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  • God

    When discussing God, the challenge is to balance the intellectual with the emotional. Who, what, why is God?

  • Why 1840?

    Was the year 1840 the end of religion or the beginning? In this special podcast, David discusses the significance of the year…

  • Social Justice

    There is a growing debate within Jewish circles about the term “Tikkun Olam” – meaning to fix or change the world. For…

  • Science & Religion

    Science and religion have long had a complicated relationship. Though they ask some of the same questions, one attributes things to God…

  • Mysticism

    Our fast-paced, industrialized world seems to have little interest in mysticism, leaving reductionist thinking to lead the day. But this modernity can…

  • Jewish Peoplehood

    In a world where globalization is the new norm, the notion of peoplehood has lost its former clarity. While on the one…

  • Who Wrote The Bible?

    Though the Bible’s authorship was once largely uncontested, today it is the subject of raging debate. The stakes are high: billions of…

  • Comedy

    Comedy may seem unimportant, or even counterproductive, in a society that values productivity. Religion in particular is often treated with a seriousness…

  • OTD: Leaving Religion

    In order to understand why some people leave religion, we need to understand why people join and stay in the first place.…

  • Talmud

    The Talmud is a chaotic text with a few frustrations. When you open to the first page, it assumes that you’ve already…