Jesse talks with Harris Rollinger, senior program and development officer at CJP, and InterfaithFamily’s Rabbi Jillian Cameron, about the Boston Community Leaders Cohort, a new program that supports innovative leaders who are re-imagining community for rising generations. Designed and led in partnership with CJP and Angie Thurston and Casper ter Kuile of Harvard Divinity School, this cohort of 20 leaders spans the secular-sacred divide and brings people into soulful, transformative relationships at a time of crisis-level isolation.

Applications for the program will be accepted through Friday, July 28, 2017: http://www.bostoncommunityfellowship.com

Jesse and Ashley are joined by Rabbi Katy Allen, president of the Jewish Climate Action Network, to discuss how to combat climate change (and its deniers) on both individual and group levels, ways to build the energy necessary for action, and what her organization does to impact Boston’s Jewish community. In a nutshell: However overwhelming climate change may be, it is possible to live our lives in a sustainable way.

Jesse talks with actor, writer and director Stephen Tobolowsky about his brand-new book, “My Adventures With God.” They also discuss what growing up Jewish in the Southwest is like and how to find the awesomeness of God in everyday things.

Live in Boston? Hear from Stephen on May 1 at the Vilna Shul, where he’ll discuss and sign his book. Tickets, which include a signed copy of the book, can be purchased at http://www.vilnashul.org/events/event/tobolowsky2017.

Jesse and Jen are joined by Mara Bresnahan, director of the ReelAbilities Film Festival, to discuss the 2017 festival and films. The sixth annual festival runs March 29 to April 6 and features an incredible collection of documentaries that promote and appreciate the lives and stories of people with different abilities.

Jesse and Jen are joined by Gateways: Access to Jewish Education staffers Gary Alpert, educational specialist, and Nancy Mager, director of Jewish education programs, to discuss Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month and their work in the community. They discuss what defines a disability, what it means to be truly inclusive and what people in the community can do to make sure everyone feels included.

The episode also includes original music by Jeremiah Klarman (http://www.jeremiahklarman.com). The composition, titled “Open the Gates: Seven Variations on an Original Theme,” was written for the Gateways annual celebration and represents diversity, inclusion and transformation, three key aspects of the Gateways mission. You can listen to the full piece at https://soundcloud.com/user-881758535/open-the-gates.

For more information about Gateways, visit https://www.jgateways.org.

Jesse is joined by Laura Mandel, executive director of the Jewish Arts Collaborative, to discuss “Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross” with Kristen Gresh, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

This upcoming exhibition tells the story of Henryk Ross, the bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration inside Poland’s Lodz Ghetto. Unofficially—and at great risk—Ross documented the complex realities of life under Nazi rule, from the relative privileges enjoyed by the elites to the deportation of thousands to death camps at Auschwitz and Chelmno. Hoping to preserve a historical record, Ross buried his negatives in 1944. He returned to them after Lodz’s liberation, discovering more than half of the original 6,000 survived. We talk about how Ross was able to save these photos, how he took them and what photography means to us today.

Find more on the exhibition here: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/memory-unearthed

Jesse and Jen talk with Liana Mitman, director of program management at ShalomLearning.com, and Rabbi Danielle Eskow, rabbi-in-residence at ShalomLearning.com and founder and CEO of OnlineJewishLearning.com. We discuss the future of Jewish education, both formal and informal, how synagogues can harness the power of the Internet to help young Jews learn about their religion and culture, and how sites like ShalomLearning and OnlineJewishLearning are innovating in and disrupting the educational space.

Jesse and Jen talk with Katie Greenman, founder of Humanside, and Harris Rollinger, program officer for innovation at CJP, about trendy social-innovation buzzwords and what they mean. Plus, Katie discusses starting her own business, and Harris tells us about his amazing experience with the Millennial Trains Project. Most important, we discuss how to get started if you see something in the world you want to change.

Jesse is joined by Laura Mandel, executive director of the Jewish Arts Collaborative, and Ariana Cohen-Halberstam, artistic director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival. They discuss the 28th annual festival, which runs Nov. 9-21, whether Holocaust jokes are ever OK, their mutual love of all things Mel Brooks and if a documentary can really be animated.

Purchase tickets at http://www.bjff.org.

Read about three of the feature films at http://www.jewishboston.com/the-boston-jewish-film-festival-brings-jewish-experiences-to-the-big-screen.

Read about Jerry Lewis’ unreleased 1972 Holocaust drama at http://variety.com/2016/film/news/the-day-the-clown-cried-footage-jerry-lewis-holocaust-movie-online-1201798194.

And, lastly, Betty Boop for President (1932): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-q_ZkDcsk

Jen and Jesse talk with William Daroff, senior vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, about how to discuss Israel, anti-Semitism and other hot-button issues on Twitter and Facebook. Daroff, a social networking pioneer and evangelist, has twice been named by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as being among the top five most influential Jewish Twitterers in the world, and was named by the National Jewish Outreach Program as one of the top 10 Jewish influencers in social media. Follow him at https://twitter.com/Daroff.