Dr. Logan Levkoff spent more than two decades teaching sexuality education at the same New York City school—puberty, consent, healthy relationships, nothing about the Middle East. Then a parent…
Scott Kahn has appeared on 14 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Orthodox Conundrum. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
Dr. Logan Levkoff spent more than two decades teaching sexuality education at the same New York City school—puberty, consent, healthy relationships, nothing about the Middle East. Then a parent…
Loving Israel When Israel Disappoints You Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute and co-host of the podcast For Heaven's Sake, has spent decades thinking about Zionism,…
Ascending the Temple Mount: A Halakhic and Spiritual Debate In a conversation recorded three years before October 7, 2023, Rabbi Danny Myers and host Scott Kahn grapple with a question that has…
The Torah Case for Military Service: A Conversation with Rabbi Menachem Copperman In a pointed exchange on the Orthodox Conundrum podcast, Rabbi Menachem Copperman argued that military service in…
Why Good Intentions About Aliyah Often Backfire Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, senior rabbi of the largest Orthodox synagogue in the southeastern United States, has a confession: he thinks about aliyah…
“Am Yisrael Chai,” someone had handwritten onto a school banner in a religious-Zionist neighborhood during the war. Then, underneath, another hand added: “Al Ha’Charev”—by the sword. The phrase is…
In the 1960s and 1970s, American Jews preparing for Pesach started from scratch—rendering chicken fat, baking everything from basic ingredients. Today, kosher-for-Pesach products line supermarket…
Scott Kahn, a rabbi and educator, opens this crossover episode with a confession: after decades of Seders, he realized he had never fully articulated what he actually wants from the night. It is…
On a Shabbat in March 2025, as Iranian missiles fell on Israel and nine people were killed in a shelter in Be’er Sheva, a major American Jewish organization announced that Reese’s Pieces were now…
"Two babies died in Yerushalayim." That stark fact opens this episode of the Orthodox Conundrum, but host Scott Kahn, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, and Rabbanit Dr. Yardaena Osband do not dwell on the…
Does the Torah Demand Independent Thought? Rabbi Aryeh Klapper on Authority, Respect, and Responsibility "Obeying orders at most is the particular give in the Torah," Rabbi Aryeh Klapper says…
“Twilight is the metaphorical gap between light and dark, between them and us, the overlap. And we light Hanukkah candles at twilight, and we light them, not on the inside of our homes of light or…
The Three D's and the Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, sat down with Scott Kahn to diagnose a moment when anti-Semitic figures are being…
In the Torah portion Matot-Masei, the tribes of Reuben and Gad approach Moses with a request that could have shattered the nation on the eve of entering the Land of Israel. They see the lush…
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