Jordan B. Gorfinkel on His New Illustrated Book of Esther
March 3, 2023 | By: Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. This year, Koren Publishers released a new edition of the Book of Esther. It contains the complete, unabridged Hebrew text of Esther, the same text found in any other volume of the Hebrew Bible. But the rest of it […]
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: Abraham Socher on His Life in Jewish Letters and the Liberal Arts
April 21, 2022 | By: Abraham Socher
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since its first issue twelve years ago, the Jewish Review of Books, a beautifully-designed quarterly that was founded and supported by Tikvah, has produced 49 issues of high-level Jewish discourse. Much of that success can […]
Read MorePodcast: Ilana Horwitz on Educational Performance and Religion
April 13, 2022 | By: Ilana Horwitz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Why do some American children do better in school than others? Social scientists tend to look to family structure, race, class, and gender in an effort to find factors that correlate to better or worse […]
Read MorePodcast: Dovid Margolin on Jewish Life in War-Torn Ukraine
March 4, 2022 | By: Dovid Margolin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, most of the news coverage has understandably focused on the war’s military, political, and economic dimensions. But there’s another dimension of the war: the religious dimension. How does being […]
Read MorePodcast: Jesse Smith on Transmitting Religious Devotion
January 21, 2022 | By: Jesse Smith
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. What can families do today to foster religious life in children, and help them mature into adults who live meaningfully religious lives? Some families join modern religious communities, ones that intentionally adapt themselves to the […]
Read MorePodcast: Our Favorite Broadcasts of 2021
January 7, 2022
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In 2021, 49 different guests appeared on the Tikvah Podcast over the course of 44 new episodes. Our conversations touched on some of the most important and interesting subjects in Jewish life, including discussions with […]
Read MorePodcast: Three Young Jews on Discovering Their Jewish Purposes
December 24, 2021 | By: Tamara Berens, Talia Katz and and Dovid Schwartz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In a previous podcast, Professors Benjamin and Jenna Storey explored a habit of mind that frustrated their very best students, a sentiment they called restlessness. As the Storeys saw it, their exceptional students had countless life […]
Read MorePodcast: Dru Johnson on Biblical Philosophy
July 6, 2021 | By: Dru Johnson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There’s a distinction often made between two common approaches to the human longing for wisdom. The first approach, philosophy, is considered the unassisted search for wisdom and truth, one that requires boldness, curiosity, and perhaps […]
Read MorePodcast: David Rozenson on How His Family Escaped the Soviet Union and Why He Chose to Return
June 18, 2021 | By: David Rozenson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The Soviet Union was deeply against religion, and deeply against Judaism in particular, so that the full embrace of Jewish religious observance, or the study of Hebrew, or the slightest approval of Zionism were often […]
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