Welcome back to the third season of Hevruta: Jewish texts and their influence on our lives, now a podcast by the Jewish Federation of San Diego. This month, we learn from Karen Parry, the executive director of Hillel of San Diego. Karen teaches us about Moses, humility, and struggling with impostor syndrome.

You can check out our new website at the Jewish Federation of San Diego: https://www.jewishinsandiego.org/our-community/hevruta

...We're back for season 3 of Hevruta! Talk to you next week!

In our final episode of Season two of Hevruta, Ali and Rabbi Graubart discuss Exodus 33: 17-23 with Rabbi Wayne Dosick.

In this episode we partner with the Jewish Federation of San Diego for our first live podcast! As part of our community's Yom Hashoah commemoration, we interview Dr. J. Luke Wood, Vice President of San Diego State University and chief diversity officer, and high school activist (and rising SDSU student) Anna Maya. Our theme is "Never Again. . . But How?"

In this month's episode, Ali and Phil teach each other their (current) favorite Jewish texts. Ali discusses a line from the Pesach Haggadah, and her play of the same name. Phil discusses the dual nature of God, and the problem of evil. 

In this month's episode we learn from Tammy Gillies, head of San Diego's ADL. She shares with us texts that bring inspiration during genuinely frightening times. We dedicate this episode to the memory of Morris Casuto, Tammy's predecessor at the ADL, who passed away the day after we recorded this. Morris was a giant, and Tammy is a worthy successor. 

In this episode, Rabbi Richard Agler discusses his book "The Tragedy Test" - a theology he developed after the tragic loss of his young adult daughter.

This month, Ali and I learn from Zalmen Mlotek. Zalmen is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music as well as a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert worlds. He is the  Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. His vision brought the critically acclaimed award-winning Fidler Afn Dakh (Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish ) directed by Joel Grey, for which he served as music director, to Broadway. 

The link to Chana Gonshor's beautiful rendition of Zalmen's text can be found here.