"Too Jewish" with Rabbi Cohon

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Date of show

Guest

6/28/09 Rabbi Harold Schulweis, rabbi, author, and a longtime Spiritual Leader at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, CA
6/21/09 Jason Lezak, 2008 Olympic gold-medalist in freestyle swimming
6/14/09 Dara Horn, author of "All Other Nights"
6/7/09 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, author of "The Art of Being Jewish in Modern Times"
5/31/09 Garrett Reisman, Jewish astronaut
5/24/09 Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs Columnist for the Wall Street Journal
5/17/09 Rabbi Stacey Blank, rabbi of Congregation Darchei Noam in Ramat HaSharon, Israel
5/10/09 Dr. Nigist Mengesha, Director General of the Ethiopian National Project
5/3/09 Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, host of TLC's "Shalom in the Home" and author of "The Kosher Sutra"
4/26/09 Lorin Sklamberg, lead singer for The Klezmatics, Grammy-award winning American klezmer music group
4/19/09 Steve Sheinkin, author of "The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey" series
4/12/09 Marcie Greenfield Simons, Director of the PJ Library
4/5/09 Andrew Lappitt, contestant from "The Amazing Race"
3/29/09 AJ Jacobs, author of "The Year of Living Biblically"
3/22/09 Dayle Friedman, director of Hiddur, Center for Aging and Judaism
3/15/09 Ilana Trachtman, director of "Praying with Lior"
3/8/09 Rabbi Joel Oseran, Vice President of International Development for the World Union of Progressive Judaism
3/1/09 Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island
2/22/09 Hadar Susskind, Washington Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs
2/15/09 Elie Kaunfer, co-founder of Mechon Hadar
2/8/09 Rabbi Jamie Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi
2/1/09 Rabbi Toba Spitzer, President of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association
1/25/09 Laura Bialis, Award-winning director of "Refusenik" & "Sderot"
1/18/09 Rabbi Neil Gillman, Professor of Jewish philosophy at Jewish Theological Seminary
1/11/09 Rabbi Elise Bernhardt, Executive Director of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture
1/4/09 Stephanie Klein, author and blogging mistress
12/28/08 Rabbi Morris Allen, author of "Conservative Guidelines on the Morality of Keeping Kosher"
12/21/08 Rabbi Elyse Frishman, speaking on the new Reform prayerbooks' one year anniversary
12/14/08 Roz Rothstein, founder of the StandWithUs Foundation & co-winner of the 2008 Cohon Foundation Award
12/7/08 Dr. Jose Nessim, Sephardic Educational Center & co-winner of the 2008 Cohon Foundation Award
11/30/08 Kinky Friedman, singer, author & storyteller
11/23/08 Josh Block, AIPAC Communications Director
11/16/08 Todd Herzog, singer-songwriter
11/9/08 Sadia Shepard, documentary filmmaker
11/2/08 Rabbi Capers Funnye, Rabbi of the Ethiopian Jewish congregation & Michelle Obama's cousin
10/26/08 Ian Kinsler, all-star second baseman of the Texas Rangers
10/19/08 David Bernz, singer & banjo player with Work O' The Weavers
10/12/08 Rabbi Richard Camras, on the ordination of the Chief Rabbi of Uganda
10/5/08 Joanne Caras, author of "The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook"
9/28/08 Alina Gerlovin Spaulding, refusenik girl from the Ukraine who has become a Jewish community leader in America
9/21/08 Rabbi Bradley Artson, Dean of the Rabbinical School of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles
9/14/08 Craig Morgan, Holocaust survivor reparations program
9/7/08 Leonard Saxe, co-author of "Ten Days of Birthright Israel: A Journey in Young Adult Identity", the story of Birthright Israel
8/31/08 Lisa Loeb, singer-songwriter
8/24/08 Lucy Kaplansky, PhD psychologist who gave it up to become a folk musician
8/17/08 Michael Oren, Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center & author of "The Six Day War"
8/10/08 Lawrence H. Schiffman, one of the world's greatest scholars of the Dead Sea Scrolls
8/3/08 6th Anniversary Show with special guest Tovah Feldshuh, legendary actress, singer and playwright
7/27/08 Dr. Wendy Weise, Renaissance Scholar, "Jews in Shakespeare's England"
7/20/08 Joyce Carol Oates, author of "The Gravedigger's Daughter"
7/13/08 Yuri Foreman, Israeli middleweight boxer
7/6/08 Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain at Georgetown University
6/29/08 Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily
6/22/08 Ethan Zohn, winner of "Survivor: Africa"
6/15/08 David Wolf, Jewish astronaut
6/8/08 Matthew Lazar, founder of the Zamir Choral Foundation
6/1/08 Jeremy Cowan, founder of He'BREW beer
5/25/08 Hans Spear, WWII veteran and one of the "Ritchie Boys", and a Bronze Star winner 60 years late...
5/18/08 RyanDan, identical twin Jewish musical duo
5/11/08 Steve Gutow, Executive Director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs
5/4/08 Shuly Nathan, legendary Israeli singer
4/27/08 Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman, Senior Academic Fellow for Synagogue 3000 and Professor of Liturgy at Hebrew Union College, New York
4/20/08 Geraldine Brooks, author of "People of the Book"
4/13/08 Eva Etzioni-Halevy, author of "The Triumph of Deborah"
4/6/08 Jennifer Lee Carrell, author of "Interred with Their Bones"
3/30/08 Mort Rosenblum, journalist, author and educator
3/23/08 Rabbi Andrew Davids, Executive Director of ARZA
3/16/08 Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, author of "You Don't Have to Be Wrong for Me To Be Right" and President of CLAL: The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
3/9/08 Leah Biteolin, Ethiopian Jews in Israel Today
3/2/08 Harry Ettlinger, Recovering artworks stolen by the Nazis
2/24/08 Jon Entine, journalist & Michael Hammer, geneticist, "The DNA of Jews"
2/17/08 Rabbi Doug Kohn, author of "Life, Faith, and Cancer: Jewish Journeys through Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery"
2/10/08 Yizhar Hess, Executive Director and CEO of the Masorti Conversative Movement in Israel
2/3/08 Jonathan Sarna, Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University
1/27/08 Ivan Ceresnjes, who saved 2000 lives in the Bosnia War and 2007 Cohon Award recipient
1/20/08 Rabbi Andy Bachman, Founder of Brooklyn Jews
1/13/08 Jacob Dayan, Israeli Consul General
1/6/08 Rabbi Mike Comins, Founder of TorahTrek
12/30/07 Ruth Messinger, CEO OF American Jewish World Service
12/23/07 Avigayil Gottlieb, Israeli teacher
12/16/07 Oren Goldfield, Israeli archaeologist
12/9/07 Dr. Rachel Korazim, Director of Distance Learning for Israel's Jewish Agency
12/2/07 Jen Taylor Friedman, 1st woman scribe and creator of "Tefillin Barbie"
11/25/07 BUSTAN, Israeli Jews and Arabs working for peaceful co-existence in the Negev
11/18/07 Jay Michaelson, writer and teacher on gender issues in Judaism
11/11/07 City of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon
11/4/07 Ari Goldman, author of "Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today"
10/28/07 Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the Union for Reform Judaism
10/21/07 Liz Lehrman, Founding Artistic Director of the Liz Lehrman Dance Exchange
10/14/07 Rabbi Karyn Kedar, author of "The Bridge to Forgiveness"
10/7/07 Daniel Mendelsohn, author of "The Lost"
9/30/07 Dr. Joel Hoffman, teacher, translator and author
9/23/07 Peninnah Schram, storyteller, teacher, author and recording artist
9/16/07 Si Frumkin, pioneer in the Soviet Jewry movement
9/9/07 Gregory "Grisha" Nisnevich, Master Classical guitarist
9/2/07 Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, speaking on her recent trip to Israel
8/26/07 Dr. Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment & Security
8/19/07 Matthew Brooks, Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition
8/12/07 Faye Kellerman, author of Jewish mystery novels
8/5/07 5th Anniversary Show with special guest Kinky Friedman!
7/29/07 David Steinberg, comedian, director & producer
7/22/07 Rabbi Iri Kassel, head of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism
7/15/07 Steve Nadler, author of "Rembrandt's Jews"
7/8/07 Danny Bobman, Tucson's former Shaliach, from Israel
7/1/07 Henry Feingold, author of "Silent No More: Saving the Jews of Russia"
6/24/07 Gigi Anders, author of "Jubana: The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess"
6/17/07 Neshama Carlebach, singer and songwriter
6/10/07 Nonie Darwish, founder of Arabs for Israel
6/3/07 Kati Marton, author of "The Great Escape"