• Lost in the Dark-The Septuagint and Other Infamous Torah Translations
    Dec 25 2023
    53 mins
  • Deconstructing a Holiday Classic-Maoz Tzur-Additional Verses and Alternative Music
    Dec 19 2023
    47 mins
  • Ode to Obedience- Sailors and Sanhedrin-Herman Wouk's Inspiration for the Caine Mutiny
    Dec 11 2023
    41 mins
  • Song of the Defender-Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev's Words and Music
    Nov 15 2023
    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Fearing and Fighting the Big Bad Wolf- Patriotic Achdus Yisroel in 1941 America
    Nov 15 2023
    50 mins
  • Non-Profit Corrections- A Warden Ex-Marine's Recipe for creating a sustainable model that truly reduces the rates of incarceration and recidivism
    Jul 27 2022

    In this episode we interview Brian Koehn, Co-founder, CEO, & Co-chair of the Board of of Social Profit Corrections (SPC)

    Brian's shared passion for corrections reform and social justice prompted him to end his 28-year career in corrections and start SPC. Through his tenure as warden at five separate facilities, Brian experienced firsthand the existing gaps and opportunities within the criminal justice system. His personal mission is to reform corrections.
    Brian is a security expert and has vast experience in the field of corrections, which includes 14 years as warden at five separate facilities. He has managed contracts in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshals Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as multiple state, and county jails. Brian served as Director of Security over 65 secure facilities. He is an engaged member of the American Correctional Association (ACA) and participates in several committees.
    Brian served in the United States Marine Corps and Army National Guard. He holds a bachelor's degree from St. Cloud State University and is an Ironman triathlete.
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    52 mins
  • "enolA-"a Statistical Detective Story that can prevent Suicide deaths in Prison and Beyond with Doctor Lucas Malishchak-
    Jun 28 2022

    Dr. Lucas D. Malishchak is the Director of the Psychology Office within the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. In this role, Lucas and his team are responsible for oversight of the mental health care system which supports Pennsylvania's 24 state correctional institutions and more than 39,000 incarcerated individuals.

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    59 mins
  • “I Just Held her Arm”- The Exoneration of two developmentally disabled brothers who Served 31 years for another person’s horrible crime-with capital defense attorney Marshall Dayan
    May 31 2022

    Marshall Dayan was born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Macon, Georgia. He
    was awarded a B.A. degree from the University of Georgia, and received his J.D. in 1986
    from Antioch School of Law.
    Dayan has been actively involved in the anti-death penalty movement since 1981,
    and representing those charged with or convicted of capital crimes since 1986. He was a
    staff attorney with the North Carolina Resource Center for seven years, and an assistant
    appellate defender for the State of North Carolina for three years. In August, 2001, he
    became an Assistant Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of
    Law. In June, 2006, Dayan became State Strategies Coordinator of the national ACLU’s
    Capital Punishment Project in Durham, N.C. After a year with the ACLU-CPP, Dayan
    joined the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Defender’s Office in Pittsburgh,
    Pennsylvania, where he serves as an Assistant Federal Public Defender. He is also an
    adjunct professor at Pitt Law School, where he teaches a capital punishment law class.
    Dayan has had published several law review articles on the death penalty in
    various journals, and has also written several pieces on capital litigation for The
    Champion, the magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He
    has served as Chair of the Board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,
    as President of the NC-based People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, and as ViceChair of the Commission on Social Action for Reform Judaism, a national policy-making
    board for the Union of Reform Judaism. He also served as Co-Chair of the board of
    Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and continues to serve on its board
    of directors. He served as President of the Pittsburgh chapter of the ACLU of
    Pennsylvania, and is active in the Jewish community, having served as President of the
    board of the Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee. He also serves on the Executive Board
    of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Cheswick, PA

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    50 mins