In this week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Professor William Kolbrener of Israel’s Bar Ilan University about the shifts that he has observed during his time in academia, the differences between teaching in North America and teaching in Israel, and what modern students truly seek.
Welcome the new month, and new moon of Elul! eaves in Jewishteachings for this new month. It’s a practice of preparing our body and heart for the new year, with a final relaxation posture of visualizing our body as an open field, sprinkling seeds of potential where it’s needed.
This week’s instalment of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an episode of What’s in Your Toolbox?, a podcast about mental health. In this episode, Bobby K sits down with “Wacky Jackie” G., a fellow alumni of the Mood Disorder Association of Ontario’s Laughing Like Crazy program, to discuss the power of comedy, creativity, and connection.
In this episode of the Living Jewishly Podcast Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Professor Heather Widdows, a Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham about the moral and ethical implications of our focus on the external, the role of capitalism in the creation of beauty ideals, and how beauty pressures affect our mental health.
We are sharing some embodied practice with you – a Yoga flow session curated for Divine Love, made especially for Tu B’av, which teaches about the powerful healing energy of this full moon holiday! As well, take a seat for a beautiful guided meditation which explores the spiritual potency of sound & silence, inspired by Kabbalistic teachings for this month of Av.
In this episode, Ganga Devi, Bluth, and guest Idan Lumi explore love of self, love of others, and love of the divine — listen now to learn the shapes that love can take, the intricacies of the process of becoming more loving, and the links between love, accountability, and grief.
The theological questions that emerge from the Holocaust are many, and they are difficult. Like many of us, I have thought about and been highly disturbed by these questions, so in 2008 I contacted Rabbi Dr. David Weiss Halivni, who died on June 29 at the age of 94, and asked if he would be willing to discuss his thoughts about the Shoah.
Download Living Jewishly’s beautiful Tu B’Av holiday guide.17 pages of gorgeous art, context and so much more. And it’s free! A gift from us to you!
Brooklyn Law School’s Professor Adam Kolber and Dr. Elliot Malamet dive into the goals and moral basis of punishment, the ways that culture and politics affect crime and punishment, and the rationale behind the extremely high levels of crime and incarceration in the United States.