Recordings

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(24F1) Aaron Copland, the Jewish Dean of American Composers (11 & 18 Sept 2024)

(24S2) How a Jewish family in Nuremberg confronted the Nazis (11 & 18 July 2024) info/no recording

(24S3) Jewish Yemenite Traditions in Israel (26 June 2024) info/no recording

(24S1) Kabbalistic Passover Seder (23 April 2024)

(24W7) Max Ticktin Memorial Latke-Hamantasch Debate (20 Mar 2024)

(24W6) Small Town Jewish Life (6 Mar 2024)

(24W5) World of the Sofer (21 Feb 2024)

(24W4) IHRA – Combating Anti-Semitism by Remembering the Holocaust (14 Feb 2024)

(24W3) Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin – A Jewish American Tragedy (31 Jan 2024)

(24W2) Kabbalistic Tu b’Shvat Seder and Concert (24 Jan 2024)

(24W1) Introduction to Kabbalah (17 Jan 2024)

(23F2) Old Wine in New Bottles: A 2,000-Year History of the Rabbinate (20 Dec 2023)

(23F1) Abraham ibn Ezra: A Medieval Philosopher and the Poet’s Words for Today (17 Dec 2023)

(23S6) Laughter Is The Best Medicine: The Borscht Belt and American Comedy (13 Jul 2023)

(23S5) Why Portugal’s Expulsion of the Jews was so different and so consequential (29 Jun 2023)

(23S4) Jews of Iran in the 21st Century (15 Jun 2023)

(23S3) Judaism Disrupted: A discussion with Rabbi Michael Strassfeld (31 May 2023)

(23S2) Across the Pond: Being Jewish Today and Yesterday in England and Ireland (23 Apr 2023)

(23S1) Tracing your Jewish Roots (16 & 30 Apr and 7 May 2023)

(23W6) Jewish Summers: Shaping Jewish lives through Jewish Camps (29 Mar 2023)

(23W4) Max Ticktin Memorial Latkes-Hamentashen Debate (5 Mar 2023)

(23W3) North American Synagogue Architecture (10 Feb 2021) info but no recording

(23W2) Discovering Kabbalah and the Zohar (18 & 25 Jan 2023)

(23W1) Kurt Weill, An American Story (4 & 11 Jan 2023)

(22F5) A Daughter’s Kaddish (21 Dec 2022)

(22F4) Rewards and Punishments in Pirkei Avot (8 & 15 Dec 2022)

(22F3) Making of the Soviet Jew – Past, Present, Future (20 Nov 2022) info but no recording 

(22F2) The Current State of Jewish Journalism (21 Sep 2022)

(22F1) Yerusha Project: Treasures of European Jewish Archives (11 Sep 2022) info but no recording

(22S5) Experiencing Kabbalah (30 Jun – 14 Jul 2022)

(22S4) Jewish Chaplaincy: A Vital Presence in Jewish Communal Life (28 Jun 2022)

(22S3) Exploring Kabbalah – An Introduction (25 May 2022)

(22S2) Reflections on Pirkei Avot (22 May 2022)

(22W8) Jews of Tin Pan Alley (23,30 Mar, 6 Apr 2022)

(22W7) Mishnah Berachot: Our Ancestors’ Discussions of the Meaning of Prayer (10, 17, 24, 31 Mar 2022)

(22W6) Max Ticktin Memorial Latke-Hamentashen Debate (9 Mar 2022)

(22W5) ROOTS – Building Trust Between Palestinians and Israelis (27 Feb 2022)

(22W4) Jewish Museums and the American Narrative (23 Feb 2022)

(22W3) Jewish Roots of Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (2 Mar 2022)

(22W2) Pirkei Avos – Pathways to Life (3, 17, 24 Feb & 3 Mar 2022)

(22W1) Russian Jews Today (30 Jan 2022)

(21F5) The Metamorphosis of the Kibbutz (19 Dec 2021)

(21F4) Jews, Comics, and the Creation of the Superhero (15 Dec 2021)

(21F3) A Philosopher in Search of the Sabbath (8 Dec 2021)

(21F2) Klezmer American Music (20 & 27 Oct 2021)

(21F1) Growing up Orthodox (7 Oct 2021)

(21S4) Association of Jewish Libraries (26 May 2021)

(21S3) Trude Sojka House Museum (23 May 2021)

(21S2) Can Robots be Jewish (12 May 2021)

(21S1) Survivors’ Talmud (2 May 2021)

(21W8) The Mexican Jewish Community (17 Mar 2021)

(21W7) Jewish Community of Argentina (14 Mar 2021)

(21W6) Jewish Community of Brazil (7 Mar 2021)

(21W4) Return to the Catskills (3 Mar 2021)

(21W3) Max Ticktin Memorial Latke-Hamentashen Debate (24 Feb 2021)

(21W2) Great Jewish Jazz Artists, Part 2: Stan Getz, Mel Lewis, Terry Gibbs, and more (27 Jan 2020)

(21W1) Great Jewish Jazz Artists, Part 1: Clarinetists Benny Goodman & Artie Shaw (13 Jan 2020)

(20F3) Military Service and Americanization: Jewish Immigrants in Three Wars (18 Nov 2020)

(20F2) Romaniote Jews (30 Sep 2020)

( 20F1) Jews and Refugees in the 17th Century (23 Sep 2020)

(20T3) Challah Workshop in Jerusalem (19 July 2020)

(20T2) Rescue/Conservation of the Lost Mural (1 July 2020)

(20T1) The Odyssey of the Lost Mural (24 June 2020)