19 episodes
My Teacher Podcast Rabbi Ed Bernstein
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- Religion & Spirituality
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, “What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but textpeople. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that the pupils read; the text that they will never forget.” The “My Teacher” Podcast is a quest for “textpeople.” The podcast will be a forum for leaders in different sectors to reflect on the teachers who shaped and influenced them—who, in the words of Fred Rogers, “loved them into being.”
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Remembering Rabbi Harold Kushner
Rabbi Ed Bernstein interviews Rabbi Harold Kushner, October 13, 2013. Rabbi Kushner died April 28, 2023.
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Introverts, extroverts and Jewish leadership
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."
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Remembering Rabbi Everett Gendler, 1928-2022, and his environmental activism
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.
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The Soundtrack of Our Lives: A Conversation with Rick Recht
Rock star and Jewish educator Rick Recht reflects on his career in music, leadership training, social justice and Jewish communal life post-COVID-19.
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Remembering Matt and Sara, 25 years later--Part 2
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.
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Remembering Matt and Sara, 25 years later--Part 1
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.