Podcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks about God and the Pandemic
January 13, 2021
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Most of our podcast guests, especially those focusing on religious issues, tend to look at the world in a traditional way―meaning, their habits of mind tend to be traditional and conservative. Many of our podcast […]
Read MorePodcast: Dore Gold on the Strategic Importance of the Nile River and the Politics of the Red Sea
January 7, 2021
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the water-scarce Middle East, water that can be used for drinking and agriculture is of premium importance. The entire ancient civilization of imperial Egypt grew up around the Nile River and its basin, and […]
Read MorePodcast: Yuval Levin Asks How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now
December 30, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. American democracy is a nation of nations. Muslims, Christians, and Jews, women and men from every nation on earth have made themselves into Americans. Nevertheless, a unique majority culture developed within this nation of nations: […]
Read MorePodcast: Mark Gottlieb on Rabbi Soloveitchik's "Everlasting Hanukkah"
December 16, 2020 | By: Mark Gottlieb
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. When the Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah each winter, what are we celebrating? The story of the holiday is the tale of rededicating the Temple in Jerusalem after it had been occupied and defiled by the Seleucid Greeks, who—with the […]
Read MorePodcast: Ambassador Ron Dermer Looks Back on His Years in Washington
December 9, 2020 | By: Ron Dermer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. From the Iran Deal to the rise of and fall of ISIS, from Israel’s year of inconclusive elections to a pandemic that has ravaged globe, the second decade of the 21st century has been history-making for both the United […]
Read MorePodcast: Richard Goldberg on the Future of Israeli-Saudi Relations
December 3, 2020 | By: Richard Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. It has been widely reported that, in late November of 2020, the Israeli prime minister secretly flew to Saudi Arabia for a meeting with the kingdom’s crown prince. That these two leaders met at all is noteworthy; that they […]
Read MorePodcast: 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: John Podhoretz on 75 Years of Commentary
October 29, 2020 | By: John Podhoretz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In November of 1945, the American Jewish Committee established a new, independent magazine of Jewish ideas, with the goal of explaining America to the Jews and the Jews to America. This month, Commentary marks 75 years of publishing about […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael McConnell on the Free Exercise of Religion
October 14, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Under the U.S. Constitution, the freedom of religion is protected by two separate guarantees: a prohibition on the establishment of an official church and an individual right to the “free exercise” of religion. The […]
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