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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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The question of Haredi military service in Israel has always been about more than the army, and the war has made that unmistakable.

On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer is joined by Yehoshua Pfeffer, a rabbi and public thinker working ... more

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Hope isn’t optimism—it’s the stubborn decision to keep building even when you can’t see the outcome. On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with alumni of Hartman’s Hazon leadership program Ayala Dahan and Yonathan Machlis to ta... more

What happens when Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” is no longer read as a civic creed, but as a provocation about who belongs—and what a democracy owes the vulnerable? In this episode, Yehuda Kurtzer reflects

on the normalization of cruelty toward ... 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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Recent Guests

Yehoshua Pfeffer
Head of the Iyun Institute, community rabbi, and a prominent figure in discussions about Haredi integration.
Iyun Institute
Episode: The Haredi Draft Crisis — with Yehoshua Pfeffer
Ayala Dahan
Alumni Program Director of Hazon at Hartman, active in political life and social justice.
Hazon
Episode: Pathways to Hope in Israel – with Ayalan Dahan and Yonathan Machlis
Yonathan Machlis
Director of the Center for Social Justice in Haifa, involved in political activism and education.
Center for Social Justice
Episode: Pathways to Hope in Israel – with Ayalan Dahan and Yonathan Machlis
Shaul Kelner
Professor of Jewish Studies and Sociology at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University
Episode: Antizionism and the American Left’s Jewish Problem — with Shaul Kelner
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
Rob Kapilow
Conductor, composer, commentator, and author known for his work on the history of Jews in Christmas music
Episode: Christmastime for the Jews (Re-Release)

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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 303 ratings
  • not good

    Responding to a recent episode which I endured, called "America Betrays the Stranger"… while I happen to disagree with the esteemed podcasters on the central issue (I mean, why is every other country on the planet free to enforce their borders but not America?), that is not the real problem here… the real problem is telling people how they should be thinking on a given subject based on their ethnicity. If you are someone who thinks a Jew needs to hold this or that political opinion based on the ... more

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    DareBoBear
    United States13 days ago
  • Interesting discussions.

    Mostly an interesting podcast with well thought out debate. I do question a lot what you say about genocide. If decades of oppression and bias, and then such extreme cruelty and killing was done to Jewish people, you would speak so differently. it doesn't diminish the horror of the terrorism against the Jewish people, to say that what has been done to the Palestinians is categorically wrong. The extreme and inhuman violence done to them is on an incomparable scale. If the positions were reversed... more

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    3
    3.Elena
    United Kingdom20 days ago
  • The presenter

    He is utterly predictable and boring, tikkum olam’ish wokish bore.

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    1
    Crataegus101
    United Kingdom22 days ago
  • 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 States3 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 Kingdom4 months ago

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Pathways to Hope in Israel – with Ayalan Dahan and Yonathan Machlis
Q: How do you see the culture of activism shifting?
The culture is changing, with young leaders who want to create change from within the existing system.
Pathways to Hope in Israel – with Ayalan Dahan and Yonathan Machlis
Q: When I was in Israel last week, I heard somebody talk about how there's like an impatience in Israel for the older generation after the war.
The younger generation is more confident and willing to use their voices to shape Israel's future.
Antizionism and the American Left’s Jewish Problem — with Shaul Kelner
Q: What role does anti-Zionism play in American politics today?
Shaul Kelner discusses how anti-Zionism as a political phenomenon influences Jewish rights and is seen in the practices of political movements.
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.

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2. Ayala Dahan
3. Yonathan Machlis
4. Shaul Kelner
5. Rukhl Schaechter
6. Shadi Hamid
7. Jesse Brown
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