Allison Josephs founded Jew in the City (https://jewinthecity.com/about/) after a visiting journalist arrived at her door expecting someone meek, frumpy, and closed-minded — and left inspired. In 2021 she discovered that the NAACP Hollywood Bureau was seventy years old, that the Muslim and Asian American communities had built their own, and that the Jews had […]
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Rabbi Judah Mischel joins Justin Pines on his new two-volume Baderech: Along the Path of the Torah. Chasidic stories, mussar and practical wisdom for every parsha, plus why he says the Torah portion is better than the morning news. *** JBS is a non-profit, Jewish educational television and multimedia channel made possible by VIEWERS LIKE […]
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“Excuse me, is this yours?” It turns out that may be the most dangerous question you can ask in the Holy Land. Tuvia Tenenbom, bestselling author, playwright, and the journalist Die Welt called “Michael Moore and Borat in one”, spent nearly a year living in the territory some call Judea and Samaria and others call […]
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Kevin S. Bright was executive producer of Friends for all ten seasons and directed more than 50 episodes of one of the most beloved shows in television history. His newest documentary, The Bridge, follows ten young Israeli survivors of October 7th to Los Angeles for the legendary Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp. There, rock musicians […]
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What is the Torah? If you think it’s just the Five Books of Moses, you’re only seeing the surface. The Torah encompasses the written law, the oral law, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and an extraordinary chain of transmission and interpretation that stretches from Mount Sinai to today. In this episode of Jewish Insights with Justin […]
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Every year on Sukkot, Jews around the world read the prophet Zechariah’s vision of a future in which all the nations of the earth come up to Jerusalem. Not on Passover. Not on Yom Kippur. On Sukkot — the holiday Jewish tradition identifies with the Messianic era itself. So what is the Messiah? For an […]
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This Yom Kippur, Justin Pines welcomes back his teacher and rebbe, Rabbi Avi Weiss, for an hour-long journey through the holiest day of the Jewish year. Rabbi Weiss, founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (the Bayit) and founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat, opens with a tefillah he wrote and recites […]
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Can God be vulnerable? National Jewish Book Award winner Gila Fine explores the stunning talmudic tale of Rabbi Yishmael ben Elisha, who entered the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur and was asked by God for a blessing (Berakhot 7a). What does it mean for an omnipotent God to ask a mortal for help? Through […]
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The Talmud is the foundational text of Judaism — every law, every debate, every dissenting opinion preserved across 2,711 pages. For centuries it was accessible only to scholars. That is changing. Rabbanit Michelle Farber is the founder of Hadran and the host of Daf Yomi for Women, the first and only women’s daily Daf Yomi […]
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The Shema is Judaism’s most iconic declaration — six words carried across thousands of years, countries, and circumstances. Now, a bold new initiative is inviting a million Jews to reclaim them. Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald, founder of New Jewish Outreach Program, and Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, co-founder of Simchat Torah Challenge, join Rabbi Justin Pines to discuss […]
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