The Jewish Cultural Center of San Francisco hosts Arts and Ideas, a series of lectures and interviews with a wide variety of writers, artists, and scholars. On this website, visitors can view videos of past lessons or live stream upcoming lectures of interest. Videos include a lecture by child psychologist Alison Gopnik on child development and parenting; a talk by prolific writer Carl Hiaasen; and an interview with cookbook author and New York Times cooking columnist Mark Bittman. Each lecture or interview is approximately one hour in length, facilitating in-depth explorations of featured topics. In addition, the series also features a number of podcasts available for download. These podcasts include interviews with Carrie Brownstein (of the show Portlandia and the band Sleater-Kinney), writer Maria Popova, and MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle.