Building Jerusalem

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#41 - Mendel Kastel
Mendel Kastel is the CEO and rabbi of Jewish House Crisis Centre. He has previously worked in chaplaincy with prisons, hospitals, schools, and the police.
#40 - Moira Blumenthal
Moira Blumenthal is a theatre director and producer. She recently directed Timothy Daly's "The Man in the Attic" at the Eternity Playhouse.
#39 - Timothy Scriven
Timothy Scriven is an aspiring author and PhD student in political economy. We talk about conceptions of ownership; modern paganism; and bears.
#38 - Talya Faigenbaum
Talya is the principal family lawyer at Faigenbaum Family Lawyers. She is the honorary secretary of Unchain My Heart Inc., a working committee of Jewish women's organizations dedicated to the resolution of religious divorce issues affecting Jewish women.
#37 - Matthew Friedman
Matthew is the founder of 2 Birds 1 Bee, an organization that provides professional sex education to schools.
#36 - Haroon Moghul & Raphael Dascalu
Haroon and Raphael return to the show, this time in conversation about Rationalism and Mysticism in Judaism and Islam. Recorded with permission at Yom Limmud, Sydney 2018.
#35 - Haroon Moghul
Haroon is the Fellow in Jewish-Muslim Relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
#34 - Salvatore Babones
Salvatore Babones is an American sociologist based in Sydney, Australia; and the author of "The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts". We talk about China's new social credit system, the state of American politics, and more.
#33 - Max Stossel
Max is a poet and filmmaker. He has won two Webby awards and is the Head of Content & Storytelling at the Center for Humane Technology.
#32 - Igor Praporshchikov
Igor Praporshchikov is a former Olympic wrestler, a wrestling coach, and a personal trainer.