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Parshat Parshat Yitro

Guest written and narrated by Leah Jones of Chicago

Overworked? Got no time for friends or family? Take a tip from Yitro. In this week's G-dcast, Leah Jones shares with us some wisdom from Moses's non-Jewish father-in-law that pretty much changes the course of Jewish history.

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A Tale for Tu B'shvat

Tu B'shvat is the Jewish birthday of the trees...so here's a little tale we created to honor our big friends. Straight from the Talmud (the living encyclopedia of Jewish law), G-dcast brings you two stories about Honi the Circle Maker! Now get out there and hug a tree.

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Parshat Parshat Beshalach

Guest written and narrated by Eli Winkelman of Austin, TX

Red Sea walkers, pull on those wetsuits and hit the rapids of Parshat Beshalach! This week's narrator Eli Winkelman - a foodie with a hunger for social change - takes us on the scenic route out of Egypt, wading out of the Red Sea and into a land of bad food and water.

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Parshat Parshat Bo

Guest written and narrated by Joel Stanley of London

What's it like to be the greatest sidekick ever? Actor and writer Joel Stanley takes us INSIDE the head of Aaron, Moses's number one man (ahem...and his brother). Plagues! Confrontations! And poison-tinged political drama where Moses and Pharoah's attendants attack each other...with snakes??

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Parshat Parshat Va'eira

Guest written and narrated by Rabbi Katie Mizrahi of San Francisco

Possibly the best known Bible story, period. A rousing "Let my people go" kicks of weeks of frogs and hail and boils, but Rabbi Katie Mizrahi explains that those weren't even the REAL plagues. ?#@$% Find out just what was afflicting those Israelites in this week's story.

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Parshat Parshat Vayera

Guest written and narrated by Evan Wolkenstein of San Francisco

There's so much to see in this week's parsha that Evan Wolkenstein, experiential educator, decides to zoom in and focus on the story of two relatively minor characters. (One of them - a baby - is an actual minor!)

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Parshat Parshat Shemot

Guest written and narrated by Jason Lieberman of New York

A burning bush that talks would probably make most of us stutter, but Moses had a speech impediment even before his divine shrubbery encounter. Why did G-d ask this shepherd "with a heavy tongue" to be a spokeman? Jason Lieberman, an advocate for the contemporary disabled, takes a stab at the answer.

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Parshat Parshat Vayechi

Guest written and narrated by Marcus J. Freed of London

After journeys, revelations, struggles and visions, our ancestors take stock of their blessings in this week's parsha, the last one in Bereshit - closing out the book of Genesis. Marcus J. Freed - poet, teacher, playwright and actor - gives voice - or is that voices? - to the whole thing.

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G-dcast Spins Chanukah!

What's Chanukah, you ask? Spin yourself back in time to learn the story, and why we celebrate miracles in the darkest and coldest part of the year.

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Parshat Parshat Miketz

Guest written and narrated by Tobin Belzer of Los Angeles

Parshat Miketz is positively dreamy. From cows to corn, this story is full of enigmatic clues to what's up in Egypt. Sociologist Tobin Belzer brings us inside the brain of the great dream interpreter: Joseph.

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