All Episodes

CSP: Mendelsohn – 21 Percent Israeli

CSP: Liptz – Looking Back to the Future: What Must We Do Now?

CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 4 of 4 Yitzhak Rabin: The Price of Peace

CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 4 of 4 Russian Speaking Immigrants: 1990-2020

CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors: Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region – Part 3 of 3 The Politics of Survival: Jordan

CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 3 of 4 Menachem Begin, The Peace Treaty and a New Israel

CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 3 of 4 The “Beta Israel”: Jews from Ethiopia

CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors: Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region – Part 2 of 3 Syria’s Civil War and its Implications

CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians – Part 2 of 4 Golda Meir: A Determined and Committed Zionist

CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation – Part 2 of 4 The Yemenite Jews: Returning Home

CSP: Liptz – Israel’s Neighbors Nationalism and Religion in a Complex Region Part 1 of 3 Fundamentalism of the Shia Iran and its Regional Allies

CSP: Liptz – Politics and Politicians Part 1 of 4 David Ben-Gurion Founder and Builder

CSP: Liptz – Creating a Nation Part 1 of 4 Holocaust Survivors Come Home 1945-1962

CSP: Liptz – Fulfilling the Dream: The Fascinating Story of Modern Israel

CSP: Freund – Escape from the Holocaust- Geoscience and Archaeology

CSP: Moster – Etrog How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol

CSP: Kokin – Rome and the Jewish Imagination

CSP: Elman & Batalion – What Exactly is a YidLife Crisis?

CSP: Gereboff – 18th Annual Pre-High Holiday Event For Whom Do We Blow the Shofar?

CSP: Weiss – Pop Toys and Power Politics Israel and the Eurovision Song Contest

CSP: Weiss – Black is the New Black Ultra-Orthodox Jews Israel and the Globalization of Television

CSP: Horovitz – Adam Ve’Adama [Human and Land] Exploring the Relationship Between the People and the Land of Israel as Reflected Through Art

CSP: Horovitz – Israeli Art as a Window to Israeli History & Collective Memory

CSP: Horovitz – What is Israeli Culture? A Roller Coaster Ride Through Israeli Contemporary Culture

CSP: Raikin – Documenting History Through Art- Jewish life in Eastern Europe Before the Holocaust through the artistic lens of David Labkovski

CSP: Moore – Jewish Identity Politics

CSP: Moore – GI Jews How World War II Changed a Generation

CSP: Moore – City of Promises A History of New York Jews

CSP: Goren – The Many Layers of Jerusalem

CSP: Korazim – How to Become an Israeli

CSP: Korazim – Homeland and Identity

CSP: Korazim – Forbidden Games – All About Censorship

CSP: Zevit – Storytelling in the Bible – How and Why

CSP: Arnovitz – Living Under Water

CSP: Arnovitz – People of the Book/Artist’s Books

CSP: Arnovitz – Tear/Repair

CSP: Epstein – Lions Unicorns and Fiery Dragons: The Art of the Polish Synagogues

CSP: Kurtzer – OC iEngage Lecture with Yehuda Kurtzer

CSP: Franklin – Tracing Ancestors in Eastern Europe Strategies and Example

CSP – Burger – Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

CSP: Dollinger – Past, Present, and Future – Deploying Our Understanding of History to Frame Contemporary American life and Wonder About Its Future

CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History A Primary Source Reader

CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 3

CSP- Dollinger – “Civil Rights and Social Justice” The Untold Story

CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 2

CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 2

CSP: Dollinger – California Jews

CSP: Dollinger – Jews and Whiteness

CSP: Dollinger – Land of Opportunity and Land of Challenges Session 1

CSP: Dollinger – American Jewish History Session 1

CSP: DOLLINGER – New Interpretations of American Jewish History – What Really Happened? and What Did It Mean?

CSP: Mendes-Flohr – Are We Still Jews? Challenges and Prospects in Modern Jewish Thought

CSP: Kokin – Found in Translation? Foreign Songs and the Creation of Israeli Musical Culture

CSP: Heilman – The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America

CSP: Cammy – Yiddish Matters, or The Meaning of Yiddish

CSP: Cammy – When Yiddish Was Young: Vilna’s Last Generation

CSP: Baron – Crescent & Star-Crossed Lovers Jewish-Muslim Romance Films

CSP: Willette – Modern Artists and Jewish Art Dealers The Jewish Art Dealers in Berlin in the 1920s Until the Coming of Hitler

CSP: Kasher – The King is Dead Long Live God On the Need for New Religious Metaphors

CSP: Gurock – From Ancient Face Offs through Medieval Time Outs Jewish History and the Culture of Sports

CSP: Gurock – Jewish Harlem The Rise Decline and Revival of a Jewish Community

CSP: Wagner – New Trends in Holocaust Research and Education

CSP: Wagner – Politics of Memory in Germany and Poland Today

CSP: Kokin – Celebrating Seven Decades of Israeli Music

CSP: Stark – Gutman Rubin and the History of Tel Aviv

CSP: Korazim – Israel -Diaspora Relations: Changing Narratives

CSP: Korazim – Anochi – Dialogues with God in Israeli Poetry

CSP: Klitsner – The Tent the Field and the Battlefield Upheavals in the Roles and Fortunes of Biblical Women

CSP: Baron – Statuettes of Limitations The Oscars and the Holocaust 1945-1960

CSP- Zevit – How Did the Bible Come to Be Some Essential Questions and Answers

CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 3 Diagramming Heresy

CSP- Chajes – Unseen Seers Recovering the Women Mystics of Jewish History

CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 3 From Eroticism to Anatomy

CSP- Chajes – Exorcists Dybbuks Demons Oh My

CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 2 Jews Christians and the Kabbalistic Tree at the Dawn of Modernity

CSP- Chajes – Imagining Cosmic Torah

CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 2

CSP- Chajes – Visual Kabbalah Part 1 A Brief History of the Tree of Life

CSP- Chajes – Carlebach Friday Davening Workshop

CSP- Chajes – The Kabbalah Unveiled Part 1 The Emergence of Kabbalah

CSP- Alpern & Yoskowitz – Re-envisioning Ashkenazi Cuisine – Jewish Cooking from Europe to America and Back Again

CSP: Dollinger – Civil Rights and Social Justices The Untold Story of American Jews and the 1960s

CSP: Hovav – My GREAT (and Short) Great Grandfather and the Revival of the Hebrew Language

CSP: Sharett – Writing on the Wall- A Virtual Tour of Southern Tel Aviv’s Bohemian Florentin Neighborhood

CSP: Epstein – Bruriah Truth, Myth, and the Construction of the Ideal Jewish Woman

CSP: Glickman – Sacred Treasure: The Cairo Genizah

CSP: Baron- The Wandering View- The Jewish Immigrant in World Cinema

CSP: Yanklowitz – This Rosh Hashanah- Cultivating Moral Courage

CSP: Mintz – Torah U-Madah: Yeshiva University

CSP: Mintz – Tradition and Change – Jewish Theological Seminary

CSP: Mintz – The First and the Oldest Jewish Seminary in America: Hebrew Union College

CSP: Mintz – Adapting Russian Judaism to the American Landscape

CSP: Shabbat Alive XIV – Mostly Kosher 2.0 part2

CSP: Shabbat Alive XIV – Mostly Kosher 2.0 part1

CSP: Kalb – Critique vs The Degradation and Devaluation of Leadership in Judaism

CSP: Kalb – The Controversy Over Conversion and Some Potential Solutions

CSP: Kalb – Rock and Roll Judaism

CSP: Kalb – Joseph – Beyond the Technicolor Dreamcoat

CSP: Chemerinsky – The Supreme Court’s Momentous Year 2017 – Excerpt

CSP: Klitsner – Inside-Outside Biblical Leaders and Their Non-Jewish Mentors

CSP: Glickman – Stolen Words The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books

CSP: Korazim – Politics and Poetics

CSP: Korazim – The Other as a Mirror

CSP: Orzach – Northern Exposure

CSP: Rohrig – CSP Sunday Conversation featuring Geza Rohrig

CSP: Ruderman – Jewish History and Jewish Memory- Reflections on History and Community

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present- Three Zionist Thinkers–Their Differing Visions of a Jewish State and their Relevance for Contemporary Jews- Achad ha-Am Jacob Klatzkin, and Louis Brandeis

CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: The Messiah and the Modern Jewish Experience: Reform Judaism, Socialism, and Zionism

CSP: Ruderman – Martin Buber’s Legacy for Modern Jews- The Eclipse of God and the Search for Human Relationship

CSP: Ruderman – In Search of Saviours: The Messianic Impulse in Jewish History and its Consequences: Shabbetai Zevi: The Mystical Messiah

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance–From the Middle Ages to the Present: Two competing visions of Jewish Life in the Modern World: Abraham Geiger and Samson Raphael Hirsch

CSP: Ruderman – A Tale of Three Jewish Cities – Amsterdam and its Converso Community-The Saga of the First Modern Jews

CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations: Missionaries, Meshumadim [Apostates], and Maskilim [Enlighteners]: The Revival of the Jewish Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance– From the Middle Ages to the Present: The Baal Shem Tov versus the Gaon Elijah of Vilna

CSP: Ruderman – God and Nature- Kabbalah and Science at the Dawn of Modernity

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance– From the Middle Ages to the Present: American Jewish Thought: The Contrasting Postures of Mordechai Kaplan and Abraham Joshua Heschel

CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations- Pt2 The Christian Discovery of the Rabbis and the Mishnah in Eighteenth Century England

CSP: Ruderman – Debates that Shaped Jewish Thinking and Their Contemporary Significance- Pt1: From the Middle Ages to the Present: Judah Ha-Levi versus Moses Maimonides

CSP: Ruderman – God and Nature: Three Early Modern Rabbis on Nature, Medicine, and Science

CSP: Ruderman – Three Moments in the History of Jewish-Christian Relations Pt1 Jews, Christians and the Kabbalah in Renaissance Italy

CSP: Ruderman – Confessions of a Jewish Historian: Why I Study the Jewish Past

CSP: Troy – A History of US-Israel Relations as Seen Through the Oval Office

CSP: Reiss – The Simpsons and Other Jewish Families

CSP: Goren – A Walk of the Land – The Israel National Trail Udi Goren

CSP: Kaufman – On the History of “Funny Jews” in American Pop Culture

CSP: Zollman – Exodus! Leon Uris, Paul Newman and American Zionism

CSP : Artson – Renewing the Process of Creation – A Jewish Integration of Science and Spirit

CSP: Goldberg – AHAVA_LOVE The Gift and the Challenge of Living at the Center of our Tradition

CSP: Cline – Excavating Armageddon – New Discoveries and Old Debates at Megiddo

CSP: Cline – Raiders of the Faux Ark- From Noah’s Ark to the Ark of the Covenant and Beyond

CSP: Cline – 1177 BC- The Collapse of Civilizations and the Rise of Israel

CSP: Epstein – The Lost Tribes- A Quest

CSP: Epstein – Jews and Music- Beautiful Harmonies

CSP: Epstein – The Most Elegant Jews -The Western Sephardim

CSP: Berkovits – DARKHEI SHALOM, The Path to Building Community

CSP: Chemerinsky – A 60 Minute Review of the Court’s Major Cases in 2016

CSP: Korazim – Complex Images of Peace and Hope

CSP: Benstein – Is Hebrew Mosaic – or a Mosaic? Continuity and Change in Jewish Identity Through Language

CSP: Katz – Shlomo Katz Live in Concert

CSP: Goodman – Three Narratives of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

CSP: Ariel – Israel as Portrayed in Israeli Films

CSP: Keller – Sex and the Bible: Maybe Even A Little More Than You Wanted to Know

CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 4 OF 4

CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 3 OF 3

CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 3 OF 4

CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 2 OF 3

CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 2 OF 4

CSP: Keller – Omens, Oracles & Execrations: in the Bible and the Surrounding World PART 1 OF 3

CSP: Keller – Take My Wife Please: Marital Relationships in the Biblical Text PART 1 OF 4

CSP: Keller – Sex, Magic and Death in the Bible–Let’s Start at the Very Beginning

CSP: Garroway – The Historical Paul

CSP: Garroway – The Historical Jesus

CSP: Goshen-Gottstein – Celebrating 50 Years of Jewish Christian Relations

CSP: Greenwald – Amichai – Poetry and Possibility

CSP: Merwin – Pastrami on Rye An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

CSP: Kaunfer – The Mourner’s Kaddish – A New Interpretation

CSP: Kaunfer – How Can I Pray What I Don’t Believe? A Case Study

CSP: Kaunfer – When Who Wrote the Prayer Matters: The Deeper Meaning of “Avinu Malkenu”

CSP: Kaunfer – Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life

CSP: Berenbaum – The New Anti-Semitism

CSP: Chemerinsky – A 60 Minute Review of the Court’s Major Decisions in 2015

CSP: Awwad & Hanan – Painful Hope Jewish and Palestinian Ability to Live Together

CSP: Greenwald – Sex, Lies and Canaanite Wives: Inside the World’s First Intermarriage Debate

CSP: Magid – Jewish Thinking Outside the Christian Gaze – The Case of Hasidism

CSP: Tokayer – Jews of the Far East

CSP: Zollman – American Jews and the Civil War

CSP: Cohen – T’shuvah Inside and Out – How We Change the World Through Changing Ourselves

CSP: Elbaum – Into the Fullness of Freedom

CSP: Solomon – The Jewish Future in One Hour

CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets–Ezekiel

CSP: Heschel – An Evening With Susannah Heschel

CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 3 of 3

CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets Jeremiah

CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 2 of 3

CSP: Solomon – Major Prophets Isaiah

CSP: Solomon – Chazal In the Age of Empires- An Overview of the Talmudic Period part 1 of 3

CSP: Solomon – The Whole of Jewish History In One Hour

CSP: Feinstein – Q&A with Rabbi Feinstein Facilitated by Rabbi Elie Spitz

CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life: Ancient Wisdom from Modern Sources

CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life: What Can We Learn from the Rabbis of the Talmud?

CSP: Feinstein – Building a Meaningful Life- Modern Lessons from Ancient Sources

CSP: Cassedy – Leonard Bernstein- American Original

CSP: Olitzky – Playlist Judaism in a Post Pew World-Making Choices for a Vital Future

CSP: Regev – Imagine a Reality – Israel and Judaism in an Era of Religious Freedom and Equality

CSP: Brous – Conversation with Sharon Brous

CSP: Artson – God of Becoming and Relationship – The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology

CSP: Epstein – From Chabad to Rothko to Woodstock: Yale Epstein, a Jewish Artist in the 20th Century Part 2

CSP: Epstein – From Chabad to Rothko to Woodstock: Yale Epstein, a Jewish Artist in the 20th Century Part 1

CSP: Revenge of the Storytellers

CSP: Gospel Shabbat

CSP: Seroussi – Sound and Music of the Synagogue

CSP: Seroussi – Singing Israeliness: Popular Music and Israeli Cultural Identity

CSP: Seroussi – Judeo-Spanish mystique: ‘Ancient’ and ‘Modern’ in Contemporary Sephardi Music

CSP: Seroussi – Tradition: Eastern European Jewish Music and Its (post-) Modern Offsprings

CSP: Infeld – Leadership and Peoplehood

CSP: Infeld – Ten Steps to Understanding Israel Today

CSP: Infeld – The Five Legged Table Theory

CSP: Stein – Passover Around the World

CSP: Adams – A Talk About Elie Wiesel’s “The Forgotten”

CSP: Solomon – How to Convert the Pope: Successful and Failed Attempts to Bring the Messiah

CSP: Korazim – Windows to Israeli Society through Literature: Connections to the Land.

CSP: Epstein – Imaging the Future: Jewish Art and Its Role in the Future of the Jewish People – audio

CSP: Epstein – People of the Image: How Jews Made Art in Spite of the Second Commandment – and Why it Matters – audio

CSP: Ron – Spiritual Music Traditions of the Middle East

CSP: Havdalah Music Collaboration

CSP: Cohen-Magen – Ultra Orthodox Communities in Israel

CSP: Lawton – The Truth About Europe

CSP: Lawton – Should We Be Afraid? An Attempt at Modern Prophecy

CSP: Lawton – Clive on the Holidays Part 3 of 3: The strange case of Purim – an exploration of how Purim made it into the Jewish calendar

CSP: Lawton What should we think about Israel?

CSP: Feinstein – Once Upon A Time

CSP: Feinstein – A Brief History of Chutzpah

CSP: Feinstein – The Questions That Won’t Go Away

CSP: Lawton – Clive on the Holidays Part 2 of 3: Have the Greeks won? A retrospective study on the Chanukah battle for supremacy

CSP: Lawton – What Calendars Tell Us About Cultures

CSP: Lawton – Clive’s Take on the Holidays Part 1 of 3: The Tishri roller-coaster

CSP: Lawton – Jewish history was a ball! A study of the good times Jews have had through history

CSP: Katz – Martin Buber’s Hasidic Stories: A Re-Evaluation

CSP: Artson – Teshuvah: Turning, Returning, Changing, Becoming

CSP: Fishbain – I Thou M. Buber – Relational Living with the Other

CSP: Waldocks – A Jew in the Lotus: The Jewish Buddhist Encounter

CSP: Waldocks – Chai Chi: The Deep Structure of Tefila

CSP: Waldocks – Beyond Laughter Through Tears: A Brief History of Jewish Humor

CSP: Berk – Looking Back and Looking Forward

CSP: Berk – A Tale of Two Popes Pius XII and John Paul II

CSP: Berk – Zion in America: The American Jewish Experience

CSP: Isaacs – Part 3 of 3: Thick Description: Is Post Modernism a Jewish Idea

CSP: Isaacs – Part 2 of 3: The Spirit of the Jewish People: Buber’s Vision for a Jewish State

CSP: Isaacs – Part 3 of 3: Moses the Non-European

CSP: Isaacs – The Challenge of Feminism to Contemporary Jewish Law

CSP: Isaacs – Part 2 of 3: The Ethics of Hypocrisy – Derrida’s Reading of the Akedah

CSP: Isaacs – Part 3 of 3: Gush Emunim – The Unity of the Land and the Unity of the People

CSP: Isaacs – Part 1 of 3: Wittgenstein: Revelation and Concealment in Language

CSP: Isaacs – Part 1 of 3: The State as a Vehicle for Peace and Security

CSP: Isaacs – Part 1 of 3: Pathos and Prophecy

CSP: Isaacs – Does Zionism Have A Future in America?

CSP: Isaacs – And the Wolf Shall Lie With the Lamb – Jewish Visions of Peace

CSP: Isaacs – Judaism in the Age of Sovereignty: Three Major Challenges

CSP: Tokayer – Unknown Jewish Heroes of the Far East

CSP: Greenberg – A Strategy for Renewal of American Jewry

CSP: Greenberg – Blu Presentation: From Mild Mannered Yeshiva Girl to Orthodox Feminist

CSP: Greenberg – Israel: Religion and State, Religion and Society

CSP: Greenberg – The Triumph of Life: Judaism’s Vision

CSP: Elior -Judaism and Women

CSP: Elior -The History of Jewish Mysticism & West Coast Kabbalah

CSP: Elior -Demystifying Jewish Mysticism: Introduction To Jewish Mysticism

CSP: Elior -Angels & Angelology In Judaism

CSP: Elior -The Riddle of the Jewish Calendar

CSP: Isaacs – The Unity of Opposites: A New Approach to Middle East Peace

CSP: Levenson – The Artistry of Genesis 22

CSP: Seidler-Feller – Searching For God In Judaism: A Rationalist’s Theory of A Mystical Reality

CSP: Levenson – The Afterlife of the Story In Judaism (With A Glance At Christianity & Islam, Too)

CSP: Levenson – Midrash: What Bothered the Rabbis In Genesis 22

CSP: Kimelman – The Difference Between Jews and Christians Saying God Loves Us

CSP: Paul – Esther Of The Wiles Of Women

CSP: Schwartz – “Moses Wrote This Torah’ [Deuteronomy 31:9]: Did He Really?”

CSP: Maeir – Media Fantasy & Biblical Archeology: Must Everything Be Interpreted As A “Da Vinci Code?”

CSP: Dorff – So “That” Is What Rosh Hashanah Is All About! An Exploration of the Central Themes of Rosh Hashanah

CSP: Matt – God and the Big Bang: Discovering Harmony Between Science and Spirituality

CSP: Matt – Shekhinah: The Feminine Half of God

CSP: Matt – The Zohar: Masterpiece of the Kabbalah

CSP: Katz – Outmigration, Zionism and the Holocaust

CSP: Katz – The Emergence of the Hasmonean State and its Political and Theological Consequences

CSP: Katz – The Uniqueness of American Jewish History

CSP: Katz – The Rise of Hasidism in the 18th Century

CSP: Katz – Jewish Responses to Enlightenment and Emancipation

CSP: Katz – Sabbatianism and Its Consequences

CSP: Katz – The Jewish Encounter With Hellenism

CSP: Katz – Creation of Modernity

CSP: Katz – Judaism and Christianity: Theological Alternatives

CSP: Meyer – The Book of Judas

CSP: Gorenberg – The Accidental Empire: Israel’s Unsettling Settlement Dilemma

CSP: Nelson – Big Bang, Chaos Theory, Einstein and Us

CSP: Kimelman – Do Jews Believe in Angels?

CSP: Kimelman – The Renaissance of American Jewry and Will our Grandchildren be Jewish?