Judaism Unbound Episode 452: Yom Kippur — Jewish Theories of Change - Rachel Cohen

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Yom Kippur is here! For the past two years, Yom Kippur is often the single most popular day — all year — for folks to listen to Judaism Unbound. To those of you incorporating our podcast into your observance of this day, wishing you a beautiful and unbound Yom Kippur. In this episode, Rachel Cohen — policy correspondent for Vox Media — joins Dan and Lex for a conversation connecting Yom Kippur to an article (a VERY Jewish article) she wrote recently, entitled “Why I Changed my Mind About Volunteering.”

[1] Explore our upcoming courses in the UnYeshiva: Judaism Unbound’s digital center for Jewish learning and unlearning! Head to JudaismUnbound.com/classes to learn more — options include:

• Gender in Judaism: Tradition and Transformation (Sarah Imhoff)

• The Rambam’s Theology: Which Laws are the “Foundations of Torah?” (Laynie Soloman)

• Jewish Communities in Africa, Asia, and the New World (Juan Mejia)

• Fierce Women of Torah: Girls in Trouble Unbound (Alicia Jo Rabins)

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[2] For our past two years’ Judaism Unbound episodes exploring Yom Kippur, see Episode 346: Yom Kippur — The Power of Regret - Dan Pink and Episode 397: Yom Kippur — Repentance and Repair - Danya Ruttenberg.

[3] Learn more about Rachel Cohen by clicking here. Follow her on twitter at @rmc031.

[4] Read Cohen’s Vox essay, entitled “Why I Changed my Mind About Volunteering” and explored in this podcast episode, here.

[5] Lex mentions the Haftarah reading of Yom Kippur, Isaiah 58, which connects to many of the topics of this conversation. Explore the text here, and listen in to a 2016 conversation that Dan and Lex had about here: Bonus Episode: Yom Kippur Unbound - Morning Haftarah Reading (Isaiah 58).