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About Marc Katz
Rabbi Marc Katz is the Rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, NJ. He is the author of the books Yochanan’s Gamble: Judaism’s Pragmatic Approach to Life (JPS) chosen as a finalist for the PROSE award and The Heart of Loneliness: How Jewish Wisdom Can Help You Cope and Find Comfort (Turner Publishing) which was chosen as a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Rabbi Katz also serves as a fiction judge for the National Jewish Book Awards in the fiction panel.
NBN Episodes hosted by Marc:
March 4, 2026
Embodying the Revolution
Join Rabbi Marc Katz for a powerful and unexpected conversation with historian Ofer Idels author of Embodying the Revolution: The Hebrew Experience an…
February 13, 2026
Nazi Anatomy Lessons
What if the tools that shaped your life’s work were rooted in unimaginable evil? In this haunting episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Dr. Howard …
February 10, 2026
Darwin in the Jewish Imagination
In this episode, Rabbi Marc Katz sits down with Professor Daniel Langton, author of Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolutiona…
December 24, 2025
The Great Christmas Boycott Of 1906
Today’s battles over Christianity in U.S. public schools have deep roots. In the nineteenth century, disputes were largely between Protestants and lat…
December 14, 2025
Adventures of Rabah and Friends
Adventures of Rabbah & Friends offers a new reader-centered approach to some of the Talmud’s most challenging stories. The Talmud contains about two p…
November 24, 2025
Inviting God In
In this episode Rabbi Marc Katz is in discussion with Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin about his new book Inviting God In: A Guide to Jewish Prayer (Central Confe…
November 19, 2025
Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge
Today we will be talking to Yehudah Halper about his new book, Averroes on Pathways to Divine Knowledge (Academic Studies Press, 2025). The twelfth-c…
November 18, 2025
Going Out with Knots
Interweaving memoir with Hebrew poetry, Going Out with Knots: My Two Kaddish Years with Hebrew Poetry (Jewish Publication Society, 2025) illluminates …
October 25, 2025
Between the Bridge and the Barricade
One of the constants of Jewish history is that Jews have learned from the cultures around them. But this exchange of information was not an easy endea…
October 12, 2025
Living in Both Worlds
In American Judaism today, Orthodoxy is the fastest growing movement. However, Orthodoxy is anything but monolithic. Living in Both Worlds: Modern O…
September 7, 2025
Re-forming Judaism
The story of Judaism is the story of change. Throughout Jewish history, revolutionary events and subversive ideas have burst forth, repeatedly transfo…
August 19, 2025
Jews vs. Rome
Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire (Simon & Schuster, 2025) by Barry Strauss recounts the history and even…
August 18, 2025
Jewish Ethics: The Basics
In the Jewish world, we often hear people cite “Jewish values” as defense for their positions. The irony, however, is that in the same argument, two p…
July 2, 2025
Living The Letters
Today, most Jewish thinkers have turned away from theology. And if they do, they look into one narrow window into the subject, writing a treatise into…
June 2, 2025
Critique of Halakhic Reason
For centuries, Jewish thinkers have asked two parallel questions. First, what is the reasoning behind an individual commandment and second, why bother…
May 23, 2025
Zionism and Jewish Culture
What many people don’t realize is that Zionism is not a monolithic term. From its inception there were rigorous debates about the nature and direction…
May 16, 2025
Above All, We Are Jews
Reform Judaism looks different today than it did a century ago. There are a lot of factors that lead to that change, but among these is Rabbi Alexande…