This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of What Would You Do?, a podcast about ethics in the modern world. Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Professor Tamar Ross of Bar-Ilan University about the implications of the Mount Sinai story and how we may approach it in our modern context.

In this week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcast Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Akiva Malamet, a graduate student whose research deals with immigration policy and whose writings on nationalism have appeared on Libertarianism.org, about the rise of fervent nationalism, the thin line between patriotism and hate, and whether compulsory loyalty to a nation has any moral basis.

In this weeks episode of the Living Jewishly Podcast, Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with addictions counsellor David Kaufman and his client, Randy Eckler, about the nature of addiction and Randy’s personal struggle with addiction and path to recovery.

This week’s special episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is dedicated to exploring the meaning and symbolism of Pesach. Dr. Elliot Malamet, Rabbi Rachel Rosenbluth, and Rabbi Ami Silver discuss our current understanding of freedom and how we can liberate ourselves from the situations and mindsets that bind us.

In this week’s episode of What Would You Do? from the Living Jewishly Podcasts, Dr. Malamet speaks with Rabbi Eugene Korn, author of To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values. Their conversation explores how modern readers may understand and interpret the plague on the firstborn sons of Egypt, how the status of commandments is affected by the passage of time and cultural shifts, and the hidden lessons that the Bible may hold.

In this week’s episode of the Living Jewishly podcasts, Dr. Elliot Malament, Rabbi Rachel Rosenbluth, and Rabbi Ami Silver explore the spiritual potential of psychedelic substances, the spiritual value of transcending rigid frames of mind and judgments, and how to integrate the lessons of Purim in the days that follow.

In this episode, Dr. Elliot Malamet and Jason Kuznicki, explore whether liberating some people from government interference involves abandoning others, the role of government in medicine and the market, and the risks of exploitation in a capitalist system without government oversight.

Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks to Aja Romano, culture writer for Vox.com, about the line between free speech and incitement to harm, the weaponization of language, and the polarization of our modern culture.

Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with Rabbi Yossi Sapirman and Dr. Michelle Friedman about the stress and loneliness rabbis experience, their challenges in accessing mental health care, and what congregants do not understand about the lives of their spiritual leaders.

In today’s world, we are not careful about the words we speak. And what we “punctuate”—in the sense of what we emphasize or accentuate—is often an attempt to play to the crowd rather than the more complex reality. But the consequences of a debased language threaten us all.