All Episodes

S3E45 How Jewish Music is Creating a Space for Unity in Israel - and Right Here (with Zamru)

S3E44 What is the Source of Jewish Musical Creativity? (with Yankl Falk)

SE43 Special Edition on Jewish Music: Israeli Master Musician Yair Dalal

S3E42 The Portland Jewish Music Festival: What to Expect (w/ Eric Stern of Eastside Jewish Commons)

S3E41 Is Music the Purest form of Spirituality? (Michelle Alany)

S3E40 What is the Art of Exodus?

S3E39 Making Jewish Art & Making Jewish Community ? (w/ Eddy Shuldman)

S3 E38 An Iranian Jewish Painter Beyond Labels (with Dana Nehdaran)

S3E37 Jewish Artist Daniela Naomi Molnar Reads Her Own Work

S3E36 When Does an Artist Become Jewish First? (W/ Andrea Stolowitz)

S3E35 What Happens When A Jewish Artist Takes on Counterculture Pop Art? (w/ Steve Marcus)

S3E34 A Jewish Art of Work (with Toby Perl Freilich)

S3 E33 What You Get When You Combine Witchy Spirituality, Jewish Community & Radical Creativity (Dana Lynn Louis Part II)

S3E32 Does Art Have a Role In Helping Repair Civic Life? (W/ Dana Lynn Louis - Part I of II)

S3E31 How Jewish Mysticism - and Pain - Inform One Artist's Work (W/ Cara Levine)

S3E30 Curating Jewish Culture in a Fractured Moment (with Rebekah Sobel)

S3E29 How 17th Century Yiddish Prayer Shaped a Modern Jewish Writer (w/ Eve Bernfeld)

S3E28 Can We Find Truth Amidst Competing Narratives? (w/ Rebecca Clarren)

S3E27 Why it Matters that Jews Wrote The Christmas Songs You Love/Hate

S3E26 How One Artist Balances Trauma & Jewish Humor (with/ Nikki Schulak)

S3E25 Why a Jewish Arts & Culture Program - And Why Now? (Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem)

S3E24 Creativity as Jewish Religious Experience (w/ Rabbi Adina Allen; Re-Release of S3E20)

S3E23 How is Puppetry Like the Torah? With Ora Fruchter

S3E22 What Happens When You Stop Comparing Yourself to Other Artists? (with Youki Imori)

S3E21 Is Creativity the Bridge Between the Jewish Past and Future? (with Leila Wice)

S3E20 Is Creativity a Path to Jewish Religious Experience? (with Rabbi Adina Allen)

S3E19 S3E19 What Can Yiddish Teach Us About Resistance (and Jewish Resistance)? (with Jessica Rehfield)

S3E18 How Creativity Helped One Jewish Artist Find His Way Back from a Traumatic Injury (with Justin Jude Carroll)

S3E17 The Sound of Meta-Modern Jewish Creativity (with Aaron Kahn)

S3E16 What Jewish Wisdom Does Bob Dylan Have for Us? (with Dr. Stephen Arnoff)

S3E15 How Individual Voice Can Thrive Within Community (with Holly Goodman)

S3E14 A Jewish Artist on Writing, Loneliness, and the Urge to Be Seen (with Daniel Elder)

S3E12 Jewish Particularism & Universalism in America (w/ Mariah Berlanga-Shevchuk)

S3E11 When the Stories We Tell Ourselves Stop Working (w/ Tom Haviv)

S3E10 Autobiography of a Rabbi: From Religion to Culture

S3E9 Making Poetry Out of Anti-Semitic Hate: A Conversation with Daniela Molnar at Annie Blooms Books

S3E8 Can An Artist Repair The World Through Her Work? (w/ Shir Ly Grisanti)

S3E7 Is Judaism Fundamentally an Artistic Tradition?

S3E6 Where is the Line Between Jewish Religion & Culture? (w/ Merridawn Duckler)

S3E5 What Bruce Springsteen Just Proved About Art

S3E4 - What the Art of Jewish Study Can Teach Us (w/ Rabbi April Villareal)

S3E3 Does (Jewish) Art Owe Something to the World?

S3E2 Is Jewish Community Still Possible? The Case of the 92nd Street Y (w/ Seth Pinsky)

S3E1 Season Three! How Does Our Past Tell Us Who We Are Now? (w/ Michael Turner)

S2 E25 Can AI Help Us Understand The Secrets of Jewish Mysticism? (w/ Zac Banik)

S2E24 Rabbi Josh's Talk with Oregon Book Award Winner Daniela Molnar

S2E23 What Does Jewish Music Sound Like Now? (with Eric Stein)

S2E22 Can Art and Music Replace Religion? (w/ Eric Stern)

S2E21 Can Jewish Culture Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century? (Lou Cove, Part II)

S2E20 Why the Jewish Cultural Renaissance Matters (w/ Lou Cove)

S2E19 When A Jewish Artist Makes a Golem (w/ Ahuva Zaslavsky)

S2E18 Can Judaism Reclaim Love in a Divided World? (w/ Rabbi Shai Held)

S2E17 How One Zionist Thinks About the War in Gaza

S2E16 Can Synagogues Make Meaning In a Post-Institutional Age? (w/ Rabbi Rachel Joseph)

S2E15 Can Jewish Food - or Culture - Evolve Without Losing Its Soul? (w/ Sonya Sanford)

S2E14 How One Palestinian Activist is Helping to Make Israel Better (w/ Raghad Jaraisy)

S2E13 How Online Jewish Study Is ReShaping Jewish Community (w/ Rabbi Micah Streiffer)

S2E12. Israel: We Contain Multitudes

S2E11 How One Jewish Artist Turns Hate Into Humor (w/ Leanne Grabel)

S2E10 Can Spiritual Practice Create Jewish Art? (w/ Ketzia Schoneberg)

S2E9 End of Passover '25: Freedom, Politics, and Jewish Ideals

S2E8 What Does It Mean to Be a Jewish Artist After October 7th? (w/ Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem)

S2E7 Does Gaza Have a Place at the Seder?

S2E6 Jewish Federation, Adapting to a New Jewish World & Post-October 7th Realities: Marc Blattner

S2E5 A Very Jewish Tattoo, Trauma, and Trials of a Jewish Parent: Gadi Golan

S2E4 Idea of the Week: Pretending to Be

S2E3 Jewish Artists at this Jewish Moment: Art/Lab (with Art/Lab Alums)

S2E2 Idea of the Week: Trump Underneath the Mountain

S2E1 Alicia Jo Rabins: Jewish Art & Jewish Creativity

We're Back - Purim and More Jewish Content to Come....

A Surprising (Auto) Biography and What to Make of It: Jeff Alden

Art, self-criticism & Jewish creativity and Psychedelic Healing: Liz Asch Greenhill

Jewish Creativity Vs. Tradition and... Jewish AI?

Music, Jewish Culture & Connection: Aiden Kent & The Portland Niggun Circle

Israel - One Year Later: Three Rabbis Discuss Jewish Values, Jewish Pain and the Future

Jewish Values & Israel: Rabbi Josh & A Friend Wrestle with the Ongoing War

Jewish By Numbers and An Alphabet of God: Rabbi Brian Mayer

Daniela Molnar: Crazy Fecund World - Poetry, Spirituality and Jewish Identity

Eleyna Fugman: Marginalization, Inclusion, Synagogues & Small Communities

Why is This Episode Different From All Other Episodes? An Announcement.

Staying Off Script, Boring Services and Authenticity: Rabbi Gavriel Goldfeder

Hope, Finding Truth, Quiet, and Zionisms: Moshe Rachmuth

Jewish Comedy, Justice, & Psychedelics: Roy Kaufmann

Metasabiya Habteyes & Rabbi Josh: Lefty Discomfort, Israel, Jews of Color & the Jewish Future (Oh, my)