The College Commons Podcast

The College Commons Podcast

The College Commons Podcast, passionate perspectives from Judaism's leading thinkers, is produced by Hebrew Union College, America's first Jewish institution of higher learning.

Episodes

July 29, 2025 31 mins

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl disentangles the power of the pulpit from the stature of its holder, by sharing the vulnerability, musicality and ethical of sermons.


Biography:

Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl serves as the Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue in New York City and is the first woman to lead Central’s Reform congregation in its 180-year history. Rabbi Buchdahl first joined Central Synagogue as Senior Cantor in 2006. In 2014, she...

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Author and activist Lihi Lapid follows characters who yearn for each other across space, time and even cognition.


Biography:

Lihi Lapid is a writer, journalist, lecturer and performer, symbolizing the voice of the contemporary Israeli woman. Her activity in various media has earned her a following that sweeps through social media with thousands of shares and comments.


Her books have been on the bestseller lists for weeks, led ...

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Author Lee Yaron resists the simplification of politics, people, and, most of all, of October 7th — in favor of nuance and humanity.


Biography:


Lee Yaron is an award-winning Israeli journalist.


Her new book, "10/7: 100 Human Stories," won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award  Book of the Year — and the 2025 Natan Notable Books award.


At 30, Yaron is the youngest Book of the Year recipient in the award's history. She...

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Rabbi Marc Katz uses the historical imagination to plumb the depths of Judaism’s greatest choice for survival.
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Rabbi Elliot asks us to approach difficult times with depth of mind and spirit.
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Rabbi Joshua Weinberg tackles both the complexity and the clarity of vision embedded in the idea of Liberal Zionism.
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December 15, 2024 42 mins
Poet Menachem Rosensaft transforms the Psalms into a search for God who permitted the Holocaust.
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November 11, 2024 24 mins
Who are we and where is home? Author Yariv Inbar investigates through the mental tightrope of espionage.
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Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.
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September 29, 2024 17 mins
Author Mari Lowe explores adolescence through the lens of the Orthodox experience – both unique and common to all.
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September 28, 2024 25 mins
Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.
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September 28, 2024 28 mins
Shai Held puts love at the center of Judaism, and explains why it may surprise you.
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Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.
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September 3, 2024 36 mins
Julia Watts-Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth - for everyone.
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August 20, 2024 27 mins
Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.
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Rabbi Yonatan Neril frames the ecological crisis in spiritual terms.
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Dr. Paul Zeitz explores solutions to our greatest challenges, from our inner selves to the world around us.
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John Inazu dissects disagreement to find opportunities for social trust, faith and democratic flourishing.
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Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe invites us on his journey of healing and human solidarity.
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Reform Judaism’s pioneering decision to mandate study in Jerusalem.
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