Judaism Unbound

Our Judaism Unbound podcast kicked off with five sets of two episodes, each of which connected to one book of the Torah. In this episode, connecting to Deuteronomy, we reflect on our previous episode…

How do all the pieces fit together? In episode 9, we synthesize key ideas from the previous episodes' conversations and try to lay out the lens through which we will be looking in future episodes. To…

You might be familiar with these questions: How many Jews are there in the United States? How many Jewish children are they having? How can we ensure there will be more Jews in the future? In this ep…

How do Jewish institutions change? How do they resist change? Those are the key questions we wrestle with this week as Professor Barak Richman of Duke University joins us in conversation.

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What do science and art have to do with Judaism? That's the core question of this week's episode. Listen in as we answer it as best we can, while exploring related questions as well.

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What does it mean to "invent" Jewish ritual? Aren't rituals something we inherit or learn? Professor Vanessa Ochs, author of Inventing Jewish Ritual, helps us answer these questions and more.

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What, in Judaism, has crashed? Last episode, Rabbi Benay Lappe outlined her "Crash" Theory and in this episode, Dan and Lex engage with it further.

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Lex and Dan welcome Rabbi Benay Lappe onto the show to discuss ways in which Jews respond to various "crashes" throughout Jewish history. More than that, they analyze the question of whether we are i…

Lex and Dan look back at Jewish history, using a historical lens to analyze contemporary American Judaism and its institutions.

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Co-hosts Dan Libenson and Lex Rofes introduce listeners to their new podcast: Judaism Unbound. They discuss their framework of understanding 21st century Judaism, why the word "Unbound" is a particul…