Latest David bernstein Podcast Episodes
IsraAID: How Israel Supports People Affected by Humanitarian Crises
JCPA CRCast - September 25, 2019 15:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow has IsraAID intervened during humanitarian crises in other countries? How has this work raised goodwill with outside communities? What role can the American Jewish community play in amplifying Israel’s humanitarian work in the world? Yotam Polizer, IsraAID Co-Chief Executive Officer. Yotam ...
How to Fight Antisemitism
JCPA CRCast - September 20, 2019 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow does Antisemitism manifest itself on both sides of the political spectrum? How serious a threat is each form? What are the best strategies for countering them? Bari Weiss is an Op-Ed staff editor and writer. She writes about culture and politics. Bari was an op-ed and book review editor at ...
LGBTQ Equality in Israel and for Israel
JCPA CRCast - September 18, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIsrael has the most progressive laws in the Middle East protecting the LGBTQ community. What is the Jewish community’s role in advancing understanding of Israel’s record of LGBTQ rights? What efforts are being made at home and in Israel to continue to make strides on this front? Tyler (Tye) Gre...
The U.S. Role in Combating Global Antisemitism
JCPA CRCast - August 21, 2019 14:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe US State Department has played a critical role in combating global Antisemitism through its office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. Elan Carr, newly appointed to the post, has already made a significant impact in the fight against the world’s oldest hatred. How does t...
Jewish Federations Then and Now
JCPA CRCast - July 10, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJerry Silverman has served as the professional head of the Jewish Federation movement for ten years and is stepping down later this summer. How have Jewish Federations evolved in the past decade? What direction are they going? Where does Jewish advocacy and community relations fit in? Gerrald (...
Are Jews Being Excluded From Social Justice Coalitions?
JCPA CRCast - June 06, 2019 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJewish social justice activists on and off campus have reported that they have been required to “check their Zionism at the door.” Two JCRC directors—one who infamously had been asked to leave the Chicago Dyke March in March 2017, and another with experience in ensuring Jewish participation in ...
Managing Ideological Polarization Inside the Jewish Community
JCPA CRCast - May 22, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDiscourse among American Jews has become more polarized in recent years. Issues ranging from the Iran deal, to Israel, to how to define and respond to anti-Semitism have divided our community. How can we manage these tensions and keep people together amid differences. Rabbi David Stern is Senio...
State of Religious Pluralism in Israel
JCPA CRCast - May 15, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingReligious pluralism has been a sticking point in Israel-Diaspora relations. Disagreements over the status of the Kotel, recognizing non-Orthodox rabbis, and the status of converts are constantly in play. What is the current status of these issues? What are the threats and opportunities moving fo...
Navigating the Progressive Conversation
JCPA CRCast - April 24, 2019 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJewish community relations leaders must increasingly engage in intersectional spaces, addressing challenging topics such as the Palestinian-Israel conflict, anti-Semitism, and complicated power dynamics among community groups. In such spaces how can we represent both our particular interests and...
Changes in the Arab Media and New Challenges for American Jews
JCPA CRCast - October 31, 2018 22:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow has the popular media in the Arab world shifted, if at all, in its attitudes toward Israel and Jews? How should American Jews react to anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim world, Europe, the U.S., and in the press? Join us for a frank conversation with Yigal Carmon, President of the Middle E...
The Future of America’s Immigration System
JCPA CRCast - October 17, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOver the past year, the Administration has instituted a number of significant changes to U.S. asylum and refugee policies. What is the future of immigration policy in the United States and how we can we ensure sensible reform? Join Lee Gelernt (@leegelernt) and David Bernstein (@DavidLBernstein...
Mainline Protestants and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where Do We Go From Here?
JCPA CRCast - September 26, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Mainline Protestant churches have been a focus of Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) activity for almost two decades. What are the lessons from the conventions in Presbyterian and Episcopal churches this past summer – and what are the next steps for the community relations field? Eth...
The Jewish Role in Ending Mass Incarceration
JCPA CRCast - September 21, 2018 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEnding mass incarceration, which inequitably impacts people of color, is the civil rights issue of our times. How can the Jewish community be a significant voice in the movement to change this system? Roy Waterman III (@roywaterman4) is the Jewish Council for Public Affair's Criminal Justice Pro...
Jews of Color and the American Jewish Community
JCPA CRCast - July 25, 2018 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBe’chol Lashon fosters positive, pluralistic, multicultural expressions of Judaism that embrace the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity that has characterized the Jewish people throughout history up to the present. Learn more about the challenges facing Jews of Color, and how we can work to ma...
Evangelical Christianity and its Relationship to the Jewish Community
JCPA CRCast - July 11, 2018 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWho is the Evangelical community today? What are its priority issues? What are its attitudes toward Jews and Israel? Discuss these questions and more with leading Evangelical thinker and magazine editor David Neff. David Neff was editor in chief of Christianity Today, where he worked from 1985 u...
The Chinese American Community Today
JCPA CRCast - June 06, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Chinese American community has grown in both numbers and influence in the past decade. It has a history of engaging American Jews. What are its priorities? What opportunities are there for engagement both locally and nationally? Fred Teng is the President of America China Public Affairs Inst...
Overcoming Political Polarization: Dialogue Across Differences
JCPA CRCast - March 28, 2018 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday’s politics are more divisive than ever. What are the root causes of this problem? How can we create a political culture that allows for dialogue across differences and the potential to find common ground? Rob Fersh is the President and Founder of Convergence Center for Policy Resolution, a...
What’s at Stake with the Census? Literally Everything!
JCPA CRCast - February 28, 2018 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe U.S. Census is just around the corner, yet it is already riveted with controversy. It’s not just a matter of numbers, it’s a matter of the future political map, and which groups get fair and accurate representation. Terri Ann Lowenthal is a nationally recognized expert and frequent speaker o...
Encountering Palestinian Narratives
JCPA CRCast - February 14, 2018 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEncounter was formed in 2007 to expose American Jewish leaders to Palestinian narratives. To this date a number of JCRC leaders have participated. Why is it important for Jewish leaders to understand the Palestinian experience? What does Encounter hope to accomplish in this work? Yona Shem-Tov h...
The Atmosphere on College Campuses: Michigan as a Case Study
JCPA CRCast - November 27, 2017 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA discussion with University of Michigan Hillel Executive Director Tilly Shames. Michigan has been one of the most popular schools for Jewish students. After many failed attempts, however, student government recently passed a BDS resolution. What was the atmosphere on campus before and after this...
Ongoing Iranian Nuclear Threat
JCPA CRCast - October 11, 2017 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMark Dubowitz is the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington, D.C.-based nonpartisan policy institute, where he leads projects on Iran, sanctions, countering threat finance, and nonproliferation. He is an expert on Iran’s global network including the regime’s nuclear,...
Understanding and Responding to the White Supremacist Threat
JCPA CRCast - September 27, 2017 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoseph Levin is co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center. From 1971 until 2004, he served the Center in various capacities, including Legal Director, Chair of the Board, President & CEO, and General Counsel, retiring in 2016. The Southern Poverty Law Center monitors hate groups and other ext...
Slashing $10 Billion in Jewish Social Services: What’s At Stake For Your Community?
JCPA CRCast - July 17, 2017 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWilliam Daroff is the Senior Vice President for Public Policy and Director of the Washington Office of JFNA. Daroff guides the Jewish community’s advocacy efforts on the Federation movement’s key domestic policy issues, principally on health and human services, such as Medicare and Medicaid, long...
What is the Alt-Right (and What Should we do About Them)?
JCPA CRCast - July 05, 2017 04:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Alt-Right movement is in the news more and more these days. What are they and what should the Jewish community do? Marilyn Mayo is the Research Fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Center on Extremism. Marilyn is an expert on right-wing extremists in the United States, ranging from w...
Strategic Framework for Battling the Delegitimization of Israel
JCPA CRCast - June 21, 2017 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhy is BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Movement) still an issue? How can we work productively to address it? Gidi Grinstein is the founder of the Reut Institute, a non-profit organization, designed to be an effective force of change in Israel and the Jewish World. He is also the author ...
Lessons Learned 50 Years After the Six-Day War
JCPA CRCast - June 07, 2017 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr. Michael Oren is the Deputy Minister for Diplomacy and Special Envoy in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and served as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States from 2009-2013. He is a world-renowned historian and author and wrote a publication on Six Days of War which was a New York Times B...
The Socially Responsible Investing Movements Influence on Israel/BDS and Other Communal Concerns
JCPA CRCast - May 17, 2017 04:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWhat is Socially Responsible Investing (SRI), and what are it's implications on the BDS movement? Julie Hammerman is the Executive Director of JLens, an organization that serves as the bridge between the Jewish community and the increasingly influential responsible investing movement. JLens prov...
Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
JCPA CRCast - May 04, 2017 04:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJose Angel N., author and advocate or writes about his experience as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. over the past 17 years. A day after José Ángel N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through...
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