Podcast: Motti Inbari on the Yemenite Children Affair
May 17, 2022 | By: Motti Inbari

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, thousands of Middle Eastern Jews left their countries of origin and moved to Israel. Among them were the Jews of Yemen. There is a myth, believed by some […]
Read MorePodcast: Yossi Shain on the Israeli Century
February 11, 2022 | By: Yossi Shain

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel changed the Jewish people, giving them a place to live in their historic home, if they wanted it. But what about the Jews who remained, […]
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: Nir Barkat on a Decade of Governing the World’s Most Spiritual City
July 23, 2021 | By: Nir Barkat

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Home to the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the city of Jerusalem has unparalleled spiritual significance for millions of people around the world. But in addition […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on How Haredi Jews Think About Serving in the IDF
July 9, 2021 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Mandatory army service plays an essential function within Israeli civic culture, absorbing and equalizing Ashkenazi, Mizrahi (Middle Eastern), religious, secular, male, female, Ethiopian, Russian, Druze, and more. In the IDF, all of these identities step […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on the Israeli Supreme Court’s New Conversion Ruling
March 11, 2021 | By: Daniel Gordis

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court announced that, for the purpose of Israeli citizenship, conversions to Judaism that take place under the auspices of the Reform and Conservative movements and within Israel would be recognized by […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on How the Coronavirus Prompted Him to Rethink the Relationship between Haredim and Israeli Society
February 11, 2021 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the last week of January 2021, thousands of Israeli haredim protested and rioted in Bnai Brak, a predominantly haredi city located east of Tel Aviv. The rioters were angry at the government’s efforts to […]
Read MorePodcast: Matti Friedman on the Russian Aliyah—30 Years Later
November 18, 2020 | By: Matti Friedman

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. After a decades-long, worldwide campaign to free Soviet Jewry, in the late 1980s the borders of the Soviet Union were finally opened, allowing its Jews to immigrate to the State of Israel. This period saw approximately one million men […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on America, Israel, and the Sources of Jewish Resilience
November 12, 2020 | By: Daniel Gordis

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The year 2020 has been one of real suffering. The Coronavirus has infected tens of millions the world over and has taken the lives of a quarter of a million Americans. It’s decimated the economy, shuttered businesses, brought low […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Society and the COVID-19 Crisis
April 22, 2020 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Like so many nations around the world, Israel has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of today, the Jewish state has over 14,000 confirmed cases of the virus, and over 180 deaths. […]
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