Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Arendt in Jerusalem Chapter 2: Blaming the Victims Chapter 3: The Banality of Evil Chapter 4: Judging the Jews  Chapter 5: Everybody Knows What Murder Is “Murderers with the power to murder descended upon a defenseless people and […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Family, Founding, and Policing the Right Chapter 2: In Search of Anti-Semitism Chapter 3: Pat Buchanan and the Paleocons Chapter 4: Joe Sobran and the Struggle to Define Anti-Semitism Chapter 5: Anti-Semitism and Today’s Conservative Movement Anti-Semitism knows […]

No ideology is as universally condemned in the United States as Nazism. It is the most potent symbol of evil in America, and Jews are its most identifiable victims. Yet, writes Ruth Wisse, the exclusive identification of anti-Semitism with Nazism obscures the true nature of the threats that today imperil the Jews people and the […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: From Disraeli to Churchill Chapter 2: Islam, Communism, and Zionism Chapter 3: The Interwar Years Chapter 4: Churchill and the Holocaust Chapter 5: Was Churchill Good for the Jews? Soldier, statesman, Nobel Prize-winning author—Sir Winston Churchill was one […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Evangelicals’ Love Affair with the Jews Chapter 2: Materialism, Marxism, and Mainline Protestants Chapter 3: A One-Sided Affection Chapter 4: Jews’ Misguided Alliances Chapter 5: The Future of Jewish-Christian Relations Why don’t Jews like the Christians who like […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Chapter 1: A Portrait of the Anti-Semite Chapter 2: The Weakness of the Democrat Chapter 3: Does the Jew Exist? Chapter 4: The Authentic Jew Chapter 5: See No Evil It may be the world’s oldest hatred, but anti-Semitism remains […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Chapter 1: Myths at the Met Chapter 2: Christianity, Islam, and Holy War Chapter 3: The Absent Presence of the Jews Chapter 4: Apologetics in the Modern Museum When New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art opened Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Chapter 1: Jews in Early Modern Dutch Society Chapter 2: Rembrandt’s Encounter with the Jews Chapter 3: Rembrandt’s Painting of Moses Receiving the Luchot Chapter 4: Tolkien and the Jews Chapter 5: The Dialectical Nature of the Jewish People […]

Israeli self-doubt about its own legitimacy grows out of a concern that it cannot be both Jewish and democratic. This anxiety has made its way into the Israeli Education Ministry’s curriculum. In this 2001 Azure essay, Daniel Polisar offers suggestions about how Israeli civic education can be renewed so that young Israelis will be taught […]

Why don’t Jews like the Christians who like them? Renowned political scientist James Q. Wilson explores this question in a 2008 article for City Journal. He describes evangelical support for Zionism and the Jewish people, Jewish distrust of evangelical supporters, and even the Jewish penchant to ally with hostile groups. The explanation lies, Wilson suspects, […]