Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Meir Soloveichik on the Genius of Rabbi Norman Lamm
June 24, 2020 | By: Meir Soloveichik
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On May 31, 2020, American Jewry lost a giant. Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, the longtime president of Yeshiva University (YU), was one of the nation’s foremost defenders Orthodox Judaism and exponents of the Torah […]
Read MorePodcast: David Wolpe on The Pandemic and the Future of Liberal Judaism
May 27, 2020 | By: David Wolpe
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Jewish institutions have not been immune from the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Summer camps and other revenue generators have been canceled, and donations are predictably down. What does this mean for Jewish life […]
Read MorePodcast: Menachem Wecker on Yoga and Idolatry
April 7, 2020 | By: Menachem Wecker
Yoga represents a $16-billion industry in the U.S., reaching an estimated 36.7 million people in 2016 alone. And the Jewish community enjoys it as much as any other. One hears of synagogue-sponsored yoga programs and yoga minyanim (quorums). Even a right-wing Orthodox educational organization like Aish HaTorah has seen fit to re-post on its website an item titled “How Orthodox Jews Taught Me Yoga.” . . .
Read MorePodcast: Rafael Medoff on Franklin Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and the Holocaust
March 12, 2020 | By: Rafael Medoff
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has long been one of the most admired presidents among American Jews. He led the nation out of the depression and ultimately brought a previously isolationist America into World War II. […]
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