EBPL Podcast from the East Brunswick Public Library

About EBPL Podcast from the East Brunswick Public Library

The East Brunswick Public Library is known as the community's living room here in East Brunswick, NJ. Join us in this podcast for encore presentations from lectures you may have missed, community conversations, and unique EBPL content that you can only find here!

Publisher

EastBrunswick PublicLibrary

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 May 2020

Latest episode

21 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

296 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Sept 2026

   Read, Watch Listen: Sterley Stanley

   Host Chris Barnes sits down with resident and NJ State Assemblyman Sterley S. Stanley. They talk about their love of science fiction, Marvel, mystery and more. Check out these items with your EBPL or STELLA Library card. https://www.ebpl.org/adults/news/read-watch-listen-sterley-stanley (https://www.ebpl.org/adults/news/read-watch-listen-sterley-stanley) Need help as a resident living in District 18? AssemblymanStanley may be able to help! https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislative-roster/429/assemblyman-stanley (https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/legislative-roster/429/assemblyman-stanley) READ Project Hail Mary: a novel by Andy Weir Multiple series by Robert Ludlum (https://eab.search.stellanj.org/search/card?id=49e45b0c-0f70-11ee-b632-c9a551b53a51&entityType=Agent) WATCH Project Hail Mary (https://eab.search.stellanj.org/search/card?id=8cf9773d-1201-50de-998e-26e0fb676715&entityType=FormatGroup) Supergirl (https://eab.search.stellanj.org/search/card?id=c7a6a7b7-34ad-52b5-acac-d4b8184b2d0c&entityType=FormatGroup) LISTEN Kitaro (https://eab.search.stellanj.org/search/card?id=6708f119-14d6-11ee-93ed-692b8c2725fe&entityType=Agent)

2. 

   20 Aug 2026

   A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

   Jews played a critical role both in winning the American Revolution—fighting for the patriot cause from Bunker Hill to Yorktown—and in defining the republic that was created from it. As the most visible non-Christian religion, Judaism was central to the debate over religious freedom in America at a critical juncture. Except for Philadelphia, the birthplace to the Declaration of Independence and a core of resistance, every city with a synagogue fell to the British during the war. Jewish patriots throughout the colonies flocked to Philadelphia, where they re-founded the local synagogue as a distinctively American organization. After the war, Jews began to press for full citizenship in the hope that liberty would apply to everyone, and that the limits to freedom imposed on Jews in the Old World would be removed in the New. Lecturer Adam Jortner, Goodwin-Philpott Professor of Religion at Auburn University, demonstrates how the decision to extend citizenship to all religions was not a twentieth-century phenomenon prompted by immigration and Supreme Court rulings, but a debate the founding generation itself had—unambiguously deciding against the idea of nation defined exclusively by Christianity. Instead, the founders, Jewish patriots, and their allies sought and achieved the broadest possible definition of religious liberty and the separation of church and state. Adam Jortner, Ph.D., is the Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History at Auburn University. He specializes in the history of religion in the American Revolution and the early nation, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, patriotism and piety, theology, and new religious traditions. Since joining the faculty at Auburn University in 2009, Dr. Jortner has published several works that include The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier (Oxford University Press, 2012), which was awarded the 2013 James Broussard Prize for the best first book in early American history; Blood from the Sky: Miracles and Politics in the Early American Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2017); and No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022).Co-sponsored by EB Hadassah and the Metuchen Public Library

3. 

   16 Jul 2026

   73 Words in the 732: Selected Stories from 2026

   We are excited to return with our 73 Words in the 732 short story competition! Enjoy these selections from 2026. All of the stories from 73 Words can be enjoyed at https://www.ebpl.org/short-stories (https://www.ebpl.org/short-stories) Read by: Barry Schwartzstein, Arti, and Sally Vagias

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YouTube views

268,548

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32