raise a Jewish Adult? - with Stephanie Ives
Announcement: Purim Hiatus
A Critique of American Judaism with Joshua Leifer
Persuasive Leadership in Divisive Times
On Being Palestinian in Israel Today
The Red Cross: Mission Over Moral Red Lines
Educating in the Shadow of Grief
Ghosts of a Holy War
Presidents and Kings
Liberal Democracy as a Matter of National Security
Yehuda Kurtzer on Grappling with History and Memory
Christmastime for the Jews
Sources: On Jewish Leadership
Covenant, Compromise, Sacrifice, and Kindness
A Counterculture of Kindness
Rabbinic Identities/Rabbinic Crises –Spheres of Belonging
Rabbinic Identities/Rabbinic Crises – A Good Fit
Rabbinic Identities/ Rabbinic Crises – The Private and the Public
A Nation That Still Can't Sleep
Who by Martyrdom?
A More Perfect Union
The Centre Must Hold
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, z”l
Pride and Prejudice at Elite Universities (Re-Release)
Sources: Two Students Speak
TEXTing: A Foundation for Hope
All Eyes on Rafah (Re-Release)
Measuring the Crisis (Re-Release)
The Roots, Values, and Crises of Liberalism
Our Golden Age
The Rise and Fall of Jamaal Bowman
Disaster from the North
Meeting the Moment: A Sources Interview
Reflections on the Israeli Left (Re-Release)
Stewarding Torah
All Eyes on Rafah
Measuring the Crisis
The Kurtzer Family’s Legacy of Service
Two Teens and their Fearless Interventions
The Role of Hillel on Campus
Enacting Redemption
Echoes of History at the National Library of Israel
Alone, Adjacent, and Among
Who Gets to be a Zionist?
A Sleep-in Against Antisemitism
Music in a Time of War
Listening in a World of Noise
Leadership Amidst Uncertainty
Toratah: The Regendered Bible
Israeli Rabbis Rise to this Moment
Introducing: TEXTing with Elana Stein Hain
Who Are the Jews — And Who Can We Become?
Pride and Prejudice at Elite Universities
The Evolution of Human Rights
Identity/Crisis Wrapped
Believe Israeli Women
Unpacking the Meaning of Hanukkah
The Battle for Liberal Values on Campus
When Jews Show Up
Fighting a Just War
Bring Our Hostages Home
Reflections on the Israeli Left
Israel’s War and the Diaspora
A Defining War for Young Jews
Resilience and Ingenuity in Crisis
A Nation that Can't Sleep
Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square
Lessons on Housing Insecurity from Sukkot
On Screaming - and Other Radical Ways of Showing Up
The Art of the Sermon
Five Years of Reporting on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
The Jewish Establishment and Its Critics
The Only Woman in the Room (Re-Release)
Variations on the Shema
Clergy at the Courthouse (Re-Release)
Fear, Fury, and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Israel
Zion's Roads are in Mourning
Introducing: Perfect Jewish Parents
The Jewish Leadership Pipeline Problem
A Celebration of Leadership at the Shalom Hartman Institute
From Liberal Jewish Thought to Liberal Jewish Action
The Lost Art of Persuasion
Small Town American Judaism
Kreplach and Collard Greens
Free Speech and Anti-Zionism at CUNY Law
Wet Hot American (Jewish) Summer
A God Just Like Us
The Case for Commandments
(Re-)Imagining Israel with MK Merav Michaeli
Next Generation Jews
The Only Woman in the Room
Jewish Inside Baseball
How to Run a Seder
Six Stories About the Protests in Israel
More Dollars, Fewer Moonshots (Re-Release)
American Judaism, the Chain Novel
Purim, But Make It Darker
From Kharkiv to New York
Should Jews Criticize Jews in Public?
Clergy at the Courthouse
Israeli TV Comes to The Sundance Film Festival
David Hartman z''l On Living a Spiritual Life
Bible by Bot
The Hole in the Center of Israeli Society
Envisioning Shared Society
Beyond Shul and State in Today's Israel
The American Jewish Music Episode (Re-Release)
Caring For Our Kids' Mental Health, Jewishly
The Path to Heretic in The House
A Jew Walks Into a Bar
Love, Thoughts, and Thanksgiving (Re-Release)
Jewish Media from Right to Left
Two Elections and the Path Forward
Why is Ben Gvir so Popular?
Who's a Bad Jew?
Anti-Zionism at Berkeley Law
The Song in the Heart
The King of Flesh and Blood
The Key Pronoun is We
Yeshiva vs. Pride
What Jewish Food Is
The Canadian Jewish Difference (Re-release)
A Musical Journey with Joey Weisenberg (Re-release)
The Peculiar Power of Jewish Food Influencers (Re-release)
The Hilltop Youth and Jewish Terrorism (Re-release)
The Torah of TikTok (Re-release)
The "Secular" Rabbis of Israel
Questions for the US Ambassador to Israel
Leonard Cohen's Military Mystery Tour
Israel's Unique Role in Global Justice
Reading the Trans Talmud
Jews, Gun Violence, and The Second Amendment
The Many Meanings of Revelation
Israel’s Outsized Role in American Politics
More Dollars, Fewer Moonshots
How Jews Talk About Abortion (Re-Release)
The Peculiar Power of Jewish Food Influencers
Antizionism in American Christianity
The Great American Rabbi Shortage
School, Shuls, and Hillels, Two Years Later
A Musical Journey with Joey Weisenberg
Jews in the US Military
Seven Deep Purim Ideas
Remembering the Holocaust in Ukraine: Never Forget
Ukraine's Jews in the Middle of a War
The Hilltop Youth and Jewish Terrorism
The Torah of TikTok
The Making of an American Shtetl
Norman Lamm and American Orthodoxy
Between Charlottesville and Colleyville
Challenging Wokeness: Jews & The American Narrative
Protecting a Predator: Chaim Walder & the Haredi Defense
Jews and Muslims in a Fractured America
A Word from the Rabbi's Spouse
Inside Chabad’s Vision for American Judaism
Israel-Palestine in the College Classroom
Love, Thoughts, and Thanksgiving
Jewish Ethics in a Time of Power
The Conflict About the Conflict
How Jews Talk About Abortion
Who's Afraid of Impossible Pork?
The Bronfman Fellowships and the Difficulty of Pluralism
We Still Need to Talk About the Occupation
Meir Kahane, American Radical?
#70: Sweeps Week at a Covid-Era Synagogue
#69: A Conversation with the Minister of Diaspora Affairs
#68: Twenty Years Later
#67: The Global Fascination with Dead Jews
#66: Gen Z (and their Questions) Return to Campus
#65: Tel Aviv's Spaceport
#64: Sociology, Ideology, and Pew 2020 (Corrected)
#63: A Quintessentially American Jewish Institution
#62: Foundational Judaism: What is It, and How Do We Teach It?
#61: What is Jewish Studies For?
#60: To Fight Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, Look at the Data
#59: The Canadian Jewish Difference
#58: How to Lose Without Violence
#57: Learning How to Listen
#56: American Zionism is at a Crossroads
#55: The Scandals and the Journalist
#54: White Supremacy, Policing, and the Jews
#53: The Archvillain of the American Jewish Experience
#52: The Israeli Jewish Music Episode
#51: Genocide, Antisemitism, and the Nomenclature of Hatred
#50: The American Jewish Music Episode
#49: PJ Library: Children's Books, Grown-up Opinions
#48: Why Wasn't There a Jewish Institutional Apocalypse?
#47: Our Pandemic Year: The Inner Life of Jewish Spaces
#46: What is at the Center of American Religion?
#45: Does Antisemitism Need a Legal Definition?
#44: How California Jews Grappled with a New Curriculum
#43: Nostalgic Religion, Religious Nostalgia
#42: The First 100 Days – and the Last 1,400
#41: Vaccines and Politics
#40: The American Idea, Tested
#39: Mature Jewish Secularism
#38: The Congressman from NY-16
#37: The Future of Muslim-Jewish Dialogue
#36: Politics, Pandemic, and Podcasting
#35: Post-Election Politics and the Project of Diversity
#34: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex
#33: Remembering Erekat and Rabin
#32: Post-Election Torah
#31: What the Future Holds
#23: Free Speech and Authoritarianism with Jeffrey Goldberg (Rerun)
#30: The Future of Jewish Progressivism
#29: Praying for the Welfare of This Government
#28: Jews, Catholics, and American Life
#27: An American Jewish Legacy
#26: Truth and Atonement
#25: The Loneliness of Jewish Theology
#24: Gender, Power, and Covid-19
#23: Free Speech and Authoritarianism with Jeffrey Goldberg
#22: Israel After Annexation: A Conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi
#21: One Month, 20,000 Hours of Jewish Education
#20: Idealized American Pasts, Utopian Israeli Futures
#19: The Rise of Alternative Jewish Learning Spaces
#18: The New Jewish Political Canon
#17: Mikvah, Fertility, and the Pandemic
#16: The State of Jewish Journalism
#15: Facing Annexation
#14: American Jewish Communities After George Floyd
#13: Joshua Foer on the Future of Digital Judaism
#12: What Comes Next for Denominational Judaism?
#11: Being home
#10: The Hasidim of Netflix and the Israelis of HBO
#9: Homeland at Home
#8: Teaching Judaism at home is hard. Here's what you can do.
#7: No mosque for Ramadan, no church for Easter, no shul for Passover. Now what?
#6: Cooking for a different kind of seder
#5: Can the Jewish social safety net adapt?
#4: The Jewish funding crisis is here
#3: How to be a good leader in the middle of a pandemic
#2: Coronavirus and Community
#1: Jews and the Presidency