Jewish Ideas to Change the World

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Justin F. Marceau, Professor of Law and the Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy at the University of Denver (https://thebrooksinstitute.org/), on the topic of "Human Prisons & Animal Cages." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP BUY THE BOOK: https://amzn.to/36sIJ9W For podcasts of VB...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Zelig Golden, Executive Director of Wilderness Torah (https://wildernesstorah.org/) on the topic of "Wildnerness Torah: Jewish Encounters with Nature!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybei...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, President and CEO of the Hadar Institute (https://www.hadar.org/) on the topic of "Jewish Prayer & Independent Minyanim." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ S...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Hindy Najman, Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture at Oriel College, University of Oxford, on the topic of "Learning Tanach in the 21st Century!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP Learn about the Centre for the Study of the Bible in the Humanities: https://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/c...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture at Brown University, on the topic of "From International Law to Kabbalah!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.f...

Professor Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "A Poetic Mythology for our Age of Anger? The Furious Emergence of Gods, Devils, and Human Beings in Kabbalah and its Lesson for Today" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix,...

Professor Nathaniel Berman, Rahel Varnhagen Professor of International Affairs, Law, and Modern Culture in Brown University’s Religious Studies Department, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "'But Now God is Not One': Kabbalah as the Cry of a Broken World Longing for Redemption" before an audience at Temple Beth Shalom (tbsaz.org/) in Sun City, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Nathaniel Berman is the...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Yair Lorberbaum, a member of the Law Faculty at Bar Ilan University, on the topic of "Rabbinic Understandings of Human Dignity!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ Support...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Amit Orot Shaul, on the topic of "Fair Wages in Halakhic Thought." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ Support this podcast ★

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Ronit Irshai, a Senior Lecturer in the Gender Studies Program at Bar Ilan University, on the topic of "Feminist Halakha & Halakhic Epistemology!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleyb...

Rabbi Ian Pear of Shir Hadash (shirhadash.wordpress.com/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "Who Guarantors the Guarantor? How Bankruptcy Law in Halacha Reveals the Essence of the Jewish People" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Chaim (Ian) Pear, a Rabbi, lawyer and social activist living in Jerusalem, is the founder of Shir Ha...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbanit Rivkah Lubitch, a board member for the Center for Women's Justice, on the topic of "The Chief Rabbinate's Control Over Women!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ Support thi...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Director of the Justice Fellowship in Chicago, on the topic of "Are We Responsible for the Sins of our Ancestors?" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ Support t...

Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Director of the Justice Fellowship in Chicago, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "There’s a Riot Goin’ On”: Violence in Rabbinic Thought" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein is the Director of the Justice Fellowship in Chicago, where he also works as Educational Consultant for the Jewish Cou...

Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein, Director of the Justice Fellowship in Chicago, presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture "The Torah Case for Reparations" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS SPEAKER: Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein is the Director of the Justice Fellowship in Chicago, where he also works as Educational Consultant for the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, S...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum, the Founder of ZION: An Eretz Israeli Congregation, on the topic of "A New Synagogue Model in Israel." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash ★ Support this pod...

Professor Marc Dollinger, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair, Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University, presents his lecture "Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s" before an audience at Temple Solel (www.templesolel.org/) in Paradise Valley, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Professor Dollinger’s most recent book, Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing The A...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Marc Dollinger, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair, Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University (https://jewish.sfsu.edu/), on the topic of "Campus Anti-Semitism from the Right & Left!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash....

Professor Marc Dollinger, chard and Rhoda Goldman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and Social Responsibility at San Francisco State University, presents his lecture "Jews and Whiteness" before an audience at Congregation Beth Israel (www.cbiaz.org/) in Scottsdale, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: Are American Jews white? The question, answered differently by different generations of American Jews, gets at t...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Dr. Eddy Portnoy, Academic Advisor & Exhibitions Curator at YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (https://www.yivo.org/), on the topic of "Jewish Psychics & Clairvoyants!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/lea... https://www.facebook.com...

Dr. Eddy Portnoy, academic adviser for the Max Weinreich Center and exhibition curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (www.yivo.org/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture The "The Bizarre Tales of Yiddishland: What the Yiddish Press Reveals about the Jews" before an audience at Congregation Or Tzion (www.congregationortzion.org) in Scottsdale, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: An underground...

Dr. Eddy Portnoy, academic adviser for the Max Weinreich Center and exhibition curator at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (https://www.yivo.org/) presents his Valley Beit Midrash lecture The "Distorted Mirror: What Yiddish Cartoons Reveal about Jewish Life in the early 20th Century" before an audience at Temple Beth Shalom (https://tbsaz.org/) in Sun City, AZ. ABOUT THIS LECTURE: For many c...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Professor Menachem Lorberbaum, Vice Dean of Humanities and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, on the topic of "The Jewish Political Tradition: What Is The Model Jewish Form of Government?" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Paul Nahme, Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Religious Studies at Brown University, on the topic of "Black and Jewish Expressions of Freedom." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com...

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein, the founder and director of the Elijah Interfaith Institute (http://elijah-interfaith.org/), on the topic of "On Religious Pluralism and 'Truth.'" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www....