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Caption: Protestors gather in Washington Square Park to oppose the Israeli government’s proposed judicial reforms. April 16 2023. , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
For weeks now, protests against the Israeli government have been taking place in Washington Square Park. Israel, the Jewish state, is at a tipping ...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 07:56
Caption: Robin Washington (right) and his wife Julia Cheng celebrate a virtual Seder with family in 2022. He advocates Jews continue to strive for the metaphorical Jeruslaem.
This Passover, the Editor-at-Large of the Jewish Forward suggests the metaphorical Jerusalem may be a more realistic aspiration to hope for in ligh...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Worshipers with a figure of Saraswati, Credit: Sandip Roy
A childhood goddess that was once asked for help with math takes on a new significance in adulthood.

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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These episodes are conversations with Richard Benkin. We discuss the deeper issues that are often overlooked in interfaith circles

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:45:48
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These 2 very popular series explore a world few have been exposed to: The community of Hasidic and Yeshivah Jews. In these episodes we discuss ho...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:49:46
Caption: Sandip's neighborhood Ganesh, Credit: Sandip Roy
As the monsoons recede the time has come for Ganesh.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
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Zomato delivers a food born controversy

  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Ravan Shakes Kailasa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
The chief minister of the Indian state of Tripura reads as fact the great epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Which is like thinking that Ja...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Seder plate
Sandip enjoys a very diverse passover meal in Kolkata

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: MSG 2 Movie Poster
At first he was funny. A bearded man with flowing hair dressed in his garish best, his forearms curly with knots of hair. But Ram Rahim is no ordi...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
Sarah Hassan puts the Islamic Hijri calendar under the microscope, as there are generations that have have no clue what its months are except for R...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
Shaza Walid takes us on a journey to explore the history of the mesaharaty's iconic drumbeat and special songs.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
"The Economics of Ramadan" is produced by Sarah El Safty looks into how Egyptians are coping financially this Ramadan following the devaluation of ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
This audio feature is produced by Nour Ibrahim as she attempts to go on an Islamic fast.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
“Ramadan: The Global Experience” by Safaa Magdy. This audio feature focuses on one person's experience of Ramadan in a non-Muslim country.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
During Ramadan in Egypt, people will hang a lantern, but what does it mean? Learn about the history of the Ramadan lantern, the fanous.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
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There’s a new political force center stage in India these days. The cow. The cow has always been holy to millions of Hindus but it’s still a plac...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Sunita Kumar with her painting of Mother Teresa, Credit: Photo by Sandip Roy
Many would say she’s just being officially canonized, she was always a saint. But over the past week as international media descended on this city ...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Last week Kolkata was busy celebrating a birthday with flowers, candles, cards and songs. It was Mother Teresa’s 106th birthday/ By the time the n...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:38
Caption: Mohamad Akhlaq
After it was posted on WhatsApp that Aklhaq Mohmamad's family was eating beef a mob beat and stoned him to death. But what was the mob being fed?

  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: City of David, Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints will explore Biblical history at the City of David, Namibia's political, economic and natural landscape and small town treasures t...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:58
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Ethiopia is said to be the birthplace of coffee, and this aromatic elixir continues to be an important part its culture. KFAI’s Allison Herrera met...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:29
Caption: Onlookers press against the barrier to take photos of the display depicting the biblical creation of the world in the church of San Bartolome Bacerra, Friday., Credit: Benjamin Reeves
Religious devotion and carnival revelry combined Friday night as thousands of devout Catholics gathered in the small Guatemalan village of San Bart...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:43
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Everyone knows that yoga comes from India and is an integral part of the Hindu tradition. But now, it seems everyone wants a piece of it. A new exh...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1