Podcast: Matti Friedman on the Russian Aliyah—30 Years Later
November 18, 2020 | By: Matti Friedman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. After a decades-long, worldwide campaign to free Soviet Jewry, in the late 1980s the borders of the Soviet Union were finally opened, allowing its Jews to immigrate to the State of Israel. This period saw approximately one million men […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on America, Israel, and the Sources of Jewish Resilience
November 12, 2020 | By: Daniel Gordis
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The year 2020 has been one of real suffering. The Coronavirus has infected tens of millions the world over and has taken the lives of a quarter of a million Americans. It’s decimated the economy, shuttered businesses, brought low […]
Read MorePodcast: Dan Senor on the Start-Up Nation and COVID-19
October 1, 2020 | By: Dan Senor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Coronavirus pandemic has undermined years of economic growth and sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis onto the unemployment rolls. How can Israel—the legendary “start-up nation”—recover from this economic crisis? Dan Senor, co-author with […]
Read MorePodcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on Israel’s Deep State
September 16, 2020 | By: Haviv Rettig Gur
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Over the past several years, debates about America’s so-called “deep state”—the web of agencies, career civil servants, and unelected bureaucrats responsible for a growing amount of federal policymaking—have increasingly found their way into political […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse & Hillel Halkin on the Authors Who Created Modern Hebrew Literature
September 9, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse & Hillel Halkin
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since 2015, the Israeli writer and translator Hillel Halkin has published a series of ten essays in Mosaic on the seminal Hebrew writers of the 19th and early-20th centuries. They dealt with everyone from […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil Troy on Never Alone
September 3, 2020 | By: Gil Troy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Prisoner of Zion, human-rights activist, member of Knesset, chairman of the Jewish Agency. Lecturer, author, inspiration to millions. In his 72 years on earth, Natan Sharansky has lived several lifetimes. And in his latest […]
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Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The so-called “right of return” is one of the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s thorniest issues. During Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, as many as 700,000 Arabs fled or were driven from what had been mandatory […]
Read MorePodcast: Matti Friedman—The End of the Israeli Left?
April 29, 2020 | By: Matti Friedman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Have you ever seen the old murals that decorate the walls of Israel’s historic kibbutzim? They often feature young, brawny Jewish men and women working and plowing the land. They evoke the pioneering spirit […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Society and the COVID-19 Crisis
April 22, 2020 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Like so many nations around the world, Israel has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. As of today, the Jewish state has over 14,000 confirmed cases of the virus, and over 180 deaths. […]
Read MorePodcast: Moshe Koppel on How Israel‘s Perpetual Election Came to an End
April 3, 2020 | By: Moshe Koppel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. With the recent agreement between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief political rival, Benny Gantz, a governing coalition is at long last beginning to emerge in Israel. After three national elections in a […]
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