Too Jewish: Recent Episodes
Too Jewish with Rabbi Sam Cohon and Friends
David Kraemer, Jewish Theological Seminary Librarian and author of the important new book "Embracing Exile, the Case for Jewish Diaspora"
Rachel Cockerell, author of the new non-fiction book "Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land"
Dr. Jessi Gold, author of "How Do You Feel? One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine"
Richard Kreitner, author of the new book "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War and the Fight to End Slavery"
Blake Flayton, co-author of "10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go to College: An Illustrated Guide"
Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, author of "The Triumph of Life: A Narrative Theology of Judaism"
Richard Michelson, author of "Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder" and "More Than Enough: Inspired by Maimonides’s Golden Ladder of Giving"
Todd Rockoff, CEO and President of the Tucson Jewish Community Center, on hosting the upcoming JCC Maccabi Games
Lawrence Wright, "New Yorker" staff writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of the new book "The Human Scale"
Dr. Ran Anbar, author of "The Life Guide for Teens: Harnessing Your Inner Power to be Healthy, Happy, and Confident"
Jacob Gurvis on Jews in sports today, author of "The Jewish Sports Report" on JTA and contributing writer to Major League Baseball
Professor Richard Daynard, law professor and crusader against sports betting, who successfully took down Big Tobacco
Rabbi Richard Agler, the need for a new language for Jewish prayer to meet contemporary needs
Sally Poolat, representing Leket Israel, the Israeli Food Bank which received the 2024 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for service to Klal Yisrael, the Jewish people
Linda Ambrus Broenniman, author of "The Politzer Saga," the recovery of 8 generations of unknown Jewish family history
Liz Hirsh Naftali, author of the memoir "Saving Abigail: The True Story Of The Abduction And Rescue Of A Three-Year-Old Hostage"
Elliott Abrams, shaper of US Foreign Policy in two Administrations, author of the new book, "If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century"
Swell Ariel Or and Keren Nechmad, star and director of the award-winning new Israeli film on Netflix, "Kissufim"
Professor Derek Penslar, author of "Zionism: an Emotional State", chair of the Harvard University Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias
Jonathan Kaufman, author of "The Last Kings of Shanghai", head of the journalism department at Northeastern University
James Forsher, filmmaker of "Hiding in Hollywood", on the suppression of the facts of the Jewish influence in the development of the film industry
Ruth Finkel Wade and Joy Wolfe Ensor, Second Generation Survivors, on their book "Those Who Remember"
Eric Lynn, former Senior Advisor to three US Secretaries of Defense, on the Iron Dome, threats to Israel and the current defense systems in place
Denise Katz-Prober, director of legal initiatives for the Brandeis Center, combating Antisemitism on campus
A.J. Jacobs, award-winning author of the new book "The Year of Living Constitutionally"
Rabbi Zoe Klein, author of the new short story collection "Feather, Candle, Wooden Spoon"
Elizabeth “Barry” White and Joanna Sliwa about their book “The Counterfeit Countess, The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust”
Holocaust Survivor Sidney Finkel and his daughter Ruth Finkel Wade for Yom HaShoah, discussing his experiences in the Holocaust, their memoir of his life, “Sevek, the Boy Who Wouldn't Die”
Jeanne Blasberg, podcaster and author of the new novel reimagining the story of David and Bathsheba, "Daughter of a Promise"
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and Director of The Amcha Initiative, on Anti-Semitism on campus
Rabbi Matt Gewirtz, his gripping experiences leading a solidarity mission to an attacked community in southern Israel
Jeff Margolis, Emmy-winning director of 8 Oscars broadcasts, author of the new memoir "We're Live in 5: My Extraordinary Life in Television"
Dr. Joel Hoffman, scholar, author, translator, on "Good and Evil in the Ancient Texts" and the challenge of translating the Bible
Ari Harow, former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Israel and author of "My Brother's Keeper: Netanyahu, Obama, the Year of Terror; Conflict that Changed the Middle East Forever"
Jeffrey Feingold, author of "The Black Hole Pastrami Stories" and "There is no Death in Finding Nemo"
Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, author of "Tikun Ha'Am: Repairing Our People; Israel the Crisis of Liberal Judaism"
Comedian Wendy Liebman, headlining the 31st Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy in a Chinese Restaurant on Christmas show
Heather Dune Macadam & Simon Worrell, authors of "Star Crossed - A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris"
Yale Strom, klezmer violinist and pioneer, on the new album with Hot Postromi, "The Wolf and the Lamb", recorded in the historic Shakh Synagogue in the Czech Republic
Lisa Niver, travel podcaster, author "Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After Fifty"
Professor David Fishman, author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning "The Book Smugglers" on the current danger to Jewish archival work in Ukraine
James Forsher, producer, "A Paramount Story" on the early Hollywood moguls and Antisemitism then and now in Hollywood
Seth M. Siegel, entrepreneur and activist on water issues, on the new Israeli company, N-Drip
Martin Bodek, creator of "The Festivus Haggadah", "The Emoji Haggadah", "The Coronavirus Haggadah" and "The Shakespeare Haggadah" and author of the new memoir, "Zaidy's War: Four Armies, Three Continents, Two Brothers and One Man's Impossible Story of Endurance"
Rabbi Alexander Seinfeld & Dr. Daniel Grove, authors of "Body & Soul: The Torah Path to Health, Fitness and a Holy Life"
Richard Michelson, poet and children's book author, on his new book of poetry, "Sleeping as Fast as I Can"
Russ Linden, management consultant, author "Loss and Discovery: What the Torah Can Teach Us about Leading Change"
Frederic Brandfon, author of "Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome"
Ambassador Meryl Frank, author, "Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust"
Hadar Orshalimy, on her new album Witchcraft, songs by Jewish women songwriters from the Great American Songbook
Nina Siegal, "The Diary Keepers: World War II in The Netherlands as written by the people who lived through it"
Christopher Gorham, author of "The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America"
Daniel Gross, author of "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire"
Michael Twitty, winner of the Jewish Book of the Year, author of "KosherSoul: the Faith and Food Journey of an African-American Jew"
Sarit Yishai-Levi, author of "The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem", on her new book "The Woman Beyond the Sea"
Blair Braverman, outdoor adventurer, 2nd Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod, author of the new novel "Small Game"
Chaim Rosenberg, author of "The Shield of David: A History of Jewish Servicemen in the American Armed Forces"
Rabbi Seth Farber, Founder and Director of Itim, Winner of the 2022 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for Jewish Unity
Emily Bowen Cohen, Jewish-Native American activist, author and artist, on her new book "A Member of Two Tribes"
Rita Katz, Executive Director and founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Intelligence Group, author the new book "Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism from Syria to the Capitol Siege"
Professor Aaron Welt, organized crime and Jewish economic development in the early 20th century
Shoshana Nambi, first woman rabbi from the Abuyudaya Jewish community of Uganda, and author of the new children's book "The Very Best Sukkah: A Story from Uganda"
Yair Rosenberg, creator and editor of "The Deep Shtetl" newsletter for "The Atlantic" magazine, journalist and musician
Ruth Wisse, woman of letters, translator of the new edition of Chaim Grade's "The Quarrel" from Yiddish
Suzette Sheft, 16-year-old author of the new YA book, "Running for Shelter, a True Story"
Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, co-creators of the new Ken Burns documentary, "The US and the Holocaust"
Sarah Hurwitz, presidential speechwriter and author of the new book "Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)"
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of "Of Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World"
Lyn Julius, author of "Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight"
Jeffrey Breslow, developer of the games and toys "Masterpiece," "Barrel of Monkeys", "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots" and "Simon" on his new book, "A Gamemaker's Life"
Rafael Medoff, author of the new book "The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust"
20th Anniversary Show of Too Jewish: Storyteller extraordinaire Jim Weiss, pioneering recording artist, podcaster of "intelligent entertainment for the thinking family"
Jeffrey Weiss, co-author, "Fighting Back: Stan Andrews and the birth of the Israeli Air Force"
Professor Boaz Dvir, Director of Penn State's new Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative
Dr. James Weiner, son of prominent rabbi, author of the new book "The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World"
Rabbis Rifat Sonsino and Richard Agler, editors of the new book of Jewish theology, "A God We Can Believe In"
Shannon Gonyou, author of "Since Sinai", a memoir of her conversion to Judaism and her Jewish life
Ellen Frankel, author of "The Deadly Scrolls", past Editor-in-Chief of Jewish Publication Society (JPS) and author of 10 books & two operas
Susan Lax, co-owner of Na'ot, author of the new book "A Heart's Landscape - An Invitation to the Garden of Moments"
Jonathan Ornstein, CEO of the Krakow, Poland JCC on the enormous Ukrainian refugee crisis there
Aaron Lieberman, founder of the educational non-profit Jumpstart and entrepreneurial founder of Acelero Learning
Anna Salton Eisen, co-founder of the Colleyville, TX synagogue, attendee of Deborah Lipstadt's confirmation hearings in DC, and author of the new memoir "A Pillar of Salt"
Joshua M. Greene, author of Unstoppable and other works on Holocaust survivors, winner of the 2021 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for service to the entire Jewish people in the field of Information and Education
Matthew "Mati" Lazar, conductor and director of the Zamir Choral Foundation, winner of the 2021 Cohon Memorial Foundation Award for Service to the entire Jewish people in the field of Creative Arts
Eleanor Reissa, singer, playwright, translator, Tony-Award nominated director, and author of the remarkable new memoir, "The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey"
Kevin Goetz, focus group expert to the film industry, author of "Audienceology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love"
Yossi Alpher, author of "Death Tango: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March"
Rabbi Bill Rothschild, personal stories of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights era in Jewish Atlanta
Professor David Henkin, author, "The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are"
Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President, Claims Conference, new survey on Holocaust knowledge in the UK
Jeremy Cowan, Shmaltz Brewing Company & HeBrew Beer, on the 25th Anniversary of the company
Dara Horn, award-winning author of the new book “People Love Dead Jews: Report from a Haunted Present”
Rabbi David Wilfond, Babi Yar and Ukraine, reckoning with the Shoah in today’s complex world
Dr. Nir Barzilai, aging and longevity, author of "Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity", on Ashkenazic populations of extremely long lives