Search for Meaning with Rabbi Yoshi
Join Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback as he talks with an eclectic variety of thinkers, artists, and change-makers about their experiences (Jewish or otherwise) and their own search for meaning and purpose in their lives.
Episodes
94 episodes
We Have NOT Lost Hope: Od Lo Avda Tikvateinu
Rabbi Yoshi's Rosh Hashanah Sermon for 5785, delivered at Stephen Wise Temple on the evening of October 2, 2024. Learn about the life of Naftali Herz Imber, author of the poem "Tikvoseinu" that became "HaTikvah," the text of the anthem of the Z...
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Season 6
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Episode 94
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27:29
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Sharon Brous
Rabbi Sharon Brous, Senior Rabbi of Ikar in Los Angeles, joins Rabbi Yoshi for a conversation focusing on her new book, "The Amen Effect." In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, Rabbi Brous suggest ways that we ca...
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Season 6
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Episode 93
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31:23
Search for Meaning with Maor and Yossi Levy
Maor and Yossi Levy join Rabbi Yoshi to tell the story of the community of Kibbutz Eilon, just a few miles from the border with Lebanon. Their family, along with tens of thousands of other Israelis, has had to evacuate their home due to almost ...
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Season 6
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Episode 92
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54:45
Search for Meaning with Rabbi Michael Zedek
Join Rabbi Yoshi for a conversation with one of his childhood mentors and teachers, Rabbi Michael Zedek. Rabbi Zedek talks about his journey to the rabbinate and his new book, "
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Season 6
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Episode 91
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49:49
Search for Meaning with Arielle Mokhtarzadeh
Arielle Yael Mokhtarzadeh is a first generation Iranian American Jewish leader and advocate. She serves as Co-President of 30 Years After, a nonpartisan nonprofit committed to ensuring the Iranian American Jewish future by cultivating identity,...
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Season 6
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Episode 90
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48:58
Search for Meaning with Hallel Abramowitz-Silverman
Rabbi Yoshi sits down with Hallel Abramowitz-Silverman, an Israeli activist and advocate. She first gained the attention of the public with her work with Women of the Wall that ended up with a widely reported case at the Israel Supreme Court in...
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Season 6
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Episode 89
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40:20
Search for Meaning with Geoff Winston
Geoff Winston is an Israel educator and tour guide who has worked with Rabbi Yoshi many times over more than two decades. He led Rabbi Yoshi's recent solidarity mission to Israel this past February. Learn about his path to aliya, his r...
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Season 6
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Episode 88
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40:30
Search for Meaning with Yuval Davidovits
Yuval Davidovits, Rabbi Yoshi's cousin, grew up in Israel and the United States. He recently completed his service as an officer in the Israel Air Force. He reflects on his time in the U.S., his army service, and his time in the reserves over t...
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Season 6
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Episode 87
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46:34
Search for Meaning with Sharon Fidelman
Sharon Fidelman served as a naval "tatzpitanit" in the IDF. Her job was to monitor Israel's sea border with Gaza using radar and surveillance equipment. Less than a year after completing her service, Sharon witnessed in real-time soldiers in a ...
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Season 6
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Episode 86
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33:50
Search for Meaning with Kenny Hamilton
Join Rabbi Yoshi in conversation with Kenny Hamilton, an entertainment entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, California. Kenny has been in music and entertainment for 14 years now, focusing on music management, social media/ influencer...
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Season 6
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Episode 85
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1:10:17
Search for Meaning with Ari Dayan
Ari Dayan is a composer, artist, and performer who has become an "accidental Israel advocate." Born to Israeli parents who had settled in Tarzana, Ari is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Follow Ari @witchofthewestcoast(The Eret...
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Season 6
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Episode 84
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39:29
Search for Meaning with Princeton Hillel (CJL) Leadership
Rabbi Yoshi had the opportunity to speak to three current students at Princeton University's Center for Jewish Life along with the CJL director, Rabbi Gil Steinlauf. Stephen Bartell, Davi Frank, and Seth Kahn, all current Princeton studen...
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Season 6
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Episode 83
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48:47
Search for Meaning with Amanda Berman
Amanda Berman is the founder and executive director of the Zioness Movement where she works to empower and activate Zionists on the progressive left to stand proudly in social justice spaces as both Jews and Zionists. She is a civil rights ...
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Season 6
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Episode 82
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53:08
Search for Meaning with Naomi Zweiback
Join Rabbi Yoshi in conversation with his daughter, Naomi, who is a sophomore in a dual degree program at Barnard/Columbia and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She shares her perspective on the disturbing rise in antisemitism and anti-Israel rh...
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Season 6
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Episode 81
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26:48
Search for Meaning with Roee Azari and Amit Ben Shlomo
On October 7, Amit Ben Shlomo and Roee Arazi, members of the Givati Brigade, were called up for reserve duty in the Israel Defense Forces. A few months into this horrible war, Roee was badly wounded. Amit rescued him and helped to ensure that h...
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Season 6
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Episode 80
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49:56
Search for Meaning with Yasmeen Ohebsion
Yasmeen Ohebsion, a senior at Tulane University, joins Rabbi Yoshi in conversation about antisemitism on college campuses today. Yasmeen, a leader in the Tulane Jewish community, recently testified in front of Congress about her own experie...
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Season 6
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Episode 79
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48:16
Search for Meaning with Audrey Birnbaum
Audrey Birnbaum grew up in New York in the late 1960s, the child of a Holocaust survivor. When her father, Jack, died in 2018, Audrey discovered hundreds of pages of notes he'd taken which served as a type of memoir of his experience in the
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Season 6
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Episode 78
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40:59
Search for Meaning with Jessica Elter
Jessica Elter tells her harrowing October 7th story. She explains that she was supposed to be at the Supernova Music Festival with her boyfriend, Ben Shimoni, but at the last moment, decided not to go. Listen to the extraordinary tale of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 77
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42:36
Search for Meaning with Dan Schnur
Professor, columnist, and host of "The Dan Schnur Political Report," Dan shares even-handed analysis on pressing political issues, from domestic policy to geopolitics. Rabbi Yoshi gets his take on the 2024 election, the situatio...
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Season 6
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Episode 76
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1:02:33
Search for Meaning with Susie Lubell
In his latest "Search for Meaning" podcast, Rabbi Yoshi speaks with
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Season 5
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Episode 75
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45:51
Search for Meaning with Yitzhak Sokoloff
When this is over there will be an encyclopedia of heroism because there were thousands of heroic moments..." In his latest "Search for Meaning" podcast episode, Rabbi Yoshi speaks with Yitzhak Sokoloff, an Israeli politi...
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Season 5
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Episode 74
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50:46
Search for Meaning with Jodi Rudoren
Recorded in front of a live audience at Stephen Wise Temple, "Forward" Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren spoke with Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback on a new episode of "The Search for Meaning" podcast. The veteran reporter, editor and digital innovator spent m...
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Season 5
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Episode 73
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44:16
Search for Meaning with Ambassador Gary Grappo
Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman, Gary Grappo, met Rabbi Yoshi and Jacqueline through a mutual friend when Grappo was serving as Chief of Staff of the Quartet in Jerusalem in 2010. Gary and his wife, Becky, soon became friends with Yoshi an...
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Season 5
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Episode 72
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42:24