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Episode 78: The Videographer

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.

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Episode 77: The Ethics of Nationalism

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.

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Episode ‌72: Killing the First Born and the Morality of God

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.

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Episode 71: Watergirl
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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.

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EPISODE‌ 69‌ [BONUS!] A Psychedelic Judaism?: Purim and the Quest for a Spiritual High

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.

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EPISODE‌ ‌66 Sacred Time Adar I

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!

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