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Full-Length Class (75 minutes)
Di Yiddishe Amerike: Yiddish as a Reflection
of American Jewish Experience
As part of the Stories of Music Curriculum developed by the Lowell Milken Archive of Jewish Music, I developed this unit about the missing history of early (pre-Holocaust) American Jewish experience. Because many of the musical pieces were previously unrecorded, several of the songs feature me as vocalist as well as lecturer.
Full-Length Class (75 minutes)
The Campaign to Cancel Kol Nidre (2023)
Part 1 of a three-part series on the history of the Kol Nidre passage, and the surprising rabbinic campaign through its history to rid it from our liturgy. (Spoiler alert: the Jews in the Pews aren't willing to give it up. But you knew that already.)
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