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The College Commons Podcast

The College Commons Podcast, passionate perspectives from Judaism"s leading thinkers, is produced by Hebrew Union College, America"s first Jewish institution of higher learning.

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Lee Yaron: Weaving the Threads of October 7th

The College Commons Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Author Lee Yaron resists the simplification of politics, people, and, most of all, of October 7th — in favor of nuance and humanity.Biography:Lee Yaron is an award-winning Israeli journalist.Her new book, "10/7: 100 Human Stories," won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award Book of the Year — and the 2025 Natan Notable Books award.At 30, Yaron is the youngest Book of the Year recipient in the award's history. She joins distinguished past winners including Philip Roth, Elie Wiesel, David Grossman and

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00:26:28

Louis Fishman, Ph.D.: At the Dawn of the State of Israel

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2025/06/03

Middle East Historian Louis Fishman reshapes our understanding of the birth of Zionism in its Ottoman context.

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00:39:30

Rabbi Marc Katz: A Civilization’s Inflection Point

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2025/05/20

Rabbi Marc Katz uses the historical imagination to plumb the depths of Judaism’s greatest choice for survival.

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00:29:39

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: A New Era for Judaism and Israel

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2025/05/06

Rabbi Elliot asks us to approach difficult times with depth of mind and spirit.

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00:29:10

Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: What do We Even Mean by...

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2025/04/10

Rabbi Joshua Weinberg tackles both the complexity and the clarity of vision embedded in the idea of Liberal Zionism.

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00:42:02

Menachem Rosensaft: Burning Psalms

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2024/12/15

Poet Menachem Rosensaft transforms the Psalms into a search for God who permitted the Holocaust.

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00:24:10

Yariv Inbar: I, Spy

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2024/11/12

Who are we and where is home? Author Yariv Inbar investigates through the mental tightrope of espionage.

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00:27:04

Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium

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2024/11/04

Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.

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00:17:49

Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business

The College Commons Podcast ·

2024/10/01

Author Mari Lowe explores adolescence through the lens of the Orthodox experience – both unique and common to all.

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00:25:24

Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

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2024/09/29

Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.

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00:28:56

Shai Held: What the World Needs Now

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2024/09/28

Shai Held puts love at the center of Judaism, and explains why it may surprise you.

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00:32:17

Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance

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2024/09/17

Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.

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00:35:58

Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us

The College Commons Podcast ·

2024/09/03

Julia Watts-Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth - for everyone.

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00:26:58

We All Have the Same Moon

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2024/08/20

Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.

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00:25:30

We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands

The College Commons Podcast ·

2024/08/06

Rabbi Yonatan Neril frames the ecological crisis in spiritual terms.

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00:24:17

Optimism as the Vehicle for Change

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2024/07/09

Dr. Paul Zeitz explores solutions to our greatest challenges, from our inner selves to the world around us.

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00:33:53

Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2024/07/01

John Inazu dissects disagreement to find opportunities for social trust, faith and democratic flourishing.

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00:23:27

The Bottom Line: Compassion

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2024/06/11

Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe invites us on his journey of healing and human solidarity.

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00:28:46

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

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2024/05/28

Reform Judaism’s pioneering decision to mandate study in Jerusalem.

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00:19:45

Centuries of Food at Your Table: A Medieval Sephardic...

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2024/05/14

Hélèn Jawhara Piñer uncovers the Jewish secrets of a 13th-century Arab-language cookbook.

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