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Dec 2, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Emily Tamkin, Gil Preuss

Jewish Identity and the American Public Square

Nov 29, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Charlie Schwartz, Josh Foer
Identity/Crisis Podcast

A Jew Walks Into a Bar

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Nov 29, 2022
Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

What Israel’s Election Tells Us About the State of the State at 75

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Nov 23, 2022
Yossi Klein Halevi

Yossi Klein Halevi

What Israel’s Election Tells Us About the State of the State at 75

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Nov 22, 2022
Donniel Hartman, David Koffman

Religion and Democracy in Israel: What are the Stakes for Global Jewry?

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Nov 22, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

The Fight of Return

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Nov 21, 2022
Naomi Seidman, Ellin Bessner

CJN Daily: Why Hasidic Jews Leave their Communities to go ‘Off the Derech’

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Nov 18, 2022
Donniel Hartman

Donniel Hartman

Family Feud

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Nov 18, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Laura E. Adkins, Ari Hoffman
Identity/Crisis Podcast

Jewish Media from Right to Left

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Nov 17, 2022

Lauren Berkun

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Zionism and Overcoming History

Nov 16, 2022
Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, Elana Stein Hain
For Heaven's Sake Podcast

What’s Next for Liberalism in Israel?

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Nov 16, 2022

Naomi Seidman

Heretic in the House

Heretic in the House: Telling the Tale

Nov 16, 2022

Naomi Seidman

Heretic in the House

Heretic in the House: Shunning

Nov 16, 2022

Naomi Seidman

Heretic in the House

Heretic in the House: Nebech

Nov 16, 2022

Naomi Seidman

Heretic in the House

Heretic in the House: You’re So Brave 

Nov 13, 2022
Tani Frank

Tani Frank

Minimization of the Law of Return – a Real Threat to the Jewish State

Nov 10, 2022
Michael Koplow

Michael Koplow

The Case for Optimism Regarding the New Israeli Government

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Nov 10, 2022
Michael (Avi) Helfand, Rivka Press Schwartz, Daniel Braunfeld
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How do Jewish Schools Fit into the Politics of American Education?

Nov 9, 2022

Lauren Berkun

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Zionism and Power

Nov 9, 2022
Yehuda Kurtzer, Donniel Hartman
Identity/Crisis Podcast

Two Elections and the Path Forward

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What Happened to Jewish Pluralism?

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Home, Endangered: A #MeToo Midrash

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