College Commons

Apr 10 2025 218 ep. 28 mins 178

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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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Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: What do We Even Mean by “Liberal Zionism”?

Apr 10 2025 29 mins

Rabbi Joshua Weinberg tackles both the complexity and the clarity of vision embedded in the idea of Liberal Zionism.

Menachem Rosensaft: Burning Psalms

Dec 14 2024 42 mins

Poet Menachem Rosensaft transforms the Psalms into a search for God who permitted the Holocaust.

Yariv Inbar: I, Spy

Nov 10 2024 24 mins

Who are we and where is home? Author Yariv Inbar investigates through the mental tightrope of espionage.

Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium

Nov 01 2024 27 mins

Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.

Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business

Sep 28 2024 17 mins

Author Mari Lowe explores adolescence through the lens of the Orthodox experience – both unique and common to all.

Shai Held: What the World Needs Now

Sep 27 2024 28 mins

Shai Held puts love at the center of Judaism, and explains why it may surprise you.

Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

Sep 27 2024 25 mins

Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.

Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance

Sep 17 2024 32 mins

Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.

Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us

Sep 03 2024 36 mins

Julia Watts-Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth - for everyone.

Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon

Aug 20 2024 27 mins

Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.