KALW-FM: Binah Podcast

Novelist Wally Lamb discusses his latest novel, We Are Water, about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

  Young people surviving in Oakland's most violent neighborhood, an East Oakland librarian and role models, the Manhood Development Program, and local musicians E.W. Wainright.

Veteran actor Hal Holbrook recounts his troubled boyhood, his experience during World War II and how he found refuge onstage, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Writer Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so, in front of a live audience at the Jewsish Community Center of San Francisco.

Author and newspaper columnist Judith Martin, also known as Miss Manners, shares her advice on navigating the stormy seas of etiquette, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

A Crosscurrents special on the Ellis Act.

Cuts to food stamps in California, adults with disabilities express themselves through art, a luthier and violin whisperer, and local musicians The Charlie Hunter - Scott Amendola Duo.

Acclaimed architect Frank Gehry talks about his most celebrated designs, featuring his signature use of bold shapes and unusual fabrications, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

  A City College program that helps formerly incarcerated students, on the hunt for the best falafel, San Francisco's sourdough bread origin story, and local musicians The Daniel Castro Band.

Harvard Law School Professor and prominent legal scholar Alan Dershowitz reveals his thinking on such fundamental issues as censorship and Civil Rights, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Novelist Robin Sloan shares an exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, high tech code-breaking, and young love—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore—in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Author, journalist and speaker Malcolm Gladwell talks to author Michael Lewis about notions of underdog status, disability and struggle—all to demonstrate how fundamentally we misunderstand the true meaning of advantages and disadvantages—in front of a live audience at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd talks about her career that includes a Pulitzer Prize award, coverage of four presidential campaigns and service as a White House correspondent, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

New York Times Magazine’s original “Ethicist” Randy Cohen explores what guides our choices when we are faced with everyday moral decisions, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Author Louise Erdrich draws on her own Chippewa heritage for her latest book, The Round House, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.