Podcast: Jay Greene on Anti-Semitic Leanings Among College Diversity Administrators
January 7, 2022 | By: Jay Greene
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. According to Hillel International, there were 244 anti-Semitic incidents at American campuses reported during the 2020-2021 school year. That’s up from 181 incidents the year before, perhaps an especially significant increase given that many students […]
Read MorePodcast: Our Favorite Broadcasts of 2021
January 7, 2022
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In 2021, 49 different guests appeared on the Tikvah Podcast over the course of 44 new episodes. Our conversations touched on some of the most important and interesting subjects in Jewish life, including discussions with […]
Read MorePodcast: Three Young Jews on Discovering Their Jewish Purposes
December 24, 2021 | By: Tamara Berens, Talia Katz and and Dovid Schwartz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In a previous podcast, Professors Benjamin and Jenna Storey explored a habit of mind that frustrated their very best students, a sentiment they called restlessness. As the Storeys saw it, their exceptional students had countless life […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Jewish Life and Law at the Supreme Court
November 19, 2021 | By: Michael Avi Helfand
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There aren’t enough public schools in Maine. By some estimates, about half of Maine’s school districts don’t have the facilities or faculty to educate the students who live in them. The state’s solution is to […]
Read MorePodcast: Elisha Wiesel on His Father’s Jewish and Zionist Legacy
October 22, 2021 | By: Elisha Wiesel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. When Elie Wiesel was 15 years old, the Nazis murdered his mother and sister and enslaved him and his father in Buchenwald. After the U.S. Army liberated the camp in April 1945, Wiesel went to […]
Read MorePodcast: Elliot Kaufman on the Crown Heights Riot, 30 Years Later
August 27, 2021 | By: Elliot Kaufman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Thirty years ago, in August 1991, riots broke out in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a neighborhood shared by African Americans and Jews, the latter of whom were mostly members of the hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch […]
Read MorePodcast: Cynthia Ozick on Her New Novel Antiquities
August 13, 2021 | By: Cynthia Ozick
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the year 1970, the distinguished American writer Cynthia Ozick published an essay arguing that Jewish literature might succeed if it embraced and conveyed the rich particularism of the Jewish experience. In a famous metaphor, […]
Read MorePodcast: Jenna & Benjamin Storey on Why Americans Are So Restless
August 6, 2021 | By: Jenna Storey & Benjamin Storey
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Two liberal arts professors were intrigued by a habit of mind they detected in their students, especially their high-achieving ones. Despite material abundance and the freedom to pursue a profession or passion of their choosing, […]
Read MorePodcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath
May 19, 2021 | By: Sohrab Ahmari
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The hallmark of the American constitutional system was the idea that all men are created equal. Of course, the American regime did not live up to that ambition for centuries, but the ideal of equality […]
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Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The United States is undergoing a spike in violent crime. Murder rates have increased drastically in big cities across the country, from Atlanta and New York to Milwaukee and Seattle. For the roughly 7 million Jews […]
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