Podcast: Nathan Diament on Whether the Post Office Can Force Employees to Work on the Sabbath
May 11, 2023 | By: Nathan Diament
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of religion. An employer can’t say that he won’t hire Muslims or Mormons or Jews, and he can’t fire one of […]
Read MorePodcast: George Weigel on the Second Vatican Council and the Jews
October 13, 2022 | By: George Weigel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The legacy of Christian anti-Semitism is not a happy one. Early in the history of Christianity, as the religion grew, the persecution of Jews became a normal feature of life in Christian lands. By the Middle Ages, the […]
Read MorePodcast: Meir Soloveichik on Jerusalem’s Enduring Symbols
September 30, 2022 | By: Meir Soloveichik
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Jerusalem is perhaps the most interesting and spiritually important city in the world. For the Jewish people, it is the most treasured city in their long history. It is mentioned over 600 times in the Hebrew Bible; every time […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Why So Many Jewish Soldiers Are Buried Under Crosses, and What Can Be Done About It
July 29, 2022 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. More than half a million Jewish men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II. They fought in every theater of the war, from North Africa and Italy to France and […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Jewish Life and Law at the Supreme Court
November 19, 2021 | By: Michael Avi Helfand
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There aren’t enough public schools in Maine. By some estimates, about half of Maine’s school districts don’t have the facilities or faculty to educate the students who live in them. The state’s solution is to […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin Asks How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now
December 30, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. American democracy is a nation of nations. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, women and men from every nation on earth have made themselves into Americans. Nevertheless, a unique majority culture developed within this nation of nations: […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael McConnell on the Free Exercise of Religion
October 14, 2020 | By: Michael McConnell
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Under the U.S. Constitution, the freedom of religion is protected by two separate guarantees: a prohibition on the establishment of an official church and an individual right to the “free exercise” of religion. The […]
Read MorePodcast: Peter Berkowitz on Unalienable Rights, the American Tradition, and Foreign Policy
July 30, 2020 | By: Peter Berkowitz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Just over a year ago, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo created the new Commission on Unalienable Rights, tasked with “provid[ing] the Secretary of State advice and recommendations concerning international human rights matters” as well […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Religious Freedom, Education, and the Supreme Court
February 19, 2020 | By: Michael Avi Helfand
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Kendra Espinoza is a low-income single mother from Montana who applied for a tax-credit scholarship program—created by the state legislature in 2015—that would allow her to keep her daughters enrolled in a private Christian […]
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.
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