Podcast: Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel's Internal Conflict
March 16, 2023 | By: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel’s Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also […]
Read MorePodcast: Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government
January 20, 2023 | By: Elliott Abrams
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. As 2023 began, Israeli opponents of the new government have been organizing protests and demonstrations. Manifest there, and in the newspapers and magazines and television programs of the center and left, is the fevered and frustrated political rhetoric […]
Read MorePodcast: Benjamin Netanyahu on His Moments of Decision
December 27, 2022 | By: Benjamin Netanyahu
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s prime minister from 1996 to 1999, and then again from 2009 to 2021. Already Israel’s longest-tenured leader, he just won another electoral victory and is expected to take office again later this week. Netanyahu […]
Read MorePodcast: Simcha Rothman on Reforming Israel’s Justice System
November 21, 2022 | By: Simcha Rothman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. There are major concerns facing Israel’s democracy today. Some have to do with voting and Israel’s system of electoral representation. Others relate to Israel’s judiciary. Champions of the current configuration of the Israeli judiciary believe that its famous independence is a […]
Read MorePodcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on Netanyahu, Lapid, and Another Israeli Election
October 31, 2022 | By: Haviv Rettig Gur
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On March 23, 2021, Israel voted in its 24th Knesset, and with it, sent Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid to the premiership. And on November 1, 2022, less than two years later, Israelis return to the polls in […]
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: 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: Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later
September 30, 2022 | By: Daniel Polisar
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Earlier this week, in the Swiss city of Basel, the World Zionist Organization convened to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, which was the brainchild of one of Zionism’s founding fathers, Theodor Herzl. At the time, […]
Read MorePodcast: Hussein Aboubakr on the Holocaust in the Arab Moral Imagination
September 28, 2022 | By: Hussein Aboubakr
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Fifty years ago, at the 1972 Olympic summer games in Munich, eleven Israeli olympians were held hostage and murdered by members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Recently, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, while meeting with […]
Read MorePodcast: Yair Harel on Haim Louk’s Masterful Jewish Music
August 12, 2022 | By: Yair Harel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Just as Israeli society has become more at home with Judaism, so too has Israeli music. Across the Israeli music scene, songs and albums infused with religious themes, language, and sentiments have become far more […]
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