College Commons

Sep 30 2024 214 ep. 28 mins 161

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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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Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business

Sep 30 2024 17 mins

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

Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

Sep 28 2024 25 mins

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

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.

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 35 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 26 mins

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

Rabbi Yonatan Neril: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands

Aug 06 2024 25 mins

Rabbi Yonatan Neril frames the ecological crisis in spiritual terms.

Paul Zeitz: Optimism as the Vehicle for Change

Jul 09 2024 24 mins

Dr. Paul Zeitz explores solutions to our greatest challenges, from our inner selves to the world around us.

John Inazu: Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of Democracy

Jul 01 2024 33 mins

John Inazu dissects disagreement to find opportunities for social trust, faith and democratic flourishing.

Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe: The Bottom Line: Compassion

Jun 11 2024 23 mins

Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe invites us on his journey of healing and human solidarity.