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In a frenzied media cycle, Identity/Crisis creates better conversations about the issues facing contemporary Jewish life. Host Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, talks with leading thinkers to unpack current events affecting Jewish communities in North America, Israel, and around the world, revealing the core Jewish values underlying the issues that matter most to you. JOIN... more

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Antizionism has become a badge of belonging—and a tool of exclusion. On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Shaul Kelner, professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, about how anti-Zionism operates not ... more

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Did Yiddish ever really die?

On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forverts, to explore the surprising renaissance of the Yiddish language—from new dictionaries and online media to ... more

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What does it mean to defend liberal democracy in a world shaped by power, domination, and moral compromise? In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with Washington Post columnist and author of The Case for American Power, Shadi Hami... more

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Who pays the price for identifying antisemitism?

In this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer speaks with journalist and Canadaland host Jesse Brown about his recent series What Is Happening Here and his decision to investigate the rise of ant... more

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Recent Guests

Rukhl Schaechter
Editor of Forverts, the Yiddish version of the Forward
Forverts
Episode: A Yiddish Renaissance: Language, Memory, and Modern Jewish Life — with Rukhl Schaechter
Shadi Hamid
Columnist at the Washington Post and Senior Fellow at Georgetown
Georgetown University
Episode: Power, Liberalism, and Moral Responsibility — with Shadi Hamid
Jesse Brown
Journalist and media critic, host of Canada Land, exploring anti-Semitism in Canada.
Canada Land
Episode: Reporting on Antisemitism When No One Wants to Listen — with Jesse Brown
Adam Ferziger
An intellectual and social historian focusing on Jewish religious movements and their responses to secularization and assimilation.
Bar-Elan University
Episode: How Americans Reshaped Israeli Judaism — with Adam Ferziger
Terrence Johnson
Professor of African American Religious Studies and Director of Religion and Public Life
Harvard Divinity School
Episode: What Broke the Black–Jewish Alliance? with Terrence Johnson
Yair Rosenberg
Staff writer at The Atlantic, focusing on religion and politics
The Atlantic
Episode: Carlson, Fuentes, and the New/Old Antisemitism – with Yair Rosenberg
Tani Frank
Director of the Center for Judaism and State Policy at the Shalom Hartman Institute
Shalom Hartman Institute
Episode: Israel 2026: The Next Elections and What’s at Stake – with Tani Frank
Yossi Beilin
Former Israeli Minister and key figure in the Oslo Accords negotiations
Episode: Rabin, Oslo, and the Road Not Taken — with Yossi Beilin
Howard Wolfson
Former Deputy Mayor under Mike Bloomberg for Government Affairs, now directs the education program at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Episode: The Jewish Paradoxes of Zohran Mamdani — with Howard Wolfson

Host

Yehuda Kurtzer
Host and president at the Shalom Hartman Institute, he explores contemporary Jewish life and identity through conversations with leading thinkers.

Reviews

4.6 out of 5 stars from 298 ratings
  • Black-Jewish relations with Terrance Johnson

    I can’t thank you enough for taking on this topic—two communities that have had so much in common and yet have had different trajectories. The moral understandings of my early life in Detroit were in the shadow of the Holocaust (and earlier pogroms) and Jim Crow, and then the rising of both communities in the Civil Rights movement and the birth of the state of Israel. The break in our communities has been heartbreaking, I think, for ourselves and the American narrative. The moral understanding ... more

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    womanbyherradio
    United States2 months ago
  • Holding hope during a fragile peace

    Great discussion re the present ceasefire. Where there is no vision the people perish. Proverbs

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Faith, love and hope.
    United Kingdom3 months ago
  • Always enlightening

    Thank you Yehuda for your thoughtful, analytical and yet heartfelt observations. Much appreciated!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Suelass25
    Canada5 months ago
  • No evidence?!!!

    Can you have really just said, “no evidence“?!!

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    34@88//!
    Canada6 months ago
  • Spitalnick

    Disappointed on her take. Spin was predictable.

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    Hope 4 Future
    United States8 months ago

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A Yiddish Renaissance: Language, Memory, and Modern Jewish Life — with Rukhl Schaechter
Q: What do you think accounts for that 250,000 students signing up for Duolingo? What are the forces at work that are driving folks into this audience?
Rukhl suggests that nostalgia among children of Holocaust survivors, academic interests, and a search for Jewish identity among millennials are key factors.
A Yiddish Renaissance: Language, Memory, and Modern Jewish Life — with Rukhl Schaechter
Q: Rukhl, thank you so much for coming on the show today. I want to start just by asking you to tell us your Yiddish story.
Rukhl shares her background as a native Yiddish speaker, influenced by her father's work in preserving the language and culture.
Power, Liberalism, and Moral Responsibility — with Shadi Hamid
Q: What do you understand that American vision or American project to be about?
Hamid summarizes it as making the world safe for democracy, advocating for the use of American power in a morally guided manner.
Power, Liberalism, and Moral Responsibility — with Shadi Hamid
Q: What story do you think it tells about the version of American power that the Trump administration represents?
Hamid believes that the Trump administration represents a form of power that is indifferent to morality, asserting domination without pretense of moral justification.
Reporting on Antisemitism When No One Wants to Listen — with Jesse Brown
Q: What motivated you to start telling this story about the rise of anti-Semitic violence in Canada?
Stubbornness probably, mixed with personal experiences that compelled Jesse to document these issues.

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1. Rukhl Schaechter
2. Shadi Hamid
3. Jesse Brown
4. Adam Ferziger
5. Terrence Johnson
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8. Yossi Beilin

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