Don’t Turn Away:
Reading the News Without Losing Your MindNovember 3 – December 1, 2025
Five Live Zoom Sessions
Mondays, 8:00 – 9:15 PM ET
Many of us understand following the news to be a personal civic responsibility, but today it can feel like a firehose of disinformation, bias, and negativity, making us want to turn away. There’s even a term for this: News Avoidance Syndrome. In this five-session course taught by Rabbi Josh Feigelson and Jane Eisner, we’ll explore Jewish mindfulness practices to help us stay awake, aware, and engaged with the news while maintaining a sense of balance and not becoming overwhelmed.
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IJS is pleased to offer this course at three tuition levels.
We encourage you to pay at the highest level you can, which will enable more students to participate.
Abundance Level
$349
Basic Level
$249
Reduced Level
$149
Meet Your Instructors:
Rabbi Josh Feigelson
Josh was appointed Executive Director of IJS in January 2020 and became President & CEO in April 2022. He received ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School in 2005, and served for six years as the Hillel Rabbi at Northwestern University, where he also earned a PhD in Religious Studies. In 2011, Josh helped found and served as Executive Director of Ask Big Questions, an initiative of Hillel International, which won the inaugural Lippman-Kanfer Prize for Applied Jewish Wisdom. Josh has also been a consultant and Senior Fellow at The iCenter for Israel Education. Most recently he served as Dean of Students at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Josh is a Wexner Graduate Fellow and was the founding co-chair of the Wexner Fellowship Alumni Committee. He is the author of Eternal Questions: Reflections, Conversations, and Jewish Mindfulness Practices for the Weekly Torah Portion (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022). Josh lives with his wife Natalie and their three sons in Skokie, IL.
Jane Eisner
Jane Eisner is an accomplished journalist, educator, consultant, and public speaker. Her book Carole King: She Made the Earth Move will be published in September 2025 by Yale University Press. For more than a decade, she was the Forward’s editor-in-chief, the first woman to lead America’s foremost Jewish publication. She has held academic positions at Columbia Journalism School, University of Pennsylvania, and Wesleyan University. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications.
Among her many volunteer activities, she is a board member of the Hebrew Free Loan Society, chair of the Binswanger Committee at Wesleyan, and a member if the IJS Advisory Council. She lives in New York with her husband, Dr Mark Berger, and together they have three adult daughters.