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Bad Rabbi

Charlie Buckholtz

What does it mean to be a spiritual leader at this critical and chaotic moment in human history? Rabbi Charlie Buckholtz conducts intimate long-form interviews with other rabbis and culture-...

Episodes

20 of 34 episodes

"The Whole Book is Sort of a Meditation, a Prayer Designed to Protect the Person Who is Reading It": The Punk Rock Jewish Life of Author/Filmmaker Jeff Wengrofsky

"The whole book is sort of a meditation, of a prayer designed to protect the person who is reading it." Jeff Wengrofsky, the most authentic...

52:49Feb 19, 2024

"How Do We Move People to a Different Place?": Assessing the War While Dreaming Past It with Israeli Citizen Shawn Ruby

It was both challenging and illuminating to speak with my old friend Shawn Ruby, an Israeli citizen who is deeply rooted in his Zionist iden...

01:20:23Jan 22, 2024

"It's Not a Time for Dialogue. It's Just a Time for Checking Up on Each Other": The Tragedy of Victim-ism and Other Casualties of War with Coexistence Activist Rabbi Shaul Judelman

"One of my Palestinian friends said, Everybody's pro-Hamas right now. Cause they did something! On an internal level, hamas' bid to take ove...

01:05:23Dec 19, 2023

POETRY BONUS EPISODE! "Do They Sing, or Repeat a Song?": Laws vs. Miracles & the "Jewish Voices Missing from the Gospels," with Poet Atar Hadari

Poetry, right? I don't know about you but I'm feeling like I could use some poetry right about now. To that end! Right before the High Holid...

57:59Dec 1, 2023

"I Just Couldn't Accept That That Was Something That Was Being Said": Contemplating Humanity & Inhumanity from "A Weird Place," with Joshua Leifer

"So now I'm in a weird place" is a sentiment many can relate to these days. Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, following the latter's barba...

01:06:54Nov 14, 2023

HIGH HOLIDAY MOVIE BONUS EPISODE with Daniel Zana from the Jews on Film podcast!

"We are all characters in our stories, and we have to look internally, and hopefully at the end of 90 minutes we'll become a better person....

45:44Sep 26, 2023

"What is the Purpose of a Synagogue?": Championing Compassion, Curiosity & Awe with Rabbi Angela Buchdal

Since arriving at Central Synagogue almost two decades ago, Rabbi Angela Buchdal has transformed it into a sui generis experience of communa...

45:43Sep 18, 2023

"No One Has Screamed for Justice": Can We Summon the Moral Courage to Hold Epstein Abusers Accountable? with Nick Bryant

Friends, I can't tell you enough how excited I am to share my most recent Bad Rabbi Media interview with Nick Bryant -- intrepid investigati...

57:27Aug 28, 2023

"Teaching From the Mud": Wandering, Witnessing, and Awakening with Melanie Landau

Early in my conversation with return guest Melanie Landau, I told her that she is one of my favorite wanderers, and she responded that I'm o...

55:47Aug 7, 2023

"What's the Jewish Future You Believe In?": Systemic Strategies for Structural Change with Jordan Mann of the Jewish Liberation Fund

I was pretty rapt listening to Jordan Mann articulate the Jewish Liberation Fund's (JLF) vision for a progressive Jewish future – and not on...

42:43Jul 26, 2023

"We Need the Fantasy of a Destination and a Journey and a Path": Living Tangientially with Basya Schechter

"I think this is such a great line for your podcast. It's from my third album, Exile . 'I am in exile in my own home. My real home is moving...

50:36May 17, 2023

"How Does it Feel?": Arnoff on Dylan on Empathy as Everything

Dudes: please check out Stephen Daniel Arnoff's podcast and book, Bob Dylan: On Man and God and Law . One of my favorite pop-culture rabbit-...

53:55Mar 27, 2023

"If It Doesn't Hit You in the Kishkes It's Worthless": Jon Madof's Universe of Grooves

One of the things I love most about Jon Madoff is that on any given day in the midst of of numbly scrolling on my phone to avoid contemplati...

01:16:15Feb 6, 2023

"I'm Not Going to Be Anybody's Disciple": Sacred Nonconformity, Sahara Blues, and the Coming Cantorial Revolution with Jeremiah Lockwood

Jeremiah Lockwood is not only the hardest working man in Jewish music, he is one of its truly great living visionaries and practitioners. In...

36:17Jan 10, 2023

BAD RABBI VS. BAD RABBI: The Yiddish Press and Lost Models of Jewish Identity with Eddy Portnoy

Check out this incredibly fun and lively live podcast recording I did with historian of Yiddish popular culture Eddy Portnoy. Appropriately...

58:58Dec 5, 2022

IMPOSTER STORIES with Hal Niedzviecki

...the surprising things we learn about ourselves as we get older, the vast territories of unknown self suddenly exposed — eg, the ways our...

49:43Nov 10, 2022

"There's a Difference Between Activists and People Working for Change": Rabbi Shaul Judelman on Hope, Despair, and Israel-Palestine PTSD

Remember Israel, Palestine, etc.? For a few weeks in May it led most news cycles, between the end of Bibi's 12-year reign and installation o...

01:21:29Dec 13, 2021

"We Will Mess Up, and That's Okay": Dasee Berkowitz on Becoming a Soulful Parent

Parenting is one of those subjects where it always feels like there's a reverse correlation between how much it's talked about and how well...

01:04:33May 7, 2021

"Oh My God, This is Very Real": Rabbi Zac Kamenetz's Book of EthneoGenesis

"How can we blend the sense that the ecstatic, the effervescent, the beyond, is our human birthright, and we can also be modern liberal peop...

01:08:48Oct 22, 2020

"Why Are We Serving Bourbon in Shul and Not Psilocybin Tea?": The Psychedelic Vision of Aaron Genuth

Dudes. In the midst of a pandemic, deep economic crisis; shocking and mean-spirited governmental incompetence, abuse, and neglect; deep cult...

01:03:43Jul 16, 2020