Podcast: Neil Rogachevsky on Israeli Electoral Reform
January 15, 2020 | By: Neil Rogachevsky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Israeli politics are a mess. After its second election in six months failed to produce a governing coalition, Israelis are scheduled to head back to the polls for the third time in a single […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on the Remarkable Legacy of Gertrude Himmelfarb
January 8, 2020 | By: Yuval Levin
When Gertrude Himmelfarb passed away on December 30, 2019, a great Jewish voice was lost. An eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Professor Himmelfarb—or, as she was known to her friends, Bea Kristol—analyzed and defended the moral and political virtues necessary for a healthy democratic society.
Read MorePodcast: Best of 2019 at the Tikvah Podcast
December 31, 2019
In 2019, 40 different guests came on the Tikvah Podcast to engage in serious conversations about Jewish ideas, Jewish texts, and Jewish public affairs. This year we covered everything from diplomacy to defense, from Jewish philosophy to Jewish food, from anti-Semitism to Jewish heroism.
Read MorePodcast: Jacob Howland—The Philosopher Who Reads the Talmud
October 30, 2019 | By: Jacob Howland
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Oceans of ink have been spilled seeking to answer this question, first posed by the early Church father Tertullian. How do the two intellectual pillars of Western […]
Read MorePodcast: Dru Johnson, Jonathan Silver, and Robert Nicholson on Reviving Hebraic Thought
October 24, 2019 | By: Dru Johnson and Robert Nicholson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The English Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton famously described the United States as “a nation with the soul of a church.” Americans, even now, are a uniquely religious people, and it is impossible truly to […]
Read MorePodcast: Micah Goodman on Shrinking the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
September 18, 2019 | By: Micah Goodman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. If you follow Israeli politics, then you know that within the past year, the Jewish state has experienced two deadlocked elections. What explains this political stalemate? According to Micah Goodman, one of Israel’s leading […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Krauthammer on His Father’s Jewish Legacy
June 19, 2019 | By: Daniel Krauthammer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. It is hard to believe that it has been almost a year since the eminent columnist—and great Jewish conservative—Charles Krauthammer passed away. Krauthammer’s clarity of mind and force of argument were the cornerstone of […]
Read MorePodcast: Francine Klagsbrun on Golda Meir—Israel’s Lioness
May 22, 2019 | By: Francine Klagsbrun
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. She was one of only two women to sign the Israel’s Declaration of Independence. She served as Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, as labor minister, foreign minister, head of the Israeli Labor […]
Read MorePodcast: 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: Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews
April 3, 2019 | By: Daniel Gordis
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The occupation. The Western Wall. The nation-state Law. The warm bonhomie between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The rift between American and Israeli Jews grows daily. How did this happen? Wasn’t Israel an […]
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