When we start a project, we get frustrated when obstacles keep us from finishing. Imagine how frustrated the Jewish people must have felt when they faced seemingly immovable obstacles while rebuilding the Temple! Their enemies tried to harass them, bribe officials, and use the king’s authority to stop them, but God made a way for His Chosen People to keep building. Join us on this week’s show, part 2 of our 4-part series on the book of Ezra, to find out how the Jewish people overcame their obstacles to keep rebuilding the Temple!

April 22, 2023 | #2316 - The Book of Ezra, Part 2

Do you like surprises, or do they stress you out? In the days of the rebuilding of the Temple, Ezra encountered a good surprise—the king’s permission to follow God’s law in Israel—and a bad one—the sin that characterized the Jewish people who returned to Israel. Join us this week for part 3 of our 4-part series on the book of Ezra to learn how God orchestrated the return of His people and His law to the Holy Land!

April 29, 2023 | #2317 - The Book of Ezra, Part 3

The Jewish people were returning to their homeland! The Temple was being rebuilt! But Israel was still stuck in sin. Ezra the priest saw the people’s unrighteousness and repented on their behalf. His humility and leadership shine through in the Israelites’ return to Israel, as we conclude our 4-part study on the book of Ezra this week. We hope this study of Ezra has reminded you of the great love, grace, and sovereignty of God both through Israel’s history and your own life today!

May 6, 2023 | #2318 - The Book of Ezra, Part 4

Roslyn Bernstein’s novel follows a young woman’s voyage of discovery in 1961 Israel.

Roslyn Bernstein is the author of several books, including Boardwalk Stories, a collection of 14 fictional tales set from 1950 to 1970, and Engaging Art: Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe, a collection of 60 of her online avant-garde art pieces. She is also the co-author of Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo, written jointly with the architect Shael Shapiro. Her most recent novel is The Girl Who Counted Numbers. Since the 1980s, she has been reporting from around the globe for such print and online publications as the New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Medium, Huffington Post, and Guernica, focusing primarily on cultural reporting, contemporary art, and in-depth interviews with artists and curators.

Currently, Professor Emerita in the Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY), she taught journalism and creative writing classes from 1974-2016. A devoted teacher, she served as an advisor to Ticker, the college newspaper and established Dollars and $ense, the Baruch College business magazine. During her time at Baruch, she served as the director of the Journalism Program and was the Founding Director of the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, a residency that has brought over 30 distinguished poets, playwrights, critics, and journalists to campus to teach intensive classes for gifted students. Prof. Bernstein is a recipient of the College’s Distinguished Awards for Teaching and Service.

Before coming to Baruch, she worked at Esquire and attended graduate school. She holds a Masters and Ph.D in English Literature from New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Discovering Israel in the Shadow of the Eichmann Trial

Journalist Oren Kessler dives into the enduring legacy of the Arab Revolt of 1936.

Oren Kessler is a journalist and political analyst based in Tel Aviv. He has served as deputy director for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, Arab affairs correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, and an editor and translator at Haaretz English edition.
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Raised in Rochester, New York, and Tel Aviv, he holds a BA in history from the University of Toronto and an MA in diplomacy and conflict studies from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
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Kessler’s work has appeared in media outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Politico.

Palestine 1936 is his first book.

The Crucible of Conflict: Setting the Terms for Israel/Palestine to This Day

Why is Ukraine important to the Jewish world? Which figures and elements of Jewish religious history and culture are linked to Ukraine? How can we look at Ukrainian and Jewish history in a way that treats tragedies with justice but also discovers parallels and interconnections? – Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and chief editor of UkraineWorld, speaks to Rabbi Jacobson, a Jewish scholar, best-selling author, and Founding Dean of The Meaningful Life Center in New York. 

Thinking in Dark Times is a podcast series by UkraineWorld. This series seeks to make Ukraine and the current war a focal point of our joint reflection on the world’s present, past, and future. We try to see the light through and despite the current darkness. 

UkraineWorld (ukraineworld.org) is brought to you by Internews Ukraine, one of the largest Ukrainian media NGOs.

Support us at patreon.com/ukraineworld

The Meaningful Life Center: https://www.meaningfullife.com/

Ukraine and the Jewish world - with Rabbi Jacobson

Gabriel Murray - Author, artist, film producer and historian - talks to Tony & Ger about the fascinating story of a jewish woman who settled in Ireland - Kilkenny in fact - after she had met and married William Cuffe (1845–1898), the 4th Earl of Desart on 29 April 1881 at Christ Church in Down Street, Mayfair.

The daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim, she moved to the 10,000-acre estate in Kilkenny and began to champion social justice activities in her adopted county.

But this is just a tiny fraction of a story, which includes our own Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906), President of the Land League,  who also - incredibly - wrote on  the Jewish communities in Russian territories, "Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecution in Russia" (1903).

This is a book of revelations by Gabriel and not to be missed.

Available on Amazon and soon in bookshops

Thank you, Gabriel. Thank you, listener.

Tony and Ger

That's Life Gabriel Murray. The Countess of Desart. Part 1.

Author Laura Hobson Faure on how French Jews accepted, negotiated and even rejected American Jewish aid after the Holocaust.

A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France, winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material. 

Laura Hobson Faure is a professor at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life, during and after the Holocaust.  She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (Indiana University Press, 2022) which won a National Jewish Book award, and Rescue: The Story of Kindertransport to France and America (forthcoming, Yale University Press). She also co-edited L’Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants et les populations juives au XXème siècle. Prévenir et Guérir dans un siècle de violences (Armand Colin, 2014) and Enfants en guerre. « Sans famille » dans les conflits du XXème siècle ( éditions CNRS).

Laura Hobson Faure: A "Jewish Marshall Plan"

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Gabriel Murray - Author, artist, film producer and historian - talks to Tony & Ger about the fascinating story of a Jewish woman who settled in Ireland - Kilkenny in fact - after she had met and married William Cuffe (1845–1898), the 4th Earl of Desart on 29 April 1881 at Christ Church in Down Street, Mayfair.

The daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim, she moved to the 10,000-acre estate in Kilkenny and began to champion social justice activities in her adopted county.

But this is just a tiny fraction of a story, which includes our own Michael Davitt (25 March 1846 – 30 May 1906), President of the Land League,  who also - incredibly - wrote on  the Jewish communities in Russian territories, "Within the Pale: The True Story of Anti-Semitic Persecution in Russia" (1903).

The Pale of Settlement.

But wait: the book is just the starting point because, being Irish, we expand, explore and examine racism, anti-Semitism, Irish history, the Famine in Ireland, the English , possible land-grabbing in Ireland after the civil war; the Jews in America ... nothing is out of bounds!

This is a book of revelations by Gabriel and not to be missed.

Thank you, Gabriel. Thank you, listener.

Tony and Ger 

Book available on Amazon and in shops soon.

Thats Life Gabriel Murray The Countess Of Desart And Jewish Histroy

Sarah Imhoff introduces us to Jessie Sampter who broke the Zionist mold.

The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Dis­abled, Zionist - National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Women's Studies

Imhoff is Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. She writes about religion and the body with a particular interest in gender, sexuality, disability, and American religion, as well as religion and law. She is author of Masculinity and the Making of American Judaism (Indiana University Press, 2017) and The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist (Duke University Press, 2022). She is the founding co-editor of the journal American Religion.

Sarah Imhoff: The Unexpected Zionist

Author Ashley Goldberg imagines the human and communal cost of sexual abuse in the Jewish community.

Abomination, Winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction

Ashley Goldberg is a writer from Melbourne, Australia. His stories have appeared in New Australian Fiction 2021, Meanjin, Chiron Review and Award Winning Australian Writing among others. His work has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has been the recipient of the KYD/Varuna Copyright Agency Fellowship and the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre Fellowship. His debut novel, Abomination, was published by Penguin Random House Australia in May 2022 and won the Debut Fiction Prize at the National Jewish Book Awards.

Ashley Goldberg: Airing Our Dirty Laundry in Public

Tracing medieval women’s Biblical culture and how it differed from… the Bible.

Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages, winner of the 2022 JBC Award for Women’s Studies.

Prof. Elisheva Baumgarten holds the Prof. Yitzhak Becker Chair for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She teaches in the Department of Jewish History and the Department of History. She is a social historian who specializes in the history of the Jews in medieval Germany and Northern France. Baumgarten has published three monographs, a dozen edited volumes, and many articles. She has held fellowships from the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as EHESS in Paris. She is an awardee of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2016) for outstanding Israeli researchers and of a European Research Council’s Consolidator’s Grant (2016-2022).

Elisheva Baumgarten: Mind the Gap

Author Joseph Skloot reveals the revolutionary power of early printed Hebrew books.

Joseph A. Skloot, Ph.D. is the Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion/New York. He is a historian of Jewish culture and religious thought in the early modern and modern periods. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish History from Columbia University, his rabbinical ordination from HUC-JIR, and his A.B. from Princeton University. His writings have appeared in Modern Judaism, the CCAR Journal, and several anthologies.

Joseph Skloot: The Secret Lives of Books

Journalist and genealogist Jennifer Mendelsohn helps rediscover and tell stories that might otherwise be lost. She specializes in helping Eastern European Jewish families shattered by the Holocaust reclaim their history. In 2022, she co-founded the DNA Reunion Project at the Center for Jewish History, which seeks to promote DNA testing as a tool for helping Holocaust survivors find family.

Her curiosity practices have deep journalistic roots and she'd be the first to tell you: it's not magic.

Find Jennifer Mendelsohn at The Association of Professional Genealogists: https://www.apgen.org/profiles/jennifer-mendelsohn

CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS

Ep. #214: Curiosity & Genealogy: The Stories We Tell, with Jennifer Mendelsohn

In this sermon, based on 1 Samuel 3, Pastor Scott explores the call of God upon the boy Samuel and his important place in Biblical History, tied together with our ongoing life of faith.

This is the assigned text for January 14th, the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany.

Sermon: Tingling Ears 1-14-24

Jessica Marglin: The Citizen Who Didn’t Belong
Jessica Marglin discusses the 19th-century Italian Jew, whose estate became a test of the nascent idea of “citizenship.”

Jessica Marglin is Professor of Religion, Law, and History, and the Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies at the University of Southern California. She earned her PhD from Princeton and her BA and MA from Harvard. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean, with a particular emphasis on law. She is the author of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016) and the co-editor, with Matthias Lehmann, of Jews and the Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2020). Her book The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean came out with Princeton University Press in 2022.

Jessica Marglin: The Citizen Who Didn’t Belong

Kiryas Joel, a chartered municipality in New York State functions as a religious community and American village.

Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.  She is a legal scholar whose research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. After getting her J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1987 and clerking for the Honorable John Gibbons, chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, she joined the faculty at the USC Gould School in 1988. There, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, one of the preeminent centers for the study of law and the humanities. She is the co-author with David N. Myers of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), and the author of numerous articles on law and religion, including the widely cited “He Drew a Circle That Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education,” published in the Harvard Law Review, “Righting the Relationship Between Race and Religion in Law,” and “The Return of Religion: Legal Secularism's Rise and Fall and Possible Resurrection.” She is spending the 2022-2023 academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and as a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will be working on a new project on religious exemptions and the theory of “faith-based discrimination.”    

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), which was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies. From 2018-2023, he served as president of the New Israel Fund.

A Shtetl in the United States?

If different societies have different concepts of freedom, what does freedom mean to Israel?

Ahead of the anniversary of Leḥi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) leader Natan Yellin-Mor's passing, Yehuda HaKohen is joined by a Vision affiliated "Anonymous Soldier" to discuss the need for political education within Israel's national-religious camp.

The Next Stage

TNS 117: Political Intelligence & Concepts of Freedom (with an "Anonymous Soldier")

We challenge people to learn, as we learn, by allowing people to talk. That's Life is a podcast that strives to be contrarian without being annoying. We probe people from all walks of life to tell their story so that others - and we too - can identify and learn. We learn about life through listening.

Me: Contact:  gerardcounihan@gmail.com

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.

Choose to be Curious is a show all about curiosity. We talk about research and theory, but mostly it's conversations about how curiosity shows up in work and life.  

Now syndicated and available via Pacifica RadioNetwork.

The Friends of Israel Today is a magazine style radio program/podcast made up multiple segments; Bible teaching, Q&A, interviews, and dramatic readings of Zvi Kalisher’s articles, entitled Apples of Gold. We’ve intentionally crafted this program to revolve around God’s Word and how it affects our lives today.

A podcast by UkraineWorld.org, a multimedia project about Ukraine run by Internews Ukraine. Explaining Ukraine, its politics, society and its culture. Support us: patreon.com/ukraineworld

I'm a pastor in Southwest Iowa, serving a congregation that is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Each week, I explore an assigned Common Lectionary Text as I aim towards creating a sermon.

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