Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music
March 25, 2020 | By: Yossi Klein Halevi
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Understanding the soul of a nation requires more than understanding the way it orders its laws and governing institutions. True understanding demands that we also look at a people’s culture—its art, its theater, and […]
Read MorePodcast: Neil Rogachevsky on Israeli Electoral Reform
January 15, 2020 | By: Neil Rogachevsky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Israeli politics are a mess. After its second election in six months failed to produce a governing coalition, Israelis are scheduled to head back to the polls for the third time in a single […]
Read MorePodcast: Best of 2019 at the Tikvah Podcast
December 31, 2019
In 2019, 40 different guests came on the Tikvah Podcast to engage in serious conversations about Jewish ideas, Jewish texts, and Jewish public affairs. This year we covered everything from diplomacy to defense, from Jewish philosophy to Jewish food, from anti-Semitism to Jewish heroism.
Read MorePodcast: Walter Russell Mead on Israel and American Foreign Policy
December 18, 2019 | By: Walter Russell Mead
Three years into the Trump Administration, how is America doing? What does Israel’s current political instability mean for its foreign policy? How should the rise of China affect how the U.S. thinks about projecting global power?
Read MorePodcast: Senator Joseph Lieberman on American Jews and the Zionist Dream
December 11, 2019 | By: Joseph Lieberman
As you listen, you’ll here the senator discuss the history of his personal relationship to Israel, how he thinks Zionism can help American Jews be better citizens, and his thoughts of whether the longstanding bipartisan support for Israel is fraying as a rising progressive movement grows at the expense of the Democratic center.
Read MorePodcast: Eugene Kontorovich on America and the Settlements
November 26, 2019 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
n November 18, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a momentous announcement: The United States does not consider Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria—the West Bank—illegal or illegitimate. The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Israeli building in the territories. . .
Read MorePodcast: David Makovsky—What Can We Learn from Israel’s Founders?
November 20, 2019 | By: David Makovsky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The establishment of a sovereign Jewish state just three years after the Holocaust is both a miracle and the achievement of some remarkable women and men. Now that the founding generation has passed on, […]
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