Podcast: Francine Klagsbrun on Golda Meir—Israel’s Lioness
May 22, 2019 | By: Francine Klagsbrun
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. She was one of only two women to sign the Israel’s Declaration of Independence. She served as Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, as labor minister, foreign minister, head of the Israeli Labor […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonathan Neumann on the Left, the Right, and the Jews
May 15, 2019 | By: Jonathan Neumann
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. President Donald Trump has moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he has recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; members of his own family are Jewish and he has forcefully spoken […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews
April 3, 2019 | By: Daniel Gordis
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The occupation. The Western Wall. The nation-state Law. The warm bonhomie between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The rift between American and Israeli Jews grows daily. How did this happen? Wasn’t Israel an […]
Read MorePodcast: Special Envoy Elan Carr on America's Fight against Anti-Semitism
March 20, 2019 | By: Elan Carr
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On February 5, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appointed Elan Carr as the Trump Administration’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism. Created 15 years ago by President George W. Bush, the position […]
Read MorePodcast: Eugene Kontorovich Explains Congress’s Effort to Counter BDS
March 6, 2019 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 was the very first piece of Senate legislation introduced in the 116th Congress. Sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the bill tackles a […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Doran on America’s Allies and America’s Enemies
February 20, 2019 | By: Michael Doran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On December 19 of last year, President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement: the United States would withdraw American troops from Syria. What was the strategic thinking behind this withdrawal? What did it mean […]
Read MorePodcast: Ambassador Danny Danon Goes on Offense at the U.N.
February 6, 2019 | By: Danny Danon
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play. In the decades since Israel’s founding, the United Nations has been a hostile environment for the Jewish state first recognized by 33 sovereign nations in the U.N. General Assembly. For many years, it has seemed that […]
Read MorePodcast: The Best of 2018
December 28, 2018
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. From the Pittsburgh shooting to rising anti-Semitism in Europe, from the U.S. embassy move to the Trump Administration’s exit from the Iran deal, from Michael Chabon’s controversial speech at Hebrew Union College to Israel’s new nation-state law, 2018 has […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and the State of Israel
December 21, 2018 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Eve of the Suez Crisis Chapter 2: Personal Suffering, Collective Suffering, and the Shoah Chapter 3: The Six Knocks Chapter 4: Responding to God, Responding the Fellow Jews “Hark, my beloved knocks! ‘Let me in, my […]
Read MoreChaotic Friendship: Israel and the Trump Administration
August 31, 2018 | By: Michael Doran
In the first two years of his administration, President Donald Trump has already redefined the American approach to Israel and the Middle East: fulfilling his promise to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, working to dismantle the Iran nuclear deal, confronting anti-Israel sentiment at the U.N., and promising to put forward a new approach to […]
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