Today, we get to sit down with Orthodox Jewish Chilean-American film-maker, director, author, comedian, and YouTube personality Salvador Litvak and discuss the influences that made him, Dune vs. Lord of the Rings, his philosophical musings on G-d's consciousness, providing security against anti-Semitic acts, and his latest film Guns and Moses.

Links:

Follow Sal at AccidentalTalmudist.org.

Guns and Moses (2025) Streaming on Amazon Prime

When Do We Eat (2005) - Passover film Streaming on Amazon Prime and Tubi

Referenced in the Show:

* Joseph Holmes - Top 10 Faith-Based Films of 2025

https://religionunplugged.com/news/2025/12/26/the-top-10-faith-based-films-of-2025

* How Real Life Tragedy Inspired Salvador Litvak to Make an Action Hero Out of an Orthodox Rabbi

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2025/07/14/how-real-life-tragedy-inspired-guns--moses-filmmaker-salvador-litvak-to-make-an-action-hero-out-of-an-orthodox-rabbi/

In today’s episode we have the privilege of interviewing Dr. Amos Guiora. Dr. Guiora is currently a distinguished professor of law at the University of Utah. He has written multiple books on the role bystanders and enablers play in crimes from a legal perspective. He is also a recipient of multiple books that were once in the possession of his grandparents who perished in the Holocaust. In this episode we talk about his passion for justice, his reception and retrieval of books from his grandparents via the Looted Books Project, and so much more!

Read about Prof. Guiora's work with the Bystander Initiative at: https://www.law.utah.edu/bystander-initiative/

To read more about the story of the books belonging Prof. Guiora's grandfather, Shlomo Natan Goldberg, see: https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2025/02/27/holocaust-auschwitz-nazi-steal-jews-books-return-survivor-utah/

To find out more about the Looted Books Project or to volunteer, email askjcpod at gmail dot com

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/@askjcpod

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Intro music: chill beat by Tommy Kellogg

The Voice of the Oud by djovan, courtesy of Pixabay.com

We sat down to chat with Dr. Ari Mermelstein, professor of Bible and Second Temple Judaism at Yeshiva University. In this podcast, we discuss how a mistaken interpretation of Paul's writings that negated the notion of divine grace in Judaism led to a misunderstanding that has lasted for centuries. We discuss how reading Paul in his Jewish context has important ramifications for present-day Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Find more information about the Hebraic Studies Program for Christians at YU at: https://philosproject.org/home/yeshiva/

For more information, see: https://www.yu.edu/revel/hebraic-studies

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/@askjcpod