THE LIVING JEWISHLY BLOG
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.
Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
We welcome the new moon, and with it, the new month of Tammuz. In the hebrew calendar, Tammuz is a month of intensity, of fire. And yet, the month is connected to the sense of "sight", seeing deeply, seeing beneath the superficial, and seeing the good.
Why Jewish Law Does Not Agree with the Supreme Court
If you are “pro-choice,” meaning you believe that women have the right, under all circumstances, to choose abortion as an option for an unwanted pregnancy; or if you are “pro-life”, asserting that ending a fetal life at any stage after conception, for any reason, is akin to murder, then Jewish law is going to disappoint you both.
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.
What Do We Worship?
In Jewish terms, one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves is “what do I worship?” Faced with this challenge, many people will find themselves hard-pressed to think of an answer. Read more to ask yourself the important questions and discover what you worship.
Rosh Chodesh Sivan Yoga for Healing
We welcome the new moon of Iyar, the month of Healing, with an inward-focused slow flow on our yoga mats. Like every new month, Jenna weaves the south-Asian embodied practice of Yoga with Jewish teaching. She guides us to invite in the Ziv Ha Olam/ The Radiance of the World into our breath and bodies.
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.
Torah for Everyone
As Jews around the world prepare for the annual Shavuot festival marking the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, for many of our brothers and sisters, involvement in Judaism is an endeavour that takes place on a distant planet, one which they have neither the inclination nor the inspiration to visit.
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”
Walking the Walk
We can all think about walking the walk which, as always, begins with those who are closest to us, and then radiates outwards. But perhaps we are doing too much thinking and not enough doing. Read more in Dr. Elliot Malamet's latest blog about the importance of mutual respect and repairing the world.
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.
Rosh Chodesh Yoga: Iyar
We welcome the new moon of Iyar, the month of Healing, with an inward-focused slow flow on our yoga mats. Let’s welcome the month together by tuning in the natural healing energy that is infused in this special , sacred month.
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.
A Voice for the Silenced
As Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel Independence Day approach, Dr. Elliot Malamet discusses the importance of these holidays as they remind us of the past. In this blog, he discusses why with each passing year our memory of the holocaust is weakened and what we can do to ensure that we continue to give a voice to those who were robbed of speech in the Holocaust.
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.