The Miracle of Esther
February 28, 2018 | By: Yoram Hazony
The world of the Hebrew Bible—with its prophets, revelations, and open miracles—can seem so foreign that it is sometimes difficult to see what practical lessons it can impart about sustaining faith and structuring society in the modern world. But one book of Scripture stands out for its striking resemblance to our own age. The Book […]
Read MoreThe Zionist Meaning of Tu B'Shvat
January 30, 2018 | By: Meir Soloveichik
In recent decades, the holiday of Tu B’Shvat has increasingly been celebrated as a Jewish Earth Day, marked by the celebration of nature and environmentalist activism. But is that really what Tu B’Shvat is about? In this brief conversation with Tikvah Executive Director Eric Cohen, Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik takes a closer look at the […]
Read MorePodcast: Jon Levenson on the Danger and Opportunity of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
January 16, 2018 | By: Jon Levenson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Purpose of Interfaith Dialogue Chapter 2: How Not to Conduct Jewish-Christian Dialogue Chapter 3: Jews, Christians, and Israel Chapter 4: Lowest Common Denominators Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church’s 1965 Declaration on the Relation of the Church […]
Read MorePodcast: Leora Batnitzky on the Legacy of Leo Strauss
January 5, 2018 | By: Leora Batnitzky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Who Was Leo Strauss? Chapter 2: Esotericism, Revelation, and the Limits of Reason Chapter 3: The Philosophic Life Chapter 4: Historicism vs. Natural Right Chapter 5: Strauss as a Jewish Thinker Friends and critics alike agree that […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Troy on "The Burial Society"
November 10, 2017 | By: Daniel Troy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Death, Dignity, and the Chevra Kadisha Chapter 2: The Work of the Burial Society Chapter 3: True Kindness Chapter 4: Can Dying Teach Us How to Live? Death is an uncomfortable topic. It has deprived us of people […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonathan Sacks on Creative Minorities
October 27, 2017 | By: Jonathan Sacks
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Jewish Response to Crisis Chapter 2: Assimilation, Resistance, or Isolation? Chapter 3: A Different Jewish Politics Chapter 4: Sovereignty and the Creative Minority Chapter 5: The End of History and Hopes for the Future From the breakdown […]
Read MoreMan and Woman: An Old Story
October 10, 2017 | By: Leon Kass
In the modern West, the very notion that men and women have different and complimentary natures is taken as outdated at best and bigoted at worst. But the great texts of the Western tradition, beginning with the Hebrew Bible, have long offered deep wisdom on this very issue. In “Man and Woman: An Old Story,” […]
Read MoreEcclesiastes: Fleeting and Timeless
October 3, 2017 | By: Ethan Dor-Shav
The Book of Ecclesiastes is one of the most challenging in the entire Hebrew Bible. Authored in the name of “Kohelet son of David”—identified by Jewish tradition as King Solomon—the book is a deeply philosophical meditation on the search for happiness by a man who has everything. Often misunderstood, argues Ethan Dor-Shav, Kohelet’s thought is […]
Read MorePodcast: Jeffrey Bloom on Faith and America's Addiction Crisis
August 25, 2017 | By: Jeffrey Bloom
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Addiction, Spirituality, and Public Policy Chapter 2: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Limits of Science Chapter 3: Soul Sickness Chapter 4: Exodus and Addiction America is in the throes of an addiction crisis. The ravages of the opioid epidemic […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil Student on the Journey into Orthodoxy
August 17, 2017 | By: Gil Student
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Reason, Emotion, and Faith Chapter 2: Proofs and Prophecies Chapter 3: Rabbi Noach Weinberg and the Ba’al Teshuva Movement Chapter 4: Experiencing Orthodoxy Chapter 5: Truths Too Hard to Admit When Ellen Willis’s brother Michael decided to leave […]
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