Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on the Meaning of Kashrut
September 4, 2019 | By: Meir Soloveichik
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. With the exception of shabbat, there is probably no practice that distinguishes pious Jews more than the observance of kashrut—the Jewish dietary laws. Whether at a business meeting or an everyday social gathering, Jews […]
Read MorePodcast: Scott Shay on Idolatry, Ancient and Modern
April 17, 2019 | By: Scott Shay
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. It was just a few years ago that the so-called “New Atheists” played an outsized role in American culture. Scientists like Richard Dawkins and polemicists like the late Christopher Hitchens wrote page after page […]
Read MorePodcast: Joshua Berman on Whether the Exodus Really Happened
April 10, 2019 | By: Joshua Berman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In just over a week, Jews the world over will recount the biblical story of the exodus from Egypt and celebrate ancient Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom. But is there any proof for […]
Read MorePodcast: David Wolpe on the Future of Conservative Judaism
February 27, 2019 | By: David WolpePress play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple, one of America’s flagship conservative synagogues. The author of eight books and countless essays and articles, he is one of America’s leading […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and the State of Israel
December 21, 2018 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Eve of the Suez Crisis Chapter 2: Personal Suffering, Collective Suffering, and the Shoah Chapter 3: The Six Knocks Chapter 4: Responding to God, Responding the Fellow Jews “Hark, my beloved knocks! ‘Let me in, my […]
Read MorePodcast: Chaim Saiman on the Rabbinic Idea of Law
December 7, 2018 | By: Chaim Saiman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Law in Heaven and Hell Chapter 2: The Weightier Matters of the Law Chapter 3: Jerusalem, Athens, and Rabbinic Legal Discourse Chapter 4: Halakhah in Exile, Halakhah in Israel “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For […]
Read MoreThe Tower of Babel and the Birth of Nationhood
October 12, 2018 | By: Daniel Gordis
The story of the Tower of Babel is one of the most enigmatic in the entire Hebrew Bible. Though terse—the narrative is just nine verses long—this tale has inspired reams of commentary seeking to understand why humanity wished to build a tower, why doing so was sinful, and what God’s punishment—the confounding of mankind’s speech—had […]
Read MorePlowshares Into Swords: The Lost Biblical Ideal of Peace
July 23, 2018 | By: David Hazony
For modern readers, the story of Pinhas is one of the most vexing episodes in the Hebrew Bible. The Israelites have been seduced by foreign women, and the head of the tribe of Simeon has ceremoniously escorted the daughter of Midian’s king into his tent. In an act of seemingly unsanctioned zealotry, Pinhas take his […]
Read MorePodcast: Yoram Hazony on the Bible’s Political Teaching
July 13, 2018 | By: Yoram Hazony
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Anti-Biblical Bias Chapter 2: Against the Imperial State Chapter 3: Subtleties and Trade-Offs Chapter 4: From Tribal Anarchy to the Limited State In the last decade, a fascinating area of political thought has begun to receive increasing […]
Read MorePodcast: Samuel Goldman on Christian Zionism in America
April 19, 2018 | By: Samuel Goldman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Conversion and Restoration Chapter 2: Mordecai Manuel Noah and Ararat Chapter 3: Scripture, the Geneva Bible, and the Catholic Church Chapter 4: Is American Christianity Different? Chapter 5: Blackstone, Fosdick, and Niebuhr Chapter 6: The Christian Right […]
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