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Please Support
December 24, 2014

In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay thanks all of you who contributed in response to his previous podcast asking for support, and so as we celebrate the final day of Chanukah, and prepare for the New Year, we ask you one more time to

Parenting from the Inside Out
December 19, 2014

Rabbi Knopf’s Friday message for Parashat Va-Yeshev (December 12, 2014): The way to become better parents (and better everything) is to learn about and improve ourselves.  

Hanukkah for Grown-Ups
December 18, 2014

Rabbi Knopf explores the true meaning of Hanukkah, the version they never told you in Hebrew School!

Implicit Bias and Dangerous Silence
December 10, 2014

Rabbi Knopf’s Saturday message for Parashat Va-Yishlah (December 6, 2014): Following the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and the failure to indict the officers responsible, a Jewish call for a more just society.  

#Giving Tuesday
December 03, 2014

In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay takes over all of the streams on JCast Network to ask you for support. Darone is very proud of the many successes that we have had on JCast Network, but doing this project requires financial support

The Dawning of the Age of Jacob
November 28, 2014

Rabbi Knopf’s Saturday message for Parashat Toledot (November 22, 2014): Recent events in Israel are a reminder that we still very much live in a broken world. But Judaism believes another world is not only possible but inevitable, and we can help b

A Heart of Many Rooms: Understanding Jewish Diversity
November 27, 2014

In his third “Essentials of Judaism” class, Rabbi Knopf demystifies Jewish ethnic and ideological diversity.    

Don’t Box Me In
November 26, 2014

Rabbi Knopf’s Friday message for Parashat Toledot (November 21, 2014): What happens when we try to make others be who we want them to be, rather than who they are, and when others try to do the same to us.  

The World of the Bible (Part Two of Two)
November 20, 2014

In part two of his second “Essentials of Judaism” class, Rabbi Knopf teaches about the Tanakh, the Jewish Bible, including where it came from, what it contains, and how it is utilized in Jewish worship.

The World of the Bible (Part One of Two)
November 13, 2014

In his second “Essentials of Judaism” class, Rabbi Knopf teaches about the Tanakh, the Jewish Bible, including where it came from, what it contains, and how it is utilized in Jewish worship.