This special pre-Pesach episode features a fascinating conversation recorded live in Atlanta with Dr. Marshall Duke and Dr. Rebecca Winter, moderated by Aryeh Grossman, to mark the release of 'The Parsha' by Emily Amrousi. As we prepare for Pesach, a festival centered around storytelling and passing down our heritage, this conversation feels especially timely. We explore the power of knowing our stories, helping our children understand where they come from, and finding meaningful ways to engage ...
Apr 10, 2025•57 min•Season 5Ep. 16
A year on from the terrible events of October 7, 2023 we sat down with the Editorial Director at Maggid Books Rabbi Reuven Ziegler, and the Managing Editor of Hebrew projects at Maggid Books Oriya Mevorach to share reflections from the last 12 months. Rabbi Ziegler, as the Editorial Director, and Oriya, as Managing editor and co-author, are two of the personalities behind the bestselling One Day in October: Forty Heroes, Forty Stories which contains stories of just some of the incredibly heroic ...
Oct 06, 2024•51 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Rav David Stav joins us this week to share his Torah al regel ahat! Rav Stav is the co-founder of Tzohar, the former chairman of Ohr Torah Stone, and currently serves as the Chief Rabbi of Shoham in Israel. He is one of the leading voices in promoting ahdut , unity, among the religious and non-religious communities in Israel and it was a distinct honor to host him at the Koren Podcast Studio. Rav Stav is the author of several books including, Pocket Parasha from Maggid Books, his first book in E...
Oct 01, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Join us as Rabbi Yosef Bronstein shares his Torah al regel ahat! Rabbi Bronstein's new book, Engaging the Essence: The Torah Philosophy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe , explores the broader Torah contribution of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to the Jewish world and beyond. Rabbi Bronstein shares his journey from a student of Rav Kook and academic Talmud study to one of the leading scholars of the Rebbe's Torah. We explore similarities and differences between Rav Kook and The Rebbe who both view the current ag...
Sep 17, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 15
Join us to hear Binyamin "Binny" Casper share his Torah Al Regel Ahat. Binny is the developer of the new Leifer Family Edition Koren Yedid Siddur which is revolutionizing they way people approach tefilla. Binny's thoughtful approach to Torah, Judaism, and life in general makes him the perfect person to create this groundbreaking, new siddur and someone we wanted to hear from to teach their Torah standing on one leg. ______________________________________________________________ Useful Links: The...
Sep 03, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 14
Listen now as journalist, author, and lecturer Yair Ettinger shares his Torah Al Regel Ahat! Yair reports and comments on topics of religion and state for the Kan 11 News outlet in Israel. He previously served for twenty years as a journalist for the Haaretz newspaper. The Hebrew edition of Frayed, entitled Prumim, is the recipient of the 2021 Hillel Kook Prize for non-fiction from the Institute for Israeli Thought (IIT) and a finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Awards. His other works in...
Aug 20, 2024•58 min•Season 5Ep. 13
As we prepare for Tisha B’Av, we need little reminding of how fragile and fraught our existence as Jews can be even here in Israel. There have been daily reminders since Simchat Torah of the harsh realities of being a Jew whether in Eretz Yisrael or the diaspora. We felt it most appropriate this year, therefore, to reshare two of the most powerful conversations we have had this season, the conversations we had with the Geudalia family whose son and brother Yosef fell defending the people of Isra...
Aug 06, 2024•2 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 12
Join us for this week's episode of The Koren Podcast Al Regel Ahat where Aryeh talks to tour guide and experiential Jewish educator Shuli Mishkin about the benefits of learning Torah out in the land, a topic particularly pertinent to the period of the Three Weeks leading into Tisha B'Av. Shulie Mishkin made Aliyah from New York with a Master's degree in Jewish History from Columbia University. After completing the Ministry of Tourism guide course in 1997, she began guiding professionally and has...
Jul 23, 2024•37 min•Season 5Ep. 11
How does Torah work? This week we sat down with Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum to hear his Torah al regel ahat! Rabbi Zarum is the author of Question Belief: Torah and Tradition in an Age of Doubt, a finalist for the Rabbi Sacks Book Prize 2023, as well as the Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies, and the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought. ______________________________________________________________ Useful Links: Questioning Belief | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com ...
Jul 09, 2024•49 min•Season 5Ep. 10
Join Alex and Aryeh for a night at Shavua HaSefer at Jerusalem's First Station! Come visit the Koren stand in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv for amazing discounts or get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCAST at checkout! ______________________________________________________________ Useful Links: Jewish Customs Torah in a Connected World Kohelet: A Map to Eden Joel, Obadiah, and Micah Frayed One Day in October | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCA...
Jun 23, 2024•47 min•Season 5Ep. 9
We're back! This week we sat down with Rabbi Zvi Ron, author of the new book Jewish Customs: Exploring Common and Uncommon Minhagim as he talks about his Torah al regel ahat! ______________________________________________________________ Useful Links: Jewish Customs | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCAST at checkout. If you would like to contact us you can reach us on social media @KorenPublishers or via email, at podcast@korenpub.com | | | The Koren Podcast was ...
Jun 04, 2024•50 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Join us as we hear from Rabbi Jonathan Ziring teach his Torah al regel ahat! Rabbi Ziring is the Rosh Yeshiva of Migdal HaTorah in Modi'in. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and continued his learning there as a member of the Kollel Gavoah. He was also a fellow at the Tikvah Fund and Center for Modern Torah Leadership's Summer Beit Midrash. Rabbi Ziring has previously served as Sgan Rosh Kollel of the Yeshiva University Torah miTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov and as the Rabbinic Assistant of BAYT...
May 21, 2024•55 min•Season 5Ep. 7
In this deeply moving episode of the Koren Podcast, Al Regel Ahat, we have the honor of sitting down with David, Asher, and Charlie Guedalia, as they share the remarkable story of their beloved son and brother, Yosef. Yosef's name has become synonymous with courage, sacrifice, and heroism. On that fateful day in Kfar Aza, Yosef fearlessly put himself in harm's way to save the lives of countless others. His selfless act of bravery serves as a shining example of the unwavering spirit of the Jewish...
May 07, 2024•1 hr 40 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Have you ever wondered why sometimes halakha seems immovable but other times it seems flexible and full of workarounds? We can't own hametz on Pesah so we just sell it to a non-Jew. First borns must fast on erev-Pesah, just make a siyum! Rabbi Daniel Feldman explores these topics and more in his new book Letter and Spirit: Evasions, Avoidance, and Workarounds in the Halakhic System. But these aren't just distinct mechanisms to make a halakhic lifestyle easier, they are part of a broader and beau...
Apr 16, 2024•38 min•Season 5Ep. 6
We were joined this week by Jewish renaissance man, teacher, author, podcaster, twitter star, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin! Rabbi Bashevkin is the Director of Education at NCSY, Clinical Assistant Professor of Jewish Values at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. He has published four books, Sin·a·gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought , a Hebrew work B’Rogez Rachem Tizkor (trans. In Anger, Remember Mercy), Top 5: Lists of Jewish Character and Character , and Just One: The NCSY Hagga...
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 5
For our second special Purim episode... It's Modi! Modi Rosenfeld is a wonderful stand-up,actor, and Jewish advocate. What a treat it was to spend some time with him learning about Moshiach energy, making people smile, and building Jewish futures. Listen now as Modi shares his Torah al regel ahat! | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCAST at checkout. If you would like to contact us you can reach us on social media @KorenPublishers or via email, at podcast@korenpub....
Mar 20, 2024•27 min•Season 5Ep. 4
It's almost Purim! To get into the spirit we are releasing 2 episodes this week! For the first of our Purim specials we were joined by actor, comedian, and all-round mensch Elon Gold! Listen now as Elon shares his Torah al regel ahat! | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCAST at checkout. If you would like to contact us you can reach us on social media @KorenPublishers or via email, at podcast@korenpub.com | | | The Koren Podcast was written and hosted by Aryeh Gros...
Mar 19, 2024•43 min•Season 5Ep. 3
We're back for our fifth season of The Koren Podcast asking our guests to teach us their Torah al regel ahat - standing on one leg. We were joined this week by Rabbi Shlomo Brody, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning A Guide to the Complex and the new Ethics of Our Fighters. Rabbi Brody is a leading expert in Jewish ethics and his new book is the first attempt to analyse the field of Jewish military ethics comprehensively. Although Rabbi Brody began the writing process several years ...
Mar 05, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 2
We're back for our fifth season of The Koren Podcast asking our guests to teach us their Torah al regel ahat - standing on one leg. We were joined this week by Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin who, at the time of recording, has been held hostage by Hamas terrorists for 136 days. Hersh is one of 134 people who have been held in captivity since October 7th and, as Rachel and Jon say, they have been living every parent's worst nightmare. Rachel and Jon have been wo...
Feb 20, 2024•44 min•Season 5Ep. 1
We are joined this week by one of the most recognizable faces (and eyebrows!) of world Jewry today. Eylon Levy is the Israeli Government Spokesman who has appeared in hundreds of TV and radio interviews to be the voice of right and reason against so many ill-informed (even if well-intentioned) journalists around the world. Eylon took a few minutes out of his incredibly busy schedule to talk to Aryeh and Alex about his Torah Al Regel Ahat - standing on one leg. Eylon shares some of the most shock...
Nov 27, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 20
This week we are joined by our colleague and friend Rabbi Avishai Magence. Avishai is the projects director at Koren and, in normal life, is responsible for overseeing all of the ongoing projects at Koren. Since October 7th Avishai has been serving in the IDF reserves as a platoon leader in the defence of Israel. The current war is the fourth in which Avishai has been called up to serve with his unit. We spoke to Avishai about his experiences over the past several weeks and asked him to share hi...
Nov 15, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 19
We are joined this week by Aryeh Myers, a paramedic, and member of the International Relations department of Magen David Adom. Aryeh has been working round the clock since October 7th and took some time out to speak with Aryeh and Alex about the heroic response of his colleagues, the hope Magen David Adom provides as an apolitical organization that brings members of all areas of Israeli society together. Our hearts go out to Aryeh and the many thousands of employees and volunteers of MDA and the...
Oct 31, 2023•37 min•Season 4Ep. 18
In place of a usual episode of the Koren Podcast Al Regel Ahat this week, Aryeh and Alex spent a journey back from an army base in Israel trying to process some of the events of the last couple of weeks. We want to thank all of the people on the front lines fighting for Israel's safety, and all those in the diaspora who have moved mountains to assist in whatever way they can. Please consider donating to the Siddurim for Tzahal Project to help spiritually arm our soldiers. https://my.israelgives....
Oct 18, 2023•31 min•Season 4Ep. 17
Moadim Lesimha, a gut moed, and hag sameah! On this week's episode of The Koren Podcast Al Regel Ahat, we spoke with Dr. Erica Brown, Vice Provost for Values and Leadership at Yeshiva University and founding Director of the Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership as well as a world-renowned speaker, teacher, and author of some 15 books. Dr. Brown's latest book Ecclesiastes and the Search for Meaning is the newest addition to the Maggid Studies in Tanakh Series . In ...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 16
What an honor it was to spend some time before Yom Kippur speaking with Rabbi Michael Rosensweig! Rabbi Rosensweig is one of the Roshei Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the author of the new, best-selling, book Mimini Mikhael: Essays on Yom Kippur and Teshuvah He is also the rebbe of dozens, if not hundreds, of Rabbis, teachers, communal leaders, and scholars including many of our own authors and colleagues here at Koren Jerusalem. Listen now as Rabbi Rosensweig t...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 15
We're back from summer break and jumping straight back into things with this week's guest, Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. Rabbi Schacter is the author of the introduction and commentary to the new Reid Family Edition Koren Selihot, an accomplished historian, and beloved teacher and rabbi. There is no one better to inspire you ahead of the High Holidays this year. Listen now as Rabbi Dr. Schacter teaches his whole Torah standing on one leg - al regel ahat! __________________________________________...
Sep 12, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 14
We've been asking our guests to teach us the whole Torah standing on one leg inspired by the story of Hillel and Shammai, but where did Hillel get his now famous answer? Surely Rabbi Akiva's similar maxim makes more sense! Rabbi David Fohrman, the founder of AlephBeta, thinks that Hillel gets his answer from an unexpected, and deeply profound source. Listen now as Rabbi Fohrman teaches the whole Torah standing on one leg - al regel ahat! __________________________________________________________...
Aug 08, 2023•58 min•Season 4Ep. 13
What's it like to run an organization that is responsible for more Torah learning than any other in the world? How does one carry the mantle of an eminent father after their passing and continue their legacy for future generations? Alex and Aryeh talked to Rabb Meni Even Israel, the director of the Steinsaltz Center and son of Rabbi Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz zt"l to hear what he has to say when asked to teach the whole Torah al regel ahat . _____________________________________________________...
Jul 25, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 12
How can we relate to the 3 Weeks? What is the lesson to be learned from Tisha B'Av? Is there a universal message to the book of Eikha (Lamentations) or is it something to read just once a year? We were joined by Dr. Yael Ziegler to talk to gain inspiration, and direction for this time of year. Yael's unique approach to the book of Eikha and how it relates to the rest of Tanakh, as well as revealing themes that are mirrored in the daily prayers shines a new light on the darkest period of the Jewi...
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 11
Is theology dead? Sam Lebens would have us think not. We had an unbelievable conversation with Sam Lebens as he taught us his whole Torah standing on one leg, al regel ahat! Listen now as we talk theology, philosophy, football, books, comedy, and more! ______________________________________________________________ A Guide for the Jewish Undecided by Samuel Lebens The God Desire by David Baddiel | | Get 10% off your next order from www.korenpub.com with code PODCAST at checkout. If you would like...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 4Ep. 10
