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Identity/Crisis

Identity/Crisis

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A Jewish man blows the shofar at the Rashbi gravesite in Meron, northern Israel, on September 9, 2017, prior to the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. (David Cohen/Flash90)

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On Screaming – and Other Radical Ways of Showing Up

Yehuda Kurtzer on expanding our understanding of what Jewish tradition teaches about responding to crisis

Rabbi David Wolpe gives a benediction to conclude activities at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 5, 2012. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

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The Art of the Sermon

With the High Holidays approaching, Rabbi David Wolpe, the Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, discusses with Yehuda Kurtzer the art of the rabbinic sermon

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

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Five Years of Reporting on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle journalist Adam Reinherz discusses with Yehuda Kurtzer what it means to approach a story that holds both particular and universal resonance

Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America. (Courtesy JFNA)

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The Jewish Establishment and Its Critics

JFNA president Eric Fingerhut in conversation with Yehuda Kurtzer

Israeli premier Golda Meir, during a press conference at the Israeli embassy in Rome, Italy, on January 15, 1973. (AP Photo/ Giuseppe Anastasi)

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The Only Woman in the Room (Re-Release)

Who was Golda Meir, and how might her story shed light on enduring political and social questions facing the state of Israel? Pnina Lahav discusses with Yehuda Kurtzer.

Image: Kurt Hoffman (via Shalom Hartman Institute)

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Variations on the Shema

Sam Fleischacker meditates on Judaism’s central prayer and statement of faith