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Exploring identity, religion, poetry. For decades, Joy Ladin been fascinated by identity, religion, and poetry, both individually and in conjunction with one another. Every week, she and her guests – writers, thinkers, activists, and educators she admires – will explore these these subjects, sharing experiences, poems, and Torah study along the way.
Episode 1 (with guest Jill Hammer, co-founder of Kohenet: the Hebrew Priestess Institute)
Episode 2 (with guest Micah Buck-Yael, Director of Education and Training at Keshet)
Episode 3: Joy Ladin reads her poetry on the Shekhinah
Episode 4 (with guest Susan Cottrell, advocate for LGBTQI inclusion in Christian communities)
Episode 5 (with guest Penina Weinberg, who teaches Bible through a method that allows people to bring their whole selves to the text)
Episode 6 (with guest with Mark Sameth, author of “The Name: A History of the Dual-Gendered Hebrew Name for God”)
Episode 7 (with guest Ellen Bernstein, founder of Jewish environmental organization Shomrei Adamah)
Episode 8 (with guest Lauren Tuchman, the first woman with blindness to be ordained a rabbi)
Episode 9 (with guests Miryam Kabakov and Rabbi Steven Greenberg, founders of Eshel, an organization for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews)
Episode 10 (with guest Rabbi Becky Silverstein, on leadership lessons of a trans rabbi)
Episode 11 (with guest poet Jason Sommer on making poetry out of Jewish and family experiences)
Episode 12 (with guest Reverend Kyndra Frazier on creative encounters with God)
Episode 13 (with guest Mx. Chris Paige, ground-breaking writer, publisher, organizer, and theologian)
Episode 14 (with guest Rebecca Stapel-Wax, director of SOJOURN: the Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender and Sexual Diversity)
Episode 15 (Joy reads more from her work in progress, Shekhinah Speaks)
Episode 16 (with guest Enzi Tanner, on the policing of Black Trans Masculine Bodies)
Episode 17 (with guest Gregg Bordowitz, on Prayer and Meditation as Social Justice Work)
Episode 18 (with guest Mark Oppenheimer, on learning to have Jewish pride)
Episode 19 (with guest Diane Cohler-Esses, on imposter syndrome and karma)
Episode 20 (with guest Mike Moskowitz, on acting with love in the face of hatred)
Episode 21 (Joy’s take on the Binding of Isaac story, from a trans perspective)
Episode 22 (with guest Kaden Mohamed, on the intersection of race, gender and ethnicity)
Episode 23 (Joy reads the final part of her work in progress, Shekhinah Speaks)
Episode 24 (with guest Lesléa Newman on life as a poet and writing about family)
Episode 25 (with guest Joost Baars, on what it means to be a religious poet)
Episode 26 (with guest Michele Bratcher, on joy and resistance)
Episode 27 (with returning guests Jill Hammer and Kyndra Frazier, in conversation on the power of ritual)
Episode 28 (with guest Minna Bromberg, on Fat Torah)
Episode 29 (with guest Liam Hooper, on spirituality and identity as resistance)
Episode 30 (with guest Sandra Lawson, on the Torah of the Blues)
Episode 31 (with guests Enzi Tanner and Gregg Bordowitz, on giving lovingkindness in response to public crises)
Episode 32 (with guests Susan Cottrell and Miryam Kabakov, on religious communities and LGBTQ people)
Episode 33 (with guest Katy E. Valentine, on breaking the sex/shame cycle)
Episode 34 (with guest Jill Hammer, on the Magic, Meditation, and Mystery of Sefer Yetzirah)
Episode 35 (Joy reads from The Book of Anna)
Joy Ladin is a poet and professor professor of English at Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English at Stern College. She received a BA in 1982 from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in 1995 in creative writing/poetry from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a PhD in 2000 in English from Princeton University. In 2007, she became the first openly transgender employee of Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish institution. Joy Ladin has published numerous poetry collections, including The Future Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017), Fireworks in the Graveyard (Headmistress Press, 2017), Impersonation (Sheep Meadow Press, 2015), Transmigration (Sheep Meadow Press, 2009), The Book of Anna (Sheep Meadow Press, 2007), and Alternatives to History (Sheep Meadow Press, 2003). She is also the author of a memoir, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012) and of The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah Through a Transgender Lens. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Hadassah Brandeis Research Fellowship, two Forward Fives awards, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship.
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