Elaine Goodfriend: Judaism Unbound Episode 315 - Torah *Portions* — Eating Biblically
Elaine Goodfriend, a lecturer at California State University, Northridge, joins Dan Libenson and Lex Rofeberg for a conversation about one of her specialties -- food in the Hebrew Bible. This episode is the 1st in an ongoing mini-series, exploring what Jewish food has been in the past, what Jewish food is today, what it could be in the future, and who decides.
[1] Learn more about Elaine Goodfriend by clicking here — and at that same link, you can read all of her articles featured on TheTorah.com.
[2] For some of our past Judaism Unbound episodes that have explored the topic of food, see Episode 159: Judaism Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer, Episode 171: Digesting Judaism - Rachel Gross, and Episode 214: Finding a Jewish Voice - Kristin Eriko Posner,
[3] Dan mentions the book Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food in the intro to this episode. We highly recommend reading this book as a companion to this current mini-series on Jewish food, and you can purchase it by clicking here!
[4] Goodfriend draws some connections to the topic of circumcision in the Bible. For a unit of Judaism Unbound episodes exploring the topic of circumcision — in the Bible, but also in contemporary Jewish life — click here.
[5] At the close of the episode, Goodfriend invokes a Biblical scholar named Moshe Greenberg, an influential figure in the history of Biblical scholarship. Learn more about his contributions here.