Podcast: 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 […]
Read MoreReading Ruth
May 12, 2021 | By: Leon Kass
The Book of Ruth tells one of the Hebrew Bible’s most beautiful and beloved stories—chronicling how a childless widow from a foreign land rises to become the ancestress of Israel’s greatest king. But as Dr. Leon Kass and his coauthor (and granddaughter) Hannah Mandelbaum demonstrate in their new book, Reading Ruth: Birth, Redemption, and the […]
Read MorePodcast: Shlomo Brody on Reclaiming Biblical Social Justice
May 10, 2021 | By: Shlomo Brody
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The idea of social justice marks a cleavage in the American Jewish consciousness. Its advocates believe that social justice represents the very best ethical impulses of Judaism, and that the pursuit of social justice is […]
Read MorePodcast: Mark Gerson on How the Seder Teaches Freedom Through Food
March 18, 2021 | By: Mark Gerson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In almost a week, Jews all over the world will sit down at their seder tables and retell the story of the Exodus, of the Jewish people’s national deliverance from Egypt. Of course, in the […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil & Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
March 4, 2021 | By: Gil Troy & Tevi Troy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Not long ago, Conservative Judaism was America’s largest and most vital Jewish denomination. Today, things are different; for many years now, the movement has been losing and not replacing its members. In a recent essay […]
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