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.