This Pardes Life

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This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 9 Special for Yom Ha’Atzmaut with Marc Rosenberg
April 17, 2018

We are at the point in the Jewish Calendar: Yom HaShoa, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'Atzmaut, where the meaning and spiritual purpose of Jewish People-hood are at the center of our thoughts and aspirations. Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an exciting conver...

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 8: Jean-Marc Liling
February 06, 2018

The asylum seekers issue is dividing Israel and the Jewish world and presenting a tremendous challenge to the cohesiveness of Israeli society.  Is Israel simply pursuing a rational immigration policy and protecting its resources and citizens,

This Pardes Life Season 3: Episode 7 Special for Tu B’Shvat with Aviva Golbert
January 29, 2018

Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for a special episode of This Pardes Life for Tu B'Shvat with Aviva Lauer Golbert, a master educator and Director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators. In this podcast, they discuss cultivating a Jewish approach to envir...

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 6: Dr. Rachel Korazim
January 25, 2018

Join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield for an exciting discussion with Dr. Rachel Korazim, a master educator who uses close readings of Israeli literature as a vehicle to explore the questions of modern Jewish identity and contemporary Israel.

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 5: Jewish Educators Speak
January 04, 2018

The Pardes Day School Educators Program has produced an impressive number of North American Jewish day school educators who are bright, passionate, creative and caring. Listen in as three of our best share their thoughts on Jewish education and their …...

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 4: Rapper Matt Bar
December 21, 2017

Matt Bar is a poet, rapper, Jewish educator and a student of Torah. In this episode of This Pardes Life, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield and Matt explore how Jewish texts and Jewish wisdom inform his art and how he pursues … Read the rest

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 3: Dean Dr. David Bernstein
December 07, 2017

In the third episode of this season's installment of This Pardes Life, which was recorded live, Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield talks to Dean Dr. David Bernstein. David explores with us a powerful text from the Holocaust and shares how being the child of survivo...

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 2: Nechama Goldman Barash
November 26, 2017

In the second episode of this season's This Pardes Life, Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash, an Orthodox Jewish feminist who has been studying and teaching Jewish rabbinic and halakhic texts for years, shares her fascinating struggle of holding both a dee...

This Pardes Life Season 3 Episode 1: Rabbi Leon Morris
November 09, 2017

We're excited to launch the 3rd series of This Pardes Life. In the first episode, join Rabbi Zvi Hirschfield as he explores the challenging issues of prayer in Judaism with Rabbi Leon Morris, President of Pardes.

This Pardes Life — Season 2, Episode 13 with Yiscah Smith
May 21, 2017

In the last episode of this season, join us and explore how the well-known and highly respected teacher and spiritual mentor Yiscah Smith found inspiration in the writings of Rav Kook to live in the tension between the demands of … Read the rest