Judaism Unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education serving as a catalyst for an entirely new era of Judaism.
We empower regular Jews who are disenchanted with or disconnected from mainstream Jewish institutions, to develop new ways of living Jewishly.
We are all artists and Judaism is our medium.
What will you create?
Explore our projects
The Judaism Unbound Podcast
The Judaism Unbound podcast, co-hosted by Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg, explores pressing issues for American Judaism today
Mixing their own analysis with interviews of leading thinkers, practitioners, and even "regular Jews," Dan and Lex look to push past the bounds of what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.
The UnYeshiva is a digitally driven center for Jewish learning and unlearning. Our courses are available worldwide and we seek to build a trans-geographic community of informed, imaginative Jews who are empowered to make meaningful change.
The UnYeshiva offers live and asynchronous courses and workshops on a wide variety of Jewish topics, all taught through our “unbound lens” that emphasizes that each generation of Jews—and especially those living in times of upheaval and change like ours—has permission to reshape the raw material of Judaism into a form that resonates in that era and helps Jews live lives of meaning, purpose, and contribution.
Text People
“What we need more than anything else is not textbooks but text people.”
Text People offers collections of videos on topics of Jewish interest, from a wide range of perspectives and organized by topic. The videos represent a curated selection of approaches to foundational Jewish texts, narratives and ideas that offer entry points to those who have struggled to connect to Jewish texts in the past and that offer new and perhaps unfamiliar insights to those already deeply immersed in them. Text People is a digital hub for the study of Jewish texts and ideas. It is the result of a collaboration between the Oshman Family JCC, BINA, Judaism Unbound, 929 English.
When Covid-19 started, we launched jewishLIVE, which combines a digital production studio and an online hub of live-streaming (and recorded) Jewish experiences, creating over 1,000 hours of innovative content from our own team and many partners, including SVARA, the Palo Alto JCC, BINA, Jewish Women’s Archive, Sinai and Synapses, theatre dybbuk, Hadar, Jewish Education Project, Urban Adamah, and Wilderness Torah; and individuals such as Sarah Hurwitz, Joy Ladin, and Richard Elliott Friedman.
We continue to co-produce The Oral Talmud with SVARA weekly, as well as to produce and co-produce a number of other weekly, monthly, and periodic streaming video programs.