Episode 22: Hope as an Ethical Imperative
In 1995, Barbara Breitman’s beloved cousin was murdered and Barbara and her husband, Chaim adopted her cousin’s children. The following year, her husb...
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Evolve: Groundbreaking Jewish Conversations features interviews with thought-provoking rabbis, leaders and creators about the urgent issues faced by Jewish people today. As a part of Reconstructing Judaism’s multimedia Evolve project (http://evolve.reconstructingjudaism.org/), this podcast models respectful, sacred conversations about challenging topics.
Episode 21: Fighting Antisemitism and Racism in Minneapolis
“People are really still antisemitic? I thought you all were just regular white people now.” When social justice activist Carin Mrotz heard those word...
Episode 20: America's First Bat Mitzvah
The first American bat mitzvah took place on March 18, 1922. As its 100th anniversary nears, we’ve got something of a departure for our podcast. We’re...
Episode 19: Environmental Justice and Race
We talk with Rabbi Rebecca Richman of Philadelphia’s Germantown Jewish Centre about environmental justice and the legacy of environmental racism, part...
Episode 18: Liberating Your Passover Seder
At 87, Rabbi Arthur Waskow still proudly calls himself a radical. His most revolutionary act may have taken place 52 years ago, when he wrote, publish...
Episode 17: Human Composting: Good for the Environment, But Is It Kosher?
Natural Organic Reduction — or, more colloquially, human composting — is not only legal in Washington State, but also happening, right now. People are...
Episode 16: Silver and Gold: Reparations and Judaism
Since Ta-Nehisi Coates published his influential Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” in 2014, a number of thinkers have made explicitly Jewish a...
Episode 15: Jews and Money: A Frank Conversation
Endowments and donor-advised funds: They may sound like boring financial terms, but they're actually part of a fascinating history of philanthropy in ...
Episode 14: Fixing Broken Policing: What Does Judaism Say?
Does the Talmud offer a perspective on police reform, and whether it makes sense to, as the slogan says, defund the police? Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, a Talmu...
Episode 13: COVID-19 and Jewish Ethics
How can Jewish ethics shape how people make decisions about daily life during a pandemic? Rabbi Mira Wasserman, who directs the Center for Jewish Ethi...