THE LIVING JEWISHLY BLOG
EPISODE 85: Transgender - A Human Story
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of Crossing the Sea, a podcast about Judaism and mental health. Dr. Elliot Malamet speaks with transgender adults about their experiences with transitioning and how they view their lives through a Jewish lens.
REPLAY: Sacred Time Episode 42: Tammuz
This week’s instalment of the Living Jewishly Podcast revisits the Tammuz episode of Sacred Time, a podcast devoted to exploring the healing art of the Hebrew calendar. In this rich and thought-provoking episode, Bluth and Ganga Devi explore the nature of trauma, the different ways we may approach it, and steps that we can take to heal.
EPISODE 79 Reading Sinai: Tamar Ross and the Ethics of Cumulativism
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.
Episode 82: Dance, Dance, Dance
This episode of The Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of What’s In Your Toolbox?, a podcast about mental health and the tools we use to heal. In this episode, host Bobby K reconnects with an old high school classmate whose irreverent and surprisingly wise yearbook message still resonates decades later.
Changing Attitudes Towards Mental Health in Orthodoxy
On this episode of the Living Jewishly podcast Dr. Elliot Malamet and Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig explore the evolving responsibilities of rabbis in our modern world, the line between pastoral counselling and professional therapeutic work, and the sacrifices we need to make as a community for our struggling members.
REPLAY: Sacred Time Episode 39: Sivan
Sivan is a month of movement — once we receive the gift of the Torah, we must decide how and where we move forward. In this episode, Bluth and Ganga Devi discuss the concept of sacred power, the need for collective healing, and how we can move forward sustainably and intentionally.
EPISODE 79 Reading Sinai: Tamar Ross and the Ethics of Cumulativism
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.
Episode 78: The Videographer
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of What’s In Your Toolbox, and features an interview with Mark Collings, mental health advocate and director of the documentary No Magic Bullet: An Honest Discussion About Mental Health. The conversation explores the tools that Mark uses to manage his depression and alcoholism, his approach to blending filmmaking with advocacy, and his important work as an AA sponsor.
Episode 77: REPLAY - Sacred Time Episode 1: Iyar
Welcome Iyar, a time of healing, development, and growth. This episode discusses the deep meaning behind Shavuot and our relationship to and with the Torah as well as the importance of achieving the mindset shift from “freedom from” to “freedom through” or “freedom to”
Episode 77: The Ethics of Nationalism
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.
Episode 76 Different From the Other Kids
In this episode of the Living Jewishly Podcast Bobby K speaks to Angela Tsounis, author of Different From the Other Kids: A Book of Interviews for Parents of Challenging Children, about her struggle to find resources after her daughter was diagnosed with a major mood disorder.
Episode 75: Sacred Time Nisan
In this week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcast Bluth and Ganga Devi reflect on the past 12 months that have been explored on the Sacred Time podcast, honour and organize what has been, and create a container of reflection and fertile ground for what may come next.
Episode 74: More than Four Cups of Wine: Jews and Addiction
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.
Episode 73 (BONUS): Getting Unstuck - Pesach and the Quest for Liberation
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.
Episode 72: Killing the First Born and the Morality of God
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.
Episode 71: Watergirl
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly podcasts is an instalment of What’s in Your Toolbox?, a podcast about mental health. Tune in to learn how meditation helps Diana deal with life challenges, why we need to be kind and gracious to ourselves, and the power of epiphanies.
EPISODE 70 Sacred Time Adar II
“How do we integrate in the way that we are constantly living in relationship to these sweet, high moments that we have?”— Bluth
EPISODE 69 [BONUS!] A Psychedelic Judaism?: Purim and the Quest for a Spiritual High
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.
EPISODE 67 Need a LIFT? You will be ImPRESSed
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of What’s in Your Toolbox?, a monthly podcast about mental health — and the tools we use to protect and heal. In this episode, host Bobby K speaks with Special Olympic Gold Medalist Michael Bandler about the mental health tools that he uses both inside and outside the gym.
EPISODE 66 Sacred Time Adar I
This week’s episode of the Living Jewishly Podcasts is an instalment of Sacred Time, a podcast that explores the healing art of the Hebrew Calendar. We invite you to tune in for an enlightening conversation about the origin and meaning of the Jewish New Year cycle, and to join us in celebrating the arrival of Adar Aleph and the upcoming holiday of Purim!