Valley Beit Midrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Daniel Boyarin, the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley, on the topic of "Radical Talmud!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, on the topic of "Is Democracy a Religious Value?" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Michael Melchior, Chief Rabbi of Norway and a former member of the Knesset, on the topic of "Religious Zionism & Peace Building." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Joel Hecker, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (https://www.rrc.edu/), on the topic of "Learning the Zohar!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson, the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, on the topic of " Grief, Hope & Insights within the Pandemic." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Rabbi David A. Ingber, Founder and Senior Rabbi at Romemu, NYC (https://www.romemu.org/), on the topic of "Spirituality Today!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Dr. Shira Berkovits, President and CEO of Sacred Spaces (https://www.jewishsacredspaces.org/), on the topic of "Fostering Safe and Sacred Spaces." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (https://wws.princeton.edu/), on the topic of " Religion, Diplomacy, and Israel." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., the president of Reconstructing Judaism (https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/), on the topic of "Jewish Particularism & Universalism." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, on the topic of "Judaism, Coronavirus, and Care." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Rabbi Yitzchak Blau, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshivat Orayta (https://www.orayta.org/), on the topic of "Religious Zionism & Modern Orthodoxy." NOTE - We apologize that the audio quality is in this interview is poorer than usual. DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Professor David Nirenberg, the dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, (https://divinity.uchicago.edu/) on the topic of "Anti-Judaism." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews, Dove Kent, Senior Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc (https://www.bendthearc.us/), on the topic of "White Nationalism & Coalition Building." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash speaks on the topic of "Spiritual Hope!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews R' Yoni Rosensweig, rabbi at Netzrach Menashe (https://www.netzachmenashe.org/), on the topic of "Mental Illness, Halakha, & Coronavirus." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America (https://hartman.org.il/NA_index.asp), on the topic of "Coronavirus and American Jewish Life." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP Learn more about Dr. Kurtzer's recent work: https://identitycrisispod.com For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Aryeh Klapper, Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership (http://torahleadership.org/), on the topic of "Pikuach Nefesh & Rodef." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Rabbi Dr. Burt Visotzky, Appleman Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies - The Jewish Theological Seminary, on the topic of "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself!" DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash interviews Professor Simon Blackburn, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on the topic of "Morally Stuck & Navigating the Pandemic." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Hannah Creviston, a clinical associate professor of piano pedagogy at Arizona State Universit (https://herbergerinstitute.asu.edu/) presents her Arizona Jews for Justice lecture and performance "Immortal Melodies: Remembrance and Hope" before an audience at Temple Chai (www.templechai.com/) in Phoenix, AZ. ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE: Be renewed and hear the sweet sounds of memory. Join Valley Beit Midrash and Arizona Jews for Justice for a night of song, remembrance, and hope. For more info, please visit: www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash/ www.facebook.com/temple.chai twitter.com/VBMTorah www.facebook.com/RabbiShmulyYanklowitz/ Music: "They Say" by WowaMusik, a public domain track from the YouTube Audio Library.