Podcast: Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt & Batya Ungar-Sargon on Why No One Cares about Attacks on the Orthodox
December 4, 2019 | By: Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt & Batya Ungar-Sargon

A Jewish man hit in the face with a brick. An observant woman’s wig pulled off her head. An Orthodox mother and her baby assaulted in the street.
These incidents took place not in 19th-century Russia or pre-war Germany, but in Brooklyn—which has one of the densest Jewish populations in America—in 2019.
Read MorePodcast: Dovid Margolin on the Rebbe’s Campaign for a Moment of Silence
May 1, 2019 | By: Dovid Margolin

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover, a vicious anti-Semite entered the Chabad of Poway synagogue and started shooting. Before being stopped, he murdered one worshipper and injured several others, including the […]
Read MoreThe Future of Religious Liberty
July 5, 2017 | By: Ryan Anderson & Daniel Mark

Religious liberty is on trial in America, both in legislative debates at the state and federal level and in court cases now working their way through the judicial system. As the environment for religious traditionalists becomes more hostile, observant Jews will increasingly confront some difficult questions: Will American society continue to respect the religious freedom of […]
Read MorePodcast: Samuel Goldman on Religion, State, and the Jews
June 8, 2017 | By: Samuel Goldman

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Appeal of the Wall Chapter 2: The Phases of Jewish Thought on Church-State Relations Chapter 3: The Seminal Statement of Reaction Chapter 4: Education—Parochial and Public Chapter 5: Religion and Politics Today It was Thomas Jefferson, in a now-famous […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin on the Long Way to Liberty
March 23, 2017 | By: Yuval Levin

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Left and Right on Liberty Chapter 2: Theory and Practice in America Chapter 3: Stations on the Long Road Chapter 4: The Jew in Society Chapter 5: Challenges, Pitfalls, and the Journey to Freedom Lamenting the […]
Read MorePodcast: Peter Berkowitz on a Liberal Education and Its Betrayal
November 15, 2016 | By: Peter Berkowitz

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Liberal Education and Its Betrayal Chapter 2: Values and Assumptions of a Liberal Education Chapter 3: Religious Faith and a Liberal Education Chapter 4: A Liberal Education in the Jewish State In this podcast Tikvah senior director Jonathan […]
Read MoreIsrael’s Conversion Crisis
August 24, 2016 | By: Mati Wagner

Israel has had great success providing a home for Jews from around the world. The increasing diversity that results from each wave of immigrants poses challenges for the Jewish state, however; chief among which are those that highlight the tensions inherent in the relationship in Israel between religion and state. Such tensions are on display in this […]
Read MoreIs There a Future for French Jewry?
August 16, 2016 | By: Shmuel Trigano

Recent years have seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, and French Jews have in particular suffered from violence and threats. Many have responded by leaving—moving to Israel, the United States, and Canada. In this 2005 Azure article, French sociology professor Shmuel Trigano explains that French hostility toward Jews as Jews is not new; […]
Read MorePodcast: Jason Bedrick on Jewish Day Schools and School Choice
August 2, 2016 | By: Jason Bedrick

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Evolution of Jewish Education in America Chapter 2: Milton Friedman on“The Role of Government in Education” Chapter 3: State of Jewish Day Schools and the Tuition Crisis Chapter 4: State of School Choice Debate in America Chapter 5: […]
Read MoreOn Going to Synagogue
July 22, 2016 | By: George B. Goodman

Synagogue membership rolls have been dwindling, and the Jewish establishment is right to wonder about the fate of the one communal institution around which the religious lives of most Jewish men and women have revolved since the destruction of the Second Temple. In the United States, the synagogue is threatened by a scale of young […]
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