The College Commons Podcast: Acclaimed Authors Series 2024-2025

Hebrew Union College and the College Commons podcast are thrilled to partner with the Jewish Book Council for the 4th season. Each year, the Jewish Book Council grants the National Jewish Book Awards, and the College Commons Podcast, hosted by Joshua Holo, Ph.D., has hosted dozens of the winners and runners up on the podcast’s Acclaimed Authors Series.

We invite you to listen to the interviews and learn more about these incredible authors and winners of the 2023 National Jewish Book Awards.

Stay tuned for new Acclaimed Authors Series interviews with the 2024 winners of the National Jewish Book Awards in Fall 2025 on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Stitcher.


 

Acclaimed Authors Series

Julia Watts Belser: Around Us and In Us

Julia Watts Belser reveals disability as an engine for human creativity and spiritual depth – for everyone.

Dr. Jeremy Brown: Pestilence, Plague, and Perseverance

Jeremy Brown’s Eleventh Plague captures Jewish responses to pandemics from across the millennia.

Aryeh Ben David: The Jewish Thinker of the Millennium

Aryeh Ben David plumbs the diaries of the epochal thinker Rav Kook. He finds the imperative of love.

Richard Ho: We All Have the Same Moon

Richard Ho celebrates the Chinese and Jewish New Years – in the same family under the same lunar cycle.

Yariv Inbar: I, Spy

Who are we and where is home? Author Yariv Inbar investigates through the mental tightrope of espionage.

Mari Lowe: Growing Up is Tough Business

Author Mari Lowe explores adolescence through the lens of the Orthodox experience – both unique and common to all.

Deborah Dash Moore: On a Human Scale

Deborah Dash Moore transports us to midcentury New York and the photographer who captured its people from street level.