Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
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New Season Begins Wednesday, May 13!
Listen to our Essential Questions Podcast with Rabbi Dan Levin!
Each episode will pose an essential question and invite a conversation with remarkable people in the Jewish world and in our community to consider what those questions and answers mean.
We hope you will listen and share in the conversations surrounding the essential questions we all confront in the course of our lives. We look forward to learning together with you as we engage in this series of fascinating and intriguing dialogues.
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Video Playlist
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1
What Does it Take to Renew a Jewish Community? with Rabbi Michael Paley
47:38
2
What's it Like to be a Persian Jew? with Rabbi Rabizadeh
44:50
3
What Does it Take to Write a Novel? with Andrew Furman
45:01
4
What Is the Future of Jewish Education? with Heather Erez
51:41
5
How Does Reform Judaism Shape Jewish Identity Today with Rabbi Michael Marmur
48:32
6
How Do Jewish Values Guide us in Today’s Immigration Crisis? with Rabbi Sarah Bassin
48:45
7
What Is It Like to Be a Jewish Member of the U S Congress? With Representative Jared Moskowitz
37:43
8
What Is It Like to Be Jewish in the NFL? with Greg Joseph and Mike Tannenbaum
45:50
9
What’s Sacred About Private Equity? With Rodger Krouse
46:04
10
How Has October 7 Changed What It Means to Be Israeli? with Abraham Silver
53:46
11
How Do I Welcome the New Year When My Heart is So Heavy? with Rabbis Ashira Boxman, Laila Haas
50:52
12
What's Jewish About Books? with Gayle Weiswasser
51:25
13
What's it Like to be Jewish on a College Campus? Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
45:04
14
What Makes Art Jewish? with artists Bonnie Cohen and Zachary Oxman
45:41
15
What Can Wine Teach Us About Spirituality? with Rabbi Alan Litwak
38:04
16
Where Do We Find Hope and Resilience? with Rabbi Naomi Levy and Rabbi Laila Haas
48:06
17
How Should Rabbis Meet the Moment? with Rabbi Greg Weisman and Rabbi Laila Haas
43:28
18
What Does the Reform Movement Contribute to the State of Israel? Rabbis Nir Barkin David Azoulay
50:33
19
What Does it Mean to be a Progressive Zionist? with Amanda Berman, CEO of Zioness
49:38
20
How Do I Prepare for the High Holy Days? with Cantorial Soloist Michelle Cohen & Cantor Jake Harris
49:17
21
What Is Love All About? with Rabbi Shai Held | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
47:58
22
What Do I Have to Do? with Rabbi Dr. Mark Washofsky | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
49:30
23
How Can We Support LGBTQ+ Individuals to Express Their Most Authentic Selves? with Tracey Labgold
49:52
24
How Can Jewish Learning Transform Our Lives? with Rabbi Laila Haas | Essential Questions
44:22
25
How do Science and Religion Fit Together in Our Lives? with Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman
43:14
26
How Do I Prepare for the High Holy Days? with Rabbi Greg Weisman & Cantor Lori Brock
47:17
27
What Does Judaism Need to do to Respond to the Digital Age? With Rabbi Dr. Danny Schiff
53:57
28
What is the Future of Democracy? with Michael Abramowitz, President of Freedom House
39:11
29
How Do We Create Human Connections That Transcend Cultural Differences? with Jessica Keith
45:06
30
Israel - What Does it Mean to Bear Witness? with Dana Dvorin, Liat Fishman Lenny and Ira Fuchs
53:07
31
Do You Have 15 Minutes for Spiritual Practice? A Special Passover Episode with Rabbi Debra Robbins
43:41
32
How Do We Best Parent Our Children in Youth Sports? with Dr. Andrea Corn and Randy Nathan
52:16
33
How Can We Learn to Sanctify Time? with Rabbi Dalia Marx | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
51:53
34
What is it Like to Serve in the IDF Reserves? | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
51:43
35
What is Sacred Aging? with Rabbi Richard Address | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
51:05
36
How Do You Raise a Child? with Yehuda Cohn | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
43:44
37
Special Episode: Update from the Front Line in Israel Tovah Lazaroff | Essential Questions
59:17
38
Do I Need to Believe in God? with Rabbi David Ellenson | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
41:44
39
What is Our Responsibility in the Climate Crisis? with Rabbi Jennie Rosenn | Essential Questions
37:07
40
What's a Big Question? with Rabbi Josh Feigelson | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
36:01
41
Do I Need to Believe in God? with Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson (Re-Release) | Essential Questions
42:20
42
What Is Going On In Israel? with Rabbi Joshua Weinberg | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
46:53
43
Season 1 Recap with Rabbi Jessica Spitalnic Mates & Rabbi Elana Rabishaw | Essential Questions
41:51
44
What is Social Justice? with Rabbi Jonah Pesner | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
59:17
45
How Do We Recharge Reform Judaism? with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch | Essential Questions with Rabbi Dan Levin
43:14
46
What is the State of Israel as it Celebrates its 75th Birthday? Bret Stephens | Essential Questions
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