Show Notes
Welcome to Regeneration, a podcast about reimagining Jewish practice in a modern world.
In the past five years, we’ve lived through a global pandemic, October 7 and its subsequent shockwaves, and a changing political and technological landscape. We’ve also gone through personal changes – starting families, making big moves, and thinking about our place in that rapidly changing world.
Rituals ground us, connect us, and challenge us to connect both to the world and to our tradition.
Eileen Levinson and Debs Weinberg help friends, families, and chosen families revive customs with authenticity, creativity, and joy.
From Shabbat candles to everyday blessings, discover how to weave old and new practices together across generations to bring the people you love closer.
Visit our website here to download guidebooks for each episode: recustom.com/regeneration
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Regeneration is hosted by Eileen Levinson and Debra Weinberg and produced by Josh Gilbert and Kate Mishkin.
More from Regeneration: A Podcast About Crafting DIY Jewish Ritual
On today’s episode, we speak with Lee Hendler, co-founder and president of the Jewish Grandparents Network. She is also the founder of Freedom’s Feast, an initiative that explores American holidays as opportunities to connect with our values, history, and traditions, and the author of The Year Mom Got Religion: One Woman’s Midlife Journey into Judaism.
On today’s episode, we welcome Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, who thinks deeply and lives deeply in these life cycles, particularly in two major ways: through the environment, and through issues of infertility. In this episode, we talk about the responsibilities the individual has to the community and vice versa, the elasticity of ritual, and the ritual of making lemons into lemonade.
In this episode, we welcome Rabbi Josh Feigelson, PhD, President & CEO at the Institute for Jewish Spirituality – a haven for those looking for Jewish mindfulness.
Today, we speak with Rabbi Shira Stutman, senior rabbi at the Aspen Jewish Congregation, author of The Jewish Way to a Good Life, and host of the beloved PRX podcast “Chutzpod.”
At Recustom, we have a saying: We want to help you make ritual your own, so you can welcome whatever life brings. Rituals are a way to ready ourselves against the unpredictability of life. In this episode, we consider rituals as a way to usher in gratitude, and to be reminded of what we already have.