Podcast: Eugene Kontorovich Explains Congress’s Effort to Counter BDS
March 6, 2019 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 was the very first piece of Senate legislation introduced in the 116th Congress. Sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the bill tackles a […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonah Goldberg on Marx’s Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory
February 13, 2019 | By: Jonah Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist.” So wrote the intellectual father of Communism, Karl Marx, in his “On the Jewish Question.” Though descended from […]
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: Jamie Kirchick on Europe’s Coming Dark Age
June 14, 2018 | By: Jamie Kirchick
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Europe’s Economic Travails Chapter 2: Russia, Refugees, and the Shadow of the Holocaust Chapter 3: Nationalism: Virtue or Vice? Chapter 4: Europe’s Jewish Question Once the beating heart of world Jewish life, Europe has given way to […]
Read MoreSpecial Podcast: Introducing Kikar - Elliott Abrams on Hamas, Gaza, and the Case for Jewish Power
June 1, 2018 | By: Elliott Abrams
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. This week, instead of one of our regular conversations on great Jewish essays and ideas, we are pleased to introduce you to a brand new podcast, Kikar: Conversations in the Jewish Public Square, produced by our partners at the Jewish Leadership […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on the Nature and Functions of Anti-Semitism
May 17, 2018 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Why the Jews? Chapter 2: Wilhelm Marr, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Liberalism Chapter 3: The Moral Strut Chapter 4: The Nature of Left-Wing Anti-Semitism Cui bono? Who benefits? Who benefits when Jews are turned into scapegoats for the ills […]
Read MoreWe Forget Thee, Jerusalem
May 15, 2018 | By: Emmanuel Navon
“Har Habayit beyadeinu!” “The Temple Mount is in our hands!” These were the words Lieutenant General Mordechai Gur broadcasted as he commanded the division that liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967. But did Israel ever really take control of its holiest site? In 2006, Shmuel Berkovits’s “How Dreadful is this Place!” Holiness, Politics, and […]
Read MoreHannah Arendt on Eichmann: A Study in the Perversity of Brilliance
April 11, 2018 | By: Norman Podhoretz
The capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann was one of the most dramatic, emotional, and consequential events in modern Jewish history. Fewer than two decades had passed since the destruction of European Jewry, and now a sovereign Jewish state was trying one of the Holocaust’s most notorious war criminals. Yet, when Hannah Arendt, herself a […]
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: Greg Weiner on Moynihan, Israel, and the United Nations
February 9, 2018 | By: Greg Weiner
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Moynihan at the U.N. Chapter 2: Carter, Israel, and American Values Chapter 3: A Fated Political Loss Chapter 4: Liberal Internationalism and Liberal Politics In December of 2017, Nikki Haley, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, stood […]
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