Another Education Is Possible

by Another Education Is Possible

Education is a lifelong process. It’s also a site of struggle. Our podcast aims to uncover the global histories and educational practices that both inhibit and nurture liberation struggles. With the genocide in Gaza entering its second year, and the occupation of Palestine its seventy-sixth, season 1 takes aim at the settler colonial ideology of Zionism. Using a method of educational biography, we explore how unruly Jewish f ... 

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Podcast episodes

  • Season 1

  • Episode 14 - Roy Danovitch and Dani Friedrich

    Episode 14 - Roy Danovitch and Dani Friedrich

    S01 E14
    Mar 17, 2025
    01:16:02

    In this episode, host Jordan Corson chats with two friends, Roy Danovitch (an associate head of school based in Oakland), and Dani Friedrich (an associate professor of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University) about the ways in which anti-Zionism has created new dynamics and stronger foundations for relationships with family and friends. The episode reveals how integral friendships can be in building educational community. As anti-Zionist Jews and educators, Roy and Dani also explore how they've navigated educational institutions during the genocide in Gaza.

  • Episode 13 - Ren Bell

    Episode 13 - Ren Bell

    S01 E13
    Feb 25, 2025
    01:17:24

    As a number of recent articles suggest, the genocide in Gaza has thrown the field of Holocaust and genocide studies into crisis. Meanwhile, a new generation of students and scholars are actively naming the genocide and opposing Zionism. In this episode, Ren Bell, a graduate student in Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University joins guest host (and Another Education Is Possible producer) Samantha Hoehle to explore Ren's trajectory as an anti-Zionist Jew. The conversation moves through Ren's work in theater and performance and questions the future of Holocaust and genocide studies.

  • Episode 12 - Alissa Wise

    Episode 12 - Alissa Wise

    S01 E12
    Feb 13, 2025
    01:08:52

    From a Zionist upbringing in Cincinnati to radical political organizing in New York City, Rabbi Alissa Wise takes us on a vast educational journey. Across time and space, she remains devoted to tending to Jewish people and Jewish life. Our conversation touches on her years working for Jewish Voice for Peace and pushing the organization to support BDS and become explicitly anti-Zionist. Rabbi Wise also shares intimate stories of learning with Palestinian shepherds and people tending to Jewish graves in Ukraine.

  • Episode 11 - Joe Grim Feinberg

    Episode 11 - Joe Grim Feinberg

    S01 E11
    Jan 30, 2025
    01:10:15

    Researcher Joe Grim Feinberg joins us to talk about bagels, doykeit, and ecstatic Jewish performance. The conversation moves from the Midwest of the U.S. to New York City to Prague as Joe explores what might count as Jewish values in the face of Zionism. Throughout, Joe speaks with compassion and clarity about the possibilities of diaspora.

  • Episode 10 - Maura Finkelstein

    Episode 10 - Maura Finkelstein

    S01 E10
    Jan 22, 2025
    01:30:43

    Listeners may have heard Maura on a special episode we aired last year about academic freedom and Palestine. In this episode, Maura returns for a more in depth conversation about her educational journey in the Palestine solidarity movement. We discuss her being fired from her tenured position and hear stories from her everyday classroom practice. She offers a glimpse of her time as a principled high school student encountering Edward Said's work and reminds of a need to be as loud and forceful as possible in the fight for Palestinian liberation.