The Long Path Podcast

In this episode of the Z3 Podcast, Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Roger Studley, the founder of Berkeley Moshav, a growing Jewish cohousing community in Berkeley, California.

Together they explore what are the essential ingredients of a thriving Jewish community and how to break down barriers to accessing Jewish life. Roger talks about what it’s like to be building a new kind of Jewish village in urban America through the cohousing model, and about how members are partners in co-creating the Jewish life they want for themselves through shared responsibilities and community gatherings. They discuss how incorporating Jewish expression in your daily life is made much easier when it’s already an integral part of your home and community, and share how Jewish tradition and cohousing share similar approaches to creating that shared community. All this and more in this episode.

In the latest Z3 podcast episode Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Dr. Mijal Bitton, who serves as the Rosh Kehilla (communal leader) of the Downtown Minyan community in Lower Manhattan.

Examining the effects of the Oct. 7 massacre on the Jewish communities in Israel and America, they dig into what the role of grief plays in the Jewish response to tragedy and how it can connect us and also empower us to action. They also discuss the ways in which different types of support are needed for different areas of communities: how do we support Israelis who were directly impacted and still suffer accutely? How do we support young people on campuses who are now facing rising levels of antisemitism? All this and more in this episode.

In the latest Z3 podcast episode Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Professor Yuli Tamir, the President of Beit-Berl Teachers' Training College and an adjunct professor at the Blavatnik School of Government Oxford.

Israel was already in a state of commotion when the October 7th massacre occurred. There had been 39 weeks of demonstrations about the democratic reform occurring in Israel, and Amitai and Yuli discuss the public’s reaction to the crisis and how the demonstrations changed. How did Arabs in Israel respond to the massacre, and what tensions do they now feel during the war in Gaza where they feel pulled in different directions? And how can Jews and Arabs both pursue the right to self-determination? All this and more in this episode.

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In this Z3 podcast episode, Rabbi Shai Held meets with our host and the head of Z3 Rabbi Amitai Fraiman to discuss the emotional and spiritual impact of the war in Gaza on the Jewish community. Rabbi Held is a philosopher, theologian, and Bible scholar who has been named multiple times by Newsweek as one of the fifty most influential rabbis in America, and by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the fifty most prominent Jews in the world. Together, they explore finding hope and inspiration through a religious lens, while also examining the ways that Jewish tradition struggles in navigating the ethics of power and war.

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In this Z3 Podcast episode, Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, talks with Rabbi Dr Shmuly Yanklowitz about the state of American Jewry in light of the October 7th massacre and the ensuing war. They talk about difficult moments and the most pressing issues facing humanity both locally and globally in the wake of the war, as well as touching on themes of universal humanity, how to find allyship, feelings of abandonment by the non-Jewish world, as well as how to find a sense of security and rootedness in Jewish identity.

In the latest Z3 podcast episode Rabbi Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Janine Zacharia, a journalist and professor at Stanford University to discuss what has changed in how the media and students view Israel and Palestine in this current period of war.

Janine Zacharia has reported on Israel, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy for close to two decades including stints as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters. She appears regularly on cable news shows and radio programs as a Middle East analyst and is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.

In the latest Z3 Podcast episode Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Yochai Shavit.

He and Amitai talk about how essential both mindfulness and community are to navigating the trauma we’re all continuing to experience.

In the latest Z3 Podcast episode Amitai Fraiman, our host and head of Z3, is joined by Masua Sagiv, visiting Assistant Professor Of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a scholar in residence at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

In this episode, Masua gives a nuanced description of the roots of the current crisis in Israel and offers insight into finding a path forward.

In the latest Z3 Podcast episode, our host and head of Z3 Amitai Fraiman is joined by Rabbi Jessica Kirschner, Executive Director of Hillel at Stanford.

In this episode, Jessica discusses the intersection of American individualism and Jewish communal living. She offers a unique take on what Jews in Israel may be lacking by exploring the wisdom of the Diaspora and the benefits of living within a pluralistic society. This discussion opens up new ways of thinking about American Jewry and contests the idea that living in Israel is the ideal way to live an authentic Jewish life.

Welcome to the third episode of the Z3 Podcast, the home for Diaspora and Israeli Jewish communal dialogue!

In this episode, Amichai explains the lesser-understood aspects of Israeli democracy, especially what makes it surprisingly resilient as well as its unique vulnerabilities that many may not be aware of. The conversation is a fascinating exploration of the state of Israeli democracy... and the chances of democracy itself surviving in the world at large.