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In Concert: Yonatan Razel

December 15, 2023
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American-Israeli singer, writer, composer, and conductor Yonatan Razel performs in concert at The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY. 42

Father of sons Yonatan, an active IDF soldier, and Daniel, who’s missing-in-action, Rabbi Doron Perez speaks about what gives him and his family hope and light amidst the darkness, and how we can help bring Daniel home. With Yeshiva University’s Dr. Erica Brown. 31

Rabbi on the Sidelines: Jeffrey Gurock

December 14, 2023
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Rabbi Sherman speaks with Jewish history scholar and JBS favorite Jeffrey S. Gurock about how the sports experience can be used to understand contemporary American Jewish life. 13

Author Eric Alterman discusses We Are Not One: A History of America’s Fight Over Israel, his book that traces the Zionist debate from its nineteenth-century origins and reveals how consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why it’s fracturing now 40

Shahar Azani and David Harris discuss the silence of the U.N. on the issue of Hamas’ mass-rape of Israel women. They also touch on the roles of both Iran and Qatar in the massacre itself, as well as in its aftermath as Israel struggles to get all of the hostages released. 40

Scholar, historian and author Jeffrey S. Gurock discusses his new book and describes how he uses sports and the legend of Marty Glickman as a metaphor — a way to understand American Jewish life and history. With historian Beth Wenger, in a program of the American Jewish Historical Society. 22

David Harris interviews Ron Liebowitz, the president of Brandeis University, about his landmark decisions in the wake of the Hamas massacre, including formally banning the organization Students for Justice in Palestine from his campus. 72

Author Joseph Berger discusses his intimate portrait that draws on Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel’s prodigious literary output to explore his life and legacy. 19

JBS’s own Shahar Azani and David Harris sit down for a wide-ranging discussion about new developments in the Israel-Hamas war, as well as its ramifications in the United States. 74

In the Spotlight: Rabbi Rachel Isaacs

December 4, 2023
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Abigail Pogrebin speaks with Rachel Isaacs, a Maine-based rabbi who made history as the first openly lesbian rabbi ordained by JTS, and who founded of a groundbreaking institution committed to supporting small town and rural Jewish communities. 37