Podcast: Robert Nicholson on the Changing Face of Evangelical Zionism
July 29, 2022 | By: Robert Nicholson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In October 2013, Robert Nicholson wrote a defining essay in Mosaic, “Evangelicals and Israel: What American Jews Don’t Want to Know (but Need to).” It in he outlined the wide and deep support that millions of […]
Read MorePodcast: Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth
June 3, 2022 | By: Jon Levenson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Beginning Saturday night, the Jewish people will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. During the festival, Jews traditionally study the Book of Ruth, the biblical text that tells the story of a non-Jewish widow who becomes […]
Read MorePodcast: Ronna Burger on Reading Esther as a Philosopher
March 11, 2022 | By: Ronna Burger
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. When Jews celebrate the upcoming holiday of Purim, they’ll also study the Book of Esther, named for the young queen whose Jewish identity was unknown to her husband—Persia’s king—and his court. The Book of Esther […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Eisenberg on Economics in the Book of Genesis
October 29, 2021 | By: Michael Eisenberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. It is often thought that the Hebrew Bible focuses on the human capacity for good rather than on urging prosperity; that, in other words, trade and markets―areas where rational actors seek to maximize their self-interest―are […]
Read MorePodcast: Antonio Garcia Martinez on Choosing Judaism as an Antidote to Secular Modernity
October 15, 2021 | By: Antonio Garcia Martinez
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. “We have arrived at a unique point in history,” a recent essay argues, “where many Americans love nothing more than themselves, and the only functioning organization that touches their lives is a corporation.” The author […]
Read MorePodcast: Yedidya Sinclair on Israel's Shmitah Year
October 1, 2021 | By: Yedidya Sinclair
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Every week, on the seventh day—the Sabbath—observant Jews rest. They perform no labor and they dedicate the day to serving God. This idea, the Sabbath, has another application in the Hebrew Bible: God also commands […]
Read MorePodcast: Peter Kreeft on the Philosophy of Ecclesiastes
September 24, 2021 | By: Peter Kreeft
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. This week, Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, during which it is traditional to read one of the most philosophically interesting books of the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes. The narrator of the book, identified by Jewish […]
Read MorePodcast: Shalom Carmy on Jewish Understanding of Human Suffering
July 6, 2021 | By: Shalom Carmy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. On June 24, 2021, in the middle of the night, part of a 12-story condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, suddenly collapsed. Thus far, eighteen people are confirmed dead and 145 remain […]
Read MorePodcast: Dru Johnson on Biblical Philosophy
July 6, 2021 | By: Dru Johnson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There’s a distinction often made between two common approaches to the human longing for wisdom. The first approach, philosophy, is considered the unassisted search for wisdom and truth, one that requires boldness, curiosity, and perhaps […]
Read MorePodcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath
May 19, 2021 | By: Sohrab Ahmari
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The hallmark of the American constitutional system was the idea that all men are created equal. Of course, the American regime did not live up to that ambition for centuries, but the ideal of equality […]
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