The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

J.J. and Dr. David Moster take a trip deep down into the tradition of our tradition in search of the true text of the Bible.

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J.J. and Dr. Hindy Najman on authorship, authority, and the creation of the Jewish canon. 

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J.J. and Dr. Adena Tanenbaum unravel the dynamics of late medieval and early modern Jewish intellectual life in Yemen. 

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.J. and Dr. Shmuel Feiner tell tales of 1782 CE, a turning point in Modern Jewish History. 

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J.J. and Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein stay current. They discuss 21st century Jewish thinkers like Jonathan Sacks, Irving Greenberg, and Goshen-Gottstein himself. 

This is the fifth and final episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we explored and complicated Jewish attitudes to these ideas across the centuries. 

J.J. and Dr. Jeremy Fogel reflect on the oneness of nature, the nature of oneness, and particularism vs. universalism in the thought of Benedict Spinoza, Moses Mendellsohn, and Hermann Cohen. 

This is the fourth episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries.

J.J. and Dr. Menachem Kellner pitch Maimonides against Judah HaLevi and explore the extremes of Jewish universalism and particularism in the middle ages. 

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This is the third episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will…

J.J. and Dr. Marc Hirshman dissect the schools of R. Akiva and R. Yishmael to understand the central rabbinic arguments about universalism and particularism. 

This is the second episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries. 

J.J. and Dr. Ethan Schwartz explore the categories of religious universalism and particularism in the Bible.

This is the first episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in Judaism. Over the course of the series we will explore and complicate Jewish attitudes to these categories across the centuries. 

J.J. and Dr. Michael Satlow offer an authentic account of this apocryphal book of wisdom literature.