Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Malka Groden on the Jewish Family and America’s Adoption Crisis
March 13, 2019 | By: Malka Groden
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On any given day, there are more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, and as the opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities across America, that number is only growing. Thousands […]
Read MorePodcast: David Wolpe on the Future of Conservative Judaism
February 27, 2019 | By: David WolpePress play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple, one of America’s flagship conservative synagogues. The author of eight books and countless essays and articles, he is one of America’s leading […]
Read MorePodcast: The Best of 2018
December 28, 2018
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. From the Pittsburgh shooting to rising anti-Semitism in Europe, from the U.S. embassy move to the Trump Administration’s exit from the Iran deal, from Michael Chabon’s controversial speech at Hebrew Union College to Israel’s new nation-state law, 2018 has […]
Read MorePodcast: Leon Kass on His Life and the Worthy Life
September 7, 2018 | By: Leon Kass
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Growing Up—The Prophets Without the Law Chapter 2: Between Athens and Jerusalem Chapter 3: Patriotism, Identity Politics, and the Jews Chapter 4: The Image of God Chapter 5: The Miracle of Modern Israel What is the good? […]
Read MorePodcast: Clifford Librach on the Reform Movement and Jewish Peoplehood
August 24, 2018 | By: Clifford Librach
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Chabon Speech and Its Aftermath Chapter 2: Pluralism, Prayer Books, and Peoplehood Chapter 3: Outsourcing Observance Chapter 4: Presiding over a Funeral Chapter 5: The State of Israel—A New Life Just Beginning On May 14, 2018, […]
Read MorePodcast: John Podhoretz on the Best and Worst of Jewish Cinema
June 29, 2018 | By: John Podhoretz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Tradition, America, and The Jazz Singer Chapter 2: Jewish Self-Consciousness on Film Chapter 3: The Challenges of Holocaust Cinema Chapter 4: Israel in Film, The Heartbreak Kid, and the Best Moment of John Podhoretz’s Life The great thinkers […]
Read MorePodcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on Moving In and Out of Extremism
March 16, 2018 | By: Yossi Klein Halevi
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: A Survivor’s Son Chapter 2: Zionism, Beitar, and the Decadent American Jew Chapter 3: Saving Soviet Jewry Chapter 4: Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League Chapter 5: Leaving the JDL, Making Aliyah, and Finding Healing “I […]
Read MorePodcast: Jeffrey Salkin on ”Judaism Beyond Slogans”
February 28, 2018 | By: Jeffrey Salkin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Guidance, Not Governance Chapter 2: Obligation in Reform Judaism Chapter 3: Sloppy Sloganeering Chapter 4: Liberal Judaism and Social Justice Chapter 5: The Future of Liberal Judaism “It is not for nothing,” Norman Podhoretz once wrote, “that […]
Read MorePodcast: Wilfred McClay on America’s Civil Religion
December 26, 2017 | By: Wilfred McClay
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Civil Religion and September 11 Chapter 2: Uses and Abuses Chapter 3: The History of American Civil Religion Chapter 4: Judaism, Christianity, and America’s Canon Chapter 5: Losing Our Religion America remains one of the most religious […]
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