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Translations

Project Shema

Religion & Spirituality

Society & Culture

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/50d. Total Eps: 7

Translations is a new initiative from Project Shema exploring how we can approach complex issues with nuance and empathy. Every six months, we dive into a different topic shaping our world and our work. Through conversations with leading academics, practitioners, and community voices, this podcast invites listeners to learn alongside us as we translate big questions into deeper understanding. http://projectshema.org/translations

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🇺🇸 USA - judaism
08/08/2026
#85
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07/08/2026
#56
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
06/08/2026
#57
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05/08/2026
#52
🇨🇦 Canada - judaism
03/07/2026
#90
🇨🇦 Canada - judaism
02/07/2026
#66
🇨🇦 Canada - judaism
01/07/2026
#55
🇨🇦 Canada - judaism
30/06/2026
#38
🇨🇦 Canada - judaism
29/06/2026
#15
🇺🇸 USA - judaism
23/04/2026
#74

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Andrew Mbuvi

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 • Duration 44:08

Kara and Eli are joined by Andrew Mbuvi, distinguished scholar of biblical studies whose work bridges theology, race, and social justice. A leading voice in antiracist pedagogy, his scholarship examines how the histories of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament intersect with the realities of race, violence, and power. This conversation is a powerful foundation for understanding why Project Shema is so interested in translation in the first place—how the words we use shape our understanding of both text and one another.

Chapter Breakdown:

:54 - What does “inclusion” mean to Andrew?
2:21 - How we think about the problem of division
4:39 - How to expand our understanding of one another’s humanity
6:17 - The idea of “superficial differences” between people
9:44 - How Andrew’s background informs his inclusion practice
16:00 - How coming to America changed his self-understanding
18:50 - Language and the need to translate different aspects of yourself and one another
31:54 - Translation and true inclusion
41:21 - The importance of maintaining curiosity

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Visit our website: www.projectshema.org.

Translations is a new initiative from Project Shema exploring how we can approach complex issues with nuance and empathy. Through conversations with leading academics, practitioners, and community voices, this podcast invites listeners to learn alongside us as we translate big questions into deeper understanding. http://projectshema.org/translations

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Kara & Eli

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 • Duration 26:48

In this episode, Kara and Eli explore how our inability to translate our language, and ourselves, undermines meaningful dialogue. How can we challenge complex norms and ideas if we remain more committed to binary frameworks than to understanding one another’s lived experiences? The antidote, they argue, is storytelling. By illuminating how our experiences shape our perspectives, storytelling has the power to depolarize conversation. It’s an approach at the heart of Project Shema’s work.

Chapter Breakdown:

0:00: The role of translating
2:51: The idea of “binary rage”
3:58: How we change complex social norms
4:58: How do we start to translate from a place of stories?
8:11: How Kara translates herself in her experiences as a Black Jewish woman
9:51: How Eli translates himself as a white member of a Black Jewish family
12:00: The impact of ideological insularity
13:00: Project Shema’s mission to translate and “wrestle”
19:34: The notion of harmful speech
21:50: Going beyond translating just antisemitism
24:01: Previewing future episodes

Resources:

Matt Boxer, What is Zionism? Assessing the Diversity of Discourse in a Charged Environment, Brandeis University: https://scholarworks.brandeis.edu/esploro/outputs/report/What-is-Zionism-Assessing-the-Diversity/9924331186501921?institution=01BRAND_INST.
Damon Centola, Change: How to Make Big Things Happen: https://www.amazon.com/Change-How-Make-Things-Happen/dp/0316457337.
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion: https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777

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Introducing Translations

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 • Duration 01:19

A lot of our conversations are closing space for empathy and care instead of opening new pathways for understanding. Much of that can be attributed to binary thinking and the refusal to engage with and translate the lived experiences of others.

Translations is about breaking down binaries by practicing dialogue across differences. We are here to translate words that carry weight so they don’t end conversations, they open them up. Each episode will share stories, skills, and real conversations that show how people can stay in the room even when the tension is real. As we know, these differences are not going away.

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Beyond Survival: Whitney Weathers on Thrivival and Inclusive Leadership

Tuesday, April 21, 2026 • Duration 51:21

Today’s guest is Whitney Weathers, who brings a rare combination of scholarship, strategy, and spirit to every space she enters. A consultant, educator, and thought leader in Black theology, urban education, and organizational culture, Whitney is the founder of Whitney Weathers Consulting, and a doctoral candidate at Nazarene Theological Seminary. Whitney brings a very unique combination of both academic research and lived experience to challenge institutions toward deeper inclusion. She defines the term “thrivival,” (moving past survival into thriving) and what that means specifically for Black women, which can then be applied for all of us to build more inclusive spaces. Listen for Whitney’s truly unique leadership style that centers vulnerability.

Chapter Breakdown:

0:00 - Introducing Whitney
2:25 - Whitney’s research on the experiences of Black women seminarian students
4:52 - Distinguishing between representation and inclusion
6:00 - Whitney’s dissertation, "Resurrecting Resilience”
9:21 - Alice Walker’s concept of “womanism”
12:46 - The assumption of common experiences
19:11 - Identity mapping
25:15 - The intricacies of inclusion work
34:11 - Professionalism and the concept of “hidden curriculum”
38:22 - Inclusion versus assimilation
43:23 - Advice for creating more inclusive spaces

Resources:

Dr. Willie Jennings, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging.
adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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Netanya Cranford on Belonging, Big Tents, and Progressive Jewish Life

Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 43:20

On today’s episode, we are joined by Netanya Cranford. Netanya is a Jewish activist in San Diego. She is a founder and member of the group of “Change Begins With Me,” a San Diego Indivisible chapter started on the eve of Trump’s first inauguration. We explore her insights on building coalition spaces and her activism as a progressive Jew. Netanya’s politics are rooted in her ability to talk about her “story of self,” building coalitional politics, and local small “p” politics that allow her to make change in a variety of ways and across various communities.

Chapter Breakdown:

:00 - Introducing and welcoming Netanya
1:38 - The tensions and challenges of being a Jew in progressive spaces
7:32 - Balancing identities
15:42 - What being progressive means to Netanya
20:53 - Building trust and the need to have courageous conversations
25:51 - What progressives need to better understand about Jews, and vice versa
36:03 - Advice for creating more inclusive local communities

Resources:

“Change Begins With Me” Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bethechangesd/
Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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At the Jewish Table with Hélène Jawhara Piñer

Tuesday, June 2, 2026 • Duration 46:30

Today we are joined by Hélène Jawhara Piñer to discuss her research at the intersection of food and history and how what we eat—and what we’re not allowed to eat—can actually tell a deeper story about the world. Hélène’s work helps us understand how Jewish dietary practices were used to target and isolate Jews, and how in the present day we can still see echoes of that historical exclusion through attacks on Jewish, Israeli, and kosher spaces.

Chapter Breakdown:

:00 - Introduction and welcome
1:00 - Who Spanish Jews are
2:52 - What the Spanish Inquisition was
9:48 - Food as a centerpiece of culture, identity, and politics
12:00 - What role food played for Converso and Crypto- Jews
19:14 - Persecuting Jews through food
27:34 - The targeting of Jewish, Israeli, and kosher spaces today

Resources:

https://helenejawharapiner.com/

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March 2026 Webinar recording: An Iranian Jew and a Palestinian in Conversation

Tuesday, May 12, 2026 • Duration 01:12:02

This episode comes from a special webinar we hosted on March 26,2026, “Dialogue as a Tool of Safety: An Iranian Jew and a Palestinian in Conversation.” Kara and Eli facilitated a courageous and deeply human conversation between Iranian Jewish peace activist and writer, Daniel Bral, and Palestinian peace activist and conflict resolution expert, Hamze Awade. Together, they explored what it means to engage in difficult dialogue across divides. Through personal stories, shared communication principles, and real-time modeling of tough conversations, this gathering highlights how empathy, respect, and curiosity can create spaces of safety and understanding, without erasing pain or identity. This session marked the launch of the Translations podcast.

Chapter Breakdown:

:00 - Introduction and welcome
4:39 - The worlds Daniel and Hamze come from
10:40 - How Daniel and Hamze came together and built a relationship
14:19 - Could this relationship have worked before October 7?
17:10 - Co-creating a Substack
20:19 - Examples of disagreement between Daniel and Hamze
29:08 - How to stay in dialogue with someone who says something harmful
34:31 - How to engage with people who view the conflict in a binary way
40:00 - The responsibility to translate our community to others and to itself
48:08 - Where the name of their Substack came from
49:34 - The line between criticism and dehumanization
52:51 - Navigating debates about the future configuration of Israel and Palestine
57:25 - Reflecting on the Iran war and the media’s relationship with Palestinians
1:04:27 - Lessons they’ve learned doing dialogue work

Resources:

The Higher Ground, Substack: https://thehighergroundstack.substack.com/.
Daniel Bral and Hamze Awawde, “Israel and Palestine Conversation Quicksand,” The Higher Ground, https://substack.com/home/post/p-170403852.
Hamze Awawde, “Liberal Zionism’s PR Machine: How ‘Nuance’ Became a Language for Violence,” , .

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