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About Ilana Maymind
llana Maymind has a Ph.D. in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University. She is a lecturer at the Religious Studies Department at Chapman University. Ilana teaches introduction to Judaism and special topics (e.g., Religion and Medicine, Women and Religion, Love and Religion). Ilana is an associate editor for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, “Faith and Ethics” section, and a member of the Cambridge Scholars Religious Studies Advisory Board. She published Exile and Otherness. The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides (Lexington Press, 2020), “Exile as ‘Place’ for Empathy” in Philosophies of Place. An Intercultural Conversation (Hawai'i Press,2019), and “Learning from the Past: Exile and Ethics” In Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015). She is interested in diaspora and exile studies. She recently presented a paper on Chagall and the Jewish Subject.Ilana Maymind is a lecturer at the Religious Studies Department at Chapman University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ilana:
February 16, 2026
A German Jew's Triumph
Cindy Schweich Handler’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Redbook, The Huffington Post, and a host of other nat…
January 8, 2026
In God's Image
Dr. Tomer Persico is a Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, a Rubinstein Fellow at Reichman University, and a Senior Research Scholar at t…
October 26, 2025
Found and Lost
Howard Lovy is a journalist, book editor, and author with forty years of experience covering everything from Jewish issues and the Mideast conflict to…
August 15, 2025
Weight in the Fingertips
"Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most communicative, and poetic …
July 30, 2025
Beyond Proportionality
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life…
June 29, 2025
The Pilgrim Soul
Elana Gomel is a former senior lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, where she also served as department …
December 9, 2024
Becoming Modigliani
Becoming Modigliani (Rake Press, 2024) is a comprehensive biography that delves into the troubled life of the Jewish-Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.…
December 13, 2023
Loving Our Own Bones
A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture. "What's…
September 25, 2023
Thoreau's Religion
Balthrop-Lewis's Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism (Cambridge UP, 2021) presents a ground-breaking inte…