Date of show |
Guest |
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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12/22/13 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
1/16/11 |
Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World
Service (AJWS) along with special guest Daniel Freedlander,
reporting on Debbie Friedman's funeral |
1/9/11 |
Jeremy Ben-Ami,
President of JStreet, a non-profit pro-Israel,
pro-peace advocacy group. |
1/2/11 |
Neil
Goldberg, creator and founder of Cirque productions |
12/26/10 |
Al
Jaffee & Mary-Lou Weisman, the famed cartoonist for
"Mad" magazine & co-authors of "Al Jaffee's Mad Life" |
12/19/10 |
Robert
Putnam, author of "American Grace" |
12/12/10 |
Yaakov
Katz, military correspondent and defense analyst for the Jerusalem
Post |
12/5/10 |
Harold
Kushner, author of "Conquering Fear: Living Boldly in an
Uncertain World" |
11/28/10 |
Barbara Ribakove-Gordon, 2010 Cohon Memorial Foundation
Award Winner |
11/21/10 |
Richard Stoltzman, Grammy Award winning clarinetist |
11/14/10 |
Arlene Weintraub,
author of "Selling the Fountain of Youth" |
11/7/10 |
Menachem Pressler,
legendary pianist |
10/31/10 |
Rabbi Dr.
Abraham Twerski, ordained rabbi,
psychiatrist, and founder of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center |
10/24/10 |
Caroline Glick,
deputy managing editor of The
Jerusalem Post and a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the
Center for Security Policy |
10/17/10 |
Arthur Kurzweil,
author of "Kabbalah for
Dummies" |
10/10/10 |
Rabbi
Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President of the Shalem Center |
10/3/10 |
Michael
Arad, Israeli-American architect who won the design
competition for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City |
9/26/10 |
Rabbi Yitzhok Adlerstein, Simon Wiesenthal Center Director of
Interfaith Affairs |
9/19/10 |
Len Berman, TV sports anchor and author of
"The Greatest Moments in Sports" |
9/12/10 |
Dr. Aliza Lavie,
author of “A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book” |
9/5/10 |
Dr. Jehuda Reinharz, President of Brandeis University &
Professor of Modern Jewish History |
8/29/10 |
Rabbi Mark
Borowitz, author of “The Holy
Thief: A Con Man’s Journey from Darkness to Light” |
8/22/10 |
Adam Shapiro,
pro-Palestinian American
activist |
8/15/10 |
Bill Van Esveld, Head of Jerusalem's Human Rights Watch |
8/8/10 |
8th Anniversary
Show with special guest Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords |
8/1/10 |
Stephen Smith, Executive Director for the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute |
7/25/10 |
Gideon Aronoff, President & CEO of HIAS (Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society) |
7/18/10 |
Rabbi Sara
Hurwitz, first orthodox woman rabbi |
7/11/10 |
Sarah Lefton, founder and producer of G-dcast.com, an
animated online series that tells the story of the Torah. |
7/4/10 |
Dr. Rabbi Marc Gopin, Professor of Religion, Diplomacy and
Conflict Resolution, and the Director of the Center on Religion, Diplomacy
and Conflict Resolution (CRDC) at George Mason University’s Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) |
6/27/10 |
Amy Dean,
author of "A New New Deal" and one of the
youngest labor leaders in America |
6/20/10 |
Bruce Feiler,
author of "Council of Dads" for Father's Day |
6/13/10 |
Rabbi &
Cantor David Kane, Holocaust
survivor and recipient of Jewish award |
6/6/10 |
Rabbi Robert L.
Kravitz, Chaplain for the Arizona Department of Public Safety |
5/30/10 |
Lenore Skenazy,
columnist and author of "Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the
Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry" |
5/23/10 |
Alexandra
Zapruder, author of “Salvaged
Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust” |
5/16/10 |
Beth Lapides,
comedian & performance artist |
5/9/10 |
Ari Roth, Artistic Director for Theater J |
5/2/10 |
Benyamin Cohen, author of “My Jesus Year”, and founder
and editor of “Jewsweek” and “American Jewish”
magazine |
4/25/10 |
J. Shawn Landres,
co-founder and CEO of Jumpstart |
4/18/10 |
Vadim Gluzman, Israeli violinist |
4/11/10 |
Marsha Levick, Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia |
4/4/10 |
Sam Harris,
founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center |
3/28/10 |
Mitch Albom, author of "Have a Little Faith"
and "Tuesdays With Morrie" |
3/21/10 |
Richard Lewis,
comedian and actor |
3/14/10 |
Dr. Richard Ablin, developer of the PSA test, and world
expert on prostate screening |
3/7/10 |
David Broza, Israeli singer/songwriter |
2/28/10 |
Josh Flagg
of Bravo TV's "Million Dollar Listing" |
2/21/10 |
Theodore Bikel, Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated
actor, folk singer, and musician |
2/14/10 |
Jane Ramsey,
Executive Director of the Windy City Jewish Council on Urban Affairs |
2/7/10 |
Anita
Diamant, author of "Day After Night" and "The Red
Tent" |
1/31/10 |
Sha’i ben Tekoa, Israeli analyst and West Bank
settler |
1/24/10 |
Jonathan Boyarin,
Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill |
1/17/10 |
Habanot Nechama, Israeli folk trio |
1/10/10 |
Michael Isaacson, Founding Music Director of the Israel
Pops Orchestra |
1/3/10 |
Idit Shner, Jazz saxophonist |
12/27/09 |
Jonathan Livny, legal advisor for the Knesset, presiding
judge of the military court in Judea and Samaria, attorney general of the
West Bank, and is one of Israel's leading legal experts |
12/20/09 |
Rabbi David Wilfond,
first Reform rabbi in the former Soviet Union |
12/13/09 |
Dr. Michael
Hammer and Syd Mandelbaum,
DNA Shoah Project and 2009 Cohon Memorial Foundation winners |
12/6/09 |
Steven Feinberg, Director of Education
at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum |
11/29/09 |
Rabbi and Cantor
Baruch J. Cohon, A Conversation on Jewish Music |
11/22/09 |
David Sax,
author of "Save the Deli" |
11/15/09 |
Shuly Schwartz, author of “The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life” |
11/8/09 |
Professor Uri
Shani, Director of the Water
Authority of Israel |
11/1/09 |
Thane Rosenbaum, author of “The Golems of Gotham” |
10/25/09 |
Rabbi Michael
Lerner, editor of TIKKUN
magazine |
10/18/09 |
Lieutenant
Colonel Marshall Grant,
Israeli Defense Force |
10/11/09 |
Josh Pastner, men’s basketball head coach at the
University of Memphis |
10/4/09 |
Ernie Weier, Hagafen winemaker |
9/27/09 |
Erez Safar,
founder and director of Shemspeed (the largest,
most diverse Jewish music website) |
9/20/09 |
Rabbi Kurt Stone, author of “The Congressional Minion: The
Jews of Capitol Hill” |
9/13/09 |
Laurie Graff, author of “The Shiksa
Syndrome” |
9/6/09 |
Rabbi Eric Yoffie,
President of the Union for Reform Judaism |
8/30/09 |
Rabbi Uri Topolosky, helped rebuild synagogues in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina |
8/23/09 |
Dr. Peter Willner, National Executive Director of the
American Friends of The Hebrew University |
8/16/09 |
Shmarya Rosenberg, "Failed Messiah"
blog author |
8/9/09 |
Rabbi Ellen
Dreyfuss, President of CCAR
(Central Conference of American Rabbis) |
8/2/09 |
7th
Anniversary Show with special
guest Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Founder
and Director of the Shalom Center |
7/26/09 |
Nigel Savage, founder of Hazon |
7/19/09 |
Carolyn Hessel, Director of the Jewish Book Council |
7/12/09 |
Matisyahu,
American Hasidic Jewish reggae music star |
7/5/09 |
Mama Doni, Jewish singer and songwriter |
6/28/09 |
Rabbi Harold Schulweis, rabbi, author, and a longtime
Spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA |
6/21/09 |
Jason Lezak, 2008 Olympic gold-medalist in freestyle
swimming |
6/14/09 |
Dara Horn,
author of "All Other Nights" |
6/7/09 |
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of "The Art of
Being Jewish in Modern Times" |
5/31/09 |
Garrett Reisman,
Jewish astronaut |
5/24/09 |
Bret Stephens,
Foreign Affairs Columnist for the Wall Street Journal |
5/17/09 |
Rabbi Stacey
Blank, rabbi of Congregation Darchei Noam
in Ramat HaSharon, Israel |
5/10/09 |
Dr. Nigist Mengesha,
Director General of the Ethiopian National Project |
5/3/09 |
Rabbi Shmuley
Boteach, host of TLC's "Shalom in the Home" and author of
"The Kosher Sutra" |
4/26/09 |
Lorin Sklamberg, lead
singer for The Klezmatics, Grammy-award winning
American klezmer music group |
4/19/09 |
Steve Sheinkin,
author of “The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey” series |
4/12/09 |
Marcie Greenfield
Simons, Director of the PJ
Library |
4/5/09 |
Andrew Lappitt,
contestant from “The Amazing Race” |
3/29/09 |
AJ Jacobs, author of “The Year of Living Biblically” |
3/22/09 |
Dayle Friedman, director of Hiddur,
Center for Aging and Judaism |
3/15/09 |
Ilana Trachtman,
director of “Praying with Lior” |
3/8/09 |
Rabbi Joel Oseran,
Vice President of International Development for the World Union of
Progressive Judaism |
3/1/09 |
Dr. Bernard
Lafayette, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies
at the University of Rhode Island |
2/22/09 |
Hadar Susskind, Washington Director of the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs |
2/15/09 |
Elie Kaunfer, co-founder of Mechon
Hadar |
2/8/09 |
Rabbi Jamie
Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi |
2/1/09 |
Rabbi Toba
Spitzer, President of the
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association |
1/25/09 |
Laura Bialis, Award-winning director of
"Refusenik" & "Sderot" |
1/18/09 |
Rabbi Neil
Gillman, Professor of Jewish
Philosophy at Jewish Theological Seminary |
1/11/09 |
Rabbi Elise
Bernhardt, Executive Director of the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture |
1/4/09 |
Stephanie
Klein, author and blogging mistress |
12/28/08 |
Rabbi Morris
Allen, author of "Conservative Guidelines on the Morality of
Keeping Kosher" |
12/21/08 |
Rabbi Elyse Frishman, speaking on the new Reform prayerbooks' one year anniversary |
12/14/08 |
Roz
Rothstein, founder of the StandWithUs Foundation & co-winner of
the 2008 Cohon Foundation Award |
12/7/08 |
Dr. Jose Nessim, Sephardic Educational Center &
co-winner of the 2008 Cohon Foundation Award |
11/30/08 |
Kinky Friedman,
singer, author & storyteller |
11/23/08 |
Josh Block,
AIPAC Communications Director |
11/16/08 |
Todd Herzog, singer-songwriter |
11/9/08 |
Sadia Shepard, documentary filmmaker |
11/2/08 |
Rabbi Capers Funnye, Rabbi of the Ethiopian Jewish
congregation & Michelle Obama's cousin |
10/26/08 |
Ian Kinsler, all-star second baseman of the Texas
Rangers |
10/19/08 |
David Bernz,
singer & banjo player with Work O' The Weavers |
10/12/08 |
Rabbi
Richard Camras, on the Ordination of the Chief Rabbi of Uganda |
10/5/08 |
Joanne Caras,
author of “The Holocaust Survivors Cookbook” |
9/28/08 |
Alina Gerlovin Spaulding, Refusenik girl from the Ukraine who has become a Jewish community
leader in America |
9/21/08 |
Rabbi Bradley
Shavit Artson, Dean of the Rabbinical School of the
American Jewish University, Los Angeles |
9/14/08 |
Craig Morgan, Holocaust Survivor reparations program |
9/7/08 |
Leonard Saxe, Co-author of “Ten Days of Birthright
Israel” A Journey in Young Adult Identity”, the story of Birthright Israel |
8/31/08 |
Lisa Loeb, singer-songwriter |
8/24/08 |
Lucy
Kaplansky, PhD psychologist
who gave it up to become a folk musician |
8/17/08 |
Michael Oren, Senior Fellow at the Shalem
Center, and author of “The Six Day War” |
8/10/08 |
Lawrence H.
Schiffman, leading scholar in
the Dead Sea Scrolls |
8/3/08 |
Sixth
Anniversary Show with special
guest Tovah Feldshuh, legendary actress, singer
and playwright |
7/27/08 |
Dr. Wendy
Weise, Renaissance
Scholar, "Jews in Shakespeare's England" |
7/20/08 |
Joyce Carol
Oates, author of “The
Gravedigger’s Daughter” |
7/13/08 |
Yuri Foreman, Israeli middleweight boxer |
7/6/08 |
Imam Yahya Hendi,
Muslim Chaplain, Georgetown University |
6/29/08 |
Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily |
6/22/08 |
Ethan Zohn,
winner of “Survivor: Africa” |
6/15/08 |
David Wolf, Jewish astronaut |
6/8/08 |
Matthew Lazar, founder of the Zamir Choral Foundation |
6/1/08 |
Jeremy Cowan, founder of He’BREW
beer |
5/25/08 |
Hans Spear,
WWII veteran and one of the "Ritchie Boys", and a Bronze Star
winner 60 years late... |
5/18/08 |
RyanDan,
identical twin Jewish musical duo |
5/11/08 |
Steve Gutow,
Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs |
5/4/08 |
Shuly Nathan, legendary Israeli singer |
4/27/08 |
Rabbi
Lawrence Hoffman, Senior
Academic Fellow for Synagogue 3000 and Professor of Liturgy at Hebrew Union
College, New York |
4/20/08 |
Geraldine
Brooks, author of “People of
the Book” |
4/13/08 |
Eva Etzioni-Halevy, author of “The Triumph of Deborah” |
4/6/08 |
Jennifer Lee
Carrell, author of “Interred
with Their Bones” |
3/30/08 |
Mort
Rosenblum, journalist, author and educator |
3/23/08 |
Rabbi Andrew Davids, Executive Director of ARZA |
3/16/08 |
Rabbi Brad
Hirschfield, author of “You
Don’t Have to Be Wrong For Me To Be Right” and
President of CLAL: The National Jewish
Center for Learning and Leadership |
3/9/08 |
Leah Biteolin,
Ethiopian Jews in Israel Today |
3/2/08 |
Harry Ettlinger,
“Recovering artworks stolen by the Nazis” |
2/24/08 |
Jon Entine,
journalist & Michael Hammer, geneticist, “The DNA of Jews” |
2/17/08 |
Rabbi Doug
Kohn, author of “Life, Faith
and Cancer: Jewish Journeys through Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery” |
2/10/08 |
Yizhar Hess, Executive Director and CEO of the Masorti
Movement in Israel |
2/3/08 |
Jonathan Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History at
Brandeis University |
1/27/08 |
Ivan Ceresnjes, 2007 Cohon Award recipient |
1/20/08 |
Rabbi Andy
Bachman, Founder of Brooklyn Jews |
1/13/08 |
Jacob Dayan,
Israeli Consul General |
1/6/08 |
Rabbi Mike Comins, Founder of TorahTrek |
12/30/07 |
Ruth Messinger, CEO OF American Jewish World Service |
12/23/07 |
Avigayil Gottlieb, Israeli teacher |
12/16/07 |
Oren
Goldfield, Israeli
archaeologist |
12/9/07 |
Dr. Rachel Korazim,
Director of Distance Learning for Israel’s Jewish Agency |
12/2/07 |
Jen Taylor
Friedman, 1st
woman scribe and creator of “Tefillin Barbie” |
11/25/07 |
BUSTAN,
Israeli Jews and Arabs working for peaceful co-existence in the Negev |
11/18/07 |
Jay
Michaelson, writer and teacher on gender issues in Judaism |
11/11/07 |
|
11/4/07 |
Ari Goldman, author of “Being Jewish: The Spiritual
and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today” |
10/28/07 |
Rabbi Eric Yoffie,
President of the Union for Reform Judaism |
10/21/07 |
Liz Lehrman, Founding Artistic Director of the Liz
Lehrman Dance Exchange |
10/14/07 |
Rabbi Karyn Kedar, author of “The Bridge to Forgiveness” |
10/7/07 |
Daniel
Mendelsohn, author of “The
Lost” |
9/30/07 |
Dr. Joel
Hoffman, teacher, translator and author |
9/23/07 |
Peninnah Schram, storyteller, teacher, author, and recording artist |
9/16/07 |
Si Frumkin,
pioneer in the Soviet Jewry movement |
9/9/07 |
Gregory "Grisha" Nisnevich, Master Classical guitarist |
9/2/07 |
Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords, speaking on her recent trip to Israel |
8/26/07 |
Dr. Peter Gleick,
President of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment,
and Security |
8/19/07 |
Matt Brooks, Executive Director of the Republican
Jewish Coalition |
8/12/07 |
Faye
Kellerman, author of Jewish
mystery novels |
8/5/07 |
|
7/29/07 |
David
Steinberg, comedian, director & producer |
7/22/07 |
Rabbi Iri Kassel,
head of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism |
7/15/07 |
Steve Nadler, author of "Rembrandt's Jews" |
7/8/07 |
Danny Bobman,
Tucson's former Shaliach, from Israel |
7/1/07 |
Henry Feingold, author of "Silent No More: Saving
the Jews of Russia" |
6/24/07 |
Gigi Anders, author of "Jubana:
The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana
Goddess" |
6/17/07 |
Neshama Carlebach, singer and songwriter |
6/10/07 |
Nonie Darwish, Founder of Arabs for Israel |
6/3/07 |
Kati Marton,
author of "The Great Escape" |
5/27/07 |
Eric Schwartz, Suburban Homeboy |
5/20/07 |
Dara Horn,
author of "The World to Come" |
5/13/07 |
Sarah Benor,
Hebrew Union College Professor, Yiddish Expert |
5/6/07 |
Rabbi Simcha
Weinstein, the Comic Book Rabbi |
4/29/07 |
Yehonatan Lipshutz,
violinist from the band Simply Tsfat |
4/22/07 |
Joyce Antler,
author of "You Never Call! You Never Write!: A
History of the Jewish Mother" |
4/15/07 |
Michael Karpin,
author of "The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What
That Means for the World" |
4/8/07 |
Professor
Tamara Eskenazi, Biblical scholar and
editor of the "Women's Torah Commentary" |
4/1/07 |
Moshe Waldoks, author of "The Big Book of Jewish
Humor" |
3/25/07 |
Steve Emerson,
investigative journalist and author on terrorism |
3/18/07 |
Rita Rudner,
comedienne |
3/11/07 |
|
3/4/07 |
Larry Miller,
comedian |
2/25/07 |
Professor
Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University, international water resources
& dispute resolution |
2/18/07 |
Chava Alberstein, legendary
Israeli singer |
2/11/07 |
Nancy Kaufman,
Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater
Boston |
2/4/07 |
Lyn Schusterman
& Sandy Cardin, The
Schusterman Family Foundation |
1/28/07 |
Danny Matt, Kabbalistic expert and translator of
"The Zohar: Pritzker Edition" |
1/21/07 |
Rabbi Jill
Jacobs, Director of Education for the Jewish Funds for Justice |
1/14/07 |
Amy
Jill-Levine, author of "The Misunderstood Jew" |
1/7/07 |
Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of Orthodox Union's worldwide Kosher
Division |
12/31/06 |
Anne Roiphe,
author of "Water from the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah" |
12/24/06 |
Tiberiu
Weisz, author of "The Kaifeng Stone Inscriptions: The Legacy of
the Jews in Ancient China" |
12/17/06 |
Malcolm
Hoenlein, Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organizations |
12/10/06 |
Doug Ulman,
athlete, cancer survivor and Chief Mission Officer for the Lance Armstrong
Foundation |
12/3/06 |
Mary Lou
Weisman, author of "My Baby Boomer Baby Book" |
11/26/06 |
Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach, host of "Shalom in the Home" |
11/19/06 |
Joshua
Malina, actor from "West Wing" |
11/12/06 |
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11/5/06 |
Drs. Sheldon
Marks & Peter Burrows, restoring fertility |
10/29/06 |
Rabbi Joseph
Telushkin, author of "Jewish
Literacy" |
10/22/06 |
Rabbi
Elliott Dorff, Rector of the University of
Judaism speaking on gay and lesbian rabbis |
10/15/06 |
General
Moshe Ya'alon, Former head of the IDF |
10/8/06 |
Rabbi Irwin
Kula, Executive Director of CLAL |
10/1/06 |
Samuel Freedman, author of "Jew vs. Jew" |
9/24/06 |
Joel Lurie Grishaver, Jewish educator and innovator |
9/17/06 |
Jay Jay French, founding member of the hard rock
band, Twisted Sister |
9/10/06 |
Ben Frank,
author of "A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe" |
9/3/06 |
Nancy Pearl,
Librarian extraordinaire and author of "Book Lust" |
8/27/06 |
Ilan Stavans, author of "Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion" |
8/20/06 |
Rochelle Krich, Jewish mystery author |
8/13/06 |
Nadav Morag, Director of the Center for Israel Studies at the University of Judaism |
8/6/06 |
Eva
Etzioni-Halevy, author of "The Song of Hannah" |
7/30/06 |
Danny Bobman, Maven on Israel |
7/23/06 |
Deb Filler,
Comedienne |
7/16/06 |
Rabbi Mark
Golub, President & CEO of Shalom TV |
7/9/06 |
Amotz Asa-El, Journalist and Senior Columnist of
The Jerusalem Post |
7/2/06 |
Joel Chasnoff, Comedian |
6/25/06 |
Maggie Anton,
author of "Rashi's Daughters" |
6/18/06 |
Rabbi and Cantor Baruch J. Cohon for Father's Day & Mark Zakarin, Producer and writer of the new movie" Keeping Up with the Steins" |
6/11/06 |
Bruce Feiler, journalist and author of "Walking the Bible" |
6/4/06 |
Rabbi Joe
Black, singer-songwriter |
5/28/06 |
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5/21/06 |
Jonathan Ross,
Storahtelling project |
5/14/06 |
Rodger
Kamenetz, poet and author of "The Jew in the Lotus" |
5/7/06 |
Stacy Phillips,
divorce in Judaism |
4/30/06 |
Joaquin Ruiz,
Mexican Jewry for Cinco de Mayo |
4/23/06 |
Rabbi Amy
Schwartzman, women in the rabbinate |
4/16/06 |
Ayelet
Waldman, author of mom mystery series |
4/9/06 |
Eric Schockman, MAZON food for the hungry organization |
4/2/06 |
Marge Piercy,
poet and author of "Sex Wars" |
3/26/06 |
David Levy,
astronomer |
3/19/06 |
Dr. Shulamit Reinharz,
images of the new Jewish woman |
3/12/06 |
Andy Besch, the Wine Guy, kosher wines for Passover |
3/5/06 |
Sandy Froman, President, National Rifle Association |
2/26/06 |
Ron Hulda'i, mayor of Tel Aviv |
2/19/06 |
Rabbi David Ellenson, president, Hebrew Union College -
Jewish Institute of Religion |
2/12/06 |
Nancy
Schwarzman, Restorative Justice movement |
2/5/06 |
Harry Freund, author of "Love and Noodles" |
1/29/06 |
Rabbi Richard
Levy, Author of Pittsburg Principles of the Reform Movement |
1/22/06 |
Catherine Steiner Adair, healing eating disorders |
1/15/06 |
Rabbi Andy Busch, New Orleans' Touro Synagogue |
1/8/06 |
Aaron Lansky, National Yiddish Book Center |
1/1/06 |
Zeidan Atashi, Israeli Druze |
12/25/05 |
Allen Salkin, journalist and author of "Festivus, the Holiday for the Rest of Us" |
12/18/05 |
Robert
Pinsky, poet laureate |
12/11/05 |
Michael Wex, Yiddishist & author of "Born to Kvetch" |
12/4/05 |
Mark Helprin, renowned author of "Winter's Tale" |
11/27/05 |
Jules Shell, Reboot Stereophonic founder and filmmaker |
11/20/05 |
Rabbi Yehiel Eckstein, International Fellowship of
Christians and Jews |
11/13/05 |
Deborah Dash
Moore, author of "G.I. Jews" (Veteran's Day Show) |
11/6/05 |
Peter Riegert, actor and director |
10/30/05 |
Rabbi Reuven
Firestone, Islam and Judaism |
10/23/05 |
Rachel Fish,
campus activist |
10/16/05 |
Deborah Lipstadt, author of "History on Trial" |
10/9/05 |
Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service |
10/2/05 |
Rabbi
Lawrence Kushner, author and mystic |
9/25/05 |
Laurel Leff, author of "Buried by the Times" |
9/18/05 |
John Ruskay, CEO of the Jewish Federation of New York |
9/11/05 |
Daniel Pipes,
Middle East author, columnist |
9/4/05 |
Ehud Danoch, Israeli Consul General |
8/28/05 |
Tiffany Shlain, WEBBY Awards creator & Jewish
filmmaker |
8/21/05 |
Steve Nasatir, President of the Jewish Federation of
Chicago |
8/14/05 |
Rabbi Sharon Brous, innovative Conservative Rabbi |
8/7/05 |
3rd
Anniversary Show: Judy Gold,
comedienne and former Rosie O'Donnell writer |
7/31/05 |
Doreen
Rappaport, Jewish Children's
book author |
7/24/05
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Doug Cotler, singer-songwriter
|
7/17/05 |
Larry Broome, Kewl Ju clothes
and accessories |
7/10/05 |
Yossi Alpher, Israeli
political analyst |
7/3/05 |
Professor
Jonathan Sarna, American Jewish Historian |
6/26/05 |
Gary Tobin,
demographer of American Jews |
6/19/05 |
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6/12/05 |
Loolwa Khazoom,
multicultural author & feminist |
6/5/05 |
Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, Reconstructionist and environmentalist |
5/29/05 |
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell, 1st female US Chaplain |
5/22/05 |
Gershom Gorenberg, Israeli journalist and author |
5/15/05 |
General Yakov Amidror, IDF Major General and political
analyst |
5/8/05 |
Harriet Lerner,
psychologist and author of “Fear and Other Uninvited Guests” and special
guest Claire S. Cohon – Mother’s Day Edition! |
5/1/05 |
Elie Wiesel,
Nobel Peace Prize Winner and author |
4/24/05 |
Lily Tomlin, comedian and film star |
4/17/05 |
Elaine Partnow, author of “The Quotable Jewish Woman” |
4/10/05 |
Neil Sedaka, singer and recording artist |
4/3/05 |
Rabbi
Elimelech Goldberg, Kids Kicking Cancer karate program |
3/27/05 |
Peter Yarrow, folksinger, activist, and legend |
3/20/05 |
Phyllis Glazer, cookbook author, “Essential Book of Jewish Festival Cooking” |
3/13/05 |
Laura Lauder,
philanthropist, Jewish Day Schools advocate |
3/6/05 |
Raphael Etgar, Coexistence Exhibit Creator and artist |
2/27/05 |
Linda Kaplan
Thaler, Madison Avenue advertising star (AFLAC duck, etc.) |
2/20/05 |
Stacy Madison,
pita chips entrepreneur & special guest Ehud Barak, former Israeli
Prime Minister |
2/13/05 |
Blu Greenberg,
Orthodox feminist |
2/6/05 |
Judith Plaskow, feminist theologian, author of “Standing
Again at Sinai” |
1/30/05 |
Rabbi Steve
Greenberg, Judaism and homosexuality, outreach
and inclusion |
1/23/05 |
Professor Byron
Sherwin, Jewish-Catholic relations |
1/16/05 |
Howard Zinn,
historian |
1/9/05 |
Miri Eisen,
woman colonel in the Israel Defense Force, Israel spokesperson |
1/2/05 |
Rhody Cohon and Rabbi Stacia Deutsch, “Blast to
the Past” book series authors |
12/26/04 |
Dr. Judith Cohen,
Sephardic music |
12/19/04 |
Ambassador
Dennis Ross, author, Middle East negotiator |
12/12/04 |
Nina Totenberg,
NPR Supreme Court Expert |
12/5/04 |
Andy Borowitz,
comedian and author |
11/28/04 |
Daniel Leipnick, creator of the Jewish reality show “The
Mazel Tov Chronicles” |
11/21/04 |
Karen Loewy,
GLAD, gay and lesbian rights attorney |
11/14/04 |