Ep. 16: Beshalach - Shabbat Shira feat. Neshama Carlebach

01/29/21 • 45 min

Neshama Carlebach joins Raviv and Rabbi Adam to discuss her journey in stepping away from orthodox Judaism, finding her own voice in her spiritual practice, and the importance of making torah study personal.

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Alda Balthrop-Lewis, research fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, PhD in religion from Princeton, and author of the newly released book Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism joins Professor Fannie Bialek and Raviv to discuss what Thoreau did with his time in the woods, and how it relates to the ancient Jewish practice of Passover, the exodus story, and yes, even eating matzah.

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Ep. 17: Yitro - Covenant, Commandments, & Guilt feat. Joshua Dubler

Joshua Dubler, professor of religion at the University of Rochester and director of the Rochester Education Justice Initiative, joins Professor Fannie Bialek and Raviv to discuss guilt, the unique status of the Ten Commandments within Jewish law, and how this relates to prison abolition. We also discuss the significance of the names given to Moses and Zipporah's sons.