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In the Spotlight: Saving a Family Business
November 29, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin speaks with the owner of a cinema chain that began as a Jewish family business in pre-war Europe, and with the filmmaker who brought the story of family resilience and the future of cinema to life in the doc “Only in Theaters”
In the Spotlight: Only in Theaters-Saving a Family Business
November 27, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin speaks with the owner of a cinema chain that began as a Jewish family business in pre-war Europe, and with the filmmaker who brought the story of family resilience and the future of cinema to life in the doc “Only in Theaters”
In the Spotlight: Spiked Antisemitism on Campus
November 8, 2023
At this most charged time for students on college campuses, Abigail Pogrebin speaks with Hillel directors Uri Cohen (Yale), Jenna Citron Schwab (Queens College) and Michael Simon (Northwestern).
In the Spotlight: Elana Stein Hain
November 3, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin sits with Elana Stein Hain, Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America to discuss how our texts and teachings help us in difficult times.
In the Spotlight: Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz – Israel at War
October 27, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin is joined by Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, Senior Rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, to discuss the dire need for the Jewish people to fight this tragic war, but to do so as Jews, guided by Jewish values.
In The Spotlight: Helen Schulman
October 20, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin speaks with bestselling author Helen Schulman about Lucky Dogs, her layered story of how trauma and self-preservation converge across decades and continents.
In the Spotlight: Lilith Magazine
October 18, 2023
What does it mean to select beautiful, sometimes heartbreaking Jewish stories for a groundbreaking anthology with an unapologetically feminist lens? Abigail Pogrebin talks with the editors (and one of the writers) behind Lilith Magazine’s Frankly Feminist: Short Stories by Jewish Women.
In the Spotlight: Ilana Kaufman
October 11, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin speaks with Ilana Kaufman, CEO of the Jews of Color Initiative, a philanthropic fund dedicated to justice and racial equality in the Jewish community.
In the Spotlight: Rabbi Diana Fersko
September 27, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin is joined by the Senior Rabbi at the Village Temple in New York City, author of We Need to Talk About Antisemitism, an urgent call not to ignore or minimize the spike in antisemitism.
In the Spotlight: David Bernstein
September 8, 2023
Abigail Pogrebin is joined by David Bernstein, a veteran Jewish advocacy leader and self-described liberal who broke with the far left for reasons illuminated in his book, “Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews.”