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Best of College Commons... Noam Zion: Sanctified Sex - the Jewish Debate on Marital Intimacy

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Tomer Persico: “In God’s Image”

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Rabbi Charles Savenor: “Religious duties consist in doing justice”

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Yael Yechieli: Simple and But Not Easy - 50% Women in the Halls of Power in Israel

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John Rokosny: Coming of Age from Nazi Europe to the Nascent State of Israel

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Georgette Bennett: The Voluntary Jew

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Rabbi Jeffrey Marx: Stereotypes and kernels of truth

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Michael Meyer: Hebrew Union College at 100 Years – 50 years ago!

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David Mendelsson: Looking at 56 Years of HUC in Israel

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Judah Cohen: Soundscape of the Soul

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Jessica Roda: Sacred Drugs - Jews, Psychedelics, and Healing (An HUC Connect Crossover Episode)

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Charlie Scheidt - Hidden in the Armoire: Living History of the Shoah

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David B. Oppenheimer: Great Minds, It Turns Out, Think Differently

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Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein: The rabbinate is changing faster than it’s shrinking (but it’s also shrinking)

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Rabbi Michael Zedek: Sit by the Fire and Tell a Story

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Hannah L. and Rabbi Harvey Winokur: Jewish and Twelve-Step Traditions at the Crossroads of Addiction

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Adam Ferziger: A Patchwork of Jews

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Arnold Eisen: Dimensional and Complex Judaism

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Rabbi Dalia Marx: The Prayerbook as a Living Text

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Rabbi Ed Feinstein: Every Sermon Tells a Story

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Aron Hirt-Manheimer: Story, Silence, and the Story of Silence

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Rabbi Rachel Timoner: God Trumps Politics

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Jordan D. Rosenblum: You Are What You Eat

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Hannah Pollin-Galay: Yiddish, Vibrant among the Ashes

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Joshua Leifer: The Jigsaw Puzzle of American Judaism and its Future

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Ayelet Tsabari: “If music be the food of love, play on”

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Howard Langer: A Lost World in a New World

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Rabbi Yitz Greenberg: Judaism’s Teaching for Repairing the Universe

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Danielle Sharkan: Culture Is a Crossroads

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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl: The Pulpit Isn’t a Pedestal

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Lihi Lapid: “In the End, It’s Family That’s Important”

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Lee Yaron: Weaving the Threads of October 7th

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Rabbi Marc Katz: A Civilization’s Inflection Point

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Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: A New Era for Judaism and Israel

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Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: What do We Even Mean by “Liberal Zionism”?

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Menachem Rosensaft: Burning Psalms

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Yariv Inbar: I, Spy

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Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium

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Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business

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Shai Held: What the World Needs Now

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Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

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Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance

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Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us

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Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon

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Rabbi Yonatan Neril: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands

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Paul Zeitz: Optimism as the Vehicle for Change

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John Inazu: Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of Democracy

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Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe: The Bottom Line: Compassion

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“My Heart Is in the East, though I Be in the Very West”

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Centuries of Food at Your Table: A Medieval Sephardic Cookbook

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Still Work To Do: Sexual Abuse in Jewish Institutions

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A Tavola! Italian-Jewish Cuisine and the Stories Behind It

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A Shtetl in the United States?

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Jessica Marglin: The Citizen Who Didn’t Belong

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Dr. Sivan Zakai: Taking Children Seriously on Israel

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The Ancient Renewed: Psalms for Every Day

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The Poetry of Poetry in Translation

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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Jeremy Leigh

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Rabbi Michael Strassfeld: Disrupting Judaism

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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michael Marmur

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Joseph Skloot: The Secret Lives of Books

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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michal Muszkat-Barkan

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Rabbi Barbara Symons: Is Prophetic Judaism Listening to the Prophets?

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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste

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HUC Connect: Inside Israel with David Mendelsson

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Rabbi Zoë Klein: Brand New Stories from a Thousand Years Ago

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Michael Frank: The Lost World of Jewish Rhodes

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Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson: Jewish Mysticism Upside Down & Inside Out

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Elisheva Baumgarten: Mind the Gap

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Susan Wider: An Autobiography In Images

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Sacha Lamb: Supernatural Jews

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Ashley Goldberg: Airing Our Dirty Laundry in Public

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Sarah Imhoff: The Unexpected Zionist

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Laura Hobson Faure: A 'Jewish Marshall Plan'

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Dani Shapiro: What Makes a Novel 'Jewish'?

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The Old Country: A Harrowing Tale of Escape from the Russian Empire

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The Crucible of Conflict: Setting the Terms for Israel/Palestine to This Day

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Discovering Israel in the Shadow of the Eichmann Trial

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The Wrong Kind of Jew?

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From Buchenwald to Brooklyn: A Story of Sabotage and Survival

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A New View of a Newly Productive Congress

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Finding your family (and yourself)

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People Love Dead Jews: Provocative Book Title or Troubling Truth?

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Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women

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A Grandmother’s Tale

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The Early Zionist Spirit in Photographs

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The Inside Story of Jean Carroll, The First Lady of Laughs

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Who Really Was Rashi, Anyway?

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Old-World Jewish Music, Reborn in the New

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Iberian Adventures: 20th Century Sephardim in Mexico

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The Orthodox Embrace of Legal Pluralism in Israel

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Senate 2022: The Game Is On & the Stakes Are High

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Radical Jewish Ethics Meets the Real World

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A Tale of Travelers’ Checks, High Finance, and Antisemitism

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Warm and Welcoming? Institutionalized Biases and Barriers to Inclusion

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Not Your Grandparents’ Archives (Well, Actually, They Are)

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Immigrant “Aliens” – Literally

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After Roe: A Jewish Response

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James McAuley: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

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Neal Scheindlin: Untying Ethical Knots in Judaism