Oct 29, 2019
News coverage about Israelis, Palestinians, Jews and Arabs is filled with narratives of right versus wrong. What happens when instead of perpetuating a culture of blame, those on each side of the conflict challenge themselves to listen and build? Rabbi Shira Stutman moderates a conversation with those involved in...
Oct 28, 2019
In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer, the bestselling author of Eating Animals, asserts that saving the planet from climate change will involve a reckoning with humans’ reluctance to sacrifice immediate comfort for the sake of the future. In conversation with Libby Casey, the on-air reporter covering politics...
Oct 23, 2019
Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte is the story of a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse and an entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction.
This program was held in partnership with Politics and Prose on October 10, 2019.
Oct 22, 2019
Beautiful on the Outside recounts Adam Rippon’s journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to coming out as gay in 2015, to winning a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
This program was held on October 16, 2019.
Oct 16, 2019
One year after the deadliest attack on Jews in this country’s history at the Tree of Life Synagogue, Bari Weiss, an Op-Ed staff editor and writer for The New York Times, makes a powerful case for renewing Jewish and liberal values to guide us through this uncertain moment in How to Fight Anti-Semitism.
This program...