Podcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Religious Freedom, Education, and the Supreme Court
February 19, 2020 | By: Michael Avi Helfand
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Kendra Espinoza is a low-income single mother from Montana who applied for a tax-credit scholarship program—created by the state legislature in 2015—that would allow her to keep her daughters enrolled in a private Christian […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on What Saul Bellow Saw
February 5, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Born in 1915 to a traditional Jewish family recently arrived from Russia, Saul Bellow was raised in Chicago and soon became “part of a circle of brainy Jewish teenagers who read and debated weighty […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Cox on Millennials, Religion, and the Family
January 29, 2020 | By: Daniel Cox
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. That the young are less religious than the old is not news. But the alienation of today’s millennials from religious faith may indeed be something new, and far more permanent than many have thought. […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on Rebuilding American Institutions
January 22, 2020 | By: Yuval Levin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Traditional Jewish communities are countercultural in a great many ways. But in our age of expressive individualism, one of the characteristics that most sets observant Jews apart is their rich communal life. From crowded […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on the Remarkable Legacy of Gertrude Himmelfarb
January 8, 2020 | By: Yuval Levin
When Gertrude Himmelfarb passed away on December 30, 2019, a great Jewish voice was lost. An eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Professor Himmelfarb—or, as she was known to her friends, Bea Kristol—analyzed and defended the moral and political virtues necessary for a healthy democratic society.
Read MorePodcast: Best of 2019 at the Tikvah Podcast
December 31, 2019
In 2019, 40 different guests came on the Tikvah Podcast to engage in serious conversations about Jewish ideas, Jewish texts, and Jewish public affairs. This year we covered everything from diplomacy to defense, from Jewish philosophy to Jewish food, from anti-Semitism to Jewish heroism.
Read MorePodcast: Senator Joseph Lieberman on American Jews and the Zionist Dream
December 11, 2019 | By: Joseph Lieberman
As you listen, you’ll here the senator discuss the history of his personal relationship to Israel, how he thinks Zionism can help American Jews be better citizens, and his thoughts of whether the longstanding bipartisan support for Israel is fraying as a rising progressive movement grows at the expense of the Democratic center.
Read MorePodcast: Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt & Batya Ungar-Sargon on Why No One Cares about Attacks on the Orthodox
December 4, 2019 | By: Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt & Batya Ungar-Sargon
A Jewish man hit in the face with a brick. An observant woman’s wig pulled off her head. An Orthodox mother and her baby assaulted in the street.
These incidents took place not in 19th-century Russia or pre-war Germany, but in Brooklyn—which has one of the densest Jewish populations in America—in 2019.
Read MorePodcast: Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part III
September 11, 2019 | By: Jack Wertheimer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Throughout our podcast series with eminent Jewish historian Jack Wertheimer, we have spoken about a Judaism of “peak moments.” This is the kind of Judaism most American Jews practice; connecting to their faith at […]
Read MorePodcast: 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 […]
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