Podcast: Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part II
August 21, 2019 | By: Jack Wertheimer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. For much of the 20th century, the major denominations—Conservative, Reform, Orthodox—loomed large over institutional Jewish life in America. But in 2019, the Jewish scene looks different; the movements hold less purchase on Jewish life […]
Read MorePodcast: Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part I
August 7, 2019 | By: Jack Wertheimer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. 21st-century America has seen religious faith buffeted by cultural change, social upheaval, and serious intellectual and moral challenges. American Judaism has not been immune from this broader trend, and Jews across—and outside—the denominational spectrum […]
Read MorePodcast: David Evanier on the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell, and Jewish Communism
July 3, 2019 | By: David Evanier
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is perhaps the most (in)famous espionage trial in all American history. While their conviction and execution remain familiar and controversial episodes in the Cold War, the fate […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Krauthammer on His Father’s Jewish Legacy
June 19, 2019 | By: Daniel Krauthammer
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Read MorePodcast: Menachem Wecker on What’s Wrong with the Jewish Museum
May 29, 2019 | By: Menachem Wecker
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. New York’s legendary Jewish Museum was founded by the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in 1904 with just 26 objects. When it opened to the public in 1947, JTS Chancellor Louis Finkelstein told the New […]
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: Dovid Margolin on the Rebbe’s Campaign for a Moment of Silence
May 1, 2019 | By: Dovid Margolin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover, a vicious anti-Semite entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue and started shooting. Before being stopped, he murdered one worshipper and injured several others, including the […]
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: Nicholas Gallagher on Jewish History and America’s Immigration Crisis
March 27, 2019 | By: Nicholas Gallagher
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In February 2019, after a protracted legislative battle over funding his long-promised wall, President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States. The legality of this proclamation will be […]
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 […]
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