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href="/604">Hope Is a Muscle: The Hatikvah Slate with special guest Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie </a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> May 1st, 2025  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 50 mins 21 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> #faithandjustice, #hashivenupodcast, #hopeisamuscle, #jewishfuture, #jewishresilience, #jewishvalues, #jewishvoices, #loveandresistance, #pluralismnotextremism, #progressivejudaism, #queerjudaism, #rabbiamichailaulavie, #reconstructionistjudaism, #spiritualactivism, #zionismreimagined </span> </h6> <p>Speaking from a place of personal history, heartbreak and fierce hope, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie articulates a Jewish future rooted in empathy, pluralism, love and justice.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/603"><figure id="episode_67d47b34-b207-49de-b9d0-d5977f593fba" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/603">Why Voting for the Hatkivah Slate in the World Zionist Congress Matters: A Conversation Across Generations</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> April 21st, 2025  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 42 mins 20 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> diasporavoices, hashivenu, hatikvahslate, intergenerationalconversation, israeldialogue, jewishcommunity, jewishfuture, jewishidentity, jewishleadership, jewishpluralism, jewishpodcast, jewishresilience, jewishvalues, jewishvoices, pluralisticjudaism, progressivezionism, reconstructionistjudaism, votejewish, worldzionistcongress, zionismtoday </span> </h6> <p>Rabbi Jodie Siff and her son Aaron Siff-Scherr join Rabbi Deborah Waxman for a moving, intergenerational conversation on progressive Zionism, Jewish identity and the importance of voting in the World Zionist Congress elections. </p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/602"><figure id="episode_890d6c36-f08e-4005-b603-840680bb66f0" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/602">Reconstructionist Values, Covenantal Community and War in the Middle East</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> December 4th, 2024  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 53 mins 8 secs </span> </h6> <p>Rabbi Elliott Tepperman and Rabbi Rachel Weiss join Rabbi Deborah Waxman for a deeply thoughtful and nuanced conversation about the difficult and rewarding work of maintaining unity within Jewish communities that sometimes have diverse views on Israel and Palestine and the War in Gaza.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/601"><figure id="episode_d3fdc52a-242c-4cfc-8197-c3ef4bddd326" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/601">Building Covenantal Community in the New Year and Beyond</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> October 10th, 2024  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 44 mins 33 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> 5785, conservative, deborah waxman, high holiday, high holidays, jewish, judiasm, new year, orthodox, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, reform, rosh hashanah, sukkot, yom kippur </span> </h6> <p>With the High Holiday season underway, Deborah welcomes Justin Rosen Smolen, Reconstructing Judaism's Vice President for Thriving Communities and Partnerships, for a wide-ranging conversation about covenantal community. </p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/504"><figure id="episode_f1066829-ffda-4346-b855-d3eef20c8c08" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/504">Rabbi Elyse Wechterman, CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> May 16th, 2024  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 38 mins 45 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> change, jewish, judaism, leader, leadership, mordecai kaplan, rabbi, rabbinical, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionist, reconstructionist judaism, resilience, rra </span> </h6> <p>Earlier this year, Rabbi Elyse Wechterman announced that she will step down from her position as CEO of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association (RRA) in June after leading the organization for the past nine years. Elyse stops by Deborah’s office to look back on her tenure and look ahead to what’s next.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/503"><figure id="episode_a2c53986-1fa8-4037-8179-4ac1fa30edc1" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/503">Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> March 28th, 2024  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 38 mins 55 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> avodah, feminism, israel, jewish, judaism, justice work, leadership, palestine, racial justice, women </span> </h6> <p>Rabbi Deborah Waxman welcomes Cheryl Cook, CEO of Avodah, for a wide-ranging conversation about women in leadership, justice work, allyship, parenthood and more.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/502"><figure id="episode_4677033b-a786-4ea3-9883-75dfd77e60e7" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/502">How to become our fullest, most expressive selves? Practice, practice, practice </a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> October 24th, 2023  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 59 mins 34 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> box breathing, embodied practice, embodiment, israel, jewish, judaism, resilience, trauma, viktor frankl </span> </h6> <p>Yoshi Silverstein, founder and director of the Mitsui Collective, explains that in difficult times like these, embodiment practices can help us understand and name the extent to which strong emotions are having an impact on us. The key to being able to respond to stressful stimuli in a healthy way? Awareness and practice, practice practice. </p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/501"><figure id="episode_7a78e5b7-c012-4b19-8b6e-efbde618e54c" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/501">Yom Kippur: A Celebration of Collective Release </a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> September 12th, 2023  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 5  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 38 mins 40 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> deborah waxman, high holidays, ishay ribo, reconstructing judaism, reconstructionism, reconstructionist, rosh hashanah, yom kippur </span> </h6> <p>Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., speaks with Rabbi Vivie Mayer about what the avodah service, which originated in ancient Israel as a series of elaborate rituals performed by the high priest on Yom Kippur, can teach us today.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/50"><figure id="episode_fb98a0d2-f8f7-4c2d-b5e7-47ac8fa3f0ec" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/50">S4 Ep. 9: Season of Reflection and Repentance</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> September 19th, 2022  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 38 mins 10 secs </span> </h6> <h6> <span> <i class="fas fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> high holidays, jewish, judaism, rosh hashanah, yom kippur </span> </h6> <p>Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D and Rabbi Sandra Lawson, discuss their respective processes of preparing for the High Holidays. This isn’t about leading services, but about how, as human beings, they undertake an accounting of the soul, leading to repentance for their own actions and forgiveness toward others.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/49"><figure id="episode_b3ffa148-4abb-4339-b6c4-9dcd87bf09cc" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/49">S4 Ep. 8: Songs of Joy and Mourning</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> May 5th, 2022  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 39 mins 52 secs </span> </h6> <p>Reconstructing Judaism board member and Tikkun Olam Commission co-chair Shahanna McKinney-Baldon opens up with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. and Rabbi Sandra Lawson about her time fronting the ska and reggae band Highball Holiday. She talks about how she rediscovered her singing voice in middle age and shedded certain inhibitions and self-consciousness. She also describes Reconstructing Judaism's ongoing process of gaining support for a movement-wide resolution supporting reparations for slavery.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/48"><figure id="episode_61b3f908-520b-47a4-82c3-5b614e346b1a" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/48">S4 Ep. 7: The Smooth River</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> April 8th, 2022  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 46 mins 6 secs </span> </h6> <p>On Sept. 3, 2019, Richard Cohen’s wife, Marcia Horowitz, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Horowitz lived 160 more days. In this special episode, Cohen recounts those days and discusses with Rabbi Deborah Waxman what he learned about life as Horowitz's death approached.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/47"><figure id="episode_6d749411-e4c0-4afd-9a4a-46b7f5b83d5a" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/47">S4 Ep. 6: Being an Ally with Empathy, Humility and Courage</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> December 28th, 2021  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 40 mins 25 secs </span> </h6> <p>What does it mean to be an ally, both to individuals and to groups? How can one begin to do that work in a way that is meaningful? In this episode, Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D. and Rabbi Sandra Lawson – longtime friends and now colleagues – discuss these questions using examples from their own lives. They delve into the difficulty of saying and doing the right thing at the right time,</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/46"><figure id="episode_f40423a8-55d8-4ac6-8926-398de3e052eb" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/46">S4 Ep. 5: JewAsian</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> October 26th, 2021  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 39 mins 53 secs </span> </h6> <p>Helen K. Kim, co-author of JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews, stops by to discuss macro topics such as racism in the Jewish community and the rancorous debate over communal demography. Rabbi Deborah Waxman and Rabbi Sandra Lawson also learn about how Kim found inspiration in the work of Maimonides, the medieval Jewish philosopher and Torah commentator. </p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/45"><figure id="episode_8e2f9426-763f-4569-8570-9a4bfe6398c8" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/45">S4 Ep 4: In the Same Place, As the Same Person </a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> September 10th, 2021  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 33 mins 10 secs </span> </h6> <p>Amanda Mbuvi, Ph.D., is the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s new vice president for academic affairs. We delve into Mbuvi’s desire to deepen how people and communities think about diversity and identity, offer some thoughts on the findings of the Jews Of Color Initiative's latest study and share our hopes for the High Holidays and the coming year. </p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/44"><figure id="episode_f52b917c-500b-4d1c-aebd-24248c0e4fc3" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/44">S4 Ep. 3: Creating a Jewish Community Where All Can Thrive</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> June 23rd, 2021  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 42 mins 58 secs </span> </h6> <p>Marcella White Campbell is executive director of Be'chol Lashon -- a pioneering organization that strengthens Jewish identity by affirming the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the Jewish people. We discuss her multiracial Jewish family's own experiences as a window into the Jewish community's troubled record in welcoming Jews of Color. She reflects on her own growth into leadership, motivated by the rising cohort of young Jews of Color who deserve a Jewish community where they can thrive and contribute. And she reflects on the rich interplay of her Jewish and Black identities in making meaning at a time of personal loss. Join us for a rich and deeply moving conversation.</p> </div> </li> <li> <a href="/43"><figure id="episode_4919ca26-5619-4691-9fb3-07ff0694b5fa" class="list-background"></figure></a> <div class="list-item prose"> <h3> <a href="/43">S4 Ep 2: Paradox, Complexity and Liberation: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein</a> </h3> <h6> <span> <i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> April 13th, 2021  |  <i class="far fa-flag" aria-hidden="true"></i> Season 4  |  <i class="far fa-clock" aria-hidden="true"></i> 41 mins 38 secs </span> </h6> <p>We're joined by Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, one of fewer than 100 Black American women to earn a doctorate in physics -- and a Reconstructionist! We discuss the insights she draws from her background as a Black and Ashkenazi Jew, and the richness, complexity, and fruitful challenges that diverse voices bring to the Jewish community. She and Rabbi Sandra Lawson discuss their respective experiences as trailblazers within the physics and the rabbinate. Finally, we delve into theoretical physics and Jewish theology as she explains why she included the <em>ma'ariv</em> prayer in her new book, <em>The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred</em>.</p> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> </main> <div role="navigation" aria-label="Pagination" class="pagination"><ul class="pagination"><li class="prev previous_page disabled"><a href="#">← Previous</a></li> <li class="active"><a href="/page/1">1</a></li> <li><a rel="next" href="/page/2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/page/3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/page/4">4</a></li> <li class="next next_page "><a rel="next" href="/page/2">Next →</a></li></ul></div> <footer class="footer"> <h5 class="footer-title"> <strong> Hashivenu </strong> is © 2025 by Reconstructing Judaism </h5> <ul class="footer-nav"> <li><a href="/about">About</a></li> <li><a href="/episodes">Episodes</a></li> <li><a href="/hosts">Host</a></li> <li><a href="/guests">Guests</a></li> <li><a href="/contact">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/search">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/theme-song">Theme Song</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org">Reconstructing Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/support/">Support Hashivenu</a></li> <li><a href="/subscribe">Subscribe</a></li> </ul> </footer> <footer class="site-footer"> <a title="Powered by Fireside" class="fireside-link" href="https://fireside.fm"> <img style="margin-bottom: .5em;" src="https://a.fireside.fm/assets/logo/logo-256x256-a66c893f56338e5c7dcd7e1cb849e63dfaf3ba3b44cc435d826295ca10a7e6b9.png" /> <span>Powered by Fireside</span> </a></footer> <style> .hero-info .episode-hosts a::after { content: attr(title); } </style> </style> </body> </html>

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