The Podcast of Jewish Ideas
A space for exploring the great ideas at the heart of the Jewish tradition.
98. In the Image of God | Dr. Tomer Persico
J.J. and Dr. Persico study the origin and impact of the idea that humans were created in the Divine image.
Dr. Tomer Persico is a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and a Senior Research Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Persico was the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies for three years and has taught for eight years in Tel Aviv University. His fields of expertise include cultural history, the liberal order, Jewish modern identity, Contemporary Spirituality and Jewish fundamentalism. His...
97. Jonathan Sacks | Dr. Raphael Zarum (Anglo-Judaism #5)
Does this one really need a description? You know the man. Now learn some more about his ideas and impact.
This series is generously sponsored by Larry and Sarah Krauss in honour and gratitude to Larry's mother, Kato Krauss, and in loving memory of his father, Nathan "Noteh" Krauss. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Sarah’s father, Joe Casse. Yosef ben Zvi v’Koyna.
Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum is Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) where he holds the Rabbi Sacks Chair in Modern Jewish Thought, established by the Zandan famil...
96. Louis Jacobs | Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel (Anglo-Judaism #4)
J.J. and Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel on the twentieth century's most influential, interesting, and controversial Mancunian Jew.
This series is generously sponsored by Larry and Sarah Krauss in honour and gratitude to Larry's mother, Kato Krauss, and in loving memory of his father, Nathan "Noteh" Krauss. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Sarah’s father, Joe Casse. Yosef ben Zvi v’Koyna.
Dr. Miri Freud-Kandel is Fellow and Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. She is also affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and J...
95. JH Hertz and his Pentateuch | Dr. Benjamin Elton (Anglo-Judaism #3)
J.J. and Dr. Benjamin Elton comment on one of Britain's most influential chief rabbis.
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Benjamin Elton read history at Queens’ College Cambridge and has a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in Anglo-Jewish religious history. He has written and lectured on Anglo-Jewish and Australian Jewish history and theology, on Jewi...
94. Claude Montefiore and Liberal Judaism | Dr. Edward Kessler (Anglo-Judaism #2)
J.J. and Dr. Edward Kessler progress through the history of Liberal Judaism and its promethian founder, Claude Montefiore.
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Dr Edward Kessler, MBE is Founder President of the Woolf Institute and a leading thinker in interfaith relations, primarily, Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations. He was described by The Times Higher Education Supplement as 'p...
93. The English Haskalah | Dr. David Ruderman (Anglo-Judaism #1)
J.J. and Dr. David Ruderman open our series with a discussion about the unique character and interesting characters of the Jewish Enlightenment in England.
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David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director Emeritus of the Herbert D. Katz Center...
92. Analytic Philosophy (Repent!): Dr. Noam Oren
J.J. and Dr. Noam Oren bridge the gap between the analytic philosophical tradition and the Jewish one.
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91. The Halakhic Man | Dr. Lawrence Kaplan
J.J. and Dr. Lawrence Kaplan analyze the life and thought of Joseph B. Soloveichik through the lens of Halakha.
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90. Joseph B. Soloveichik's Existentialism | Dr. Daniel Rynhold
J.J. and Dr. Daniel Rynhold discuss lonely and halakhic men and minds.
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Daniel Rynhold is Dean and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Bernard Revel Gradu...
89. The Rashbam | Dr. Martin Lockshin
J.J. and Dr. Martin Lockshin discuss the (not so) plain and simple ideas of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir of Troyes, a leading Tosafist and grandson to Rashi.
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88. Walter Benjamin | Dr. Vivian Liska
J.J. and Dr. Vivian Liska border on the sublime in their discussion of the life and thought of this German-Jewish thinker.
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87. Sefer Yosippon | Dr. Carson Bay
J.J. and Dr. Carson Bay crack open this recondite work of Jewish history and myth-making .
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Carson Bay is a scholar of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antiquity whose...
86. The Meaning of Life | Dr. Alan Mittleman
J.J. and Dr. Alan Mittleman make meaning out of a moment (or two). How does the Jewish tradition handle the big existential question? What does this all mean? Why are we here?
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85. Halakhic Codes & Responsa | Dr. Chaim Saiman
J.J. and Dr. Chaim Saiman compare the two dominant modes of Jewish legal transmission, and put them in conversation with global legal traditions.
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84. The Mesorah & the Masoretes | Dr. David Moster
J.J. and Dr. David Moster take a trip deep down into the tradition of our tradition in search of the true text of the Bible.
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83. The Biblical Canon(s) | Dr. Hindy Najman
J.J. and Dr. Hindy Najman on authorship, authority, and the creation of the Jewish canon.
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Hindy Najman (MA and PhD Harvard, NELC) is the Oriel and La...
82. Zechariah al-Dhahiri | Dr. Adena Tanenbaum
J.J. and Dr. Adena Tanenbaum unravel the dynamics of late medieval and early modern Jewish intellectual life in Yemen.
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81. The Revolutions of 1782 | Dr. Shmuel Feiner
J.J. and Dr. Shmuel Feiner tell tales of 1782 CE, a turning point in Modern Jewish History.
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80. Contemporary Attitudes | Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein (Universalism & Particularism #5)
J.J. and Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein stay current. They discuss 21st century Jewish thinkers like Jonathan Sacks, Irving Greenberg, and Goshen-Gottstein himself.
This is the fifth and final episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we explored and complicated Jewish attitudes to these ideas across the centuries.
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79. Early Modern Attitudes | Dr. Jeremy Fogel (Universalism & Particularism #4)
J.J. and Dr. Jeremy Fogel reflect on the oneness of nature, the nature of oneness, and particularism vs. universalism in the thought of Benedict Spinoza, Moses Mendellsohn, and Hermann Cohen.
This is the fourth episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries.
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78. Medieval Attitudes | Dr. Menachem Kellner (Universalism & Particularism #3)
J.J. and Dr. Menachem Kellner pitch Maimonides against Judah HaLevi and explore the extremes of Jewish universalism and particularism in the middle ages.
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77. Rabbinic Attitudes | Dr. Marc Hirshman (Universalism & Particularism #2)
J.J. and Dr. Marc Hirshman dissect the schools of R. Akiva and R. Yishmael to understand the central rabbinic arguments about universalism and particularism.
This is the second episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries.
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76. Biblical Attitudes | Dr. Ethan Schwartz (Universalism & Particularism #1)
J.J. and Dr. Ethan Schwartz explore the categories of religious universalism and particularism in the Bible.
This is the first episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries.
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75. The Book of Ben Sira | Dr. Michael Satlow
J.J. and Dr. Michael Satlow offer an authentic account of this apocryphal book of wisdom literature.
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Professor Michael L. Satlow (Ph.D. in Ancient Judaism from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America) specializes in the history of Jews and Judaism in antiquity but also writes and te...
74. The Global Haskalah | Dr. Lital Levy
J.J. and Dr. Lital Levy explore the Jewish Nahda, and the border-ignoring breadth of the Haskalah.
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Lital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches literature, critical theory, and intellectual history, with specializations in Hebrew, Arabic, Jewish studies and Middle Eastern st...
73. Offerings & Sacrifices | Dr. Shlomo Zuckier
J.J. and Dr. Shlomo Zuckier offer up some sweet-smelling insight into the history and future of sacrifices.
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Shlomo Zuckier is a Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and will this coming year be the Igor Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of To...
72. Piyyut & Midrash | Dr. Tzvi Novick
J.J. and Dr. Tzvi Novick talk prayer, poetry, homily, and some very-old-fashioned exegesis.
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Tzvi Novick is the Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. His first monograph, What is Good, and What God Demands: Normative Structures in Tannaitic Literature (2010), traces foundational str...
71. Heinrich Graetz | Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger
J.J. and Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger discuss the work and impact of the most influential Jewish Historian since Josephus.
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Jeffrey C. Blutinger is the inaugural holder of the Barbara and Ray Alpert Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program, an interdisciplinary ma...
70. Jewish Neoplatonism | Dr. Sarah Pessin
J.J. and Dr. Sarah Pessin overflow with curiosity about the poetic philosophy of the Medieval Jewish Neoplatonists.
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Sarah Pessin is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought. She holds an Interfaith Chair, and works in areas of phenomenology, existentialism, Neoplatonism, interfaith civics, philosophy of religion, ethics, an...
69. American-Israeli Thought | Dr. Adam Ferziger
J.J. and Dr. Adam Ferziger crisscross the Atlantic to better understand the influence of American Orthodoxy on Israel, and vice versa.
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Adam S. Ferziger holds the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair in the Israel and Gol...
68. Yitzchak Hutner | Dr. Alon Shalev
J.J. and Dr. Alon Shalev discuss the iconoclastic ideas and character of Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner.
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Alon Shalev is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, where he explores profound questions about meaning in life within the context of Jewish thought and philosophy. With a do...
67. Natural Law & Judaism | Dr. David Novak
J.J. and Dr. David Novak hike through the forest of Natural Law, and stop to examine some (Jewish) trees therein.
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David Novak is a Jewish theologian, ethicist, and scholar of Jewish philosophy and law. He is an ordained Conservative rabbi and is Professor Emeritus and J. Richard and...
66. Hasidei Ashkenaz | Dr. Talya Fishman
J.J. and Dr. Talya Fishman whip themselves up into a frenzy over the thought and influence of the pietists of the Medieval Rhineland.
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Talya Fishman is Associate Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Intellectual and
Cultural History in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Middl...
65. Heidegger & Kabbalah | Dr. Elliot Wolfson
J.J. and Dr. Elliot Wolfson are just two beings talking about being, time, and Jewish mysticism in the thought of Martin Heidegger.
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Elliot R. Wolfson, a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is the Marsha and Jay Gla...
64. Modern Hebrew & The Yeshiva | Dr. Marina Zilbergerts
J.J. and Dr. Marina Zilbergerts study the birth of modern Hebrew for its own sake.
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Dr. Marina Zilbergerts is a scholar of Jewish literature and thought. From 2016 to 2023, she served as the Lipton Assistant Professor of Jewish Literature and Thought at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She re...
63. Mysticism & Hasidism | Dr. Rachel Elior
J.J. and Dr. Rachel Elior make sharp distinctions between mysticism, Hasidism, and Sabbateanism.
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Rachel Elior is the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Thought at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She has written nine books on various periods of...
62. The Buber-Rosenzweig Bible | Dr. Abigail Gillman
J.J. and Dr. Abigail Gillman interpret the ideas and impact of the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible translation.
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Abigail Gillman is a Professor of Hebrew, German, and Comparative Literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures. She teaches courses on modern German literature; Hebrew literature; Israeli Cinema; and Rel...
61. Franz Rosenzweig | Dr. Paul Franks
J.J. and Dr. Paul Franks systematically consider Franz Rosenzweig in all his existential and idealistic glory.
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Paul Franks is Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Professor of German Languages and Literatures, Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair of the Department of Ph...
60. Martin Buber | Dr. Samuel Brody
J.J. and Dr. Samuel Brody assess the original ideas and monumental influence of this 20th century thinker and leader.
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Samuel Hayim Brody is Associate Profesor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Martin Buber's Theopolitics (IUP, 2018), which received the...
59. Talmudic Women | Gila Fine
J.J. and Gila Fine analyze the literary character of Talmudic women and uncover a counter history of Bruriah.
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Noam Zadoff is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: from Berlin to Jerusalem and Back (Brandeis, 2017) and many ot...
