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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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00:15:46

HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michal Muszkat-Barkan

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/12/19

Host Joshua Holo speaks with HUC-JIR educator, Michal Muszkat-Barkan, Ph.D. about her experiences on the ground in Jerusalem during the Israel-Hamas War. Michal Muszkat-Barkan, Ph.D., is a Professor of Jewish Education in the Parallel Track. She is the Director of the Department of Education and Professional Development at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem. Her fields of research include teachers’ professional development, teacher ideologies, multicultural teacher training, and pluralism in Jewish education. She

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00:24:47

Rabbi Barbara Symons: Is Prophetic Judaism Listening...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/12/12

Rabbi Barbara Symons challenges Reform Judaism to engage with often-neglected Prophetic books.

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00:11:53

HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Rabbi Talia...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/12/05

Host Joshua Holo speaks with HUC-JIR educator, Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste about her experiences on the ground in Jerusalem during the Israel-Hamas War. Rabbi Avnon-Benveniste is Director of the Israel Rabbinical Program at HUC-JIR’s Taube Family Campus in Jerusalem. She was ordained after completing the Israel Rabbinical Program in 2009, and returned to HUC-JIR following her time as Director of the International School for Peoplehood Studies at Beit-Hatefutsoth, the Museum of the Jewish People,

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00:14:10

HUC Connect: Inside Israel with David Mendelsson

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/11/21

Dr. David Mendelsson, Senior Lecturer in Israel Studies and Modern Jewish History at HUC-JIR’s Taube campus in Jerusalem, is an educator, historian, and author who sheds light on his experiences since October 7th as a father, mentor, and Israeli. Witnessing everything from shifts in both the literal and learning landscapes to moments inspired by Jewish peoplehood, Dr. Mendelsson offers perspective and wisdom on Israel today.

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00:20:51

Rabbi Zoë Klein: Brand New Stories from a Thousand...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/11/14

Rabbi Zoë Klein roots her new creations in the millennial tradition of Jewish Storytelling. Rabbi Zoë Klein serves Temple Isaiah in Los Angeles, California where she brings her unique blend of innovation and tradition. At Temple Isaiah since 2000, she has served as Associate Rabbi, Senior Rabbi and Director of Adult Education and Engagement. A Connecticut native, Rabbi Klein holds a degree in Psychology from Brandeis University, and a Masters in Hebrew Literature and Rabbinic Ordination from

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00:31:16

Michael Frank: The Lost World of Jewish Rhodes

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/10/24

Stella Levi recounts her remarkable life on Isle of Rhodes, caught between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World, National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture Michael Frank’s essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, The TLS, and Tablet, among other publications, and his fiction has been

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00:45:57

Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson: Jewish Mysticism Upside...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/10/10

Jay Michaelson brings to life the charlatan and heretical Jewish leader Jacob Frank. The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jewish Messianism to Esoteric Myth - Winner, National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson is an affiliated assistant professor at Chicago Theological Seminary and a visiting scholar at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion. He holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Hebrew University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic

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00:27:32

Elisheva Baumgarten: Mind the Gap

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/09/26

Tracing medieval women’s Biblical culture and how it differed from… the Bible. Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages, winner of the 2022 JBC Award for Women’s Studies. Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Prof. Yitzhak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She teaches in the Department of Jewish History and the Department of History. She is a social historian who specializes in the history of the Jews in medieval Germany and Northern France

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00:24:32

Susan Wider: An Autobiography In Images

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/09/12

Author Susan Wider discusses genre-bending artist Charlotte Salomon's work and how it survived the Shoah to capture a life and time. It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding during World War II, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature Susan Wider is the author of It’s My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding during World War II, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature. It’s My Whole Life is the first

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00:21:36

Sacha Lamb: Supernatural Jews

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/08/29

Author Sacha Lamb discusses their YA romp from the shtetl to the New World, and the supernatural odd couple at its heart. When The Angels Left The Old Country, YA category National Jewish Book Awards finalist. Sacha Lamb is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow in young adult fiction, and graduated in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Sacha lives in New England with a miniature dachshund mix named Anzu Bean. Their debut novel, When The Angels Left The Old Country, has

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00:16:53

Ashley Goldberg: Airing Our Dirty Laundry in Public

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/08/15

Author Ashley Goldberg imagines the human and communal cost of sexual abuse in the Jewish community. Abomination, Winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Ashley Goldberg is a writer from Melbourne, Australia. His stories have appeared in New Australian Fiction 2021, Meanjin, Chiron Review and Award Winning Australian Writing among others. His work has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. He holds an MA in

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00:21:12

Sarah Imhoff: The Unexpected Zionist

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/08/01

Sarah Imhoff introduces us to Jessie Sampter who broke the Zionist mold. The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist - National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Women's Studies Imhoff is Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, disability, and American religion, as well

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00:31:18

Laura Hobson Faure: A "Jewish Marshall Plan"

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/07/18

Author Laura Hobson Faure on how French Jews accepted, negotiated and even rejected American Jewish aid after the Holocaust. A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material. Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on

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00:22:49

Dani Shapiro: What Makes a Novel "Jewish"?

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/07/04

Author Dani Shapiro teases out the kaleidoscopic layers of Jewishness, loss, secrets and discoveries in her award-winning novel, Signal Fires. Signal Fires, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Dani Shapiro is the author of eleven books, and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel, Signal Fires, was named a best book of 2022 by Time Magazine, Washington Post, Amazon, and others, and is a national bestseller. Her most recent memoir,

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00:24:50

The Old Country: A Harrowing Tale of Escape from the...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/06/20

Author Lisa Brahin shares her family’s riveting story of escape from the pogroms. Lisa Brahin is an accomplished Jewish genealogist, researcher and writer. Inspired as a young girl by Alex Haley’s ROOTS, she spent many summers audio taping the stories of her grandmother’s traumatic childhood during the 1917-1921 anti-Jewish pogroms in Ukraine. Those tapes were the primary source for her historical family saga, TEARS OVER RUSSIA: A Search for Family and the Legacy of Ukraine’s Pogroms (Pegasus

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00:24:06

The Crucible of Conflict: Setting the Terms for...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/06/06

Journalist Oren Kessler dives into the enduring legacy of the Arab Revolt of 1936. Oren Kessler is a journalist and political analyst based in Tel Aviv. He has served as deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English edition. Raised in Rochester, New York, and Tel Aviv, he holds a BA in history from the

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00:17:30

Discovering Israel in the Shadow of the Eichmann Trial

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/05/23

Roslyn Bernstein’s novel follows a young woman’s voyage of discovery in 1961 Israel. Roslyn Bernstein is the author of several books, including Boardwalk Stories, a collection of 14 fictional tales set from 1950 to 1970, and Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe, a collection of 60 of her online avant-garde art pieces. She is also the co-author of Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, written jointly with the architect Shael Shapiro. Her most recent novel

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00:31:13

The Wrong Kind of Jew?

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/05/09

Author Hen Mazzig dives into the varieties and challenges of Jewishness diversity, while also capturing our shared experience, identity and story. Hen Mazzig is an award winning Israeli author, a writer, and a speaker who has inspired thousands around the world with his story for over a decade. He was named as one of the Algemeiner’s top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life in 2018 and 2021, Top 50 online pro-Israel Influencers, and Top 50 LGBTQ+ Influencers. In 2022 the Committee for

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00:24:05

From Buchenwald to Brooklyn: A Story of Sabotage and...

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/04/25

Author Oren Schneider was raised by his grandfather, Alex, who survived Buchenwald and built a life in Israel, against all the odds. Oren Schneider was born in Israel, a third generation to holocaust survivors and seventh generation to farmers from the Galilee. He is an entrepreneur and business owner who enjoys music, cooking, travel, people and especially the combination of all four. He lives with his family in Brooklyn.

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00:26:28

A New View of a Newly Productive Congress

The College Commons Podcast ·

2023/04/11

Congressional observer Ira Shapiro revisits his past critiques of Congress. Ira Shapiro’s forty-five-year Washington career has focused on American politics and international trade. Shapiro served twelve years in senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate, working for a series of distinguished senators: Jacob Javits, Gaylord Nelson, Abraham Ribicoff, Thomas Eagleton, Robert Byrd, and Jay Rockefeller. He served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during the Clinton administration, first as

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