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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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One-hour weekly variety show featuring the best in Ukrainian cultural content presented in English - recipes, book reviews, current affairs, historical trivia, proverbs, interviews and plenty of great Ukrainian music! Support the show on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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From Old Testament History springs New Testament hope. Located in Arnold, MD, New Hope Chapel is a vibrant church, with Biblical-based teaching. Listen to a variety of teachers as they open God's Word in a way that's both profound yet easy to understand. To learn more about New Hope Chapel, please visit www.newhopechapel.org.
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Messianic Audio Teaching from Beth Tikkun Messianic Fellowship in Akron Ohio. These teachings feature author and congregational leader Grant Luton and guest speakers. Learn the depth of Messianic faith by uncovering insights from the Hebrew language, the ancient sages of Israel, and informed by the vibrant understanding of Yeshua and his Apostles.
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Join actors David Sklar and Ilana Zackon as they schmooze with creative Jews of all disciplines, taking you behind the scenes of what matters most to Canada's Jewish arts community—and why our cultural representation matters.
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The Tikvah Fund is a philanthropic foundation and ideas institution committed to supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish State. Tikvah runs and invests in a wide range of initiatives in Israel, the United States, and around the world, including educational programs, publications, and fellowships. Our animating mission and guiding spirit is to advance Jewish excellence and Jewish flourishing in the modern age. Tikvah is politically Zio ...
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Jewish Ideas to Change the World delivers thought-provoking content by leading Jewish thinkers with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. It is produced by Valley Beit Midrash. Valley Beit Midrash (VBM) is dedicated to social justice as driven by Torah ethics. VBM's mission is to improve lives through Jewish learning, direct action, and leadership development. Listen to VBM's other podcasts: • Social Justice in the Parsha (weekly divrei Torah by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz) • Pearls of Jewish Wi ...
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The Chameleon Church Show: Biblical Antidotes for the Modern Man. Show host Allan Aguirre discusses the mechanics of a Kingdom Lifestyle with co-hosts Pastor Lenny Perata and Kris Rosentrater - Tuesday mornings at 8:45am Central. For a programming list of shows: chameleonChurch.com/live
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In a frenzied media cycle, Identity/Crisis delves into the big ideas behind the news from a uniquely Jewish perspective. From the Shalom Hartman Institute, host Yehuda Kurtzer invites leading thinkers to unpack current events effecting Jewish communities in North America, Israel, and around the world, revealing the core Jewish values underlying the issues that matter to you. JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST FOR MORE HARTMAN IDEAS
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YUTORAH: R' Moshe Tzvi Weinberg -- Recent Shiurim
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Discover new ways to show and share the love of Jesus to a broken and a hurting world. Join Ed Stetzer in an engaging discussion of today’s cultural trends.
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Desperation Church works through the Bible verse by verse each weekend as a part of our sermon study. We believe the greatest story ever told should be shared in a dynamic, energetic and authentic way. Pastor Bil (and occasionally other folks from the DC Community) deliver practical Biblical teaching grounded in the original context that honors the Jewishness of Jesus with direct application for the community God has called us to lead. We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your comments.
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SAPIR is a journal exploring the future of the American Jewish community and its intersection with cultural, social, and political issues. These podcasts are recordings of Zoom webinars we have held with our contributors (season numbers correspond with issue numbers). To find out more and join our next events live, visit www.sapirjournal.org.
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Helping Christians make sense of their roots. Helping Jews make sense of Jesus. Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel through teachings and trips.
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Learn the special messages conveyed the in weekly Haftarah and the profound connections between the weekly parsha and its related Haftorah.
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We invite you to consider a new life in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah. The many changed lives at Congregation Yeshuat Tsion are evidence of the working of G-d's Spirit in the hearts of His people. It is our desire to have you join us and share in creating a community of believers in Yeshua ha Mashiach."Yeshuat Tsion" means both "salvation from Zion" and "salvation to Zion." That encapsulates our vision. We are committed to conveying that salvation for mankind has come from Zion (Israel).
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Embedded in the parshiyos every week are priceless lessons for life. Join Rabbi Eli Reingold, a widely respected posek and rosh kollel, on a weekly journey through a topic of relevance that allows us to pause, reflect, and bring our lives more closely into alignment with the Torah’s wisdom and beauty. 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 the world.
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Christopher looks at Yeshua through hasidic lenses
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This podcast is dedicated to Italian Genealogy, finding your Italian Roots and how to navigate through Italian records. Your host has over 12 years of experience and we will have excellent guests that will discuss a variety of genealogy topics. Please subscribe!
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From WRHU Hempstead, Getting To The Root is a weekly, student-driven radio program that brings community voices to center stage. We aim to shed light on important issues that you won't hear on your day-to-day news broadcasts.
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Jewish Ancestral Healing teacher and practitioner Taya Mâ Shere engages spiritual leaders, artists, activists and visionaries on their journeys of ancestral healing, embracing resilience, and ancestor reverence practices rooted in Jewish traditions and counter-oppressive devotion. May this offering be a portal of connection, that we may root in positive resource, remember ancient ways, reclaim and innovate new possibilities, and be deeply nourished by the well of our loving and wise ancestors.
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Welcome to the podcast of Shema Yisrael in Rochester, NY. We are a Messianic Jewish Congregation that loves Yeshua. The following are a list of the teachings that have been brought to the congregation during our weekly services at 11:30 a.m. If you happen to be in the area you should look us up.
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Finally, a smart, funny, fast-moving podcast for Jews who love weed and for the people who love them! Join co-hosts Josh and Roy for cannabis strain reviews, headlines from around the Jewish and weed worlds, special guest interviews, and general, all-purpose laughter and curiosity. Check out the most recent 20 episodes for free, or become a Patreon Patron at any level and get access to the full back catalog. L'High'im!
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Sharing voices from the diaspora and beyond. Originally founded in 2019 by Millie Efraim and Natalie Sanandaji with the intention to create a space for Mizrahi stories to come to life, the podcast has expanded to interviews with psychologists, historians, actors, spiritual workers, and creatives from all over the world.
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Welcome to Shoulder to Shoulder, a podcast where a pastor and a rabbi get to the heart of issues that matter to people of faith.
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By seeking the stories of our ancestors, we find our own. Through the lens of genealogy, host Heather Murphy invites you to embark on a transformative quest of self-discovery, enabling you to cultivate self-awareness, forge meaningful connections, and embrace a life filled with resilience and joyful authenticity. Be inspired to take your own journey into the branches of your family tree, illuminating the stories of your ancestors and empowering you to discover your true self. Through researc ...
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Two Messianic Jewish graduate students think deeply about Messianic Jewish history and theology. We also engage with questions asked by other Jews, Hebrew Roots/One Law groups, and Christians. These questions include: Can you be Jewish and believe in Jesus? Are Gentiles obligated to keep kosher, Shabbat, and the feasts? Didn't Christianity replace Judaism? And many more! We hope to be thoughtful conversation partners with you as we explore these issues. Subscribe if you would like to join us!
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The podcast that asks the question: "How did we get from Jesus to here?" (Proud to partner with Local Theologian Studios to explore the teachings of Jesus (and his followers) in the public domain.) Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/postbiblical/support
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Israel Rising is a merger between paradigm shifting content, pro-Israel growth architecture, and on-site workshops and VIP tours in Jerusalem and Hebron. Israel Rising believes that the most important driver behind impactful Israel activism and Jewish outreach is education. This is why Israel Rising threads both outreach tools with meaningful and deep content along with real on the ground activism in order to ensure maximum impact and influence.
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Welcome to Walk Like a Hebrew, the podcast in which we talk with Torah-pursuant Christians from all over about how on earth they got from THERE - wherever that was - to HERE - walking out a life that combines faith in Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah with an emphasis on being set-apart by keeping the Torah of YHVH (God). Torah, commonly translated as "Law," literally means "instructions" in Hebrew. We live by 1 John 2:6, "Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked." We eat Biblically ...
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The only podcast brave enough to look for the root cause of antisemitism and a real solution to it according to the laws of nature #jews #judaism #Israel #hebrew #thetribe #antisemitism https://www.antidotetoantisemitism.com/ https://thejewfunction.com
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A 9 minutes or less shiur on the Parsha, grounded in Chazal and the Rishonim. Goal is to show how the parsha speaks directly to our lives today. Strive to be simple enough for the busy layman, yet deep enough for the advanced Talmid Chacham at the same time. Podcast is available on all the major platforms. Call in options: 712-432-3491 (US) or 079-574-2029(IL). Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer is a Talmid of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. He has a Semicha from Rav Moshe Heinemann, and an MS in Special Education ...
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I fight for morality, truth and ethics. Topics on: faith, God, Israel and philosophy. Roses are red, violets are blue, fuck with me and I'll fuck with you. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humble-brag/support
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Liz McGee offers ground-breaking mystical insights and SOD level esoteric wisdom, gleaned from ancient Jewish texts. Her understandings embrace a Messianic or Hebrew Roots perspective, seen through the lens of the "Two Houses of Israel" being prepared to be brought home once again. Her goal is to help build unity and respect between Jews and Christians, as children of the One Eternal G-d. So tune in, to make sure you have oil in your lamp for the coming of Mashiach! More episodes in video fo ...
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Michael Stein interviews comedians, actors, and various other artists from all walks of life, exploring their careers, successes, struggles, and deep thoughts. Hard-hitting, fast-moving, and hyper.
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The Produce Industry is very complex and covers A to Z literally Asparagus through Zucchini. We will discuss all types of markets foreign and domestic including Supply, Demand, Logistics, Technology, Food Safety, Sustainability, Industry Categories, Market Reports and Industry news, and more!!! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theproduceindustrypodcast/support (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theproduceindustrypodcast/support)
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Join me as I bring forth the Biblical root and truth's to believers' lives while celebrating Jesus as Kings, L-RD, and Messiah!!! IRF - Bearing The Burden is hosted by Pastor and Rabbi Billy Elias. FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL US - Ilanfellowship@gmail.com
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Taking Back the Narrative is a Zionism education initiative (www.tbtnisrael.com), which aims to fill in the historical 2,000 'gap' proving Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel. This podcast delves deeper into topics relating to Israel, Jews as a people, and current events relating to Taking Back the Narrative.
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Over the years, Drisha has been (and continues to be) honored to host a number of events and lectures sponsored in memory of departed loved ones and members of our own Drisha learning community. We are now gratified once again to present you The Memorial Lectures at Drisha, a podcast specifically dedicated to the fruits borne by those past (and current) events and lectures.
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In this Podcast you can join the in-depth Chassidus classes given at Yeshivas Tiferes Bachurim (Morristown, NJ) by Rabbi Zalman Dubinsky on the Maamar BeYom Ashtei Asar Yom 5731 (מאמר ד"ה ביום עשתי עשר יום תשל"א).
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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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The Biblical Roots of Anti-Semitism
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A hybrid event (in-person and virtual) by Rabbi Marc Gitler The event was co-sponsored by Temple Emanuel About the Event: Each year at the Pesach Seder we state that in every generation our people have experienced hatred. But when did it all start? We will investigate the earliest story of Anti-Semitism in the Torah, and hopefully learn some vital …
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How a Jewish couple Solomon and Esther Ueberall saved St. Lucy's in Brooklyn
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Send us a Text Message. How can one family's compassion and resolve shape the destiny of an entire community? Join us as we sit down with Vincent Magano to uncover the awe-inspiring tale of Solomon and Esther Ueberall, whose extraordinary acts of kindness not only saved St. Lucy's Church but also saved lives during the darkest days of World War II.…
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Kate Brandes, "Stone Creek" (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024)
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Kate Brandes' new novel, Stone Creek (Wyatt-MacKenzie, 2024) introduces readers to Tilly and Frank Stone. Seventeen years ago, after living as a fugitive, Tilly Stone (then, age 13) is left to fend for herself in remote Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. She tries to forget the dams they b…
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Iman Mersal, "Traces of Enayat" (Transit Books, 2023)
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Traces of Enayat (Transit Books, 2023) is a work of creative nonfiction tracing the mysterious life and erasure of Egyptian literature’s tragic heroine. It begins in Cairo, 1963. Four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age 27. For the next three decades, it’s as if Enayat never existe…
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Swati Chattopadhyay, "Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginali…
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Nik Ribianszky, "Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
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In Generations of Freedom: Gender, Movement, and Violence in Natchez, 1779-1865 (U Georgia Press, 2021), Nik Ribianszky employs the lenses of gender and violence to examine family, community, and the tenacious struggles by which free blacks claimed and maintained their freedom under shifting international governance from Spanish colonial rule (1779…
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Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024)
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Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor Frankenstein,” with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought tog…
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Rachel M. Scott, "Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making (Cornell University Press, 2021) highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state la…
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Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …
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Laura Beers. "Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century" (Norton, 2024)
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Is Orwell still relevant today? In Orwell’s Ghosts Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century (Norton, 2024), Laura Beers, a Professor of History at American University examines the life and writing of Orwell to offer lessons for contemporary politics and society. The book examines the influences that shaped Eric Blair’s nom de plume, as well as show…
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Rochelle Potkar, "Coins in Rivers: Poems" (Hachette India, 2024)
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Fierce and unflinching, Rochelle Potkar's poetry springs from the deeply personal and ripples out to the world, capturing lovers' whispers and reverberations of explosions with equal ease. Vividly depicting love, grief, anger, and defiance, these poems glimmer like coins beneath the water surface, tethered with the weight of wishes clinging to them…
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David M. K. Sheinin and David S. Koffman, "Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Canada and Jewish Argentina in Conversation" (Brill, 2024)
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This book puts two of the most significant Jewish Diaspora communities outside of the U.S. into conversation with one another. At times contributor-pairs directly compare unique aspects of two Jewish histories, politics, or cultures. At other times, they juxtapose. Some chapters focus on literature, poetry, theatre, or sport; others on immigration,…
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To whom is the Epistle of 1 Peter addressed, Jews or Gentiles? The answer mgiht surprise you. It has to do with being "born again." This teaching explores the divide between Peter and Paul and their respective ideas about Gentile identity in the Messiah Yeshua.By D. T. Lancaster
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This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series. This podcast is a multimodal project powered by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. At CARGC, we produce and promote critical, interdisciplinary, and multimodal research on global media a…
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Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)
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The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics (MIT Press, 2024), Robert Baker tells the counter history of the birth of bioethics, bringing to the …
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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘sta…
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Mitchel P. Roth and Mahmut Cengiz, "Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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Murder by Mail: A Global History of the Letter Bomb (Reaktion, 2024) by Dr. Mitchel P. Roth and Dr. Mahmut Cengiz unfolds the gripping history of weaponized mail, offering the first ever comprehensive exploration of this sinister phenomenon. Spanning two centuries, the book unveils the history of postal bombs, describing the evolution of both explo…
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Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Vietnam, and discussed the broader implications of events in these countries for the region. After the event, each of the six speakers sat for a podcast to chat with Dr Natali Pe…
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Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)
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In Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between (New World Library, 2024), Ellie Laks recounts the extraordinary journey that started with her first teacher, Buddha -- not the religious figure, but a rescued miniature Hereford cow. One evening Buddha wrapped her neck around an exhausted …
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Edward Kaplan, "The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Waging and winning a nuclear war have been called “thinking about the unthinkable” but that’s exactly what Edward Kaplan and I discussed in our interview about his recent book, The End of Victory: Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age (Cornell UP, 2022). The current Dean of the School of Strategic Landpower at the US Army War College, Kaplan recounts…
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Tisha Brooks, "Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? With Spirit Deep: Recovering the Sacred in Black Women’s Travel (U Virginia Press, 2023), Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritua…
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Premee Mohamed, "The Siege of Burning Grass" (Solaris, 2024)
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Premee Mohamed’s novel The Siege of Burning Grass (Solaris, 2024) is set during an ongoing war between two empires: Varkal and Med’ariz and follows Alefret, a founder of Varkal’s pacifist resistance who has been arrested and imprisoned by his own country. When the opportunity for freedom presents itself, Alefret must decide how willing he is to col…
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Elena Borisova, "Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life" (UCL Press, 2024)
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Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (UCL Press, 2024) by Dr. Elena Borisova is the first ethnographic monograph on migration in Tajikistan, one of the most remittance-dependent countries in the world. Moving beyond economistic push-pull narratives about post-Soviet migration, it foregrounds the experiences of those who ‘sta…
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Laura van den Berg, "State of Paradise" (FSG, 2024)
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It's another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing num…
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This episode is the first of two episodes this season on Muslims in China. Here Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talk to Darren Blyer about his book Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City (Duke UP, 2022). Darren is a sociocultural anthropologist at Simon Fraser University, whose book explores how islamophobia and c…
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A. J. Berkovitz, "A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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The Bible shaped nearly every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient world, from activities as obvious as attending synagogue to those which have lost their scriptural resonance in modernity, such as drinking water and uttering one's last words. And within a scriptural universe, no work exerted more force than the Psalter, the most cherished text amo…
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When we went to fight Midian, we sent 12,000 to fight, 12,000 to guard the supplies, and 12,000 to daven. Why did we need to bring 12,000 soldiers to daven on the battlefield, why couldn't they daven in shul? An idea from Rav Yechezkel Levenstein on one of the fundamentals of prayer. Have a wonderful Shabbos…
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J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b'Av Since October 7
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On the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av in the year 586 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian forces destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem. Since then, Tisha b’Av has served as a day of commemorating Jewish tragedy, a day when Jews remember those killed for being Jews and recite kinnot, elegies recounting the sacrifice and suffering that is an inesca…
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Everyone Wants a King | Rev David Pileggi
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Contrary to God’s will the people of Israel clamored for a king. They were desperate for security, especially from the Philistines, but were forewarned by Samuel the prophet that the burden of kingship would be crushing. Even David, the most ideal of rulers ended up abusing his power as seen in rape and murder (Bathsheba/Uriah). And when Jesus feed…
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In today's episode, John and Patrick explore the remarkable journey of the kiwifruit, tracing its origins from the misty mountains of central China, where it grew wild for centuries, to its introduction in New Zealand by pioneering botanists and missionaries. Discover how this once-unknown fruit, initially dubbed the Chinese gooseberry, transformed…
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This week, Modya and David explore the double parsha that ends the book of Numbers (Bamidbar). They explore once again the role of calmness in speech through taking on responsibilities that previously were only in the domain of the Divine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! …
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Jane-Marie Collins, "Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
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Jane-Marie Collins's book Emancipatory Narratives & Enslaved Motherhood: Bahia, Brazil, 1830-1888 (Liverpool UP, 2023) examines three major currents in the historiography of Brazilian slavery: manumission, miscegenation, and creolisation. It revisits themes central to the history of slavery and race relations in Brazil, updates the research about t…
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Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong (1842-1981) (Chinese U of Hong Kong Press, 2023)
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How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Today’s book is: Everyday Architecture in Context: Public Markets in Hong Kong, 1842-1981 …
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Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we often associate with charisma ("ask not what your country can do for you"), but because of something more ordinary an…
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"Catamaran" Magazine: A Discussion with Catherine Segurson
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Catherine Segurson is the founding editor of Catamaran. She’s a painter, videographer and creative writer who graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Prior to founding Catamaran 12 years ago, she worked at both Zeotrope and ZYZZYVA literary magazines. California-based Catamaran focuses ofte…
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Roger Crowley, "Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2024)
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The spice islands: Specks of land in the Indonesian archipelago that were the exclusive home of cloves, commodities once worth their weight in gold. The Portuguese got there first, persuading the Spanish to fund expeditions trying to go the other direction, sailing westward across the Atlantic. Roger Crowley, in his new book Spice: The 16th-Century…
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D. E. Osto, "Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
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A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and encounters with other beings such as ghosts and deities, and they often interpret these events through a specifically Buddhist lens. Paranormal States: Psy…
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Let My People Go (with Matt Osborne)
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LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED: The topic of today’s episode is human trafficking and crimes against children, usually sexual crimes, and sometimes ritual abuse and organ harvesting. Matt Osborne has worked with OUR Rescue (originally Operation Underground Railroad) for ten years; he left his CIA career to join this NGO and is now one of the longes…
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Julia Sonnevend, "Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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Politics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person--perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not because of the elevated rhetorical performances we often associate with charisma ("ask not what your country can do for you"), but because of something more ordinary an…
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Shaul Magid on the Jewish Radicalism of Meir Kahane (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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For Kahane, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the black nationalist, the greatest enemy of the Jews was not the Arabs. The greatest enemy of the Jews was liberalism. Shaul Magid, Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and Rabbi of the Fire Island Synagogue, is a celebrated and brilliant scholar of radical and dissident Jud…
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Oliver Traldi, "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
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The idiom of contemporary politics is a kind of philosophical hodge-podge. While there’s plenty of talk about the traditional themes of freedom, justice, equality, and autonomy, there is also an increasing reliance on ideas like misinformation, bias, expertise, and propaganda. These latter notions belong, at least in part, to epistemology – the are…
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His comedic journey in 2004, influenced by comedy icons like Bill Cosby and "Saturday Night Live," he transitioned from radio advertising to full-time comedy drawn by the joy of making people laugh, Jose ...
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Jose Dynamite first attempted stand up comedy at a talent showcase in 1999 while in college. He took another brief crack at it in 2002 when the Laugh Factory opened its doors in Honolulu. Just a couple of years later, he decided to really make an effort, and began to pursue his dream of being a stand up comedian: he hasn’t looked back since. And …
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In the early 20th century, a wave of Jewish migrants set sail for Argentina, driven by dreams of a brighter future. Their path began in agricultural colonies, spurred by Baron de Hirsch's late 19th-century vision to establish South American homes for Eastern European Jews. Join John and Patrick as they delve into the triumphs and tribulations of th…
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S13E2: The Resilience of Israel's Intelligence Services with Chuck Freilich
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Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s vaunted military and intelligence establishment again failed to protect the Jewish state. What must it do to regain its reputation and deterrence? Former Israeli deputy national-security adviser Chuck Freilich joined Bret Stephens for a conversation on his recent SAPIR article, "Can Israel’s Intelligen…
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Send us a Text Message. Nicola DiGuglielmo's journey from Andretta, Italy to New Jersey is nothing short of remarkable. Picture a family driven by love and determination, uprooted from their small Italian hometown in search of a brighter future in America. Nicola reflects on his father's struggle to create opportunities in a land where none existed…
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