Exploring Judaism’s key ideas, people, rituals and memory with Rabbi Justin Pines, CEO of JBS. To learn more about JBS, visit JBSTV.org<br />Hinei Ma Tov theme song by Av Vachim
Jewish Insights with Justin Pines
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Exploring Judaism’s key ideas, people, rituals and memory with Rabbi Justin Pines, CEO of JBS. To learn more about JBS, visit JBSTV.org<br />Hinei Ma Tov theme song by Av Vachim
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Radical Approach to Mental Health | Levi Shmotkin
He rebuilt Jewish life post-Holocaust and advised world leaders—but the Lubavitcher Rebbe was also a profound counselor to the human soul. Rabbi Levi Shmotkin, author of the global bestseller “Letters for Life: Guidance for Emotional Wellness from the Lubavitcher Rebbe” [https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Life-Guidance-Emotional-Lubavitcher/dp/0826690149] investigated over 23,000 letters written by the rebbe and explains how the Rebbe's private correspondences mapped out a timeless framework for mental health, including positive psychology, and overcoming anxiety, bad moods and isolation.
June 10, 2026
Let My People Know: Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s Son on His Father’s Legacy
He was called a “once-in-a-millennium scholar.” Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz z”l was a physicist by training who became a towering Torah authority — a prolific author of over 300 titles, an Israel Prize laureate, the first person since the medieval sage Rashi to produce a complete commentary on the entire Babylonian Talmud, and the first ever to translate it into modern Hebrew. It took him 45 years. In this conversation on Jewish Insights with Justin Pines, his son Rabbi Menachem “Meni” Even-Israel — CEO of the Steinsaltz Center in Jerusalem (https://steinsaltz-center.org/)— reflects on the man behind the mission: the scholar, the teacher, and the father. We also celebrate the release of a landmark new English edition of the Mishneh Torah (https://korenpub.com/products/steinsaltz-rambam-mishne-torah-volume-1), the great legal code of Maimonides — produced by the Steinsaltz Center not simply as a translation, but as a full study companion with commentary, halachic discussion, diagrams, and context, designed to make this almost nine-hundred-year-old masterwork genuinely readable for the modern learner.
June 3, 2026
Bruce Pearl: Faith, Basketball, and Israel
Bruce Pearl built Auburn into a college basketball powerhouse — five SEC championships, two Final Four runs, and an NCAA Coach of the Year award. But for Pearl, the game has always been about something much bigger. In this episode of Jewish Insights with Justin Pines, Coach Pearl opens up about the Jewish grandfather who shaped everything — a plumber from Roxbury who came to America at age 11, housed Black tenants through hard times without charging rent, and made sure Bruce understood that this country saved their family's life. Pearl traces the through-line from that grandfather to the advocacy work he does today. He shares what it takes to build a winning program from scratch — how he gets players to trust him, sacrifice for the team, and handle defeat with grace. He tells the story of coaching Team USA at the Maccabiah Games, with his son as his power forward, his daughter as team manager, and Danny Grunfeld, Todd Golden, and nearly John Scheyer on the roster — and how he brought 13 Jewish boys to Israel and sent home 13 with a deep, lasting love for the land. Then there's the press conference. Walking off the court after beating Creighton to reach the Final Four, something moved Pearl to say a name into a national microphone — Edan Alexander, the last American hostage in Gaza. He explains how it happened, what Edan's father said the next day, and what followed in Atlanta. Pearl also discusses his work bringing Auburn, Kansas State, and Arizona to Israel, his role on the Executive Board of Athletes for Israel (https://www.athletesforisrael.org/about-us), and his chairmanship of the U.S.-Israel Education Association (https://www.usieducation.org)— which takes congressional leaders to Israel to learn the Jewish roots of their Christian faith, so they come back to Washington supporting Israel not for political reasons, but because they're biblically commanded to. Plus: the remarkable story behind the number 613 hanging in the rafters of Madison Square Garden — just as the Knicks return to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. JBS is proud to be airing the Maccabiah Games this summer on cable TV or the JBS app — Opening Ceremony July 1st from Teddy Stadium, running through July 13th, with 10,000 Jewish athletes from 60 countries.
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