Podcast: Malka Simkovich on God's Maternal Love
February 24, 2023 | By: Malka Simkovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. One of the great debates in the history of Jewish theology is about how to reconcile two contradictory truths. First, that God is beyond human comprehension, and—unlike pagan deities—does not have a corporeal presence and is not subject […]
Read MorePodcast: Russ Roberts on the Disappointment and the Promise of Prayer
February 3, 2023 | By: Russ Roberts
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. “Prayer is the language of the soul in conversation with God. It is the most intimate gesture of the religious life, and the most transformative.” Those lines are from an essay called “Understanding Jewish Prayer” by Jonathan Sacks, […]
Read MorePodcast: Joshua Berman on Traveling to Biblical Egypt
January 27, 2023 | By: Joshua Berman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. To understand the inner life of the biblical world, one must look to Egypt. In the Hebrew Bible, it plays a role in the psyche of the Jews as the great other, the great alternative. Thus, when the […]
Read MorePodcast: Yoav Sorek, David Weinberg, & Jonathan Silver on What Jewish Magazines Are For
October 24, 2022 | By: Yoav Sorek & David Weinberg and
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Some of today’s most important ideas were first born in little magazines—magazines, that is to say, like Mosaic. How does that happen? And what is the role of a magazine editor, and does that role differ if the magazine […]
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: 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 […]
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