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#17: Mikvah, Fertility, and the Pandemic Jun 23, 2020

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Featuring Ruth Balinsky Friedman (Ohev Sholom), Carrie Bornstein (Mayyim Hayyim), Rachel Rosenthal (JTS), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute)

To register for Hartman's summer programming, go to https://www.hartman.org.il/

#16: The State of Jewish Journalism Jun 18, 2020

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This episode features Jodi Rudoren (Forward), Philissa Cramer (JTA), and Yehuda Kurtzer.

#15: Facing Annexation Jun 11, 2020

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This episode features Tamara Cofman Wittes (Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution), Michael Koplow (Israel Policy Forum), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).

#14: American Jewish Communities After George Floyd Jun 04, 2020

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Featuring Ginna Green, Isaiah Rothstein, and Yehuda Kurtzer.

Mentioned in this episode:

- Danielle S. Allen, "Our Declaration": https://www.amazon.com/Our-Declaration-Reading-Independence-Equality-ebook/dp/B00FPT5KYW

- ‘Believe us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests, in their own words: https://www.jta.org/2020/05/31/united-states/believe-us-black-jews-respond-to-the-george-floyd-protests-in-their-own-words

#13: Joshua Foer on the Future of Digital Judaism May 27, 2020

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Mentioned in today's episode:

https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do?language=en

Sukkah City
https://forward.com/articles/132454/forward-50-2010/

Moonwalking
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301277/moonwalking-with-einstein-by-joshua-foer/

For more information on all of Hartman's digital summer programming, go to bit.ly/HartmanSummer

#12: What Comes Next for Denominational Judaism? May 21, 2020

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A conversation between Rabbi Rick Jacobs (Union for Reform Judaism), Rabbi Jacob Blumenthal (Rabbinical Assembly / United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Shalom Hartman Institute).

Register now for "The Revelation Will Be Digitized" on May 27, a virtual conversation about the future of online Jewish education. Joshua Ladon, Hartman’s Director of West Coast Education, will host Miriam Heller-Stern (HUC-JIR), Daniel Septimus (Sefaria), and Lisa Colton (Darim Online) to explore the questions that emerge for Jewish education in an era of COVID and Zoom. Register at https://updates.hartman.org.il/shavuot-2020.php

#11: Being home May 15, 2020

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Featuring write and journalist Elissa Strauss and Aliza Kline of OneTable.

Mentioned in this episode: https://onetable.org/soloshabbat

#10: The Hasidim of Netflix and the Israelis of HBO May 07, 2020

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Featuring Joseph Cedar (HBO's Our Boys, Footnote), Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto), and Shayna Weiss (Brandeis).

Mentioned in this episode:

Naomi's review of Netflix's Unorthodox: https://bit.ly/2YIryQv

Shayna's review of One of Us: https://bit.ly/3ba9Vf7

Article on the growth of Israeli TV in America: https://bit.ly/2zhsuRa

#9: Homeland at Home May 01, 2020

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Featuring Tomer Persico, Sigalit Ur, and Yehuda Kurtzer.

#8: Teaching Judaism at home is hard. Here's what you can do. Apr 23, 2020

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Featuring Rabbi Ethan Tucker (Hadar), Stephanie Ives (Beit Rabban Day School), and Yehuda Kurtzer (Hartman).

Mentioned in this episode:

Shalom Hartman Institute's online iEngage class: http://static.hartman.org.il/dev/uploads/2020/03/iEngage5-_Online-learning-flyer-0320_final.pdf?mc_cid=a64a52da4b&mc_eid=18e469e147&mc_cid=a090cea215&mc_eid=%5bUNIQID%5d

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