The BEMA Podcast is a walk-through of the context of the Bible and the Text itself, as well as surrounding history. We deconstruct our common readings of the Bible and attempt to reconstruct them through the lens of historical context. The main body of work is contained in Seasons 1–5, and we encourage you to start with episode 0 (or even -1) and continue in order through episode 204. Beyond that, we explore new topics, revisit old topics, and dive deeper into practical ways of living out th ...
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Jewish Context Podcasts
Sermons, lectures and teachings from Christ Church Jerusalem, founded 1849 as a center of prayer for all nations with worship reflecting the Jewish context of the gospel.
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Jesus in His Jewish Context | Exploring the World of the Gospels, the Kingdom of God, and the Roots of Early Christianity with Dr. Jeff Colburn
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What if understanding Jesus meant stepping into His world? Jesus in His Jewish Context helps you rediscover the Gospels through the eyes of first-century Judaism. Hosted by Dr. Jeff Colburn—a Biblical scholar with a PhD in Bible Exposition and expertise in Second Temple Judaism—this podcast bridges the gap between faith and history. Each episode uncovers how Jewish life, Scripture, and expectation shaped Jesus’ teachings and the birth of the early church. You’ll learn why His parables echoed ...
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Kosher? Shabbat? Blessings? Holidays? Where do we start? This Jewish Living Podcast With Rabbi Nachum Meth focuses on the rich tapestry of Halacha—Jewish law and living—and the required context to properly and practically observe the mitzvahs.
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Mijal Bitton and Noam Weissman are two of the most dynamic, interesting, and thought-provoking Jewish leaders today. Two seasoned educators who love to talk, listen, laugh, challenge, and grow, Mijal and Noam are the Wondering Jews, leading us through thought-provoking discussions that are as serious as they are entertaining. Whether you're a seasoned scholar or just curious about Jewish culture, this show offers a refreshing perspective that's both enlightening and enjoyable. It's not just ...
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Leadership in Context is a conversation on leadership in the context of the local church. Keith Tucci is the apostolic team leader of the Network of Related Pastors. He loves the church and its leaders. You will be empowered and equipped to walk in fruitful ministry as you listen to Keith as he puts leadership truths in the context of the local church.
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If you're fascinated by creativity in a Jewish context, join Elad Nehorai as he talks to some of the Jewish world's most fascinating creative Jews about their work, their lives, and their relationship to their religion. Rather than an interview format, these are freewheeling, intimate discussions about anything and everything. An official Hevria podcast. Our home is at http://hevria.com
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Rabbi Gary Derechinsky leads this enlightening and fascinating study of “The Life of Messiah from a Jewish Perspective”. Based upon the seminal work of Messianic Jewish scholar, Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, this study places Yeshua (Jesus) in His proper Jewish context as the long-awaited King of the Jews and Savior of the world. Yeshua was born into a Jewish household in a Jewish community. As a boy in Nazareth, He attended a Jewish synagogue where He memorized the Jewish Scriptures. Growing in ...
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Learning About Learning: Conversations with Scholars of Jewish Education
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There is great scholarship being done in the field of Jewish education, but it’s not always accessible. And even when it is, it’s not always obvious why people in the field of Jewish education should care about it. That’s what this podcast is about—making really interesting scholarship on Jewish education accessible and talking with scholars about why it matters. Learning About Learning draws on live conversations, originally conducted as Zoom webinars. Regular episodes feature discussions b ...
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"I've seen the difference it makes when women's voices and talents are included at all levels," says Joanne Greenaway, CEO at the London School of Jewish Studies, who as well as being a communal leader and educator is also an international lawyer who spent 10 years developing expertise in resolving Jewish divorce cases individually and systemically. For this reason, Women's Gallery Podcast will spotlight incredible female leaders making a mark in the Jewish community. Interviewing a differen ...
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Hosted by Rabbi Dr. Levi Brackman, "Truths: Jewish Wisdom for Today" is an insightful podcast exploring the confluence of religion, science, and philosophy. The podcast serves as a platform for curious minds who value nuance and pursue wisdom. It is not designed for individuals seeking absolute truths or those inclined towards unquestioning religious adherence, but instead for those who traverse our rapidly evolving world as seekers and explorers. With the mission to impart valuable insights ...
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The Iyun Podcast explores the many dynamics of chareidim in relation to the broader context of Israeli society and beyond. Hosted by long-time podcaster Rabbi Ari Koretzky, Iyun features stimulating and courageous conversations with guests from a diverse range of stakeholders in the future of chareidi society. Join us on this exciting new adventure in Jewish podcasting!
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Where investigative scrutiny confront religious tradition. Hosted by Jeramiah Giehl—a former Jehovah Witness, Pentecostal, Messianic, and now Conservative Jew—this podcast unpacks the origins of Christianity through a Jewish lens. With a journalist’s edge, Giehl explores Jesus in Second Temple Judaism, exposing Greco-Roman fingerprints on early theology. From Qumran and the Ebionites to the “Parting of the Ways,” each episode confronts myth, redaction, and tradition with evidence-based analy ...
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The Internet and mainstream media are inundated with misinformation and superficial hot takes. That’s why you’re not getting the full story. Take another look with JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin as he takes deep dives into the most critical stories and controversies impacting the Jewish world with insightful commentary and fascinating interviews. If you want to understand the bigger picture and the context of the issues that really matter, this show is for you. Thanks for listening to Jo ...
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Word and Witness explores the stories, symbols, and history behind Scripture — revealing how God’s Word has spoken across generations and still speaks today. Each episode digs into the biblical text with context: the history of Israel, the traditions of the Jewish people, and the fulfillment of prophecy through Christ. Our goal is simple: to help listeners not only understand the Bible but to encounter its Author — seeing how every passage bears witness to His truth, His Spirit, and His plan ...
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Learn one page of Talmud each day with Daf Yomi. This series strives to capture the contextual meaning and flow of the Talmudic arguments with the help of manuscripts, structure, and historical background.
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Are you curious about Jesus? Not the Jesus you've seen in movies or heard about in Sunday school - But the Jesus who lived as a Jew in the first century in a Roman province, spent the first part of his life in Egypt and whose words and actions brought with them context from Jewish and Roman cultures he was surrounded by? You're in the right place. In this podcast we're reading the book of Matthew, the gospel that was written in Hebrew specifically intended for a Jewish audience. Each week I ...
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Welcome to Kibitz and Bitz! Where we argue information security and draw lessons from the weekly Torah portion. A Torah portion is the biblical reading in the Jewish scriptures for a given week. We do have opinions, and we’ll share them with you weekly in an interesting context. Music is taken from the Album: The Klezmer – Clarinet & Violin Best Jewish Music. Klezmer ensemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f5GniIYCm4 by Shmuel Achiezer Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p ...
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The Jerusalem Connection's Red Alert Report brings you news, commentary, and interviews with subject experts and eyewitnesses telling the story of Israel and its people, both ancient and modern to inform, educate and activate support for Israel and the Jewish people. Originally commissioned in 2010 as a YouTube video production by the Rev. Dr. Jim Hutchens to counter BDS, anti-Zionism, and Jew-hatred wherever it manifested, The Red Alert program developed into a platform to educate on all ma ...
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Turning the Gem is a podcast where we come to the ancient text of the Bible with fresh eyes through the lens of Jewish Tradition and historical context. Kristian and Daniel give a crash course on the early books of scripture to pursue the wisdom the Biblical Authors intended to pass on. Diving in to the many deeply challenging stories of the Old Testament to find the deeper beauty just behind our typical reading of the text. This podcast is meant for those who are looking to come back to scr ...
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The Apocalyptic Gospel Podcast explores the Gospel as a first-century Jew would have understood it. A conversation about the Gospel, the Kingdom of God, or the Day of the Lord in the first century would have evoked a body of ideas not immediately present with a simple word study of these terms. In this weekly podcast, a pastor, campus minister, and missionary mine the Torah, Biblical Prophets, and Second Temple writings for the origin and development of these ideas as we help give context to ...
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Going through the simple text of each week’s Parsha - Aliyah by Aliyah. Talking it out and understanding the story, so that we can go through each week with context to better comprehend the deeper lessons. An exciting and descriptive dialogue from, purely, the words of the Torah.
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72 Miles features the stories of three separate interfaith Jewish families–two real, one not, and one mine. Together, they trace 150 years of Kentucky history, with experiences that resonate today—about being Jewish in America. About being Jewish and southern at the same time. About being Jewish, being interfaith, and the blending of the two. This isn’t a podcast about the right way to be Jewish. Or what being Jewish even actually means. Mostly, this is a podcast about the lived experience o ...
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Culture Jumpers explores the funny, touching and dramatic ways people and culture make the jump from one cultural context to another. Listen on Spotify, Apple or your favorite app. In this award-winning show, the hosts share their stories as an Asian-Jewish couple and interview others about multicultural marriage, travel, kids, food and more. They also look at how pop culture translates globally.
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Featuring renowned scholars N.T. Wright and Michael Bird, this podcast features interviews and reflections on the decades of scholarship and research behind their book, The New Testament In Its World
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Every week Chris Hayes asks the big questions that keep him up at night. How do we make sense of this unprecedented moment in world history? Why is this (all) happening? This podcast starts to answer these questions. Writers, experts, and thinkers who are also trying to get to the bottom of them join Chris to break it all down and help him get a better night’s rest.
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One For Israel's Podcast collects powerful teachings, inspiring testimonies and insights into the scriptures and the context of the Land and People of Israel into a weekly podcast to inspire and uplift. Connect with us at OneforIsrael.com to find our more about our ministry or use our powerful outreach and teaching tool iMetMessiah.com to find more insightful teachings and outreach resources. Our ministry and Bible college is based in Netanya Israel and is the only Hebrew Bible college in th ...
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American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting Religious Nationalism
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Religious Nationalism is Global - So is the Resistance. What can we Americans learn from others around the world about how to protect democracy when the stakes are high? Can we learn how to challenge forms of religious nationalism and religious supremacy? What can we adopt from Buddhists in Sri Lanka or Muslims in Turkey, or Christians in South Korea who have faced similar kinds of forms of religious nationalism in their own context and sought to deflate their power? That’s the purpose for t ...
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The Shiloh Project and its podcast shine a light on the stories and practices of religion that either contribute to or resist rape culture. Through conversations with scholars and practitioners, the podcast invites us all to think about ways that we can challenge and dismantle rape culture in our own communities. The Shiloh project is a collaboration between the universities of Sheffield, Leeds and Auckland and funded by AHRC.
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What do poems, plays, and other creative texts from throughout history tell us about the times in which they were written? And what do they reveal about the forces still at play in our contemporary societies? Using interviews with artists and scholars combined with readings performed by actors, The Dybbukast examines and gives context to creative works while exploring their relationships to issues still present today. The Dybbukast is produced by theatre dybbuk. While the company is no lon ...
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Horav Michoel Sorotzkin shlit"a is a world renown lecturer and author. His Navi shiurimim, which until now was exclusively in Hebrew, will for the first time be available for an English-speaking audience. The shuir will begin from Sefer Yehosha and will cover both Halacha and Agada, with an emphasis on the historical context of Navi as well as a special focus on Mishnas HaGr'a. Subscribe here to get the latest shiurim. This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever fr ...
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Audio version adapted from the book Wings of Faith. Experience Shaar HaBitachon spiced with powerful stories and hanhagos of gedolei Yisrael that bring bitachon to life in a most practical way. Purchase or sponsor at: [LevErez.com (https://www.leverez.com)
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** Interested in subscribing to Rabbi Haim Ovadia's weekday emails on Jewish Law? Please send an email to [email protected] with your full name, location, and a bit about yourself.** Course Objective- "To understand the historical and social context and identify the message or hidden message". In this series, he analyzes select sections from Midrash. This is the full Academic Course on Midrash and all its facets taught by Rabbi Haim Ovadia in the summer of 2016 at the Academy of Jewis ...
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Discussion of biblical topics and texts that show that the God revealed in the Bible is One, and not a Trinity. Jesus, who was put to death and raised from the dead by God, is the Messiah (the Christ, the Anointed) of the One God.
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Halacha means “To Go” or “The Way We Should Go”. We live halacha on a daily basis, but may not understand the breadth and detail of many halachos so critically relevant to our everyday lives. Take some time with Rabbi Eli Reingold, a widely respected posek and rosh kollel, to explore halacha with context, comprehensiveness, and clarity. This podcast is powered for free by Torahcasts. Start your own forever free Torah podcast today at https://torahcasts.com/sign-up/ and share your Torah with ...
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Exploring Judaism with Rabbi Skobac Judaism can be a very busy religion. We do so many things in our observance. It's easy to get lost in the details & forget about the big picture. So what's Judaism really all about? What's the ultimate goal of everything we do as Jews? Where's Judaism supposed to be taking us? This lecture analyzes the core spiritual foundation for the context for the menu of Judaism. This lecture's dedicated in memory of Herb Green, z"l, Chaim Moshe Ben Yitzchak, who died ...
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“A Muslim & A Jew Go There” is a brand new podcast produced by Instinct Productions, hosted by comedian David Baddiel (author of “Jews Don’t Count”) and politician Sayeeda Warsi (“Muslims Don’t Matter”) who will take on whatever controversy hits the headlines each week, providing context and discussion around current political and cultural events involving and affecting British Muslims and Jews. Covering topics from antisemitism in the Labour party and Islamophobia in the Conservative Party ...
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🔥 Welcome to True Word, Faith for LIFE! with Dr. Shawn 🔥 www.TrueWordFaithforLife.com Are you seeking powerful, accurate Bible teaching that’s deeply rooted in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek language, culture, and context? Look no further! At True Word, Faith for LIFE!, I deliver in-depth, yet easy-to-understand messages that reveal the richness of Scripture — with insights that bring Yeshua’s words to life in practical ways for today’s world. 💬 Uncover Biblical Truths 📖 Explore the Origin ...
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Interviews with Authors about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
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Our stories have the power to bring us closer together, if only we will listen. Emmy Award-winning journalist and entrepreneur, Linda Lorelle, guides guests through insightful, intimate conversations that reveal our common humanity. This show is not about politics; it is about finding a way to reclaim civility in the context of the contentious times in which we live, by sharing our personal and professional stories, in hopes that others might find a glimpse of themselves.
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The Know My Faith podcast is all about learning the Bible in its historical and cultural context. We host a variety of speakers from New Zealand and around the world that shed light of mystery of God's Word to help believers get to know our Saviour better. If you have a question you can contact us at [email protected] #knowmyfaith
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A smart, playful and interrogative take on contemporary fashion and its context – weaving together sartorial and social history to tell powerful, surprising stories of identity. Hosted by Lucy Clayton together with a selection of special guests including designers, artists, writers, activists, academics and of course, the dresser uppers themselves, this show explores the way we dress in all its creative, sequinned and chaotic glory.
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All Out in the Open is a resource for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and those who love them. Our goal is to help listeners connect with themselves, with their families, with their community, and with God. Hosts Charlie Bird and Ben Schilaty help listeners open up to themselves and those around them. Clare Dalton digs into the scriptures and teaches how they can be a catalyst for personal revelation. Iese Wilson takes listeners on a tour of LGBTQ Latter-day Saints all over the Church and introduces ...
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For God to honor a natural heritage, He would have to diminish the sacrifice of Christ. There are not two plans for two groups of people. There is no distinction in our sinful condition. There is no distinction at the cross of Christ. And there is no distinction in our inheritance. We are one bride, one body, with one salvation and one purpose.…
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Micah S. Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2025)
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From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China’s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (U Washington Press, 2025) by Dr. Micah Muscolino explores how the Chinese state imposed …
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Nina Wilen, "Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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The Sahel has become a focal point of international security interventions, with external actors providing extensive security force assistance (SFA) to local military, police, and paramilitary forces. Securitizing the Sahel: Analyzing External Interventions and Their Consequences (Oxford UP, 2025) by Dr. Nina Wilen critically examines the rationale…
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Andrew H. Jaffe, "The Random Universe: How Models and Probability Help Us Make Sense of the Cosmos" (Yale UP, 2025)
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An award-winning astrophysicist looks at how the understanding of uncertainty and randomness has led to breakthroughs in our knowledge of the cosmos All of us understand the world around us by constructing models, comparing them to observations, and drawing conclusions. Scientists create, test, and replace these models by applying the twinned conce…
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Piotr Nowak, "After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man" (Anthem Press, 2025)
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After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man (Anthem Press, 2025) is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksne…
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Elizabeth Anne Davis, "The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand conspiracy theories “in context.” The months after Papa…
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Judith M. Lieu "Explorations in the Second Century: Texts, Groups, Ideas, Voices" (Brill, 2025)
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As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Many of the patterns of practice and belief that later become normative emerged, in the midst of debate and argument with neighbours who shared or who rejected that allegiance. Authoritative texts, prin…
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Aviva Rubin, "White: A Novel" (RE: Books, 2024)
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Sarah Cartell, who grew up in a White Supremacist family controlled by a violent grandfather who preaches hate and violence, learns from books and a kind librarian that there’s another way to see the world. In White: A Novel (RE: Books 2024), Aviva Rubin’s protagonist starts researching her family’s history of intolerance and learns about a grandmo…
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Renata Keller, "The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War" (UNC Press, 2025)
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Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground--a standard account that obscu…
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Eric King, "A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon" (PM Press, 2025)
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A Clean Hell opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horrors the Federal Bureau of Prisons tries to keep hidden underground. The federal supermax ADX Florence is the most secure facility in the United States, a dungeon of isolation, sensory deprivation, and psychological disint…
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Why Healthcare Costs Are Rising So Much with Jonathan Cohn
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Well, the government shutdown is over, but if you ask most Democrats about the unresolved challenge that the shutdown was about, the answer would be healthcare. This week the White House postponed its planned rollout of a new proposal to address health care costs. And with open enrollment season upon us, millions of Americans are already seeing hig…
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Introducing "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
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"Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order" is the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history: the executive order to target and round up innocent citizens, Japanese Americans, at the outbreak of World War II. This six-episode narrative podcast will examine and shed new light on how that policy came to be, who was behind it, who attem…
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John A. Camacho and Zack Hamilton, "Sports Chaos: Exploring the Reasons Behind Expert Business, Legal, and Moral Decisions" (2025)
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What happens when sports decision-making collides with business interests, legal battles, and moral dilemmas? Sports Chaos dives into the unpredictable world where experts, executives, and athletes must navigate high-stakes choices that shape the future of sports. From billion-dollar deals to ethical debates over owner and athlete behavior, this bo…
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Jeffrey K. Salkin, "Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer" (CCAR Press, 2025)
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In this episode Rabbi Marc Katz is in discussion with Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin about his new book Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer (Central Conference of American Rabbis Press, 2025), an engaging and insightful commentary on the Shabbat evening and morning services. Designed for students of all ages, from bet mitzvah to adulthood, the book's r…
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Maia Kotrosits, "After Transformation: Rewriting Time, Christian Late Antiquity, and the Present" (Duke UP, 2025)
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In After Transformation, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present. Recasting the monumental changes that occurred between the second and fourth centuries, when Rome transitioned from pagan to Christian worship, Kotrosits presents a condensed and evocative meditation on the profound e…
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Amy Hughes, "An Actor's Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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Harry Watkins was no one special. During a career that spanned four decades, this nineteenth-century actor yearned for fame but merely skirted the edges of it. He performed alongside the brightest stars, wrote scores of plays, and toured the United States and England, but he never became a household name. Inspired by this average performer’s life a…
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Marek Kohn, "The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey Through Cities at the Heart of Europe" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Historic quarters in cities and towns across the middle of Europe were devastated during the Second World War—some, like those of Warsaw and Frankfurt, had to be rebuilt almost completely. They are now centers of peace and civility that attract millions of tourists, but the stories they tell about places, peoples, and nations are selective. They ar…
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Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "African Women’s Histories in European Narratives: The Afropolitan Krio Fernandino Diaspora (1850-1996)" (Leuven UP, 2025)
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Little is known about the African women who came to Europe from the 1870s onwards, nor do we dare to imagine them as wealthy, elegantly dressed individuals with refined tastes and fluent in several languages. The Krio Fernandino represented a multisited, multilocal, transnational, transcontinental and Afropolitan community that lived between Africa…
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Verena Halsmayer on Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact
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Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, chats with Verena Halsmeyer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, about her recent, award-winning book, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact. The book explores the history of the way economists think about growth, including the role of technological change in it. It focuses on t…
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Something film fanatics often say is that a particular director’s work is really “about the movies.” Sometimes that’s true and sometimes it isn’t–but there’s no doubt that The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) is one of the “moviest” movies ever made. Every frame of it articulates the longing for life in a world superior to our own: the world of art. The…
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Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company" (HBR Press, 2017)
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Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards--as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can …
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Sebastian Truskolaski, "Adorno and the Ban on Images" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2022) upends some of the myths that have come to surround the work of the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno – not least amongst them, his supposed fatalism. Sebastian Truskolaski argues that Adorno's writings allow us to address what is arguably the central challenge of modern philosophy: how to picture a world…
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Episode 25 - "My Month in Basic Training" with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
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Iyun Institute founder and director Rabbi Yehoshua Pfefferrecently “put his body where his pen is,” enlisting in the IDF in its “Shlav Bet” program within the Homefront Command. Fresh off a month-long basic training, R’ Pfeffer shares his reflections and takeaways from the field.
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EP 25 Why Standing with Israel Still Matters
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Why Standing with Israel Still Matters What if Israel’s stumbling was never the end of her story? What if the grafting-in of the nations is not replacement, but restoration? Romans 9–11 reveals God’s breathtaking covenant plan—where Israel, the nations, and Messiah Yeshua become one family rooted in mercy. Dr. Shawn M. Greener, Follower of the Way,…
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Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)
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A righteous sister identifies herself as a biker. She might wrench, or maintain, her own bike, and she prefers to ride with other righteous sisters. Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club (Temple UP, 2025) is Dr. Sarah Hoiland’s insightful ethnography about an all-women motorcycle club (MC). She recounts stor…
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Jim Cullen, "1980: America's Pivotal Year" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and cultur…
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Democracy and Freedom: The Role of Philanthropy and Education
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This week, we feature an episode with Dr. Alvaro Salas-Castro, President and CEO of the Reynolds Foundation, and Founder and Chairman of the Democracy Lab Foundation, which fosters civic innovation. We discuss the current state of the freedom and democracy movement, how philanthropic partnerships and democracy defenders are responding to authoritar…
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Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
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Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries (UCL Press, 2022) edited by Ilan Kelman Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches, and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica. Personal and professional words in poetry and prose, plus images, present and represent Antarctica, as presumed and as imagined, alongside what is …
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