Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Meena Viswanath on How the Duolingo App Became an Unwitting Arbiter of Modern Jewish Identity
April 14, 2021 | By: Meena Viswanath
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Last week, the language-learning app Duolingo introduced a new course on Yiddish. The course sparked significant interest, and provoked significant controversy. In the app’s menu, each language is represented by the flag of the primary country […]
Read MorePodcast: Sean Clifford on the Israeli Company Making the Internet Safe for American Families
March 25, 2021 | By: Sean Clifford
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Today, everybody, children and adults alike, is glued to their smartphones and tablets and computers. But much of the content readily available on these devices can be harmful, especially for children. So helping children navigate […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil & Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
March 4, 2021 | By: Gil Troy & Tevi Troy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Not long ago, Conservative Judaism was America’s largest and most vital Jewish denomination. Today, things are different; for many years now, the movement has been losing and not replacing its members. In a recent essay […]
Read MorePodcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks about God and the Pandemic
January 13, 2021
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Most of our podcast guests, especially those focusing on religious issues, tend to look at the world in a traditional way―meaning, their habits of mind tend to be traditional and conservative. Many of our podcast […]
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