The College Commons Podcast
HUC-JIR
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.
Episodes
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Sep 28, 2024 • 29min
Shai Held: What the World Needs Now
Shai Held puts love at the center of Judaism, and explains why it may surprise you.
Sep 28, 2024 • 25min
Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale
Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.
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.
