The Jewish Way to a Good Life: A Conversation with Rabbi Shira Stutman
What does it really mean to live a good life and how can ancient Jewish practices help us get there? Rabbi Deborah Waxman sits down with her...
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Hashivenu
Hashivenu is a podcast about Jewish teachings and practice around resilience. Cultivating resilience in challenging times, both individually and collectively, is an essential path to persona...
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20 of 62 episodesRabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie returns to discuss Jewish chosenness, love, and his film Sabbath Queen
Rabbi Deborah Waxman continues her conversation with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, founder of Lab/Shul and subject of the documentary The Sabbath...
Hope Is a Muscle: The Hatikvah Slate with special guest Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie
Rabbi Deborah Waxman is joined by Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie for a vital conversation about the complexities of Zionism, Israeli identity and p...
Why Voting for the Hatkivah Slate in the World Zionist Congress Matters: A Conversation Across Generations
In this special episode of Hashivenu, Rabbi Deborah Waxman welcomes Rabbi Jodie Siff and her son Aaron Siff-Scherr to discuss their deep per...
Reconstructionist Values, Covenantal Community and War in the Middle East
In preparation for Reconstructing Judaism’s December 15 movement-wide virtual convening , Rabbi Elliott Tepperman and Rabbi Rachel Weiss joi...
Building Covenantal Community in the New Year and Beyond
With the High Holiday season underway, Deborah welcomes Justin Rosen Smolen, Reconstructing Judaism's Vice President for Thriving Communitie...
Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
Rabbi Elyse Wechterman recently announced that she will step down from her position as CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (...
Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah
Rabbi Deborah Waxman welcomes Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah, for a wide-ranging conversation. The two longtime friends and hevrutah partners re...
How to become our fullest, most expressive selves? Practice, practice, practice
Weeks ago, Rabbi Deborah Waxman and founder Yoshi Silverstein scheduled this discussion about embodied Jewish practice and antiracism. Did i...
Yom Kippur: A Celebration of Collective Release
In ancient times on Yom Kippur, the high priest of Israel presided over an elaborate, mystical service atop the Temple Mount. Today, many tr...
S4 Ep. 9: Season of Reflection and Repentance
In this special episode, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D and Rabbi Sandra Lawson discuss their respective processes of preparing for the High Hol...
S4 Ep. 8: Songs of Joy and Mourning
Reconstructing Judaism board member and Tikkun Olam Commission co-chair Shahanna McKinney-Baldon opens up with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. a...
S4 Ep. 7: The Smooth River
On Sept. 3, 2019, Richard Cohen’s wife, Marcia Horowitz, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Horowitz lived 160 more days. In h...
S4 Ep. 6: Being an Ally with Empathy, Humility and Courage
There’s an increasing focus in popular discourse on allyship, particularly when it comes to people of color and other marginalized groups. W...
S4 Ep. 5: JewAsian
Helen K. Kim is Professor of Sociology at Whitman College and in 2019 assumed the position of Associate Dean for Faculty Development. She is...
S4 Ep 4: In the Same Place, As the Same Person
Amanda Mbuvi, Ph.D., is the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s new vice president for academic affairs. Mbuvi, a Hebrew Bible scholar an...
S4 Ep. 3: Creating a Jewish Community Where All Can Thrive
Marcella White Campbell is executive director of Be'chol Lashon -- a pioneering organization that strengthens Jewish identity by affirming t...
S4 Ep 2: Paradox, Complexity and Liberation: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
We're joined by Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, one of fewer than 100 Black American women to earn a doctorate in physics -- and a Recon...
S4 Ep. 1: Judaism, Resilience, and Racial Justice - Beginning the Conversation
We begin a new season focusing on Judaism, resilience, and racial justice, and welcome a new co-host: Rabbi Sandra Lawson, director of racia...
S3 Ep. 12: Writing Ourselves into the Book of Life — The High Holidays and Choosing Life
At this extraordinary High Holiday season, so many people are experiencing losses of many kinds. We speak with Rabbi Margot Stein about the...