College Commons
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- Website
- http://collegecommons.huc.edu/
- Description
- The College Commons Podcast, passionate perspectives from Judaism's leading thinkers, is produced by Hebrew Union College, America's first Jewish institution of higher learning.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-10-03 17:53
- last episode published
- 2022-09-27 13:00
- publication frequency
- 15.86 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- HUC-JIR
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 158
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Religion & Spirituality
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2022-09-27 |
Warm and Welcoming? Institutionalized Biases and Barriers to Inclusion How the Jewish community can become truly diverse and inclusive in the 21st Century. Warren Hoffman is the executive director of the Association for Jewish Studies, the largest academic Jewish studies membership organization in the world. He has spent... |
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| 2022-09-13 |
Not Your Grandparents’ Archives (Well, Actually, They Are) Dr. Jason Lustig uncovers epic struggles over archives, the repositories of our stories and identity. Dr. Jason Lustig is a Lecturer and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin... |
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| 2022-08-30 | Author Helene Wecker and the immigrant experience told through the lives of mythical monsters. Helene Wecker’s first novel, The Golem and the Jinni, was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the H... |
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| 2022-08-16 | CCAR President Rabbi Hara Person defends abortion rights, in the wake of Dobbs. Rabbi Hara Person is the Chief Executive of Central Conference of American Rabbis. She is the first woman Chief Executive in the history of the CCAR. As Chief Executive, R... |
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| 2022-08-02 | The central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. The House of Fragile Things, NationÂal JewÂish Book Award Winner of the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award (History) In th... |
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| 2022-07-19 | Fascinating case studies on weighing competing Jewish values in difficult, real-world situations. 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist for ConÂtemÂpoÂrary JewÂish Life and Practice, The Jewish Family Ethics Textbook Judaism offers us unique—and o... |
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| 2022-07-12 |
Religious Freedom in America is Changing Fast, and It Matters Legal scholar Micah Schwartzman uncovers and explains key issues of freedom of religion and speech in a post-Roe America. Micah Schwartzman is the director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy and the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law. A schol... |
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| 2022-07-05 | Author Nancy Churnin discusses the power of having a pen, paper, and something to say. Dear Mr. Dickens, 2021 National Jewish Book Award winner for children's picture book. In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer i... |
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| 2022-06-20 | Author Weina Randel discusses Shanghai Rose: A love story transcending class, race, religion, and even war. National Jewish Book Award Finalist, The Last Rose of Shanghai In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn tog... |
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| 2022-06-07 |
Our Imagined Jewish Story: A Jewish Odyssey in Czarist Russia Reverse-engineering his imagined past, Israeli author Yaniv Iczkovits follows his characters across the Pale of Settlement. The Slaughterman’s Daughter, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), ... |
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