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Earlier this week a great podcast showed up in my feed reader. It was for a recent episode of NPR’s Speaking of Faith. The episode was all about the one and only, Abraham Joshua Heschel. It’s a mix of live recoding’s of Heschel taken from various lectures he gave, along with an in depth [...]

Last week Rabbi Eli Garfinkel of Temple Beth El (a Conservative Synagogue in Somerset, NJ) recorded an interesting Podcast. In short the good Rabbi shares some of his concerns regarding the recent conversion fiasco in Israel.
Here is a brief summary of the episode from the RabbiPod site.
In this episode of RabbiPod, I argue [...]

I haven’t listened to this one yet but it looks interesting.
Chancellor Arnold Eisen discusses the message of the Passover seder and its instruction to engage the next generation, to engage their questions, and inspire their participation.
You can listen here.

This morning an excellent radio interview with Rabbi David Cooper showed up in my RSS feed reader. What can I say other than fun, fun, fun! I’m a huge fan of Rabbi Cooper (as are a few others here at JBC.org) and in fact his book “G-D Is a Verb” was either my first [...]

On my long journey to Judaism, I’ve heard and met several very inspiring teachers. Most have no real Internet presence, but here are three of my favorites who are available to the general public, and also happen to be converts. Yes, they’re all Orthodox, but it’s who they are rather than where they ended up [...]

I think one of the hardest issues for Jews By Choice to wrap their heads around is the Middle East Crisis. At least that’s the case with me, and for what seems like a lot of the other JBC’s I meet. Let’s face it most of us were not raised with the same kind of [...]

Today via Esther K, I learned of yet another (IMO) great resources for JBC’s who are looking to do some independent learning. The people at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning (SCFAJL ) at Temple Enamu-El in New York city (not the be confused with the Skirball in LA), have made a nice selection [...]

I know that I have been throwing up a fair number of mini posts as of late. What can I say when it rains it pour’s. Honestly, I’m just trying to FYI you all about (what I consider to be) interesting online Jewish audio and video. I kind of think that (as a JBC) its [...]

Last weekend CBC Radio’s “Tapestry” aired a great interview with Shalom Auslander, the author of a “Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir“. I had heard about this book from several people over the last year or so, but I can’t say that I was all that interested in it, that is until I heard this CBC interview. [...]

Well I guess this post should be filed in the “Better Late Than Never” category, because it showed up in my feed reader last week, but I forgot all about it. This episode of Interfaith Voices is actually full of Jewishness, well beyond Heschel and MLK segment and is definitely worth checking out.
Below you can [...]