Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin Asks How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now
December 30, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. American democracy is a nation of nations. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, women and men from every nation on earth have made themselves into Americans. Nevertheless, a unique majority culture developed within this nation of nations: […]
Read MorePodcast: John Podhoretz on 75 Years of Commentary
October 29, 2020 | By: John Podhoretz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In November of 1945, the American Jewish Committee established a new, independent magazine of Jewish ideas, with the goal of explaining America to the Jews and the Jews to America. This month, Commentary marks 75 years of publishing about […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael McConnell on the Free Exercise of Religion
October 14, 2020 | By: Michael McConnell
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Under the U.S. Constitution, the freedom of religion is protected by two separate guarantees: a prohibition on the establishment of an official church and an individual right to the “free exercise” of religion. The […]
Read MorePodcast: Reflections for the Days of Awe
September 24, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. 2020 has been a chaotic year, and last weekend, millions of Jews the world over celebrated Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year—and prayed that the coming year would be better than the one that just […]
Read MorePodcast: Wilfred McClay on the Historic Jewish-Christian Rapprochement
July 22, 2020 | By: Wilfred McClay
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. After centuries of antagonism and persecution, the twentieth century introduced profound changes to the relationship between Jews and Christians. In the shadow of the Holocaust, post-War America witnessed a flowering of interfaith dialogue, often […]
Read MorePodcast: Jason Bedrick on School Choice, Religious Liberty, and the Jews
July 1, 2020 | By: Jason Bedrick
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. As the Supreme Court closed out it 2019-2020 term, it handed down its decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. With a 5-4 majority, the Court ruled that states could not use their […]
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