I wish I had found this podcast sooner! The topics are great and incredibly timely. The host is so thoughtful and does a great job to ground all discussions in shared humanity of all people and also deep love of Israel. His guests are wonderful.

Listening to such thoughtful rabbis reflect on their rabbinate, passion for Jewish learning and people was so powerful and inspiring and moderated so beautifully and sensitively by Yehuda.

Timely, relevant and makes me think.

This is the first episode I’ve listened to of this show, and wow - THANK YOU! I found it it after listening to For Heaven’s Sake which I enjoy a lot. There are so many topics in this episode that I resonate with, and have not known how to articulate. As an American woman in my late 30’s who attended a liberal California University, I could not relate more to the issues you bring up here about liberal education, politics, identity. So much has come to the surface since the war started and I know for myself it has felt isolating. I always considered myself liberal and now have been questioning everything I know, from groups I associated with to friends I had. Thank you all for covering this topic in this period. I hope others found it as useful as I did!

What a meaningful episode. Yehuda ties together his own son leaving for a year in Israel, and Hersh‘s death. It’s about the challenges that committed Jewish parents have in this moment who balance transmitting a love for Israel and understandable fears For our kids safety. And, it addresses the generational divide between what we are concerned about and what our kids are focused on. This one really spoke to me.

Very brave genocide apologia. 26,000 Gazans are dead and the territory is destroyed, but yes, the more important thing for humanity is the feelings of American Ivy Leaguers.

For this important podcast.

I’ve only recently started listening and I find the pieces fresh and very thought provoking. I love “For Heaven’s Sake”, and Hartman has hit it out of the field again. Well done to Yehuda and his entire team.

Identity/Crisis delves deep into the complexity of Jewish life and identity. Each episode explores an aspect and does so with smart and engaging conversation.

Listening to the anti Zionism and Berkeley podcast today I was struck by the general ineffectual response to the issue on campus. Yes, you can have a symposium/course on Zionism and Israel. Who will you reach and how many? Or, you can work to have the university adapt the UN definition of antisemitism. Having that as a foundation, you can defund/prevent any campus group that is antisemitic/racist. It’s called nipping in the bud at its source instead of trying to shoot down all the chaff in the air. What I heard is a typical left response to a serious problem on college campuses. The other problem with this episode was there were no students interviewed, only faculty! Who spends more time on campus and are directly affected by this antisemitism? Crazy!!