Podcast: Yuval Levin on How America's Constitution Might Help Solve Israel's Judicial Crisis
April 10, 2023 | By: Yuval Levin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Recently, Yuval Levin, the editor of National Affairs, published an op-ed in the New York Times entitled “The Solution to Israel’s Crisis Might Be in America’s Constitution.” That essay forms the point of departure for this discussion with Levin himself. Levin […]
Read MorePodcast: Neil Rogachevsky & Dov Zigler on the Political Philosophy of Israel's Declaration of Independence
March 31, 2023 | By: Neil Rogachevsky & Dov Zigler
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Nearly 75 years ago, on May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel’s sovereignty: a renewed Jewish state, the political expression of the national home of the Jewish people, located in their ancestral homeland. Many essays and books have […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Israel's Social Schisms and How They Affect the Judicial Reform Debate
March 24, 2023 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Part of what animates the two sides in Israel’s current judicial-reform crisis has to do with the specific proposals that the Knesset is currently debating. But the crisis is not only about these concrete constitutional issues. It is also a proxy […]
Read MorePodcast: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel's Internal Conflict
March 16, 2023 | By: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel’s Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also […]
Read MorePodcast: Benjamin Netanyahu on His Moments of Decision
December 27, 2022 | By: Benjamin Netanyahu
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s prime minister from 1996 to 1999, and then again from 2009 to 2021. Already Israel’s longest-tenured leader, he just won another electoral victory and is expected to take office again later this week. Netanyahu […]
Read MorePodcast: Maxim D. Shrayer on the Moral Obligations and Dilemmas of Russia's Jewish Leaders
December 9, 2022 | By: Maxin D. Shrayer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On February 24, when Russian president Vladimir Putin began his country’s invasion of Ukraine, Jewish leaders found themselves caught on opposing sides of an active war. Ukrainian rabbis have suggested that the war is a holy fight between […]
Read MorePodcast: Simcha Rothman on Reforming Israel’s Justice System
November 21, 2022 | By: Simcha Rothman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. There are major concerns facing Israel’s democracy today. Some have to do with voting and Israel’s system of electoral representation. Others relate to Israel’s judiciary. Champions of the current configuration of the Israeli judiciary believe that its famous independence is a […]
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: Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later
September 30, 2022 | By: Daniel Polisar
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Earlier this week, in the Swiss city of Basel, the World Zionist Organization convened to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, which was the brainchild of one of Zionism’s founding fathers, Theodor Herzl. At the time, […]
Read MorePodcast: Douglas Murray on the War on the West
July 6, 2022 | By: Douglas Murray
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In his 2022 book, The War on the West, the British journalist Douglas Murray argues that many now-prominent cultural ideas unfairly single out Western sins, discounting the good that Western civilization has brought about and […]
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