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The Genesis: Conversations About Jewish Arts and Culture

We are right at the beginning of what some have called "The 21st Century Jewish Cultural Renaissance," and The Genesis is the podcast watching it unfold, in real time and up close. Each week Rabbi Josh Rose has a conversation with a different Jewish artist or cultural figure to explore questions of artistic creativity, individual Jewish identity, Jewish expression and how Jewish arts are reshaping what it means to be Jewish. Our main focus in on the artists from Art/Lab: Innovating Jewish Arts and

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52:29

S3E1 Season Three! How Does Our Past Tell Us Who We...

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2025/07/29

Documentary Filmmaker Michael Turner and Rabbi Josh Discuss the relationsship between the past, the present and storytelling.

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S2 E26 Rabbi Shai Held: Can Judaism Reclaim Love?

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2025/07/23

This is the final Season 2 'Blast from the Past' episode. This is a conversatoin Rabbi Josh had with Rabbi Shai Held, a leading thinker in the Jewish world. Held's book "Judaism is About Love" claims that the fundamental character of Jewish teaching has been misunderstood and appropriated - and that Jews need to reevaluate their own tradition. Next week we will begin Season Three of the Podcast!

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Can AI Help Us Understand The Secrets of Jewish...

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2025/07/16

This is a conversation Rabbi Josh had months ago with Zac Banik, Art/Lab alumnus and habitual Jewish learner and explorer. Enjoy.

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S2E24 Rabbi Josh's Talk with Oregon Book Award Winner...

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2025/07/09

Daniela Molnar is an award winning poet and visual artist. She and and Rabbi Josh will be together on August 25th at 7pm at Annie Blooms Books in Portland to discuss her stunning new work Protocols: An Erasure. This episode is a rebroadcast of Rabbi Josh's conversation with Molnar from Season One of this podcast. This week and next, and then periodically thereafter we'll be sharing snippets and full episodes that look back on highlights and moments that helped shape the direction of the Genesis

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S2E23 What Does Jewish Music Sound Like Now?

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2025/07/02

To explore how music shapes Jewish cultural meaning, this week Rabbi Josh welcomes Eric Stein — mandolinist, bassist, and artistic director of Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival, one of the world’s largest celebrations of Jewish music and culture. (And yes, it might be a little confusing — last week’s guest was Eric Stern, another multitalented Jewish musician.) Eric Stein has spent more than 25 years redefining the sound of Jewish music through projects like Beyond the Pale and Tio Chorinho. In this

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S2E22 Can Art and Music Replace Religion?

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2025/06/27

Josh (Host): Eric Stern builds Jewish community and is a curator of Jewish culture. He's a very interesting, multi-layered renaissance man who is the irector of Programming at Portland’s Eastside Jewish Commons, an important player in the emergent Jewish scene here in Portland Oregon. Eric is also musician, vocalist, accordionist, pianist, composer, arranger, he trained as a classical singer and went on to found the eclectic, genre-bending band Vagabond Opera, which toured nationally, appeared on

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S2E21 Can Jewish Culture Meet the Challenges of the...

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2025/06/18

Part two of Rabbi Josh's conversation with Lou Cove, CEO of CANVAS, an organization seeding "The 21st Cultural Renaissance in Jewish Life".

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What is the Jewish Cultural Renaissance and Why Does...

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2025/06/11

In this episode, Rabbi welcomes Lou Cove—writer, cultural strategist, and longtime champion of Jewish arts and storytelling—for a rich and personal conversation about Jewish cultural identity, memory, and the power of creative revival. Lou shares the story of how a casual visit to the Yiddish Book Center unexpectedly transformed his life and career. Raised with little connection to Jewish communal life, Lou recalls how this moment set him on a path to reclaim a cultural legacy he didn’t even know he

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S2E19 When A Jewish Artist Makes a Golem

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2025/06/03

Today on the podcast, Rabbi Josh speaks with Ahuva S. Zaslavsky — a Portland-based multidisciplinary artist whose work grapples with the raw, layered questions of identity, transformation, and belonging. Ahuva was born and raised in Tel Aviv in a deeply mixed family — Mizrahi and Ashkenazi, traditional and secular — and it wasn’t until a move to the United States as an adult that she unexpectedly stepped into her life as an artist. Zaslavsky's work spans sculpture, printmaking, painting, video,

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S2E18 Can Judaism Reclaim Love in a Divided World?

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2025/05/29

In this episide, Rabbi Shai Held and Rabbi Josh talk about Rabbi Held's book 'Judaism is About Love,' what it means to have love at the center of Jewish teaching, and why so many in the Jewish community don't understand that Love is central to their own tradition. In this moment of cultural conflict, at a time when the Jewish state is engaged in a horrific war, when Jewish communities are finding themselves confronting anti-Jewish hatred, Rabbi Held's ideas are profoundly important. The

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S2E16 How One Zionist Thinks About the War in Gaza

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2025/05/23

Rabbi Josh continues his weekly additional episode/reflection on Israel.

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S2E16 Can Synagogues Help Create Meaning In a...

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2025/05/22

Today Rabbi Rachel Joseph steps into the podcast. She will become, in 2027, the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, one of the two largest synagogues in Portland. Rabbi Josh and Rabbi Joseph have known and worked together over the years, and they met in her office to go deep on a range of topics. They talk about what it means to be a “political rabbi” without preaching politics, the challenge of holding space for people who don’t all agree, and why sermons may not matter as much as

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S2E15. Braiding Jewish Identity with Food: Sonya...

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2025/05/16

This week Rabbi Josh speaks with Sonya Sanford — a Portland-based writer, culinary educator, recipe developer, and podcast host. Sonya is the the author of Braids: Recipes from My Pacific Northwest Jewish Kitchen hwihc has delicious Jewish recipes with flavors of the Pacific Northwest. She is also the co-host of the highly rated Food Friends: Home Cooking Made Easy, a podcast that offers practical recipes and creative kitchen inspiration. Sonya was part of Art/Lab's first cohort for contemporary

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S2E14 Palestinian & Jewish Israelis Work for...

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2025/05/13

This week we bring you a conversation that Rabbi Josh had recently with Raghad Jaraisy, a Palestinian-Israeli advocating for Palestinian equality and civil rights in Israel. Jaraisy is the Co-Executive Director, along with Ofer Dagan, of Sikkuy Aufoq, "a shared Jewish and Arab nonprofit organization that works to advance equality and partnership between the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel – descendants of those who remained within the Israeli borders after the founding of the state in 1948 – and

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S2E13 Truth, Belonging and Jewish Teaching: Rabbi...

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2025/05/08

Rabbi Micah Streiffer is a friend of the podcast, colleague, a teacher of Jewish ideas, and the founder of the Jewish organization Laasok, which is an online center of liberal Jewish teaching - a virtual 'beit midrash.' We talk about truth claims and what they mean for the Jewish tradition, we discuss Jewish belonging, the changing landscape of Jewish orgnaizational life and a whole lot more. Enjoy this conversation with the always thoughftul Rabbi Micah Streiffer.

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S2E12. Israel: We Contain Multitudes

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2025/05/02

This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of reflections about Israel and the Palestinians and the many complex feelings and thoughts that I have and I bet you do too.

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S2E11 An Illustration of Jewish Identity: Leanne Grabel

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2025/05/01

This week I have the pleasure of talking with a graduate of Art/Lab's second cohort, illustrator, humorist, observer of life, and Jewish identity navigator Leanne Grabel. Leanne Grabel is a writer, illustrator, performer and has written and produced numerous spoken-word multi-media shows. Leanne was the 2020 recipient of Soapstone's Bread and Roses Award for contributions to women's literature in the Pacific Northwest. Brontosaurus Illustrated was published in 2022 by The Opiate Books; My

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S2E10 Jewish Mysticism, (Secretly) Jewish Art and...

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2025/04/24

Ketzia Schoneberg is a gifted painter with a unique artistic vision. Her work has been showed widely in galleries in Portland and beyond. We talk about how her work expresses her personal biography and her Jewish identity, we discuss the impact of Judaism on her life and in her work, and we also tease out some of the conncetions between artistic and religious expression. And, of course, she weighs in on the important question of what is the best Jewish food. Enjoy!

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S2E9 End of Passover '25: Freedom, Politics, and...

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2025/04/19

Rabbi Josh discusses the political and 'spiritual' significance of freedom as we head into the end of Passover. Is there a Jewish take on freedom and what's happening in the United States under Donal Trump? How should Jewish people think about political and spiritual freedom?

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S2E8 Art, Jewish Identity and Chutzpah in a Post...

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2025/04/17

Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem is a social practice artist, a soferet (Torah scribe), activist, and she also happens to be the Director of Art/Lab, our cohort program for Jewish artists. We have been working together since the inception of Co/Lab and it's been a powerful partnership. Our conversation covers Shoshana's work, her foray into the ethics of parchment making, synagogues and Jewish creativity, to name just a few subjects. Please subscribe/follow the show if you like what you hear!

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