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The Curious Jew

Yeshivat Orayta
Modern Orthodoxy
Tinok Shenishba
Judaism
Penina Halakha
Chazal
Tanakh
Kiruv
Outreach
Aliyah
NCSY
Rutgers University
Lakewood Fellowship
Yeshiva University

Judaism is a civilization built on big ideas—about God, morality, community, purpose, and what it means to live a meaningful life. But in a rapidly changing world, how do these timeless concepts speak to our modern reality? The Curious Jew is a forum for thoughtful conversation, spirited debate, and intellectual exploration of Judaism’s most enduring questions and contemporary challenges. Through ... more

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R’ David Silverstein sits down with Rabbi Dr. Jason Weiner, a hospital chaplain who spends his days at the bedsides of dying patients at one of the largest medical centers in California, to ask what Judaism actually has to say about death.

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In this special AMA episode of The Curious Jew, the tables turn: producer R’ Corey Gold steps out from behind the scenes to put host R’ David Silverstein in the hot seat, tackling questions submitted directly by listeners.

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Are we turning our backs on 90% of Klal Yisrael? If Modern Orthodoxy has the perfect vocabulary to engage the contemporary world, why has it abandoned the field of outreach?

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Rabbi David Silverstein sits down with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer — dayan, author, and founder of the Iyun Institute — to ask one of the most charged questions in contemporary Israeli Jewish life: how does the Haredi world actually think about its relati... more

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Recent Guests

Steven Gotlib
Rabbi, Kiruv advocate, and educator with a focus on Modern Orthodoxy and outreach
Rabbi, Philadelphia; Kiruv practitioner
Episode: Has Modern Orthodoxy Abandoned Kiruv? A Conversation with R’ Steven Gotlib
Rabbi Yeshua Pfeffer
Rabbi, Dayan, author, founder of Iyun Institute
Iyun Institute
Episode: A Haredi Conception of Jewish Peoplehood: Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer on Brotherhood, Isolation, and Israel
Rav Avishai Lax
Guest, Rav at Yeshivat Har Bracha
Yeshivat Har Bracha
Episode: Inside Peninei Halakha: A Halakhic Vision for Israeli Society with R' Avishai Lax

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5.0 out of 5 stars from 64 ratings
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Has Modern Orthodoxy Abandoned Kiruv? A Conversation with R’ Steven Gotlib
Q: What attracted you to the Lakewood Fellowship and later YU Smicha, philosophically and theologically?
The opportunity to study Torah at a high level, the chance to learn with serious scholars, and the realization that PhD-level philosophical questions could be integrated with religious study, which drew me toward Smicha and modern Orthodox thought.
Has Modern Orthodoxy Abandoned Kiruv? A Conversation with R’ Steven Gotlib
Q: When you were in high school, was egalitarianism a given or something you wrestled with?
It was not a moral wrestling for me; I grew up in a context where egalitarianism existed as an option within Conservative Judaism, and I perceived it as compatible with my values, so the moral conflict was minimal.
A Haredi Conception of Jewish Peoplehood: Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer on Brotherhood, Isolation, and Israel
Q: How do you reconcile traditional Chazal categories with the modern state of Israel and a more individualistic society?
By grounding the discussion in community belonging as the core yes, while recognizing that language and lived reality have shifted; Tinok Shenishba is a useful rubric but not a definitive description, and an authentic framework must emerge from an Israel-connected, Tanakh-based project rather than exclusively book-based debates.

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