Latest Jewish education Podcast Episodes
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: Jewish Pride as a Radical Idea
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - April 04, 2024 14:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsJewish pride isn't just an emotion, but is an idea that can be taught. According to this week's Adapting guest, if it's not taught, it's dangerous to suppress. Joining David Bryfman this week is educator, author, and founder of the modern Jewish pride movement, Ben M. Freeman. The pair discu...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: What Does it Mean to Bear Witness?
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe’re continuing our limited series, Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World, with Rabbi Dr. Laura Novak Winer, a Reform Jewish Educator who just returned from an educator mission to Israel powered by The Jewish Education Project along with the Association for Reform Jewish Educators and H...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: Jewish Education Goes to Hollywood
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - March 21, 2024 09:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis week on Adapting, we return to the series, Israel and Jewish Education in a Post-October 7th World, with a conversation on antisemitism, particularly in the film industry. Join David Bryfman as he sits down with Todd Shotz, an acclaimed film and television producer, Jewish educator, and a...
Uplifting Women in the Workforce
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - March 14, 2024 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsRecorded on International Women’s Day, this week's episode of Adapting poses the question: if the workforce of Jewish education is largely dominated by women, why are there still disproportionately more men in the senior leadership positions? This introspective conversation with Dr. Sara Shapi...
Jews Don't Surf, or Do They?
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 29, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDanny Mishkin and Lynn Lancaster are making waves in experiential Jewish education. Sababa Beachaway, a co-ed residential summer camp in Virginia Beach, is where spirituality and tradition intersect to empower teens and tweens. Their conversation with David Bryfman takes you into a day in the l...
Leading the Learning Revolution
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 22, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsStarting from kindergarten, how do we as educators connect Jewish tradition to where children are developmentally? This week on Adapting, David Bryfman speaks with Rachel Happel, an experiential Jewish educator who is leading a Jewish learning revolution through unconventional programs. With ...
Everyone Counts: Redeeming the Captives
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 12, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe are facing a unique time as a Jewish people when the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim, redeeming the captives, is top of mind as 134 hostages are still held by Hamas in Gaza. What can you as an educator be doing to help the captives? In this extremely timely episode, Clare Goldwater and Elyssa Moss...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: Everyone Counts - Redeeming the Captives
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 12, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWe are facing a unique time as a Jewish people when the mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim, redeeming the captives, is top of mind as 134 hostages are still held by Hamas in Gaza. What can you as an educator be doing to help the captives? In this extremely timely episode, Clare Goldwater and Elyssa Moss...
Introducing 72 Miles til Kentucky
Modern Torah - February 12, 2024 16:00 - 6 minutesThis is a bit of a break from the regular Modern Torah feed, but I want to share a new, limited-series podcast with you that I've just released. It's called 72 Miles til Kentucky, and it's a storytelling podcast all about Jewish life in my home state. Here's the quick blurb. You can check out th...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: No School is Immune to Antisemitism
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 08, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis week's multi-faceted conversation between David Bryfman and Jonathan Cannon demonstrates that even deeply religious and Zionist schools are not immune to the ripple effects of October 7th. In times of heightened antisemitism, they too need to empower their students more than ever. As pa...
No School is Immune to Antisemitism
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 08, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis week's multi-faceted conversation between David Bryfman and Jonathan Cannon demonstrates that even deeply religious and Zionist schools are not immune to the ripple effects of October 7th. In times of heightened antisemitism, they too need to empower their students more than ever. As pa...
The Heart-Head-Hand of Israel Education
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 01, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHow has October 7th impacted your connection to Israel? Since then, is there someone you have been holding in your heart? These are just some of the questions Dr. Jonathan Golden incorporates in his Israel education paradigm of using the heart (feelings), head (questions), and hand (thoughts) t...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: The Heart-Head-Hand of Israel Education
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - February 01, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsHow has October 7th impacted your connection to Israel? Since then, is there someone you have been holding in your heart? These are just some of the questions Dr. Jonathan Golden incorporates in his Israel education paradigm of using the heart (feelings), head (questions), and hand (thoughts) t...
All Changes Great and Small in Education
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - January 25, 2024 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis episode kicks off a new series: Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World. Stay tuned for more episodes in this series. In the aftermath of October 7th, it's clearer than ever before that there is a need for both advocacy and education to bring about the changes necessary in independe...
Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World: All Changes Great and Small in Education
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - January 25, 2024 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThis episode kicks off a new series: Israel Education in a Post-October 7th World. Stay tuned for more episodes in this series. In the aftermath of October 7th, it's clearer than ever before that there is a need for both advocacy and education to bring about the changes necessary in independe...
Tu BiShvat: Where Nature Meets Tradition
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - January 18, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratings"Each and every tree has something important to say. If you listen closely, you might too hear their whispers." Rabbi Jackson Mercer creates intentional spaces as a song leader. He is also the author of Wise Friends, a children's book that's really a book for everyone, filled with millennium-...
The Beating Heart of Jewish Education
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - January 11, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAccording to Rabbi Danny Burkeman, the congregation is the beating heart of Jewish education, a driver of change which brings community together and inspires Jewish learning. So how does a synagogue adapt to keep Jewish education stimulating? In an inspiring conversation recorded before Octob...
Moses Benjamin Ezekiel
Modern Torah - December 21, 2023 15:00 - 9 minutesThis week, I was reading about the final stages of the plan to remove the Confederate Veterans Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. The memorial, if you’ve never seen it, is atrocious. It’s the tallest structure in the cemetery, for starters, and it’s covered with racist, apologist imagery t...
Embracing the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the midst of war, the essential and timely work of Jewish educators must continue. That is why on this week's episode of Adapting, David Bryfman discusses the ongoing hot-button issue of Artificial Intelligence and its role in education. On the cusp of 2024, educators don't have a choice: t...
Elvis & Wisdom
Modern Torah - December 15, 2023 12:00 - 8 minutesSometimes, when I'm feeling bored in shul I flip to the back of the book, and read Pirkei Avot. There's a particular passage, in the fifth chapter, that I often find myself turning to, especially in weeks that I'm feeling old. Like this week. Because this year, and this week's Torah portion Mike...
An Israelite in Egyptian Clothing
Modern Torah - December 08, 2023 13:00 - 7 minutesI went to graduate school at Brandeis University, and if I hadn't, I would've gone to law school at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, in Louisville, KY, where the first Jewish justice to sit on the Supreme Court was born, and raised. But what if I told you that story was almost wildly differe...
Hanukkah Special: Identity, Safety, & Pride
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - December 06, 2023 21:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDuring the eight nights of Hanukkah, Jews all over the world publicize the miracle of the holiday by lighting menorahs by the window for everyone to see. However, this year feels different, as we grapple with the horrors of October 7th and the current climate of antisemitism in the midst of war....
The Two Obadiahs
Modern Torah - November 30, 2023 21:00 - 8 minutesObadiah, Ovadiah. Obadi-ah. However you pronounce it, you might not remember it, but Obadiah is the name of the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible, and the Haftorah portion the rabbis chose to pair with this week's Torah portion, Vayishlach. Music Courtesy of Chillhop Records: Leavv, Maduk - Co...
The Power of Secular Prayer
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - November 21, 2023 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsDuring a time of war, it's so important to maintain and uphold our spiritual selves as well as community, two traits that are essential to Judaism. As the first yeshiva of its kind in Israel, the BINA Secular Yeshiva serves as a place where young adults can do just that while promoting Jewish pl...
Israel at War: The College Campus Conversation
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - November 16, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsImagine that you work on a U.S. college campus today while Israel is at war. Meanwhile, your Israeli cousin texts you from her mamad (safe room in an Israeli home) asking if you're okay given the rise in antisemitism on college campuses. That's what happened to Merav Fine Braun, executive direc...
Two Nations Under Cucumbers
Modern Torah - November 14, 2023 14:00 - 10 minutesThis week, I'm all about cucumbers. This humble vegetable, which the Talmud calls a delicacy of kings, became an internet craze a few years ago when Macka B released his "Cucumber Rap." Check it out in my source sheet for this episode. The Talmud has a lot to say about cucumbers, including a di...
Repost: Choosing Choiceless Choices
Modern Torah - November 13, 2023 14:00 - 8 minutesI updated my phone this week, which made it a great time to repost this episode, from two years ago. What does it mean to actually have choice? Are the choices we see the actual choices that we have? Are we supposed to pick a path through the woods, or turn around, or just sit in the mud and cry...
The Life of Sarah...The Death of Pearl
Modern Torah - November 10, 2023 01:00 - 14 minutesThere's a poem I've been reading recently, a long form epic poem originally written in Yiddish, about a Jewish blacksmith who settles down in rural Kentucky, in the mid-19th century. It's part of a project called 72 Miles, which I'm about to release, but this week I couldn't get away from a scen...
Prayers & Kids
Modern Torah - November 02, 2023 18:00 - 12 minutesThis might be a bold statement, but there are probably few things in the world that cause people to pray more than children. We pray for their health, their safety, their growth, that they’ll find their place in this chaotic world. Even if you don’t have kids, you’re probably praying for them, a...
Maintaining Hope and Humanity in the Face of Evil
Adapting: The Future of Jewish Education - November 02, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsRebecca Bardach has devoted her life to progressive education and coexistence between Jews and Arabs living together in Israel. How does she maintain strength and hope during these dark times? Listen to a candid discussion with David Bryfman as she provides a firsthand, on-the-ground account ...
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