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.
Latest episodes
Sep 17, 2024 • 32min
Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance
Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.
Sep 3, 2024 • 36min
Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us
Julia Watts-Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth - for everyone.
Aug 20, 2024 • 27min
Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon
Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.
Aug 6, 2024 • 26min
Rabbi Yonatan Neril: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
Rabbi Yonatan Neril frames the ecological crisis in spiritual terms.
Jul 9, 2024 • 24min
Paul Zeitz: Optimism as the Vehicle for Change
Dr. Paul Zeitz explores solutions to our greatest challenges, from our inner selves to the world around us.
Jul 1, 2024 • 34min
John Inazu: Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of Democracy
John Inazu dissects disagreement to find opportunities for social trust, faith and democratic flourishing.
Jun 11, 2024 • 23min
Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe: The Bottom Line: Compassion
Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe invites us on his journey of healing and human solidarity.
May 28, 2024 • 29min
“My Heart Is in the East, though I Be in the Very West”
Reform Judaism’s pioneering decision to mandate study in Jerusalem.
May 14, 2024 • 20min
Centuries of Food at Your Table: A Medieval Sephardic Cookbook
Hélèn Jawhara Piñer uncovers the Jewish secrets of a 13th-century Arab-language cookbook.
Apr 23, 2024 • 35min
Still Work To Do: Sexual Abuse in Jewish Institutions
Stephen Mills shares his story of sexual abuse and reminds us of our still-unfulfilled obligations of protection and justice.
Stephen Mills is the author of Chosen: A Memoir of Stolen Boyhood, a winner of the National Jewish Book Award. He's also the co-author of Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Since 1982 he has advised and written for an array of public interest organizations in the fields of human rights and environmental protection. Stephen is honored to serve as an Ambassador for CHILD USA, the leading nonprofit think tank fighting for the civil rights of children. He lives in California with his wife, Susan.
