My Teacher Podcast

Rabbi Ed Bernstein interviews Rabbi Harold Kushner, October 13, 2013. Rabbi Kushner died April 28, 2023.

This is a recording of Rabbi Ed Bernstein's presentation to Valley Beit Midrash, 7/20/22: "All Hands on Deck: The Gifts That Introverts and Extroverts Bring to Jewish Leadership and Why It Matters."

An interview with Rabbi Everett Gendler, founder of modern Jewish environmentalism, recorded in May, 2012. Rabbi Gendler died April 1, 2022 at the age of 93.

Rock star and Jewish educator Rick Recht reflects on his career in music, leadership training, social justice and Jewish communal life post-COVID-19.

Columnist Mike Kelly joins Rabbi Ed Bernstein in a two-part series in which they reflect on the 25th anniversary of the death of Americans Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker in a terrorist bus bombing in Israel.

Columnist Mike Kelly joins Rabbi Ed Bernstein in a two-part series in which they reflect on the 25th anniversary of the death of Americans Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker in a terrorist bus bombing in Israel.

Dr. Shuly Rubin Schwartz is the eighth Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary. With her appointment in 2020, she is the first woman to lead the institution in its 134-year history. In this Thanksgiving 2020 interview, she reflects on her career, scholarship, personal challenges and steering JTS through the COVID-19 era.

Rabbi Amy Eilberg, the first woman ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary, reflects on her distinguished career as a chaplain, spiritual director, peace and justice educator and activist and her teachers who guided and called her to service along the way.

Rabbi Susan Talve is the founding rabbi of Central Reform Congregation, the only Jewish Congregation located within the city limits of St. Louis. She reflects on her rabbinic career, her fights for social justice and her teachers who guided her through this work.

Ruth Messinger, American Jewish World Service Global Ambassador, looks back on her extensive career in politics and Jewish social justice leadership. She reflects on many teachers of hers along the way, especially her Mother, Marjorie Wyler, and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.