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Fighting Antisemitism: Charles Small and Joel Kotek
January 22, 2024
Charles Asher Small, founder and executive director of ISGAP (the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy) leads a seminar with ISGAP senior research fellow Joel Kotek, in the premiere of a new series from ISGAP. Ep. 1
Holocaust Distortion
February 1, 2024
Holocaust historian and the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s chief Nazi hunter, Efraim Zuroff, and bestselling author Naomi Ragen discuss the scourge of Holocaust distortion, in a program of the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center
Israel at War: UNRWA
February 8, 2024
Avi Mayer, immediate past editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, weighs in on the freezing of funds to UNRWA and calls to replace it after some of its employees were accused of taking part in the October 7th massacre. With Teisha Bader.
Storytelling in Black and Jewish Communities
February 11, 2024
A conversation about the importance of folklore in both the Black and Jewish communities, from the golem to Hip Hop and Jewish jokes, with Eric K. Ward, Nadine Epstein, Adam Mansbach and Langston Collin Wilkins, part of Moment’s Wide River Project.
Jewish Insights: David Aaron
March 27, 2024
Justin is joined by “God-expert” and Kabbalist Rabbi David Aaron, author of The Secret Life of God, to discuss the divine in the context of Purim, as well as to explore ways to think about God today, and particularly after October 7.
Jewish Cinémathèque: One Life
April 9, 2024
Eric Goldman is joined in discussion about “One Life,” the film by James Hawes in which Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, a man who rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. He is joined by the director, James Hawes, as well as Nicholas Winton’s son, Nick Winton, and one of “Nicky’s Children,” Eva Paddock, […]
Campus Antisemitism Crisis
May 24, 2024
The recent intensity of antisemitism and what needs to be done to ensure the welfare of Jewish students on college campuses is discussed by Jonathan Greenblatt and Shira Goodman of the ADL, with Rep. Ritchie Torres, students, and a concerned parent.
Rabbi Hirsch: Climate Change on American Campuses
June 5, 2024
Rabbi Hirsch reminds his congregation of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue that the climate change on American campuses has been incremental, and that it is not too late to reverse the catastrophe.
Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism Promo
July 3, 2024
Tune in every Thursday in July at 7pm ET for the second annual Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference, the outstanding symposium from the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue that convened hundreds of clergy, educators and professionals for conversations with a focus on antisemitism and a post-October 7th world. EXCLUSIVELY ON JBS
Israel at War: Gazans Against Hamas
August 9, 2024
What does the “day after” look like in Gaza? A series of meetings recently took place between Gazans and law-makers in the West, sharing their vision for a Hamas/UNRWA free rule in Gaza. Joseph Braude, President and Founder of the Center for Peace Communications shares this work and vision. With Shahar Azani.