Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition
August 11, 2023 | By: Shlomo Brody

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. On October 27, 2018, a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, armed with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three Glock .357 semi-automatic pistols. He executed eleven Jews at prayer. When police arrived, they shot […]
Read MorePodcast: Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship
July 14, 2023 | By: Meir Soloveichik

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. The 1st-century Roman essayist and philosopher Plutarch is perhaps most famous today for his stylized, paired biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. In Plutarch’s parallel lives, Alexander, who conquered the Mediterranean world, is compared to Julius Caesar, who did […]
Read MorePodcast: Nathan Diament on Whether the Post Office Can Force Employees to Work on the Sabbath
May 11, 2023 | By: Nathan Diament

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of religion. An employer can’t say that he won’t hire Muslims or Mormons or Jews, and he can’t fire one of […]
Read MorePodcast: Liel Leibovitz on the Return of Paganism
April 26, 2023 | By: Liel Leibovitz

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. It’s sometimes argued that, as material, political, and economic conditions improve in a society, that society tends to grow less religious. Polls have seemed to demonstrate for years the validity of this argument in America. Gallup, for instance, […]
Read MorePodcast: Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government
January 20, 2023 | By: Elliott Abrams

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. As 2023 began, Israeli opponents of the new government have been organizing protests and demonstrations. Manifest there, and in the newspapers and magazines and television programs of the center and left, is the fevered and frustrated political rhetoric […]
Read MorePodcast: Ryan Anderson on Why His Think Tank Focuses on Culture and Not Just Politics
December 5, 2022 | By: Ryan Anderson

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Over the years, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a think tank in Washington, D.C., has been home to some of the most interesting and important thinkers at the intersection of religion and public affairs in America. […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Why So Many Jewish Soldiers Are Buried Under Crosses, and What Can Be Done About It
July 29, 2022 | By: Jacob J. Schacter

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. More than half a million Jewish men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II. They fought in every theater of the war, from North Africa and Italy to France and […]
Read MorePodcast: Douglas Murray on the War on the West
July 6, 2022 | By: Douglas Murray

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In his 2022 book, The War on the West, the British journalist Douglas Murray argues that many now-prominent cultural ideas unfairly single out Western sins, discounting the good that Western civilization has brought about and […]
Read MorePodcast: John Podhoretz on Midge Decter’s Life in Ideas
May 24, 2022 | By: John Podhoretz

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. On May 9, the cultural commentator Midge Decter passed away. Author of essays and books, editor of magazines, and mentor to generations of writers, Decter was subtle, clear, and courageous in her thinking. Though a […]
Read MorePodcast: Abraham Socher on His Life in Jewish Letters and the Liberal Arts
April 21, 2022 | By: Abraham Socher

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since its first issue twelve years ago, the Jewish Review of Books, a beautifully-designed quarterly that was founded and supported by Tikvah, has produced 49 issues of high-level Jewish discourse. Much of that success can […]
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