Date of show |
Guest |
12/1/24 |
Ophira Eisenberg,
comedian headliner of the Kung Pao Comedy Special Dec. 24-26, in San
Francisco and live-streamed |
11/24/24 |
David L. Bernstein,
author of "Woke Antisemitism" |
11/17/24 |
Tova Reich,
National Jewish Book Award Winner, author of "Camp Jeff" |
11/10/24 |
Linda Ambrus Broenniman,
author of "The Politzer Saga," the recovery of 8 generations of
unknown Jewish family history |
11/3/24 |
Eric Fingerhut,
President and CEO of Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) |
10/27/24 |
Alice Hoffman,
award-winning author of the new book, "When We Flew Away" |
10/20/24 |
Liz Hirsh Naftali,
author of the memoir "Saving Abigail: The True Story Of The Abduction
And Rescue Of A Three-Year-Old Hostage" |
10/13/24 |
Elliott Abrams,
shaper of US Foreign Policy in two Administrations, author of the new book,
"If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century" |
10/6/24 |
Zibby Owens,
editor, "On Being Jewish Now" anthology from Artists Against
Antisemitism |
9/29/24 |
Jeremy Dauber,
author of "American Scary" |
9/22/24 |
Swell Ariel Or and
Keren Nechmad, star and director of the award-winning
new Israeli film on Netflix, "Kissufim" |
9/15/24 |
Professor Derek Penslar,
author of "Zionism: An Emotional State", chair of the Harvard
University Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel
Bias |
9/8/24 |
Abigail Pogrebin and
Rabbi Dov Linzer, "It Takes Two to Torah" |
9/1/24 |
Jonathan Kaufman,
author of "The Last Kings of Shanghai", head of the journalism
department at Northeastern University |
8/25/24 |
James Forsher,
filmmaker of "Hiding in Hollywood", on the suppression of the facts
of the Jewish influence in the development of the film industry |
8/18/24 |
Tovah Feldshuh,
actress, singer, six-time Emmy & Tony nominee |
8/11/24 |
Alii Frank and Asha
Youmans, authors of "Boss
Lady" |
8/4/24 |
Aviva Klompas, author of
"Stand-Up Nation"; 22nd Anniversary Show! |
7/28/24 |
Jeff Harnar sings
"Sammy Cahn: the Second Time Around" |
7/21/24 |
Esther Goldenberg, podcaster
and author of "The Scrolls of Deborah" |
7/14/24 |
Ruth Finkel Wade and
Joy Wolfe Ensor, Second Generation Survivors, on their book "Those
Who Remember" |
7/7/24 |
Yaron Shavit, Deputy
Chair of the Executive, The Jewish Agency for Israel |
6/30/24 |
Libby Fischer Hellman, author of
the new book "Max's War" |
6/23/24 |
Eric Lynn, former Senior Advisor to three US Secretaries of Defense, on the Iron Dome, threats to Israel and the current defense systems in place |
6/16/24 |
Dr. Sara Glass, therapist and author of the new book “Kissing Girls on Shabbat” |
6/9/24 |
Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives for the Brandeis Center, combating Antisemitism on campus |
6/2/24 |
A.J. Jacobs, award-winning author of the new book “The Year of Living Constitutionally” |
5/27/24 |
Reuven Fenton, NY Post star reporter and author of the new book “Goyhood” |
5/19/24 |
Rabbi Zoe Klein, author of the new short story collection “Feather, Candle, Wooden Spoon” |
5/12/24 |
Elizabeth “Barry” White and Joanna Sliwa about their book “The Counterfeit Countess, The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust” |
5/5/24 |
Holocaust Survivor Sidney Finkel and his daughter Ruth Finkel Wade for Yom HaShoah, discussing his experiences in the Holocaust, their memoir of his life, “Sevek, the Boy Who Wouldn't Die” |
4/28/24 |
|
4/21/24 |
Jeanne Blasberg, podcaster and author of the new novel reimagining the story of David and Bathsheba, “Daughter of a Promise” |
4/14/24 |
Caroline Leavitt, NY Times bestselling author of the new novel “Days of Wonder” |
4/7/24 |
Elizabeth
Gonzalez James, author of the new novel “The Bullet Swallower” |
3/31/24 |
Caroline
Kusin-Pritchard, author of the new children's book “Where's Poppy” |
3/24/24 |
Warren Kozak, journalist and author of “Waving Goodbye” |
3/17/24 |
Rabbi Bob Alper, comedian, headliner of “Purim-4-Grown-Ups” |
3/10/24 |
Elias Saratovsky, Executive Director of Birthright Israel |
3/3/24 |
Rebecca Sugar, author of the novel “Everything is a Little Broken” |
2/25/24 |
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and Director of The Amcha Initiative, on Anti-Semitism on campus |
2/18/24 |
Jay Neugeboren, 6-time PEN-winning author of “After Camus” |
2/11/24 |
Rabbi Matt Gewirtz, his gripping experiences leading a solidarity mission to an attacked community in southern Israel |
2/4/24 |
Jeff Margolis, Emmy-winning director of 8 Oscars broadcasts, author of the new memoir “We're Live in 5: My Extraordinary Life in Television” |
1/28/24 |
Dr. Joel Hoffman, scholar, author, translator, on “Good and Evil in the Ancient Texts” and the challenge of translating the Bible |
1/21/24 |
Ari Harow, former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Israel and author of “My Brother's Keeper: Netanyahu, Obama, & the Year of Terror & Conflict that Changed the Middle East Forever” |
1/14/24 |
Julie
Benko, Broadway star of “Harmony” |
1/7/24 |
Jeffrey Feingold, author of “The Black Hole Pastrami Stories” and “There is no Death in Finding Nemo” |
12/31/23 |
Marcia Riman-Selz, author of “At Vitoria” |
12/24/23 |
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, author of “Tikun Ha'Am: Repairing Our People; Israel the Crisis of Liberal Judaism” |
12/17/23 |
Comedian Wendy Liebman, headlining the 31st Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy in a Chinese Restaurant on Christmas show |
12/10/23 |
Don Futterman, author of “Adam Unrehearsed” |
12/3/23 |
Bryan
Stern, founder of Project DYNAMO, hostage rescue expert on the
hostages held in Gaza and the reintegration challenges of those who are
released |
11/26/23 |
Mike Rothschild, author of “Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories” |
11/19/23 |
Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of “Bernadette's Shanghai Salon” |
11/12/23 |
Lynne Golodner, podcaster and author of the new book “Woman of Valor” |
11/5/23 |
Swell Ariel Or, star of “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem”, representing Israel abroad during the war and helping reservists return to fight for the IDF |
10/29/23 |
Shanna
Fuld, podcaster of “Israel Daily News”, journalist, author and
activist |
10/22/23 |
Rabbi Andrew Green, on the conversion of the formerly Messianic community in Show Low, Arizona to Judaism |
10/15/23 |
Seth Frantzman from Jerusalem: acting News Editor, Senior Middle East Correspondent and analyst at The Jerusalem Post, author of two books on war and terrorism in the Middle East |
10/8/23 |
Rosa Lowinger, author of the new book “Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair” |
10/1/23 |
Professor Jacob L. Wright, author of the new book, “Why the Bible Began” |
9/24/23 |
Faris Cassel, National Jewish Book Award Winner, author of “Inseparable: the Hess Twins the Last Living Twins” |
9/17/23 |
Professor Harvey Klehr of Emory University, “Oppenheimer Was a Communist” article in “Commentary” |
9/10/23 |
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Re-Charging Reform Judaism |
9/3/23 |
Michelle Cameron, author of “Babylon: A Novel of Jewish Captivity” |
8/27/23 |
Heather Dune Macadam and Simon Worrell, authors of “Star Crossed - A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris” |
8/20/23 |
Yale Strom, klezmer violinist and pioneer, on the new album with Hot Postromi, “The Wolf and the Lamb”, recorded in the historic Shakh Synagogue in the Czech Republic |
8/13/23 |
Lisa Niver, travel podcaster, author “Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty” |
8/6/23 |
21st
Anniversary Show; Jerome Charyn, author of “Ravage & Son” |
7/30/23 |
Professor David Fishman, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning “The Book Smugglers” on the current danger to Jewish archival work in Ukraine |
7/23/23 |
James Forsher, producer, “A Paramount Story” on the early Hollywood moguls and Antisemitism then and now in Hollywood |
7/16/23 |
Seth M. Siegel, entrepreneur and activist on water issues, on the new Israeli company, N-Drip |
7/9/23 |
Martin Bodek, creator of “The Festivus Haggadah”, “The Emoji Haggadah”, “The Coronavirus Haggadah” and “The Shakespeare Haggadah” and author of the new memoir, “Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers and One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance” |
7/2/23 |
Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld & Dr. Daniel Grove, authors of “Body & Soul: The Torah Path to Health, Fitness and a Holy Life” |
6/25/23 |
Charles
Jacobson, editor “Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish
Leadership” |
6/18/23 |
Laurie Wallmark, author of children's book on the Lower East Side, “Rivka's Presents” |
6/11/23 |
Rabbi David Kasher, West Coast Director of Hadar Institute |
6/4/23 |
Larry G. Goldsmith, author of the new novel, “Bashert” |
5/28/23 |
Diane Bregner, author of the new novel, “Royal Coconut Beach Lunch Club” |
5/21/23 |
Meryl Ain, author of the new novel, “Shadows We Carry” |
5/14/23 |
Richard Michelson, poet and children's book author, on his new book of poetry, “Sleeping as Fast as I Can” |
5/7/23 |
Russ Linden, management consultant, author “Loss and Discovery: What the Torah Can Teach Us about Leading Change” |
4/30/23 |
Frederic Brandfon, author of “Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome” |
4/23/23 |
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4/16/23 |
Ambassador
Meryl Frank, author, “Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book,
and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust” |
4/9/23 |
Hadar Orshalimy, on her new album Witchcraft, songs by Jewish women songwriters from the Great American Songbook |
4/2/23 |
Tova Reich, author of the new book “The House of Love and Prayer” |
3/27/23 |
Professor David G. Roskies, the Yiddish authors and the literature of the Holocaust |
3/19/23 |
Nina Siegal, “The Diary Keepers: World War II in The Netherlands as written by the people who lived through it” |
3/12/23 |
Christopher Gorham, author of “The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America” |
3/5/23 |
Steve Zeitlin, author of “JEWels: Teasing Out Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling” |
2/26/23 |
Daniel Gross, author of “A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire” |
2/19/23 |
Michael Twitty, winner of the Jewish Book of the Year, author of “KosherSoul: the Faith and Food Journey of an African-American Jew” |
2/12/23 |
Sarit Yishai-Levi, author of “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem”, on her new book “The Woman Beyond the Sea” |
2/5/23 |
Blair Braverman, outdoor adventurer, 2nd Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod, author of the new novel “Small Game” |
1/29/23 |
Chaim Rosenberg, author of “The Shield of David: A History of Jewish Servicemen in the American Armed Forces” |
1/22/23 |
Rabbi Seth Farber, Founder and Director of Itim, Winner of the 2022 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for Jewish Unity |
1/15/23 |
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director of J Street |
1/8/23 |
Rabbi Bill Rothschild, Memories of Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Temple Bombing |
1/1/23 |
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12/25/22 |
Shirley Russek Wachtel, author of “A Castle in Brooklyn” |
12/18/22 |
Nicholas Cohen, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Netanyahus” |
12/11/22 |
Emily
Bowen Cohen, Jewish-Native American activist, author and artist, on
her new book “A Member of Two Tribes” |
12/4/22 |
Rita Katz, Executive Director and founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, author the new book “Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism from Syria to the Capitol Siege” |
11/27/22 |
Rabbi Matt Gewirtz, author of “To Build a Brave Space: Rabbi on a Motorcycle” |
11/20/22 |
Professor Aaron Welt, organized crime and Jewish economic development in the early 20th century |
11/13/22 |
Emily Tamkin, author of the new book “Bad Jews” |
11/6/22 |
Shoshana Nambi, first woman rabbi from the Abuyudaya Jewish community of Uganda, and author of the new children's book “The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda” |
10/30/22 |
Yair
Rosenberg, creator and editor of “The Deep Shtetl” newsletter for
“The Atlantic” magazine, journalist and musician |
10/23/22 |
Ruth Wisse, woman of letters, translator of the new edition of Chaim Grade's “The Quarrel” from Yiddish |
10/16/22 |
Suzette Sheft, 16-year-old author the new YA book, “Running for Shelter, a True Story” |
10/9/22 |
Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, co-creators of the new Ken Burns documentary, “The US and the Holocaust” |
10/2/22 |
Isabel Vincent, author of “Overture of Hope” |
9/25/22 |
Judy Mandel, author of the new memoir “White Flag” |
9/18/22 |
Martha Anne Toll, author of “Three Muses” |
9/11/22 |
Sarah Hurwitz, presidential speechwriter and author of the new book “Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)” |
9/4/22 |
Rabbi
Danya Ruttenberg, author of “Of Repentance and Repair: Making Amends
in an Unapologetic World” |
8/28/22 |
Adam Langer, The Forward's Senior Editor for Culture, on his new book, “Cyclorama” |
8/21/22 |
Lyn Julius, author of “Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight” |
8/14/22 |
Jeffrey Breslow, developer of the games and toys “Masterpiece,” “Barrel of Monkeys”, “Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots” and “Simon” on his new book, “A Gamemaker's Life” |
8/7/22 |
Rafael Medoff, author of the new book “The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust” |
7/31/22 |
2/0th Anniversary Show of Too Jewish: Storyteller extraordinaire Jim Weiss, pioneering recording artist, podcaster of “intelligent entertainment for the thinking family” |
7/24/22 |
Judy Bolton-Fasman, author of the new book “Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets” |
7/17/22 |
Jeffrey Weiss, co-author, “Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the birth of the Israeli Air Force” |
7/10/22 |
Professor Boaz Dvir, Director of Penn State's new Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative |
7/3/22 |
Dr. James Weiner, son of prominent rabbi, author of the new book “The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World” |
6/26/22 |
Rabbis Rifat Sonsino and Richard Agler, editors of the new book of Jewish theology, “A God We Can Believe In” |
6/19/22 |
Shannon
Gonyou, author of “Since Sinai”, a memoir of her conversion to
Judaism and her Jewish life |
6/12/22 |
Ellen Frankel, author of “The Deadly Scrolls”, past Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and author of 10 books & two operas |
6/5/22 |
Aaron Henne, Artistic Director of Theatre Dybbuk |
5/29/22 |
Michael Benson, author of “Gangsters vs Nazis” |
5/22/22 |
Matti Friedman, author of “Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai” |
5/15/22 |
Anna
Salton Eisen, author of “A Pillar of Salt” |
5/8/22 |
Jode Millman, author of “Hooker Avenue” |
5/1/22 |
Maggie Anton, author of “The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith and the Talmud” |
4/24/22 |
Susan Lax, co-owner of Na'ot, author of the new book “A Heart's Landscape - An Invitation to the Garden of Moments” |
4/17/22 |
Wayne Hoffman, author of “The End of Her” |
4/10/22 |
Rabbi Zac Kamenetz, psychedelics and Judaism |
4/3/22 |
Alan Winter, co-author of “The Sins of the Fathers” |
3/27/22 |
Deborah Meyer, Moving Traditions founder and CEO |
3/20/22 |
Jonathan Ornstein, CEO of the Krakow, Poland JCC on the enormous Ukrainian refugee crisis there |
3/13/22 |
Aaron Lieberman, founder of the educational non-profit Jumpstart and entrepreneurial founder of Acelero Learning |
3/6/22 |
Anna Salton Eisen, co-founder of the Colleyville, TX synagogue, attendee of Deborah Lipstadt's confirmation hearings in DC, and author of the new memoir “A Pillar of Salt” |
2/27/22 |
Joshua
M. Greene, author of Unstoppable and other works on Holocaust
survivors, winner of the 2021 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for service to
the entire Jewish people in the field of Information and Education |
2/20/22 |
Matthew “Mati” Lazar, conductor and director of the Zamir Choral Foundation, winner of the 2021 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for Service to the entire Jewish people in the field of Creative Arts |
2/13/22 |
Eleanor
Reissa, singer, playwright, translator, Tony-Award nominated director,
and author of the remarkable new memoir, “The Letters Project: A Daughter's
Journey” |
2/6/22 |
Kevin Goetz, focus group expert to the film industry, author of “Audienceology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love” |
1/30/22 |
Yossi Alpher, author of “Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March” |
1/23/22 |
Rabbi Bill Rothschild, personal stories of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights era in Jewish Atlanta |
1/16/22 |
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, author of the new book, “It Could Happen Here” |
1/9/22 |
Alana Waksman, filmmaker of “We Burn Like This” |
1/2/22 |
Jeffrey Sussman, author of “Holocaust Boxers, Resisters, and Avengers” |
12/26/21 |
Steven Schwartz, best-selling author of “The Tenderest of Strings” |
12/19/21 |
Professor David Henkin, author, “The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are” |
12/12/21 |
Rabbi
Jack Romberg, author, “Richard Stern: A Doorway to Heroism” |
12/5/21 |
Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, author of “Theodore Bikel's City of Light” |
11/28/21 |
Raphael Marcus, Senior Vice President, HIAS, helping Afghan refugees |
11/21/21 |
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11/14/21 |
Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President, Claims Conference, new survey on Holocaust knowledge in the UK |
11/7/21 |
Jeremy Cowan, Shmaltz Brewing Company & HeBrew Beer, on the 25th Anniversary of the company |
10/31/21 |
Rachel Beanland, author of “Florence Adler Swims Forever” |
10/24/21 |
Dara
Horn, award-winning author of the new book “People Love Dead Jews:
Report from a Haunted Present” |
10/17/21 |
Rabbi David Wilfond, Babi Yar and Ukraine, reckoning with the Shoah in today’s complex world |
10/10/21 |
Derek B. Miller, award-winning author of the new novel “Finding Your Way in the Dark” |
10/3/21 |
Janice C. Spector, author, “2207 South Green Road” |
9/26/21 |
Dr. Nir Barzilai, aging and longevity, author of “Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity”, on Ashkenazic populations of extremely long lives |
9/19/21 |
Jonathan Ornstein, Executive Director, Krakow, Poland JCC on rising Anti-Semitism in Poland and Israel/Poland diplomatic relations |
9/12/21 |
Melanie Gorelick, Sr. Vice President, Jewish Council for Public Affairs |
9/5/21 |
Joshua Greene, NY Times bestselling nonfiction author of “Unstoppable” |
8/29/21 |
Charles Lichtman, author of the new thriller “The Sword of David” |
8/22/21 |
Janice Chalovich, combating pancreatic cancer among Ashkenazic Jews through the Purple Pansies nonprofit |
8/15/21 |
Carolyn Kusin Pritchard, author of the new children's book “Gitty and Kvetch”, teaching Yiddish to kids |
8/8/21 |
Rabbi David Ingber, founder and Senior Rabbi of Romemu |
8/1/21 |
Malina Saval, features editor of Variety: “Too Jewish for Hollywood” - how Hollywood stereotypes Jews |
7/25/21 |
Dorit Sasson, author of “Sand and Steel: A Memoir of Finding Home” |
7/18/21 |
Joshua Henkin, author, “Morningside Heights” |
7/11/21 |
Rabbi
Josh Weinberg, Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism for
Israel and Reform Zionism & Executive Director of ARZA |
7/4/21 |
Jews of Color, challenges, and reality today: Nate Looney, Manager of Racial Justice Initiatives at Avodah and Ginna Green, partner and chief strategy officer at Uprise |
6/27/21 |
Alyza D. Lewin, President, The Louis D. Brandeis Center, addressing on Anti-Semitism on campus, and the lawsuit against Stanford University for Anti-Semitism in its Counseling & Psychological Services Division |
6/20/21 |
Rabbi
Manis Friedman, lessons of the pandemic |
6/13/21 |
Tonia Shimon, editor of the new book “The Art of Symeon Shimin” |
6/6/21 |
Oshrat Bar-El, past mevinah on Israel and our Too Jewish correspondent in Israel, on the Gaza War and Israeli public sentiment now |
5/30/21 |
Chen Dinachi, past Too Jewish Shinshiniyah (young representative of Israel) from Shoham, Israel discussing her experiences during the Gaza War |
5/23/21 |
Tammy Gillies, ADL Arizona regional director |
5/16/21 |
Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, Ph.D., Holocaust authority, historical advisor of the newly remastered Academy Award-winning documentary, “The Last Day” |
5/9/21 |
Professor Idan Dershowitz, author “The Dismembered Bible” and “The Valediction of Moses” |
5/2/21 |
Rabbi Kerry Olitzky, outreach expert and author of the children's books “Sam and Sophie” and “The Littlest Candle” |
4/25/21 |
Manu Rosen, author of “If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died” |
4/18/21 |
Rena Rossner, author of “The Light of the Midnight Stars” |
4/11/21 |
Amir Eden, co-founder of the website “Hebrew in Wonderland” |
4/4/21 |
Joel C. Rosenberg, author of the NY Times best-selling thriller “The Beirut Protocol” |
3/28/21 |
David Hirshberg, author of the new novel “Jacobo's Rainbow” |
3/21/21 |
Rabbi Seth Farber, Founder and Director of Itim, the Jewish Life Advocacy Center, on the Israeli Supreme Court acceptance of conversions from other streams of Judaism |
3/14/21 |
Ed Hajim, financial services CEO and author of the extraordinary new autobiography “The Road Less Traveled” |
3/7/21 |
Miriam Udell, author of “Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature” |
2/28/21 |
Dr. Mark Klein, author of the new book “Franklin Rock” |
2/21/21 |
Gabriel Cousens, football star, physician, mystic, rabbi and author of the new spiritual autobiography “Into the Nothing” |
2/14/21 |
Melissa Zimmerman, VP of Clinical Services for Jewish Family & Children's Services of Southern Arizona, on counseling during the pandemic |
2/7/21 |
Menachem Kaiser, author, “Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure” |
1/31/21 |
Bruce Adolphe,
composer of the new Milken Archive release “I Will Not Remain Silent”, a
tribute to Rabbi Joachim Prinz; “Piano Puzzler” on NPR and American Public
Radio |
1/24/21 |
Piotr Cywinski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz |
1/17/21 |
Dara Kurtz, author of the new book “The Gift of Sending Letters to Loved Ones” |
1/10/21 |
Rabbi Michael Swirsky, Founder of The Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and co-winner of the 2020 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award |
1/3/21 |
Eric Levitz, Founder and Director of the AZ House Jerusalem, the only kosher, free recovery program in the world & a co-winner of the 2020 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award |
12/27/20 |
Professor Mark Kligman, director of the new Lowell Milken Center for Music of the American Jewish Experience at UCLA |
12/20/20 |
Amy Schwartz, editor of the new book “Can Robots Be Jewish? And Other Pressing Questions of Modern Life” |
12/13/20 |
Rabbi Mark Diamond, co-editor of the first book co-published by Jewish and a Latter-Day Saints publisher on Jewish and Mormon themes, “Covenants and Communities” |
12/6/20 |
Maury Yeston, 2-time Tony-winning songwriter & lyricist, on the new release “Maury Sings Yeston” |
11/29/20 |
Rabbi Rachel Adler, 1st female theologian to win a National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Thought, “Tales of the Holy Mysticat: Jewish Wisdom Stories by a Feline Mystic” |
11/22/20 |
Sandy Tolan, author of the new Young Adult version of “The Lemon Tree” |
11/15/20 |
Phyllis Chesler, renowned feminist, activist and author of the new book “Requiem for a Female Serial Killer” |
11/8/20 |
Rabbi Baruch Cohon, author of the new book “Learning Torah All Over Again” |
11/1/20 |
Jason Guberman, Diarna, the Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life |
10/25/20 |
Laura
and Ellen Distelheim, daughters of Rochelle Distelheim, the late
author of the new book “Jerusalem as a Second Language” |
10/18/20 |
Karen Reb Rudel, virtual tours of Jewish Paris |
10/11/20 |
Beth Kissileff, editor of the new book, “Bound in the
Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy” for the
2nd Anniversary |
10/4/20 |
Lynn Sharon Schwartz, award-winning author, about her new
book “Truthtelling” |
9/27/20 |
Rabbi Ken Spiro, Aish HaTorah Senior Lecturer in
Jerusalem, author on Jewish history |
9/20/20 |
Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President, Claims
Conference on the new survey of Holocaust knowledge among Millenials and Gen
Z, as well as the effort to remove Holocaust denial from Facebook |
9/13/20 |
Susan Shapiro Barash, pen name “Susannah Marren”, author of
the new book “A Palm Beach Scandal” |
9/6/20 |
Sina Kahen, author of the new book “Ideas –
Bereshit” |
8/30/20 |
Hillel Halkin, on B'nei Menashe Jews of India;
translator, author, man of letters |
8/23/20 |
Julie Seltzer, Soferet (female Torah scribe) |
8/16/20 |
David Biespiel, author, “A Place of Exodus” |
8/9/20 |
Ami
Moyal, President at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering,
Israeli innovation on Coronavirus detection and response |
8/2/20 |
18th Anniversary of Too Jewish! Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, CEO of the new organization, “Dayenu, A Jewish Call to Climate Action” |
7/26/20 |
Rabbi Leon Morris, president, Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies |
7/19/20 |
Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz, new Chancellor of Jewish Theological Seminary, first woman to serve in this role since JTS's founding in 1886 |
7/12/20 |
Ester Leutenberg, author, publisher and mental health advocate, on suicide prevention |
7/5/20 |
Oshrat
Bar El, from Israel, on the lockdown and quarantine in Israel,
Israeli politics and more... |
6/28/20 |
Dalia Davis and Becca Shimshak, founders of “Uprooted: A Jewish Communal Response to Fertility Journeys” |
6/21/20 |
Marra B. Gad, author of “The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Girl” |
6/14/20 |
Arnold Eisen, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary |
6/7/20 |
Isaac Thangjom, the Benai Menashe Jews of India during the Coronavirus pandemic |
5/31/20 |
Andrew Rehfeld, President, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion |
5/24/20 |
Professor
Sharon Megdal, Middle East water issues, including cooperation
between Israel, Jordan, the Palestinians and Syria |
5/17/20 |
Bernice
Lerner, author of “All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British
Doctor and the Liberation of Bergen Belsen” |
5/10/20 |
Sam Glaser, Jewish music star and author of “The Joy of Judaism” discussing surviving the pandemic in a healthy Jewish way” |
5/3/20 |
Gail Carson
Levine, author of “Ella Enchanted”, on her new book “A Ceiling Made
of Eggshells” |
4/26/20 |
Ambassador Rabbi David Saperstein, head of the World Union for Progressive Judaism |
4/19/20 |
Eileen Pollack, author “The Professor of Immortality” |
4/12/20 |
Stephen Schwartz, legendary Broadway composer of “Wicked”, “Pippin” and “Godspell”, on the new release of the cast album of “Prince of Egypt” |
4/5/20 |
Professor Jay Geller, author “The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction” |
3/29/20 |
Rabbi David Fine, Ph.D, fixing the Anti-Semitism of
Oberammergau’s Passion Play. |
3/22/20 |
Bart Erman, best-selling author of “Heaven and
Hell - a History of the Afterlife” |
3/15/20 |
Rabbi and Cantor Baruch
J. Cohon, from TV
to Torah |
3/8/20 |
Professor Ira Spar, the Ten Lost Tribes and Assyria (Iraq) |
3/1/20 |
Thane Rosenbaum, author of “Saving Free Speech - From
Itself” |
2/23/20 |
Jaqueline Jules, author of “The Generous Fish” |
2/16/20 |
Professor Ruth Wisse, distinguished academic and author of
“Jews and Power” |
2/9/20 |
Professor Sarah Stein, author of “Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth
Century” |
2/3/20 |
Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims
Conference, on the newly released report on knowledge of the Holocaust in
France |
1/26/20 |
Ellen Frank, artist of the Cities of Peace
Project's golden mural of the liberation of Auschwitz for the 75th
Anniversary |
1/19/20 |
Heather Dune Macadam, author “999--The Extraordinary Young
Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz” |
1/12/20 |
Jeremy Ben Ami, president of J-Street |
1/5/20 |
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12/29/19 |
Professor Noa Lavie, the Israeli electorate and Israeli
culture today |
12/22/19 |
Brooke Goldstein, founder and Executive Director of the
Lawfare Project, legal think tank and litigation fund upholding the rights of
Jewish people and the pro-Israel community worldwide |
12/15/19 |
Debbie Cenziper, Pulitzer Prize winning author of
“Citizen 865: the Hunt for Hitler's Soldiers in America” |
12/8/19 |
David Broza, Israeli and World Music star |
12/1/19 |
Hadar Orshalimy, new album of jazz standards by Jewish
composers, “It Never Was You” |
11/24/19 |
J-Screen's Hillary
Kener, Jewish
genetic disease testing |
11/17/19 |
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11/10/19 |
Sophia Korb, new research on Psychedelics for
Healing |
11/3/19 |
Sheryl Haft, author of “Goodnight Bubbalah” |
10/27/19 |
Sam Glaser, Jewish musical star and author of the
new book “The Joy of Judaism” |
10/20/19 |
Andrea Simon, author of “Floating in the Neversink”
and the memoir, “Bashert: A Granddaughter's Holocaust Quest” |
10/13/19 |
Professor Dov Weiss, on his National Jewish Book Award
winning work, “Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism” |
10/6/19 |
Michael Freund, Founder and Chairman of Shavei Israel,
bringing the lost tribes of Israel back |
9/29/19 |
Anthropologist
Augustin Fuentes, on “Why We Believe” |
9/22/19 |
Bob Mankoff, Moment cartoonist, on his new book, “Have I Got a
Cartoon for You!” |
9/15/19 |
Andrew Gross, NY Times best-selling author of the new novel “The
Fifth Column” |
9/8/19 |
Rabbi Avi Weiss, founder of Open Orthodoxy, author of “The Journey to
Open Orthodoxy” |
9/1/19 |
Margot Singer, award-winning author of “Underground Fugue” |
8/25/19 |
Yuval David, Israeli-American actor, director, social activist;
featured in the upcoming “The Plot Against America” |
8/18/19 |
Professor Jodi Magness,
archeologist, excavator of Huqoq synagogue
in the Galilee, author of “Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth”,
President of the Archaeological Institute of America |
8/11/19 |
Rachel Kadish, award-winning author of “The Weight of Ink” |
8/4/19 |
17th Anniversary of Too Jewish with Jodi Rudoren, new
editor of “The Forward” |
7/28/19 |
Mark Sarvas, author of the award-winning novel
“Memento Park” |
7/21/19 |
Dalia Rosenfeld, author of “The Worlds We Know: Stories” |
7/14/19 |
Scott
H. Davis, publisher of Jewish
Storyteller Press, reviving Yiddish authors in translation, including the
first-ever release of Jacob Dinezon's “The Dark Young Man” |
7/7/19 |
Rabbi Herb Freed, “The Renaissance Rabbi,” author of “Beshert” and “Love, Faith and a Pair of Pants” |
6/30/19 |
Dina Rabhan, CEO of new “Unpacked” Jewish YouTube Channel |
6/23/19 |
Tzofim, Israeli Scouts performing troupe touring the US |
6/16/19 |
Maxwell Greenberg, Jewish-Latino Identity in the Borderlands |
6/9/19 |
Francine Klagsbrun, author of
“Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel” |
6/2/19 |
Michael David Lukas, author of “The
Last Watchmen of Old Cairo”, winner of the Rohr Jewish Literature Prize |
5/26/19 |
Nadine Epstein, Editor-in-Chief of Moment Magazine and
author of “ELIE WIESEL: An Extraordinary Life and Legacy–Writings,
Reflections, Photographs” |
5/19/19 |
Tom Weidlinger, author of “The Restless Hungarian” |
5/12/19 |
Steven Waldman, co-founder of Beliefnet, author of the
new book “Sacred Liberty: American's Long, Bloody and Ongoing Struggle for
Religious Freedom” |
5/5/19 |
Dr. David Warmflash, author “The Moon: An Illustrated History”
on the Jewish aspects of the closest heavenly body |
4/28/19 |
Denise
Shader Smith, mother of the late Mallory
Smith, author of “Salt in My Soul” |
4/21/19 |
Tal
Keinan, IDF pilot, entrepreneur, fund
manager, philanthropist and author of “God is in the Crowd: 21st Century
Judaism” |
4/14/19 |
Natalie
Silverstein, author of “Simple Acts: The Busy
Family's Guide to Giving Back” |
4/7/19 |
Bram
Presser, author of the National Jewish
Book Award winner debut novel “The Book of Dirt” |
3/31/19 |
Rabbi
Marc Gitler, 929 North America, the online
and app-based daily Bible chapter program |
3/24/19 |
Comedian
Rabbi Bob Alper, star of Jewish
Comedy Night at Congregation Beit Simcha March 31st |
3/17/19 |
Professor Steve
Zipperstein, National Jewish Book Award winner, author of “Pogrom:
Kishinev and the Tilt of History” |
3/10/19 |
Mark Hetfield, Executive Director of HIAS |
3/3/19 |
Professor Robert Alter,
author of the new translation of “The Hebrew Bible with Commentary” |
2/24/19 |
Cathy Werling, author of “Mommy, Who Was Irena Sendler?” |
2/17/19 |
Professor Richard Elliott Friedman, great Biblical scholar and author “The Exodus: How It Happened and Why it Mattered” |
2/10/19 |
Matt Green,
subject of the documentary film, “The World Before Your Feet,” who has walked
every street in New York City over the past eight years |
2/3/19 |
Joseph Gitler, founder of Leket Israel and co-winner of the 2018 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for his work rescuing food and feeding the hungry in Israel |
1/27/19 |
Rabbi Daniel Freelander, President, World Union for Progressive Judaism |
1/20/19 |
Rabbi Richard Agler, author of “The Tragedy Test: Making Sense of Life-Changing Loss” |
1/13/19 |
Professor Anna
Shternshis, Grammy-nominated in World Music for her archival
Yiddish music project “The Lost Songs of World War II” |
1/6/19 |
Rabbi Anne Brener, author of the
classic book “Mourning and Mitzvah” on the release of the revised 25th
anniversary edition, on coping with loss |
12/30/18 |
Jane S. Gabin, author of “The
Paris Photo” |
12/23/18 |
Avi Hadad, Principal of the
Harel School, Israeli and American educational systems |
12/16/18 |
Professor Tammi-Rossman
Benjamin, AMCHA Initiative, responding to on-campus
threats to Israel Year Abroad programs |
12/9/18 |
Rabbi Amy Scheinerman, author of the
new 2-volume work “The Talmud of Relationships” |
12/2/18 |
Asaf Lewin, Software Manager Space IL, the Israeli
lunar project |
11/25/18 |
Robert Mnookin, Samuel Williston Professor of Law at
Harvard and Director of the Harvard Negotiation Research Project, author of
the new book, “The Jewish American Paradox” |
11/18/18 |
Caroline Lukensmeyer, Executive Director, National Institute
for Civil Discourse |
11/11/18 |
Angela Himsel, author of “A River Could be a Tree: A
Memoir” |
11/4/18 |
Avital
Khazanov, Regional Director of MASA Israel
Journey |
10/28/18 |
Rabbi
Albert Slomovitz, Ph.D, Captain (Colonel) US
Navy Chaplain Corps, Jews in the US Military and the History of the US
Supreme Court |
10/21/18 |
Jeffrey
Ohrenstein, Chairman, Memorial Scrolls
Trust, London on the Czech Holocaust Torah Scrolls |
10/14/18 |
Dvir
Bar-Gal, The Jews of Shanghai and the
Shanghai Ghetto |
10/7/18 |
Phyllis
Folb, Executive Director of the
America-Israel Gap Year Association |
9/30/18 |
Steven
R. Weisman, author of “The Chosen Wars: How
Judaism Became an American Religion” |
9/23/18 |
Tom
Seigel, author of “The Astronaut's Son” |
9/16/18 |
Rabbi
Mark Wildes, millennial advisor, founder of
the Manhattan Jewish Experience and author of the new book “Beyond the
Instant” |
9/9/18 |
David
Cygielman, founder and CEO of Moishe House |
9/2/18 |
Allan
Appel, author of “The Book of Norman” |
8/26/18 |
Ehud
Diskin, author of “Lone Wolf in
Jerusalem” |
8/19/18 |
Katka
Reszke, Ph.D., author of “The
Return of the Jew” |
8/12/18 |
Robert
Desmond, inspiration for “The Ride for
the Living,” on his epic 1350-mile bicycle journey from England to Poland
re-enacting the Kindertransport |
8/5/18 |
Amy
Israel Pregulman and John Pregulman, founders of
KAVOD - Ensuring Dignity to Holocaust Survivors |
7/29/18 |
David
Krakauer, top Klezmer clarinetist |
7/22/18 |
Jonathan Ornstein, Executive Director of the JCC of Krakow, Poland, on the 10th Anniversary of the JCC and 5th Ride for the Living |
7/15/18 |
Steven Hartov,
author of “The Soul of a Thief” |
7/8/18 |
Best of “Too
Jewish”, Dr. Jeff
Janeczko, Curator, Milken
Archive of Jewish Music |
7/1/18 |
Rabbi Ben Kamin,
author of “The Blessing of Sorrow: Turning Grief into Healing” |
6/24/18 |
Eric Lindberg and Doni
Zasloff of Nefesh Mountain, Jewish bluegrass recording artists |
6/18/18 |
Beth Warren,
author of Secrets of a Kosher Girl: A 21-Day Nourishing Plan to Lose Weight
and Feel Great (Even If You're Not Jewish) |
6/10/18 |
Mark Bloom,
longtime Jewish recording and performing artist and creator of “Harmonic
Convergence: Jewish Gospel, Sharing a Common Spiritual Path” |
6/3/18 |
Etai Benson,
star of the Broadway hit “The Band’s Visit” |
5/27/18 |
David Hirshberg,
author of “My Mother’s Son” |
5/20/18 |
Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference, on the new Survey of Holocaust Knowledge in the United States |
5/13/18 |
Professor Andrew Pessin, co-editor of “Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech and BDS” |
5/6/18 |
Mohamed al-Samawi, author of “The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America – Four Strangers, Three Faiths and One Extraordinary Escape to Freedom” |
4/29/18 |
Filmmaker Arnon Shorr, “The Pirate Captain Toledano” and Jewish pirates |
4/22/18 |
Carine Warsawski, founder, Trybal Gatherings for Young Adults |
4/15/18 |
Adam Levinson,
author of “The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah” |
4/8/18 |
Elliot Glicksman, Comedian and attorney, Comedy for Charity |
4/1/18 |
Rachel Laser, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State |
3/25/18 |
Tova Mirvis, author of The Book of Separation |
3/18/18 |
Sociologist Professor Steven M. Cohen of Hebrew Union College, the new Portrait of Bay Area Jewish Life and Communities |
3/11/18 |
Isaac Shapiro,
author of “Edokko: Growing up a Stateless Foreigner in Wartime Japan” |
3/4/18 |
Ben Rimalower, actor, playwright, director and creator of the shows “Bad With Money” and “Patti Issues” |
2/25/18 |
Elhanan Miller, Arab affairs journalist, rabbinical student, creator of the “People of the Book” YouTube series, on Arab-Jewish relations |
2/18/18 |
Ruchama Feuerman,
author of “The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard” |
2/11/18 |
Dave Schlossberg,
pianist, arranger and composer, on his CD/MP3 “A Place Beyond Words: New
Visions of Classic Jewish Melodies” |
2/4/18 |
Rabbi Manis Friedman, author of “The Joy of Intimacy: a Soulful Guide to Love, Sex and Marriage” |
1/28/18 |
Emily Wanderer Cohen, innovative child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors and creator of the “Write to Heal” process for survivors descendants; author of “From Generation to Generation: Healing Intergenerational Trauma Through Storytelling” |
1/21/18 |
Seth Rudetsky,
host of the Sirius/XM show “Seth Speaks” on the Broadway Channel, author of
“Seth’s Broadway Diary, Volume 3: The Inside Scoop on (almost) Every Broadway
Show and Star” |
1/14/18 |
Dara Horn,
author of “Eternal Life” |
1/7/18 |
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,
founder of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center that has recovered hundreds of
millions of dollars from terrorist organizations to compensate terror
victims, co-author of the book “Harpoon: Inside the Covert War Against
Terrorism’s Money Masters” |
12/31/17 |
Ruby Namdar,
author of “The Ruined House” |
12/24/17 |
Phil Blazer,
founder and CEO of the Jewish Life Television Network and winner of the 2017
Cohon Memorial Foundation Award |
12/17/17 |
Sharon Hart Green,
author of “Come Back For Me” |
12/10/17 |
AJ Jacobs,
author of “It's All Relative” |
12/3/17 |
Rabbi Steve Leder,
Senior Rabbi Wilshire Blvd. Temple, author of “More Beautiful Than Before:
How Suffering Transforms Us” |
11/26/17 |
Rachel Brosnahan and
Michael Zegen, stars of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” an Amazon
Original TV Series |
11/19/17 |
Eshkol Nevo, bestselling Israeli novelist, author of “Three Floors Up” |
11/12/17 |
Joshua Max Feldman,
author of “Start Without Me”, the new Jewish Thanksgiving-based novel |
11/5/17 |
Rotem Malach,
World Zionist Organization, on the Israeli Supreme Court |
10/29/17 |
David A. Goldstein,
author of “Alley-oop to Aliyah: African-American Hoopsters in the Holy Land” |
10/22/17 |
Isaac Sutton,
Israeli theater and concert vocal star |
10/15/17 |
Rabbi Dr. Ron Kronish, author, “The Other Peace Process: Interreligious Dialogue, A View from Jerusalem” |
10/8/17 |
Rabbi Sid Schwarz, director, Clergy Leadership Incubator |
10/1/17 |
Billy Jonas,
Jewish children's music star |
9/24/17 |
Chemi Peres, Shimon Peres’ son, Chairman of the Peres Center for Peace, and co-founder of Pitango, Israel’s leading venture capital fund, on Shimon Peres' memoir, “No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel” |
9/17/17 |
Yizhar Hess,
head of the Masorti (Conservative) Movement in Israel |
9/10/17 |
Ilana Kurshan, author of “If All the Seas Were Ink” |
9/3/17 |
David N. Weiss, screenwriter for “Rugrats”, “The Smurfs”, “Shrek 2”, and “Jimmy Neutron” |
8/27/17 |
Laura Adkins and Aiden Pink, The Forward editors of “The Jewish Guide to Colleges” |
8/20/17 |
Joe Levin,
co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, on the violence last weekend
in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the resurgence of Neo-Nazi and other hate
groups in the current political climate |
8/13/17 |
Rabbi Esteban Gottfried,
co-founder of Beit Tefilah Israeli, the “Tel Aviv Port Shabbat Service” |
8/6/17 |
15th Anniversary Show of Too Jewish: Jeremy Cowan, founder and president of Shmaltz Brewing Co. L'Chayim! |
7/30/17 |
Nicholas Tolkein, author and director of new play Terzin, Jewish grandson of author JRR Tolkein |
7/23/17 |
Edie Berg,
creator of The Strong Women's Club |
7/16/17 |
Rabbi Shai Held, President, Dean and Chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, author of “The Heart of Torah” |
7/9/17 |
Alice Langholt, author, “First Family” |
7/2/17 |
Dr. Jeff Janeczko, Curator, Milken Archive of Jewish Music |
6/25/17 |
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield,
Co-President, CLAL, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership |
6/18/17 |
Jeffrey Konis, author of “The Conversations We Never Had” |
6/11/17 |
Dr. Doron Markel,
Israel's Water Authority, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead-Red canal project |
6/4/17 |
Rabbi Eve Posen,
co-author, “Pirkei Imahot: The Wisdom of Mothers, The Voices of Women” |
5/28/17 |
Pamela Schuller, Jewish inclusion advocate and standup comedian |
5/21/17 |
Yonatan Nir, Israeli filmmaker of “My Hero Brother” |
5/14/17 |
Matti Friedman, Israeli journalist and author of “Pumpkinflowers” and “The Aleppo Codex” |
5/7/17 |
Jeffrey Sussman, author, “Max Baer and Barney Ross, Jewish Heroes of Boxing” |
4/30/17 |
Richard Michelson,
author, “The Language of Angels: A Story about the Reinvention of Hebrew” |
4/23/17 |
Rabbanit Alissa
Thomas-Newborn, newly installed Orthodox woman
rabbi at Temple B’nai David-Judea in Los Angeles |
4/16/17 |
Pam Jenoff,
author, “The Orphan’s Tale” |
4/9/17 |
Rabbi David Zaslow,
author, “Reimagining Exodus: A Story of Freedom” |
4/2/17 |
Professor Eric H. Cline,
Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at George Washington
University, author “Three Stones Make a Wall: the Story of Archeology” and
“1177 BC: the Year Civilization Collapsed” |
3/26/17 |
Professor Aaron Hahn
Tapper, founding Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies
and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco, author “Judaisms: A
Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities” |
3/19/17 |
Rabbi Susan Silverman,
activist, author, “Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken
World” |
3/12/17 |
Abigail Pogrebin,
author, “My Jewish Year—18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew” |
3/5/17 |
Dr. Gabor Gyori,
“Jews in Hungary Today”, Sr. Analyst, Policy Solutions, Budapest, Hungary |
2/26/17 |
Rabbi Richard Address,
Health, Wellness, and Aging in Judaism, 2017 Bilgray Scholar |
2/19/17 |
Rabbi Lior Bar-Ami,
Rabbi of Or Chadash Synagogue in Vienna, Austria and The Liberal Synagogue in
Toulouse, France |
2/12/17 |
Dr. Joel Hoffman,
author, “The Bible Doesn’t Say That” |
2/5/17 |
Jen Glantz,
author of “Always a Bridesmaid for Hire” |
1/29/17 |
Rabbi Joe Black,
recording artist, Sr. Rabbi Temple Emanuel, Denver, CO |
1/22/17 |
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1/15/17 |
Elizabeth Gellman,
Director, Florida Holocaust Museum, gravestone desecrations in Europe |
1/8/17 |
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein,
founder and president of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews,
co-winner of the 2016 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award |
1/1/17 |
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin,
founder of AMCHA Initiative fighting Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israel activity
on college campuses, co-winner of 2016 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award |
12/25/16 |
Julia Dahl,
author of “Invisible City” and the Rebekah Roberts series |
12/18/16 |
Joel ben Izzy,
storyteller and author of “Dreidels on the Brain” |
12/11/16 |
Daniel Torday,
author of “The Last Flight of Poxl West”, winner of the National Jewish Book
Award |
12/4/16 |
Israeli Major General
Doron Almog, 2016 Israel Prize Winner for his life work with autistic
young people and founding a rehabilitation village |
11/27/16 |
Rabbi Jonah Pesner,
Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Senior Vice President,
Union for Reform Judaism |
11/20/16 |
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche,
Tibetan Buddhist monk and teacher, a Dialogue on Gratitude |
11/13/16 |
Mara Liasson,
National NPR Political Correspondent, on the election results |
11/6/16 |
Elan Carr,
Past Supreme Master Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity, Jewish Fraternities Today |
10/30/16 |
Rabbi Capers Funnye,
Chief Rabbi, International Israelite Board of Rabbis |
10/23/16 |
Neshama Carlebach,
singer and composer |
10/16/16 |
Daniel Gordis,
author of “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn” |
10/9/16 |
Rabbi James Rudin,
retired National Interreligious Affairs Director of the American Jewish
Committee, author of “Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Stephen S. Wise” |
10/2/16 |
Richard Michelson,
author of “Fascinating—the Life of Leonard Nimoy” |
9/25/16 |
Michael Krasny,
author of “Let There Be Laughter” |
9/18/16 |
Andrew Coe and Jane
Ziegelman, authors of “A Square Meal” |
9/11/16 |
Terrorism and nuclear weapons 15 years after 9/11: Professor William
Potter, Director, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
and Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar
Professors of Nonproliferation Studies Middlebury Institute of International
Studies at Monterey |
9/4/16 |
Cantor Richard Cohn,
Director, Debbie Friedman School of Sacred Music, Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute for Religion, New York |
8/28/16 |
Rabbi Jonathan
Greenberg, Sr. VP of the Haym Salomon Center for American Jewish
Thought |
8/21/16 |
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg,
influential theologian, pluralist, founder of CLAL, author of the new book
“Sage Advice” |
8/14/16 |
Ron Wolfson, Ph.D,
author of Relational Judaism |
8/7/16 |
Rabbi Seth Limmer,
winner of 2015 Eisendrath Award for Journey for Justice walk with Torah from
Selma to Washington, DC |
7/31/16 |
Rabbi Sally Priesand,
first woman ordained a rabbi in a seminary in America |
7/24/16 |
Rabbi Rebecca Einstein
Schorr, editor, The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the
Rabbinate |
7/17/16 |
Mike Wise,
co-CEO of Honeymoon Israel, a new program that sends newly married couples to
Israel |
7/10/16 |
RebbeSoul,
recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer |
7/3/16 |
Hillary Kener,
JScreen “Jewish genetic testing made easy” |
6/26/16 |
Jamie Elman and Eli
Batalion, co-creators and stars of Yidlife Crisis Yiddish
situation-comedy Youtube hit |
6/19/16 |
Dr. Esther Sternberg,
Founding Director, the University of Arizona Institute on Place and Wellbeing
and expert on the science of the mind-body interaction in illness and healing |
6/12/16 |
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin,
Director of AMCHA Initiative, Anti-Semitism on college campuses |
6/5/16 |
Maggie Anton,
author of “Fifty Shades of Talmud” and the “Rashi's Daughters” series |
5/29/16 |
Rabbi Mark Borovits of
Beit Teshuvah, author of “Finding Recovery and
Yourself in Torah: A Daily Spiritual Path to Wellness” |
5/22/16 |
Andrew Nagorski,
author of The Nazi Hunters |
5/15/16 |
Jeff Aeder,
founder, Jewish Baseball Museum |
5/8/16 |
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5/1/16 |
Rabbi Marvin Hier,
Founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center |
4/24/16 |
Tracy Salkowits,
Executive Director, Jewish Community Foundation, Legacy Giving Today |
4/17/16 |
Father Sean Carroll,
S.J., Executive Director, Kino Border Initiative |
4/10/16 |
Amelia Saltsman,
award-winning cookbook author of “The Seasonal Jewish Kitchen: A Fresh Take
on Tradition” |
4/3/16 |
Ori Kam, violist of the Jerusalem Quartet |
3/27/16 |
Mort Rosenblum, famed AP reporter, former editor of The International Herald Tribune, and author of 13 books, on the changing state of the media today |
3/20/16 |
Ron Lieber, author, “The Opposite of Spoiled” |
3/13/16 |
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, 2015 Cohon Foundation Award Winner, Simon
Wiesenthal Center and Tolerance Museum |
3/6/16 |
David Gregory, journalist, former host of Meet the
Press, author of “How's Your Faith?” |
2/28/16 |
Rabbi Susan Goldberg, Wilshire
Boulevard Temple, outreach and engaging millennial-generation Jews |
2/21/16 |
Professor Mark Kligman, Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music, UCLA |
2/14/16 |
Professor Michael Kagan, Non-Jewish Refugees in Israel |
2/7/16 |
Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good
People” and the new book, “Nine Essential Things I’ve Learned About Life” |
1/31/16 |
Ted Merwin, author, “Pastrami on Rye” |
1/24/16 |
Alan Morinis, Dean of the Mussar Institute, author of “Everyday Holiness”, Bilgray Lectureship Scholar on Mussar |
1/17/16 |
Dr. Robert Brooks, Ph.D.
psychologist, author of 12 books, and expert speaker on Resilience and
Mindset |
1/10/16 |
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1/3/16 |
Rabbi Mary Zamore,
Executive Director, Women’s Rabbinic Network, the only organization of woman
rabbis in the world |
12/27/15 |
Mike Harris,
author of “How to Win a Debate with an Israel-Hater” |
12/20/15 |
Rabbi David Zaslow,
author of “Jesus, First Century Rabbi” |
12/13/15 |
Robert Bank,
Executive Director of American Jewish World Service |
12/6/15 |
Michelle Citrin,
singer-songwriter |
11/29/15 |
Rabbi Rami Shapiro,
on his new book of poems “Accidental Grace” |
11/22/15 |
Kinky Friedman,
Jewish cowboy singer-author-politician-animal rescuer, on his first album in
32 years, “The Loneliest Man I Ever Met” |
11/15/15 |
Rabbi Joel Oseran, Vice President, World Union for
Progressive Judaism, the new European Anti-Semitism |
11/8/15 |
Ambassador Dennis Ross, on his new book “Doomed to Succeed: The
U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama” |
11/1/15 |
Brigadier General Shmulik
Friedman, Head of
Operations Department, Israel Fire and Rescue Authority and Guy Caspi
director of HAZMAT for Magen David Adom |
10/25/15 |
Sigal Samuel, author of “The Mystics of Mile End” |
10/18/15 |
Amit Peled, Israeli cellist, who plays Pablo Casals’
cello |
10/11/15 |
Mark Hetfield, President and CEO of HIAS, the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, on the refugee crisis |
10/4/15 |
Seth Frantzman, op-ed editor of the Jerusalem Post,
on the Syrian, Iraqi, and Afghan refugee crisis in Europe |
9/27/15 |
Seth Siegel,
author of “Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World”
and founder of The Beanstalk Group |
9/20/15 |
Fire Captain Scott Laird
and Battalion Chief Allen Yalen, Firefighters trip to Israel and
upcoming visit of Israeli Firefighting personnel |
9/13/15 |
Kenneth L. Marcus,
author of “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” |
9/6/15 |
Justice Richard Bernstein,
blind judge on the Michigan Supreme Court and 18 time marathoner |
8/30/15 |
Yuval Noah
Harari, author of “Sapiens: A
Brief History of Humankind” |
8/23/15 |
Rabbi Niles
Goldstein, Gonzo Rabbi and
author of “Eight Questions of Faith: Biblical Challenges That Guide and
Ground Our Lives” |
8/16/15 |
Mathew Rees, co-author of “The Ambassador” with Yehdua
Avner |
8/9/15 |
Sarah Weil, founder and Executive Director of The
Jerusalem Women’s Gathering, present at Pride Parade attack |
8/2/15 |
Yizhar Hess, Executive Director and CEO of the Masorti
(Conservative) Movement in Israel, 13th Anniversary Show |
7/26/15 |
Marcie Natan, National President of Hadassah |
7/19/15 |
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7/12/15 |
Dr. Steven
Windmueller, “Making the Case
for the Big-Tent Federation”, author of ”The Quest for Power: A
Study in Jewish Political Behavior” |
7/5/15 |
U.S.
Army Colonel (ret.) Jon Gold, military
intelligence expert, on ISIS, ISIL and Islamist terror threats |
6/28/15 |
Ean
Seeb, Marijuana businessman and Jewish activist |
6/21/15 |
Professor Sarah Benor, Hebrew Union College, the sociology of
Jewish camps, the Pew Report, neo-frum Jews, and more… |
6/14/15 |
Randol Schoenberg, attorney and protagonist of the “Woman in
Gold” story of Nazi-stolen art restitution, President of the Los Angeles
Holocaust Museum, and grandson of composer Arnold Schoenberg |
6/7/15 |
Dr. Eyal Fruchter, head of psychiatry for the IDF, who
treated Gilad Shalit on his release |
5/31/15 |
Chancellor Arnold Eisen of the Jewish Theological
Seminary, leader of the Conservative Movement |
5/24/15 |
Laura Bialis, Israeli filmmaker of “Rock in the Red Zone” about
musicians in Sderot, Israel living under the rain of Palestinian rockets |
5/17/15 |
Judith Frank, author of “All I Love and
Know” |
5/10/15 |
Sam Wolthuis and Aaron
Acharya, American Jewish World Service from Nepal on their earthquake
relief efforts |
5/3/15 |
Misha Galperin,
President and CEO of the Jewish Agency |
4/26/15 |
Rabbi Gil Nativ, Rabbi of Beit Warsawa and
an Israeli paratrooper in 1967 who helped liberate the Temple Mount |
4/19/15 |
Mona Golabek, concert pianist, author,
playwright and star of “The Pianist of Willesden Lane” |
4/12/15 |
Nigel Savage, President and Founder of
Hazon, the Jewish sustainable food and agriculture organization |
4/5/15 |
Laura Wetzler, Jewish music from Yiddish
to Sephardic and her German cantorial great-grandfather |
3/29/15 |
Ruhama King Feuerman, author of “In the
Courtyard of the Kabbalist” |
3/22/15 |
Tucson City Councilman
and former Vice-Mayor Paul Cunningham |
3/15/15 |
Macy Hart, Executive Director,
Institute of Southern Jewish Life |
3/8/15 |
Gerard Edery, the music of the
Sephardim |
3/1/15 |
Joshua Hatton, founder, The Jewish
Whisky Company |
2/22/15 |
Professor Carmel Chiswick, the social economics of
Judaism today |
2/15/15 |
Abigail Pogrebin, journalist and author,
“18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew” and “Stars of David” book and musical |
2/8/15 |
Rabbi Hayyim Herring, fixing today’s synagogues |
2/1/15 |
Rabbi Rachel Mikva, “Dangerous Religious
Ideas” |
1/25/15 |
Bernard Otterman, author of “Inmate 1818
and Other Stories” |
1/18/15 |
Lior Shragg, the Jews of Nigeria |
1/11/15 |
Rabbi Daniel Freelander, President, World Union of
Progressive Judaism |
1/4/15 |
Jonathan Ornstein, Executive Director of the
JCC in Krakow, Poland, 2014 Cohon Foundation Award Winner |
12/28/14 |
Rabbi Benje Levene of Gesher, 2014 Cohon
Foundation Award Winner |
12/21/14 |
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12/14/14 |
Terri Waldman,
memory in Judaism and the treatment of Alzheimer’s and Dementia |
12/7/14 |
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, Michelangelo and Midrash
(author of “The Sistine Secrets”) |
11/30/14 |
|
11/23/14 |
Eric Lichtblau,
author, “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's
Men” |
11/16/14 |
Dr. Elyashiv Drori,
King David's Grapes: Biblical Wine from Ancient Vines |
11/9/14 |
|
11/2/14 |
Professor Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and
Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt, author “Short Stories by Jesus” |
10/26/14 |
Professor Jonathan
Petropolous, the recovery and return of Nazi-Looted Art |
10/19/14 |
Richard Cohen, author of “Israel: is it
Good for the Jews?” |
10/12/14 |
Gary Shteyngart, author of “Little
Failure” and “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook” |
10/5/14 |
David Broza, world musician |
9/28/14 |
Anita Diamant, author of “The Red Tent”
and “Living a Jewish Life” and founder of the Mayyim Hayyim Mikvah |
9/21/14 |
Jon Ben Asher on Jewish Day Schools |
9/14/14 |
Abigail Gumbiner, daughter of Civil Rights
pioneering Rabbi Joseph Gumbiner |
9/7/14 |
|
8/31/14 |
Rabbi Rich Kirschen, youth programs in Israel
over the Gaza War summer |
8/24/14 |
Joel Baden,
Yale Divinity School professor and the author of “The Historical David: The
Real Life of an Invented Hero” |
8/17/14 |
Harriet Rossetto,
2013 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award winner, for Jewish recovery from
addiction, and founder of Beit Teshuvah |
8/10/14 |
Cheryl Birkner-Mack, Women of the Wall and the
Kotel Proposal |
8/3/14 |
Roni Kedar, a Peace Activist for Gaza
in the Shadow of Rockets and Tunnels |
7/27/14 |
Oshrat Bar-El, Weintraub Israel Center director, on being in Israel during the war |
7/20/14 |
Rabbi Doug Kohn, editor of Broken Fragments: Jewish Experiences of Alzheimer’s Disease |
7/13/14 |
Professor Jonathan Adelman on Israel, Palestinians, Russia, and the world |
7/6/14 |
Molly Antopol, author, “The UnAmericans” |
6/29/14 |
Rabbi Leon Morris on the new Reform movement High Holy Day Prayerbook (Machzor) |
6/22/14 |
Sean Altman, “Jewmongous” singer/songwriter, pioneer of the a cappella movement
with Rockapella |
6/15/14 |
Professor
Sharon Megdal, Israeli-Arab cooperation on
water issues |
6/8/14 |
Menachem Hesse, Minister, Agricultural and Science Affairs, Israeli Embassy,
Washington, DC |
6/1/14 |
Josh Fattal, “A Sliver of Light--Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran” |
5/25/14 |
Israeli Vice Consul
General Uri Resnick: the Peace Process failure, BDS, and more |
5/18/14 |
Dr. Richard Ablin, inventor of the PSA test and author, “The Great Prostate Hoax” |
5/11/14 |
Annie Jacobsen, author of “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that
Brought Nazi Scientists to America” |
5/4/14 |
Professor Aaron Wolf on water in the
Middle East |
4/27/14 |
Stephen Smith, Shoah Foundation
20th Anniversary of Schindler's
List
and Yom HaShoah |
4/20/14 |
Rabbi Simkha Weintraub, Rabbinic
Director of the National Center for Health and Healing |
4/13/14 |
Ed Asner, Emmy-winning
acting legend and activist |
4/6/14 |
Beth Surdut, the modern
Tallit (prayer shawl) |
3/30/14 |
Bruce Feiler, author of “Walking the Bible” on
his new book “The Secrets of Happy Families” |
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3/23/14 |
Rabbi Aaron Panken, new President of
Hebrew Union College |
3/16/14 |
Simon Schama, historian, creator of the documentary series “The Story of the Jews” |
3/9/14 |
Rabbi Bradley Solmsen on the B’nai Mitzvah Revolution |
3/2/14 |
Rabbi Kinneret Shiryon, Congregation Yozma
in Modi'in, Israel, winner of the 2013 Cohon Foundation Memorial Award |
2/23/14 |
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, Judaism in America and Israel Today |
2/16/14 |
Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism |
2/9/14 |
David Wolpe, author of “Why
Faith Matters” |
2/2/14 |
Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When
Bad Things Happen to Good People”, on “How You Know That Your Life Has Made a
Difference” |
1/26/14 |
Mitch Albom, bestselling
author of “The First Phone Call from Heaven” |
1/19/14 |
Rabbi Joshua Weinberg, president of
ARZA (Association of Reform Zionists of America) |
1/12/14 |
Alan Morinis, contemporary
Mussar |
1/5/14 |
Rabbi Meir Azari, Senior Rabbi and
Executive Director of the Daniel Centers for Progressive Judaism in Tel Aviv |
12/29/13 |
|
12/22/13 |
|
12/15/13 |
Rabbi Asher Lopatin, President of Yeshivat
Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, “Open Orthodoxy” |
12/8/13 |
Jamie Geller, author of “The Joy of
Kosher” cookbook |
12/1/13 |
Lorin Sklamberg of The Klezmatics |
11/24/13 |
Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, Chief Rabbi of Uganda and
the Abuyudaya Jews |
11/17/13 |
Jeremy Ben Ami,
Executive Director of J Street |
11/10/13 |
Maestro James Conlon, Cohon Award winner for his work on
“Recovered Voices” |
11/3/13 |
Josh Nelson and Neshama
Carlebach on Jewish music |
10/27/13 |
Ronald Balson, author of “Once We Were Brothers” |
10/20/13 |
Alexander “Sasha”
Pavlovsky, first violinist of
the Jerusalem Quartet |
10/13/13 |
Professor Zvi Eckstein, author of “The Chosen Few: How Education
Shaped Jewish History” |
10/6/13 |
Professor Shaul Magid,
author of “American Post-Judaism: Identity and Renewal in a Postethnic
Society” |
9/29/13 |
Thomas Harding, “Hanns and
Rudolph, The True Story of the Jew who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant
of Auschwitz” |
9/22/13 |
Idan Raichel, Israeli and
World Music star |
9/15/13 |
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Feminist, Author, Journalist |
9/8/13 |
Rabbi Alana Suskin, Americans for Peace Now |
9/1/13 |
Dara Horn, author of “A Guide to the Perplexed” |
8/25/13 |
|
8/18/13 |
Eric Goldman, author of “The American Jewish Story
through Cinema” |
8/11/13 |
11th
Anniversary Show with comedian Rick Moranis, creator of the CD “My Mother's Brisket
and Other Love Songs” |
8/4/13 |
Rabbi David
Eshel, Rabbi of the
Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps |
7/28/13 |
Ted Mann, activist and advocate for Tikun Olam |
7/21/13 |
Heidi Bogin
Oshin, the new film
“Nicky's Family” on Nicholas Winton, the British version of Oskar Schindler |
7/14/13 |
Mark Cohen, author of “Overweight Sensation--the
Biography of Allan Sherman” |
7/7/13 |
Rabbi Joel
Mossbacher, A Jewish
Perspective on Guns and Violence |
6/30/13 |
Miriam Hawley
and Jeffrey McIntyre,
“Our Bodies Ourselves” co-author on successful entrepreneurial couples |
6/23/13 |
Dr. Joy Ladin,
transgender professor at Yeshiva
University, author of “Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between
Genders” |
6/16/13 |
Cantor Hillel
Tigay, the music of
his CD “Judeo” |
6/9/13 |
Rabbi Richard
Agler, Talia’s
orphanage in Africa |
6/2/13 |
Helene Wecker,
author of “The Golem and the Jinni” |
5/26/13 |
Ron Blomberg,
the Designated Hebrew: Baseball’s first DH |
5/19/13 |
Rabbi Richard
Address, Sacred Aging: Growing Older Jewishly |
5/12/13 |
Marian
Marzynski,
filmmaker of “Never Forget to Lie” |
5/5/13 |
Professor Faten
Ghosn,
Israel's Neighborhood Problem: Syrian Civil War, Lebanon, and Iran |
4/28/13 |
Rabbi Wayne
Dosick,
writer, speaker, spiritual guide and healer, author of “The Real Name of God”
|
4/21/13 |
|
4/14/13 |
Jessica Soffer, author of “Tomorrow there
will be Apricots” |
4/7/13 |
Roni Kedar, from London to Sinai to
Egypt to Gaza: Building Peace in the Shadow of Rockets |
3/31/13 |
Professor
Peter Machinist,
Harvard, the Book of Job for our time |
3/24/13 |
Professor
Carol Meyers,
Women at the time of the Bible |
3/17/13 |
Dylan Williams, chief lobbyist for J
Street |
3/10/13 |
Ann Kirschner, author of “The Lady at
the O.K. Corral--the True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp” |
3/3/13 |
Jonathan
Tropper,
author of “One Last Thing Before I Go” and “This is Where I Leave You” and
creator of “Banshee” |
3/2/13 |
10th
Anniversary Live Broadcast Starring Robert Klein at the Fox Theatre |
2/24/13 |
|
2/17/13 |
Professor Eric
Meyers,
Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, excavator of
Sephoris |
2/10/13 |
|
2/3/13 |
Ayo Oppenheimer, founder of the Jewrotica
website |
1/27/13 |
Rabbi Elyse
Frishman,
speaking about Women of the Wall |
1/20/13 |
Rabbi Dr.
Arthur Green,
scholar of Hasidism and Kabbalah, author of “Radical Judaism”, “A Guide to
the Zohar”, and “Seek my Face, Speak my Name” |
1/13/13 |
Melissa Fay
Greene,
author of “No Bike Riding in the House without a Helmet!” and “The Temple
Bombing” |
1/6/13 |
Jon D. Levenson, Harvard Professor and
author of Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam |
12/30/12 |
Ben Sidran, author of “There Was a
Fire: Jews, Music, and the American Dream” |
12/23/12 |
Jeremy
Cowan, Shmaltz Brewing Company |
12/16/12 |
MacArthur Genius Fellowship winner Professor
Maria Chudnovsky |
12/9/12 |
Moshe Bar-El, Israeli Agronomist and
Olive Oil producer |
12/2/12 |
Dr. Adina
Bar-El on Yiddish and Hebrew children's authors |
11/25/12 |
Arun
Chaudhaury,
first official White House videographer and author of “First Cameraman” |
11/18/12 |
Harry Brod, Author of “Superman is
Jewish?” |
11/11/12 |
|
11/4/12 |
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10/28/12 |
Historian
John Davis,
author of “The Jews of San Nicandro,”; the amazing Jewish converts of
Southern Italy |
10/21/12 |
Alan Veingrad, NFL lineman, Super Bowl
Champion, Orthodox Jew, Motivational Speaker |
10/14/12 |
Randy Cohen, The Ethicist, author of
“Be Good” |
10/7/12 |
Dr. Harry
Ostrer,
author, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People” |
9/30/12 |
Rabbi Shmuel
Goldin,
President of the Rabbinical Council of America |
9/23/12 |
Dr. Ian Stern, Israeli Archeology
Today |
9/16/12 |
Noah Leavitt
and Helen Kim
on Jewish-Asian Intermarriage |
9/9/12 |
Daniel Wise, playwright of “Soul
Doctor: the Journey of a Rock Star Rabbi” and “Rent” |
9/2/12 |
Lee Gordon of Hand-in-Hand
Israeli/Arab Schools in Israel |
8/26/12 |
Jay Sanderson, President and CEO of the
Jewish Federation of Los Angeles |
8/19/12 |
Professor Burt
Visotzky,
JTS, creator of the Genesis Project |
8/12/12 |
10th
Anniversary Show with special guest Congressman Ron Barber |
8/5/12 |
Ellen Cassedy, author of “We Are Here:
Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust” |
7/29/12 |
Professor
Michael Walzer,
political philosopher and public intellectual, author of 27 books, most
recently “In God's Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible” |
7/22/12 |
Rabbi Gilad
Kariv,
Executive Director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism |
7/15/12 |
Reform Rabbi
Miri Gold,
Kibbutz Gezer, the first non-Orthodox Rabbi ever officially employed by
Israel as a rabbi |
7/8/12 |
Dr. Josh
Perelman,
curator of the American Jewish History Museum |
7/1/12 |
Actor Joshua Bitton
on his new film “For the Love of Money” |
6/24/12 |
Newly ordained Rabbi Rachel
Adler, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought and Gender Studies, USC and
HUC-JIR |
6/17/12 |
Michelle
Levine,
Outreach Coordinator for the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel |
6/10/12 |
Dr. Bernard
Wasserstein,
author, “On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War” |
6/3/12 |
Rabbi David
Bendory,
“The Gun Rabbi” |
5/27/12 |
Phyllis
Goldstein,
author, “A Convenient Hatred: the History of Anti-Semitism” |
5/20/12 |
Michael Twitty, food historian and
creator of Kosher Soul and the Cooking Gene Southern Discomfort Tour |
5/13/12 |
Professor Josh
Kun,
co-founder of “The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation” |
5/6/12 |
Professor Nancy
K. Miller,
author “What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past” |
4/29/12 |
Andrew
Nagorski,
author of “Hitlerland” |
4/22/12 |
Pnina Jacobson
and Judy Kempler,
authors of “One Egg is a Fortune” celebrity Jewish cookbook |
4/15/12 |
Roya Hakakian, Iranian Jewish poet and
author |
4/8/12 |
Alon Velan, Channel 1 (Israel)
Journalist |
4/1/12 |
David Liss, author of “A Conspiracy
of Paper” and many other books |
3/25/12 |
|
3/18/12 |
Professor
Michael Morgan,
Bilgray Scholar on Modern Jewish Thought |
3/11/12 |
Alice Hoffman, Author of “The
Dovekeepers” |
3/4/12 |
Mayim Bialik, Actress on “The Big Bang
Theory,” neuroscientist, and author |
2/26/12 |
Deborah
Feldman,
Author of “Unorthodox: the Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots” |
2/19/12 |
Ernest Michel, Holocaust Survivor,
reporter at the Nuremberg Trials, and author |
2/12/12 |
Dr. Wendy
Mogel,
Child-rearing expert and author of “The Blessing of a B-minus” |
2/5/12 |
Faye Kellerman, Bestselling author of
“Gun Games” |
1/29/12 |
Ambassador
Nancy Brinker,
Founder and CEO of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation |
1/22/12 |
Jennifer
Laszlo Mizrahi,
Founder and president of The Israel Project |
1/15/12 |
Melanie Nezer, Hebrew Immigrant Aid
Society (HIAS) Senior Director, US Policy and Advocacy |
1/8/12 |
Rabbi Bentzion
Kravitz,
Founder of Jews for Judaism, 11 Cohon Foundation Award Winner |
1/1/12 |
Howard Megdal, Author of “The Baseball
Talmud” |
12/25/11 |
Jeff Nathan, Celebrity kosher chef |
12/18/11 |
David
Makovsky,
Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of
Myths, Illusions and Peace |
12/11/11 |
Neshama
Carlbach,
Singer and recording artist |
12/4/11 |
Gilad Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon and
author of Sharon, the Life of a Leader |
11/27/11 |
Rabbi David
Saperstein,
Head of the Religious Action Center |
11/20/11 |
Itamar
Rabinovich,
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States |
11/13/11 |
Rabbi Adin
Steinsaltz,
Translator of the Talmud, philosopher, world-leading scholar, and creator of
the Global Day of Jewish Learning |
11/6/11 |
Peter Beinart, Associate Professor of
Journalism and Political Science at the City University of New York |
10/30/11 |
Professor Steve Spiegel,
Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Center for Middle East Development at UCLA |
10/23/11 |
James Sherman,
Jewish playwright |
10/16/11 |
Yosef Abramowitz,
Co-Founder and President of Arava Power Company |
10/9/11 |
Israeli Shlichim in America--Representing
Israel in the US |
10/2/11 |
Amy Ephron,
author of “Loose Diamonds …and other things I’ve lost (and found) along the
Way” |
9/25/11 |
Eric Golub, comedian |
9/18/11 |
Dr. Steve
Werlin,
on “The First Synagogue Ever?” |
9/11/11 |
Jon Rosenberg, CEO of Repair the World |
9/4/11 |
Sarah Aronson,
author of “Beyond Lucky” |
8/28/11 |
Professor Asher Susser,
Senior Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel
Aviv University and author of “Israel, Jordan and Palestine: Challenges of
Palestinian Statehood” |
8/21/11 |
Brook Wilensky-Lanford,
author of “Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden” |
8/14/11 |
Susannah
Heschel, author of “Abraham Joshua Heschel -- Essential Writings” |
8/7/11 |
Joan Leegant,
author of “Wherever You Go” and “An Hour in Paradise” |
7/31/11 |
Rabbi Mary
Zamore, editor of “The Sacred Table, Creating a Jewish Food Ethic” |
7/24/11 |
Shalom
Freedman,
Israeli author and poet |
7/17/11 |
Deborah
Lipstadt,
American historian and author of the book “Denying the Holocaust” |
7/10/11 |
Richard
Elliott Friedman,
author of “Commentary on the Torah” and “The Bible Now” |
7/3/11 |
Anat Hoffman, executive director of the
Israel Religious Action Center |
6/26/11 |
Cantor Nancy Abramson,
incoming Director of the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish
Music at the Jewish Theological Seminary |
6/19/11 |
Sarah Weiss
Maudi, Israel
Foreign Ministry's expert on maritime and humanitarian law |
6/12/11 |
Jonathan
Adelman,
Professor, University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International
Studies |
6/5/11 |
DJ Schneeweiss, Anti Boycott, Divestment,
and Sanctions Coordinator, Israeli’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
5/29/11 |
Rabbi Jamie
Korngold,
the Adventure Rabbi and author of “The God Update” |
5/22/11 |
Daniel
Sieradski,
Jewish American writer and activist |
5/15/11 |
Cantor Bruce
Ruben,
Director of the School of Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) |
5/8/11 |
Lucas Richman, Grammy winner, conductor of the Knoxville and
Bangor Symphony Orchestras |
5/1/11 |
Ishmael Khaldi,
Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat |
4/24/11 |
Rabbi Mark Golub,
President and CEO of Shalom TV |
4/17/11 |
Richard Michelson,
author of “Lipman Pike: America's First Home Run King” |
4/10/11 |
Paula Fass,
Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, and author
of “Inheriting the Holocaust” |
4/3/11 |
Patty Friedmann,
author of “TOO JEWISH” |
3/27/11 |
Martin Fletcher, Author of “Walking
Israel” and 5-time Emmy award winning NBC correspondent |
3/20/11 |
Abraham Foxman,
National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) |
3/13/11 |
Michael Rosenzweig,
President and CEO of the National Museum of American Jewish History |
3/6/11 |
Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh,
Director of ADAMAH, the largest, most established Jewish educational farm in
North America |
2/27/11 |
Judy Kaye,
Tony-Award winning actress |
2/20/11 |
Rabbi Gil Marks,
social worker, historian and James Beard Award-wining cookbook author |
2/13/11 |
Avner Cohen,
author of “Israel and the Bomb” and “The Worst Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain
with the Bomb” |
2/6/11 |
Misha Galperin,
President and CEO of the Jewish Agency International Development &
co-author of “The Case for Jewish Peoplehood: Can We Be One?” |
1/30/11 |
Dr. Joseph Regenstein,
Professor of Food Science in the Department of Food Science and Institute of
Food Science at Cornell University |
1/23/11 |
Natasha Mozgovaya, Chief US Correspondent for the Israeli
national daily newspaper Haaretz. |