Podcast: Jonathan Neumann on the Left, the Right, and the Jews
May 15, 2019 | By: Jonathan Neumann

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. President Donald Trump has moved the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem; he has recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; members of his own family are Jewish and he has forcefully spoken […]
Read MorePodcast: 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: 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 […]
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