Alon Arvatz on Israel's Cyber-Security Industry
September 29, 2023 | By: Alon Arvatz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Israel’s success in military cyber-operations and cyber-security, from disrupting Iranian nuclear development to covert intelligence gathering, is well known. It has given birth to a cluster of companies that have made Tel Aviv a global hub for cyber-security. Alon […]
Read MoreMordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank
September 5, 2023 | By: Mordechai Kedar
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, and the attendant calming of the West Bank, the main source of violence against Israel has been the Gaza Strip. That’s involved fewer terrorists blowing themselves up in […]
Read MoreDovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History
August 18, 2023 | By: Dovid Margolin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. In the period between 1936-1938, now known to historians as the Great Terror, Joseph Stalin oversaw the murder of over 700,000 Soviet subjects. Some of them were political rivals. Some of them held heterodox views. Some of them were […]
Read MoreShlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition
August 11, 2023 | By: Shlomo Brody
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. On October 27, 2018, a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, armed with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three Glock .357 semi-automatic pistols. He executed eleven Jews at prayer. When police arrived, they shot […]
Read MorePodcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)
August 4, 2023 | By: Dara Horn
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. The celebrated novelist Dara Horn’s 2021 book People Love Dead Jews has an arresting title, one designed to make the reader feel uncomfortable. That’s because Horn makes an argument that tries to change the way people think about the […]
Read MorePodcast: Carl Gershman on What the Jewish Experience Can Offer the Uighurs of China
January 12, 2023 | By: Carl Gershman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Uighur people is an ethnic group historically located in central and east Asia; the bulk of its population lives in western China. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has severely restricted Uighur religious life and has […]
Read MorePodcast: Scott Shay on How BDS Crept into the Investment World, and How It Was Kicked Out
November 9, 2022 | By: Scott Shay
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In recent years, a new movement has shaken the world of finance. Many investors are no longer interested in the financial return on their investments alone; they want to feel that they are investing in companies that align […]
Read MorePodcast: Yoav Sorek, David Weinberg, & Jonathan Silver on What Jewish Magazines Are For
October 24, 2022 | By: Yoav Sorek & David Weinberg and
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Some of today’s most important ideas were first born in little magazines—magazines, that is to say, like Mosaic. How does that happen? And what is the role of a magazine editor, and does that role differ if the magazine […]
Read MorePodcast: George Weigel on the Second Vatican Council and the Jews
October 13, 2022 | By: George Weigel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The legacy of Christian anti-Semitism is not a happy one. Early in the history of Christianity, as the religion grew, the persecution of Jews became a normal feature of life in Christian lands. By the Middle Ages, the […]
Read MorePodcast: Hussein Aboubakr on the Holocaust in the Arab Moral Imagination
September 28, 2022 | By: Hussein Aboubakr
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Fifty years ago, at the 1972 Olympic summer games in Munich, eleven Israeli olympians were held hostage and murdered by members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Recently, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, while meeting with […]
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