Favorite Podcasts

In an effort to expand my knowledge and immerse myself in Jewish thinking, I have been avidly listening to podcasts on a variety of topics.

Favorite podcasts:

Rabbi Dr Ezra Labaton A"H Lectures
I enjoyed his lectures on reconciling Jewish ideas with scientific discoveries.

Office of Rabbi Sacks
Great quick weekly D'var Torah on the weekly Parsha

Bible Classes - Tanakh 
Rabbi Haim Ovadia
Somewhat unorthodox approach to analysis of Jewish texts and Midrashim

Judaism Unbound
Institute for the Next Jewish Future

Authentic Compassionate Judaism for the Thinking Person
Rabbi Nadav Caine
Jewish Philosophy

An Introduction to Sephardic History
The Jewish Theological Seminary
Six part introduction to Medieval Jewish History with Professor Benji Gampel focusing on the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. It is Excellent! Must listen.

Merkaz Lectures
Merkaz Moreshet Yisrael - www.merkaz.com
Variety of lectures on different topics given at a university

Orthodox Conundrum
Challenges in Jewish Orthodoxy

The Tikvah Podcast
The Tickvah Fund

Jewish, Judaism, Spirituality, Torah
Rabbi David Bassous
Great lectures on many topics including Jewish philosophy. I loved lectures on origin of Islam and Christianity from a Jewish perspective.

YUTORAH: R' Moshe Taragin -- Recent Shiurim
Abundant mix of torah shiurim for yeshiva students in Israel

Who The Heck is That Guy? With Akiva Weisinger: A Misfit Torah Production
Akiva Weisinger
Reviews the great biblical commentators - their contributions, philosophy, context, etc.

JTS Torah Commentary
Weekly Parsha D'var Torah 7-10 minutes.

Four Questions of Judaism - Rabbi Gedalia Meyer
Amazing exploration of Jewish philosophy. Website has 100 articles and many audio recordings of Rabbi Gedalia. Questions: Meaning and purpose of life, G-d, who are we, how do we understand good and evil.

NEW PODCAST
Michael Franco
I helped Michael put up this podcast. He is a medical student. He gives weekly lectures in Brooklyn on textual biblical topics.