Jewish Insights with Justin Pines

About Jewish Insights with Justin Pines

Exploring Judaism’s key ideas, people, rituals and memory with Rabbi Justin Pines, CEO of JBS. To learn more about JBS, visit JBSTV.org Hinei Ma Tov theme song by Av Vachim

Publisher

Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS)

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Mar 2024

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

133 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   The Real West Bank with Tuvia Tenenbom

   "Excuse me, is this yours?" It turns out that may be the most dangerous question you can ask in the Holy Land.Tuvia Tenenbom, bestselling author, playwright, and the journalist Die Welt called "Michael Moore and Borat in one", spent nearly a year living in the territory some call Judea and Samaria and others call the West Bank, through an active war, with Iranian missiles passing overhead. His new book, Excuse Me, Is This Yours?, is the story of what he actually found. In this hour, Justin Pines sits down with him for a conversation that runs from a Bnei Brak childhood to a hilltop above Nablus.Tenenbom holds degrees in mathematics, computer science, fine arts, and journalism, completed rabbinical studies in Jerusalem, founded the Jewish Theater of New York, and has written more than forty plays. He is the author of four Der Spiegel and five Israeli bestsellers, translated into ten languages, with earlier books embedding him in Germany, across America, in Europe's refugee camps, in Britain, and among the Haredim. Get the book: Excuse Me, Is This Yours? https://www.gefenpublishing.com/products/excuse-me-is-this-yours?srsltid=AU7gw4Vf-iiflmHR42zNd6-XhBwgM_CI80zzSI5wAX9jGtH6OtVIgBI1 This episode of Jewish Insights with Justin Pines is made possible in part by Bryna and Joshua Landes, in honor of their beloved mother, Sora Landes.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Friends Producer Kevin S. Bright

   Kevin S. Bright was executive producer of Friends for all ten seasons and directed more than 50 episodes of one of the most beloved shows in television history. His newest documentary, The Bridge, follows ten young Israeli survivors of October 7th to Los Angeles for the legendary Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp. There, rock musicians from bands including Guns N' Roses, Van Halen, and Black Sabbath help them work through grief, fear, and survivor's guilt, and find their way back to their own voices.In this episode of Jewish Insights, Justin Pines sits down with Kevin for a conversation that runs from the Lower East Side to Central Perk to Tel Aviv.Kevin S. Bright's credits include executive producer of Friends, executive producer of HBO's Dream On, producer of the In Living Color pilot, and executive producer or director of the documentaries Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story, Best and Most Beautiful Things, October 8th, and It's Dorothy.The Bridge airs on JBS. To bring the film to your university, Hillel, or community, visit thebridgedoc.com.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   What Is the Torah, Really? With Rabbi Ken Spiro

   What is the Torah? If you think it's just the Five Books of Moses, you're only seeing the surface. The Torah encompasses the written law, the oral law, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and an extraordinary chain of transmission and interpretation that stretches from Mount Sinai to today. In this episode of Jewish Insights with Justin Pines, historian Rabbi Ken Spiro walks through the full story of the Torah — what actually happened at Sinai (including the part most people don't know), when the written and oral laws were given and why God would deliver a law orally, the dramatic moment when King Josiah's workers discovered a lost Torah scroll in the Temple, Ezra's public reading at the Water Gate that transformed Jewish life after the Babylonian exile, why the oral law was eventually written down, how the Torah system survived the destruction of the Temple and centuries of exile, the role of the Rambam in organizing and transmitting the tradition, what the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed about the accuracy of the text over two thousand years, how traditional Judaism responds to the Documentary Hypothesis, and the living process by which rabbis derive Jewish law from these ancient sources today. Rabbi Ken Spiro is a historian, author, and Senior Lecturer at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. He holds an MA in History and rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah and has lived in Israel since 1982. He served in a combat infantry unit in the IDF and is a licensed tour guide in Israel. He is the author of "WorldPerfect — The Jewish Impact on Civilization," "Crash Course in Jewish History," and "Destiny — Why a tiny nation plays such a huge role in history." His work has been featured on BBC, National Geographic, the History Channel, and Fox News. He hosts the weekly podcast "Remember What's Next" on Spotify and YouTube, and his writings can be found at kenspiro.com and aish.com.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

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