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The College Commons Podcast, passionate perspectives from Judaism's leading thinkers, is produced by Hebrew Union College, America's first Jewish institution of higher learning.

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Recent Episodes
  • Louis Fishman, Ph.D.: At the Dawn of the State of Israel
    Jun 3, 2025 – 00:26:28
  • Rabbi Marc Katz: A Civilization’s Inflection Point
    May 20, 2025 – 00:39:30
  • Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: A New Era for Judaism and Israel
    May 6, 2025 – 00:29:39
  • Rabbi Joshua Weinberg: What do We Even Mean by “Liberal Zionism”?
    Apr 10, 2025 – 00:29:10
  • Menachem Rosensaft: Burning Psalms
    Dec 15, 2024 – 00:42:02
  • Yariv Inbar: I, Spy
    Nov 11, 2024 – 00:24:14
  • Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium
    Nov 2, 2024 – 00:27:04
  • Mari Lowe: Growing up is tough business
    Sep 29, 2024 – 00:17:53
  • Shai Held: What the World Needs Now
    Sep 28, 2024 – 00:28:56
  • Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale
    Sep 28, 2024 – 00:25:29
  • Jeremy Brown, MD: Pestilence, Plague and Perseverance
    Sep 17, 2024 – 00:32:20
  • Julia Watts-Belser: Around Us and In Us
    Sep 3, 2024 – 00:36:01
  • Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon
    Aug 20, 2024 – 00:27:02
  • Rabbi Yonatan Neril: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
    Aug 6, 2024 – 00:25:30
  • Paul Zeitz: Optimism as the Vehicle for Change
    Jul 9, 2024 – 00:24:17
  • John Inazu: Transforming Disagreement: from Threat to Exercise of Democracy
    Jul 1, 2024 – 00:33:53
  • Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe: The Bottom Line: Compassion
    Jun 11, 2024 – 00:23:27
  • “My Heart Is in the East, though I Be in the Very West”
    May 28, 2024 – 00:28:46
  • Centuries of Food at Your Table: A Medieval Sephardic Cookbook
    May 14, 2024 – 00:19:45
  • Still Work To Do: Sexual Abuse in Jewish Institutions
    Apr 23, 2024 – 00:35:05
  • A Tavola! Italian-Jewish Cuisine and the Stories Behind It
    Apr 9, 2024 – 00:22:41
  • A Shtetl in the United States?
    Mar 26, 2024 – 00:50:06
  • Jessica Marglin: The Citizen Who Didn’t Belong
    Mar 12, 2024 – 00:32:43
  • Dr. Sivan Zakai: Taking Children Seriously on Israel
    Feb 27, 2024 – 00:22:52
  • The Ancient Renewed: Psalms for Every Day
    Feb 13, 2024 – 00:23:11
  • The Poetry of Poetry in Translation
    Jan 23, 2024 – 00:21:29
  • HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Jeremy Leigh
    Jan 16, 2024 – 00:15:20
  • Rabbi Michael Strassfeld: Disrupting Judaism
    Jan 9, 2024 – 00:24:07
  • HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michael Marmur
    Jan 2, 2024 – 00:25:32
  • Joseph Skloot: The Secret Lives of Books
    Dec 26, 2023 – 00:40:42
  • HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Michal Muszkat-Barkan
    Dec 19, 2023 – 00:15:46
  • Rabbi Barbara Symons: Is Prophetic Judaism Listening to the Prophets?
    Dec 12, 2023 – 00:24:47
  • HUC Connect: Inside Israel with Rabbi Talia Avnon-Benveniste
    Dec 5, 2023 – 00:11:53
  • HUC Connect: Inside Israel with David Mendelsson
    Nov 21, 2023 – 00:14:10
  • Rabbi Zoë Klein: Brand New Stories from a Thousand Years Ago
    Nov 14, 2023 – 00:20:51
  • Michael Frank: The Lost World of Jewish Rhodes
    Oct 24, 2023 – 00:31:16
  • Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson: Jewish Mysticism Upside Down & Inside Out
    Oct 10, 2023 – 00:45:57
  • Elisheva Baumgarten: Mind the Gap
    Sep 26, 2023 – 00:27:32
  • Susan Wider: An Autobiography In Images
    Sep 12, 2023 – 00:24:32
  • Sacha Lamb: Supernatural Jews
    Aug 29, 2023 – 00:21:36
  • Ashley Goldberg: Airing Our Dirty Laundry in Public
    Aug 15, 2023 – 00:16:53
  • Sarah Imhoff: The Unexpected Zionist
    Aug 1, 2023 – 00:21:12
  • Laura Hobson Faure: A "Jewish Marshall Plan"
    Jul 18, 2023 – 00:31:18
  • Dani Shapiro: What Makes a Novel "Jewish"?
    Jul 4, 2023 – 00:22:49
  • The Old Country: A Harrowing Tale of Escape from the Russian Empire
    Jun 20, 2023 – 00:24:50
  • The Crucible of Conflict: Setting the Terms for Israel/Palestine to This Day
    Jun 6, 2023 – 00:24:06
  • Discovering Israel in the Shadow of the Eichmann Trial
    May 23, 2023 – 00:17:30
  • The Wrong Kind of Jew?
    May 9, 2023 – 00:31:13
  • From Buchenwald to Brooklyn: A Story of Sabotage and Survival
    Apr 25, 2023 – 00:24:05
  • A New View of a Newly Productive Congress
    Apr 11, 2023 – 00:26:28
Recent Reviews
  • Ravgah
    Give the guest some space
    The host means well but simply can’t let the show be about the guest. He dominates the conversation. I felt sorry for the guest who could hardly get a word in; or at least he should be allowed to respond in full. The best host knows about tzimtzum. Less is more.
  • nicknamethatisnttaken!
    Very interesting topics and discussion; too much cross-talk
    Excellent, stimulating topics, host and guests. I think the podcast could be improved if it was talking over the guests by host - in podcast i.e. an audio format, it is difficult to hear what both people are saying at once.
  • Punkmouse
    Intellectually stimulating AND heart warming
    If you enjoy in-depth interviews of interest to the Jewish community that both stimulate the mind AND warm the heart, this is the podcast for you. Love it!
  • Hurwitz Reuben
    Professor
    This podcast is one of the most stimulating and relevant I have ever listened to. Everybody should follow the College Commons PodCast.
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