Podcast: 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. […]
Read MorePodcast: 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.
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