Rabbi Zac Kamenetz of Berkeley, CA and founder of Shefa joins Raviv and Rabbi Batshir Torchio of JCC San Francisco to help us understand how psychedelic experiences fit into Jewish practice, where he sees the work going in the future, how he plans to...

Ilana Glazer joins Fannie and Raviv to unpack parts of the Torah reading from Passover, and to discuss our shared responsibility for facing truth while owning one’s place in the world. Ilana also discusses her work with The Generator Collective and...

Daniel Picus, professor of Biblical Studies and the Ancient World in the Department of Global Humanities and Religions at Western Washington University joins Fannie and Raviv to discuss the historical context of sacrifices and how a people transitioned...

Asa Keisar, initiator and founder of the Vegan Kosher Certification, talks to Fannie and Raviv about the textual basis in Torah for a vegan kosher movement, the necessity of setting boundaries to keep society in line, and his theory concerning animal...

Maharat Rori Picker Neiss,  Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of St Louis, joins Fannie and Raviv to talk gender and Torah, and the role of Torah study in relation to our communal responsibilities and our shared visions of...

Rabbi Amichai Lau Lavie, Founding Spiritual Leader of Lab/Shul in NYC, joins Fannie and Raviv to discuss whether cancel culture appears in the bible, what it means to “mask up” in a non-Covid sense, and our role in reimagining and applying Torah Study...

Kara Hoover, Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Deborah Green, the Greenberg Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at...

Rachel B Gross, author and professor at San Francisco State University, joins Fannie and Raviv on the heels of the release of her new book Beyond the Synagogue: Jewish Nostalgia as Religious Practice to discuss nostalgia and its function in Judaism. 

Kaia Stern, PhD, Cofounder and Director of the Prison Studies Project at Harvard University joins Professor Fannie Bialek and Raviv to discuss human dignity and free will, some of the differences between restorative and transformative justice, and the...

Joshua Dubler, professor of religion at the University of Rochester and director of the Rochester Education Justice Initiative, joins Professor Fannie Bialek and Raviv to discuss guilt, the unique status of the Ten Commandments within Jewish law, and...

Neshama Carlebach joins Raviv and Rabbi Adam to discuss her journey in stepping away from orthodox Judaism, finding her own voice in her spiritual practice, and the importance of making torah study personal. 

Alda Balthrop-Lewis, research fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, PhD in religion from Princeton, and author of the newly released book Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the...

Pam Grossman, author of Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power , host of The Witch Wave podcast, and named by Vulture "The Terry Gross of Witches" joins Raviv and Professor Fannie Bialek to unpack the beginning of the Passover story,...

Dr. Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and chair of the department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, joins the show to discuss themes of liberation,  her work with BLM,  how the current judicial system has...

Douglas Petrie, writer and producer of some of our favorite shows including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Pushing Daisies, American Horror Story and Marvel’s Daredevil joins the show to discuss what it meant to him to have a bar mitzvah at 50 years old, ...

Aly Michalka, singer, songwriter, actor and activist joins the show to discuss how art and expression can be an access point for the harder discussions in life, as well as the difficulty and comfort of “keeping the faith”. Rabbi Adam will help us...

Kelly Bulkeley, PhD, is the director of the Sleep and Dream Database and the author of many brilliant books including Dreaming in the World’s Religions: A Comparative History. Kelly helps us understand the scientific basis of dreams, how they fit into...

Aimee Bender, author of six book of fiction and a teacher of creative writing at USC, joins us to discuss Joseph's journey, the emotional language of adolescence, the differences between editing fiction and communicating interpreted dreams, Joseph's...

Vanessa Chester, actor and activist, joins Rabbi Adam and Raviv to unpack what it means to wrestle with yourself and the world around you. How much friction is needed to create progress? 

Naomi Ackerman, founder and executive director of the Advot Project creates curriculums that use drama techniques to deal with social, gender, and educational issues as well as exploring identity and promoting tolerance and dialogue. Naomi helps us...

Our brothers Nadav Ullman and Zachary Greenwald join the show for a frank discussion about sibling rivalries and the danger of only focusing on our differences. We continue the thread of generational trauma and explore ways to break harmful patterns. 

Rabbi Sarah Bassin from Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills worked for many years as the Executive Director of New Ground: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change where she worked to build alliances between the two communities. Her work in that field...

Dr. Matt Reznicek, Associate Chair of the English Department and Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at Creighton University discusses how the binding of Isaac elucidates differences between liberal and orthodox textual interpretations in Judaism...

Writer and director Daniel Kwan (Swiss Army Man)  joins The Study to discuss leaps of faith in both Abraham's story and our own lives, compare Judaism’s methodologies of study with those from his fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and unpack the...

Ortal Ullman from the Union of Concerned Scientists joins Rabbi Adam and Raviv to unpack the original text of the Noah and the Ark story, trying to make sense of Noah’s silence and coming to terms with the work ahead needed to protect our planet and its...