In episode 27, I talk with poet Susan Gevirtz about her project Guide School, which interrogates the longing for a homeland and for origins of all kinds.

In episode 26, I talk with Anas Qutob and Dave Snyder of Minneapolis about their friendship and their work as leaders in the Minnesota chapter of Friends of Standing Together—a grassroots progressive organization of Israeli Jews and Palestinians dedicated to peace, justice, and social transformation.

In episode 25, I speak with Benjamin Balthaser about his new book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left.

In episode 24, I speak with Judith Levine about human and non-human value, liberation of all kinds, and abolition feminism.

In episode 23, I speak with Lee Medovoi about his astounding new book, The Inner Life of Race: Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power (Duke UP, 2024).

In episode 22, I speak with multidisciplinary artist Aaron Landsman about Perfect City, his long-term collaborative civically-oriented theater work and others of his projects while engaging questions of communion, loneliness, insomnia, and the holy.

In episode 21, I speak with Palestinian-American writer, musician, and PhD student dena harry saleh about queer Palestinian decolonial praxis.

In episode 20, I speak with esteemed feminist holocaust scholar, Janet Jacobs, about her work on holocaust memorialization and intergenerational trauma.

In episode 19, Jennifer Pap and I talk with American-French poet, novelist, and playwright, Leslie Kaplan (born in 1943), whose revolutionary writing we have been translating.

In episode 18, I talk with poet and theorist Syd Zolf about two of their recent projects, No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics, a critical book that draws from Black studies as it engages the problem of witnessing atrocity, and NEUTRØIS, a forthcoming book of poems.

In episode 17, I talk with writer and host of the Between the Covers podcast, David Naimon. In a wide-ranging conversation, we dig into three episodes of Between the Covers that have deeply affected me—his conversations with Isabella Hammad, Anne de Marcken, and Daniel Mendelsohn.

I talk with literary scholar Na’ama Rokem about her work-in-progress, Dispatches in Translation: A German-Hebrew Epistolary Network, which studies the correspondences between mid-century Jewish intellectuals writing in and between German and Hebrew.

I talk with writer Magdalena Zurawski about her research into her great-grandfather’s story. Arrested by the Nazi’s during the Warsaw Uprising, he was taken to a concentration camp. Magdalena spent 2022-23 on a Fulbright Scholarship in Warsaw, tracking what happened next.

I talk with Sondra Loring about our work together founding and running the NY Improv. festival in the '90s and about Sondra's work now making dances, stewarding land, and teaching dance in prisons in the Hudson Valley.

Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman and I talk with Professor Almút Shulamit Bruckstein Çoruh about confronting and reimagining the Jewish humanist tradition in the face of human defilement.

Poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky reads from and discusses writing violence in a time of ongoing massacre.

Rabbi Caryn Aviv talks about Jewish mysticism and process theology and about the surprising roots of white American Jewish anxiety and what we can do about it.

Novelist and diviner Selah Saterstrom talks about "divinatory poetics," what it means to embrace uncertainty, and how to "respond in kind" in one's writing when facing trauma.

Julie and Scott talk about twentieth-century French philosopher Simone Weil, focusing on her vision for an ethical "society of attention."

Julie and Hilary talk about Hilary's research on state education in the Middle East and about how Hilary creates an inclusive classroom when teaching Israel/Palestinian histories.