🎙️ Today we sat down with Ryan Lambert founder of the Bridge Builders Forum. We discussed his book "The Weird Apostle" and his new endeavor "The Olive Tree Campaign". In addition to that Ryan shares about his life, upbringing, and interaction with the Christian world.

📖 Read his book *The Weird Apostle* on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4f8OU8Q

🎧 Listen to the podcast here: https://redcircle.com/shows/4978519c-969a-4d1b-a67a-03ce7a527ba9

🎙️ We sat down with Sabrina Soffer live in New York, and we got to discuss her experience growing up Sephardi, the child of Mizrachi Jewish, her campus experience with Sephardi House and her experience of anti-Semitism on campus, and Mountain Jews!!!

📖 Purchase Sabrina Soffer's book *My Mother's Mirror: A Generational Journey of Resilience and Self-Discovery* on Amazon here: https://amzn.to/3T5Cndx

📖 Sabrina Soffer and Yechiel Leiter - *Of Good Courage: Israel and the West's Fight for Moral Clarity* link here for pre-order: https://amzn.to/4eTa62n

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🎧 Listen to the podcast here: https://redcircle.com/shows/4978519c-969a-4d1b-a67a-03ce7a527ba9

⏯️ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KwofxMh5g78

Sabrina Soffer is co-author of the forthcoming book OF GOOD COURAGE- ISRAEL & THE WEST’S FIGHT FOR MORAL CLARITY with Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter. She serves as a Research and Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. Her work spans policy, research, writing, media, and advocacy on antisemitism, Zionism, academia, and foreign policy, including roles as Deputy Chief of Staff at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, a contributor to congressional investigations into campus antisemitism, and research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She has testified before American and Israeli officials and was selected for President Isaac Herzog’s Voice of the People initiative.

Sabrina's blog and website:

https://sabrinasoffer.com/sabrinasoffer-blog/

Sabrina's writings on Substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/sabrinasoffer

Article about her testifying before Congress Subcommittee:

https://homeland.house.gov/2023/12/02/icymi-homeland-republicans-hold-roundtable-on-surging-anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/

Today, we get to sit down with Orthodox Jewish Chilean-American film-maker, director, author, comedian, and YouTube personality Salvador Litvak and discuss the influences that made him, Dune vs. Lord of the Rings, his philosophical musings on G-d's consciousness, providing security against anti-Semitic acts, and his latest film Guns and Moses. 

Links:

Follow Sal at AccidentalTalmudist.org.

Guns and Moses (2025) Streaming on Amazon Prime 

When Do We Eat (2005) - Passover film Streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi

Referenced in the Show:

* Joseph Holmes - Top 10 Faith-Based Films of 2025

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2025/12/26/the-top-10-faith-based-films-of-2025

* How Real Life Tragedy Inspired Salvador Litvak to Make an Action Hero Out of an Orthodox Rabbi

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2025/07/14/how-real-life-tragedy-inspired-guns--moses-filmmaker-salvador-litvak-to-make-an-action-hero-out-of-an-orthodox-rabbi/

In today’s episode we have the privilege of interviewing Dr. Amos Guiora. Dr. Guiora is currently a distinguished professor of law at the University of Utah. He has written multiple books on the role bystanders and enablers play in crimes from a legal perspective. He is also a recipient of multiple books that were once in the possession of his grandparents who perished in the Holocaust. In this episode we talk about his passion for justice, his reception and retrieval of books from his grandparents via the Looted Books Project, and so much more!

Read about Prof. Guiora's work with the Bystander Initiative at: https://www.law.utah.edu/bystander-initiative/

To read more about the story of the books belonging Prof. Guiora's grandfather, Shlomo Natan Goldberg, see: https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2025/02/27/holocaust-auschwitz-nazi-steal-jews-books-return-survivor-utah/

To find out more about the Looted Books Project or to volunteer, email askjcpod at gmail dot com

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/@askjcpod

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Intro music: chill beat by Tommy Kellogg

The Voice of the Oud by djovan, courtesy of Pixabay.com

We sat down to chat with Dr. Ari Mermelstein, professor of Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Yeshiva University. In this podcast, we discuss how a mistaken interpretation of Paul's writings that negated the notion of divine grace in Judaism led to a misunderstanding that has lasted for centuries. We discuss how reading Paul in his Jewish context has important ramifications for present-day Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Find more information about the Hebraic Studies Program for Christians at YU at: https://philosproject.org/home/yeshiva/

For more information, see: https://www.yu.edu/revel/hebraic-studies

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/@askjcpod