Judaism Unbound

Steven Windmueller, the Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Emeritus Professor of Jewish Communal Service at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation that dives into the past couple centuries of American-Jewish institutional evolution, along with a look forward into what the next century or two might hold.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg are excited to talk about dinosaurs, mammals, and what they have to teach us about the evolutions of 21st century Judaism(s). If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, head to jewishLIVE.org -- and stay in the loop by giving our Facebook page a like. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!

Lila Corwin Berman, director of the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History and author of the upcoming book The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion Dollar Institution, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation looking at the history of Jewish philanthropy, along with an exploration of how Jewish philanthropists are responding to COVID-19.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here. 

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg explore a not-so-hypothetical question: "If 13 million Jews (and billions of others) built a new planet from scratch, what Jewish institutions would (and should) we create?"If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, head to jewishLIVE.org -- and stay in the loop by giving our Facebook page a like. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!

Amichai Lau-Lavie, the founding spiritual leader of Lab/Shul and creator of Storahtelling, joins Dan and Lex to consider what spiritual tools, learned during this COVID-19 pandemic, we can preserve for “the after.”If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg look at digital Judaism through two main ideas: that our current Jewish reality is comparable to a "migration," and that the digital Jewish ecosystem is analogous to a brand-new Jewish city, of 13,000,000 people, being founded from scratch.If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, head to jewishLIVE.org -- and stay in the loop by giving our Facebook page a like. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!

Barbara Thiede, Teaching Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and Dean of the Faculty for the ALEPH Ordination Program, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation about the Book of Jubilees, why it matters, and what we can learn from it — along with other Jewish books that didn’t make it into the Bible.If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, which is seeking to meet some important needs of communal gathering at this time of physical distancing, head to jewishLIVE.org. You can also join the jewishLIVE Connect facebook group by clicking here.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

Dan and Lex, in a bonus episode initially livestreamed via jewishLIVE, glean lessons from observing Shabbos (Shabbat) under physical distancing.If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, head to jewishLIVE.org -- and stay in the loop by giving our Facebook page a like. If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!

Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg reflect on the digital Jewish ecosystem that has arisen rapidly in this moment of COVID-19 and social distancing, and ask what it could mean for the future of Judaism. In particular, they shine a light on a project they just launched, called jewishLIVE, which is serving as a digital hub for livestreaming Jewish programming.If you would like to learn more about jewishLIVE, which is seeking to meet some important needs of communal gathering at this time of physical distancing, head to jewishLIVE.org. You can also join the jewishLIVE Connect facebook group by clicking here.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.

Dan Libenson and Benay Lappe take a look squarely at Passover under COVID-19, in our moment of social distancing. What challenges arise for those celebrating this holiday via digital platforms, and what opportunities arise?Dan mentions a new initiative, jewishLIVE, which is seeking to meet some important needs of communal gathering at this time of physical distancing. Visit jewishLIVE.org to learn more, and join the jewishLIVE facebook group by clicking here.If you're enjoying Judaism Unbound, please help us keep things going with a one-time or monthly tax-deductible donation. Support Judaism Unbound by clicking here!To access shownotes for this episode, click here.