Public Interest Podcast

Aaron Menenberg, wine blogger at GoodVitis.com and self-described 'wine geek,' joins PIP's Behind The Scenes to host a virtual wine tasting session. 

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Congressman John Sarbanes [MD-3-D] speaks about his interest in restoring democratic institutions by supporting redistricting reform and campaign finance reform. He believes that these initiatives will restore transparency and accountability to American government and will thereby restore American trust in congress specifically and in good governance more generally.

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Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Cabinet Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, speaks about his evolution from a prosecutor to a judge, a cabinet secretary, and a private sector leader in the security sector within the context of his underlying desire to advance the cause of justice and restore faith in American Democracy by ensuring that the American people know that those who have begotten suffering will, in their term, meet the sword of justice.

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Jamila Afghani, Afghani Deputy Minister of Martyr and Disabled Affairs, member of the Afghani Delegation to the United Nations, and Founder of the Noor Educational and Capacity Development Organization in Afghanistan, reveals the challenges that she has overcome, from contracting a permanently disabling case of polio to being shot in the head while fleeing her home as a refugee, while walking a path that has lead to the education and liberation of Muslim women across Afghanistan.

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Carla Perlo (Founding Director Emeritus of Dance Place and a dance artist, choreographer, and teacher), Deborah Riley (Director Emeritus of Dance Place and former Artist in Residence at Dance Place), and Christoper Morgan (Executive Artistic Director of Dance Place), speak about their work to facilitate self-expression through dance that they hope provides a medium for creative exploration of our individual and collective humanity. 

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Shanandoah Chefalo, author of "Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir," calls attention to a failing American foster care system. Subscribe and leave a review on iTunes:

This is the one hundred and fifty-fifth episode of Public Interest Podcast with Ananda Vrindavan Bloch, Community President of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) of DC, blogger, and podcast host of Iskconofdc.org, and with Giri Govardhan, Hare Krishna Priest and former Temple President in the Detroit ISKCON. Vrindavan and Govardhan speak about their unique individual paths to Hare Krishna and how they came to realize that their faith, which they define as "unflinching trust in the sublime," is fundamentally about their relationship with 1) God, 2) Teacher, 3) Community (friends, family, society), & 4) Self.

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This is the thirty-first episode of Public Interest Podcast with Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, founder and leader of Congregation Bnai Tzedek of Potomac, MD, who speaks about the interconnectedness of all Jews and living beings across the globe and the incredible responsibility that each one of us has for each other.

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This is the one hundred and forty-sixth episode of Public Interest Podcast with Imam Talib Shareef, President of the Nation's Mosque, Masjid Muhommad, former Chief Master Sargent in the U.S. Air Force, the national representative for the Muslim America Veterans Association, and the President of the Interfaith Conference. Imam Shareef speaks of achieving fulfillment through service, serving God by serving those within whom God resides (for God resides in each of us), and of how his experiences with violence during the Civil Rights movement in the South drove him to seek solace in the Nation of Islam.

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John Calvin, grandson of the founder of anti-Israel Hamas, and Sarah Stern, Founder of pro-Israel E.M.E.T., speak about their surprising relationship, his alienation from Islam and the Palestinian cause, and their shared passion for supporting pro-Israel American foreign policy.

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