The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

J.J. and Dr. Shmuel Feiner tell tales of 1782 CE, a turning point in Modern Jewish History.  This episode is sponsored by the https://gsjs.touro.edu/history/, a leading academic program in Jewish Studies. For information on admission and course...

J.J. and Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein stay current. They discuss 21st century Jewish thinkers like Jonathan Sacks, Irving Greenberg, and Goshen-Gottstein himself.  This is the fifth and final episode in our miniseries about universalism and...

J.J. and Dr. Jeremy Fogel reflect on the oneness of nature, the nature of oneness, and particularism vs. universalism in the thought of Benedict Spinoza, Moses Mendellsohn, and Hermann Cohen.  This is the fourth episode in our miniseries about...

J.J. and Dr. Menachem Kellner pitch Maimonides against Judah HaLevi and explore the extremes of Jewish universalism and particularism in the middle ages.  Thank you to https://www.kestenbaum.net/ for sponsoring today's episode!...

J.J. and Dr. Marc Hirshman dissect the schools of R. Akiva and R. Yishmael to understand the central rabbinic arguments about universalism and particularism.  This is the second episode in our miniseries about universalism and particularism in...