Podcast: Mark Gerson on How the Seder Teaches Freedom Through Food
March 18, 2021 | By: Mark Gerson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In almost a week, Jews all over the world will sit down at their seder tables and retell the story of the Exodus, of the Jewish people’s national deliverance from Egypt. Of course, in the […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on the Israeli Supreme Court’s New Conversion Ruling
March 11, 2021 | By: Daniel Gordis
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court announced that, for the purpose of Israeli citizenship, conversions to Judaism that take place under the auspices of the Reform and Conservative movements and within Israel would be recognized by […]
Read MorePodcast: Gil & Tevi Troy’s Non-Negotiable Judaisms
March 4, 2021 | By: Gil Troy & Tevi Troy
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Not long ago, Conservative Judaism was America’s largest and most vital Jewish denomination. Today, things are different; for many years now, the movement has been losing and not replacing its members. In a recent essay […]
Read MorePodcast: Richard Goldberg on How Iran Is Already Testing the Biden Administration
February 25, 2021 | By: Richard Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. President Biden has been in office for just over one month, but when it comes to his administration’s relationship with Iran, the honeymoon is already long over. Just in the past few weeks, Iran has […]
Read MorePodcast: Shany Mor on What Makes America’s Peace Processors Tick
February 17, 2021 | By: Shany Mor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has in the last several decades sucked up more American attention, time, and resources than nearly any other conflict in the world. Presidents, cabinet secretaries, national-security officials, […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on How the Coronavirus Prompted Him to Rethink the Relationship between Haredim and Israeli Society
February 11, 2021 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the last week of January 2021, thousands of Israeli haredim protested and rioted in Bnai Brak, a predominantly haredi city located east of Tel Aviv. The rioters were angry at the government’s efforts to […]
Read MorePodcast: Gerald McDermott & Derryck Green on How Biblical Ideas Can Help Bridge America's Racial Divide
February 3, 2021 | By: Gerald McDermott & Derryck Green
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Three times a day in prayer and each week on the Sabbath, Jews sustain and renew their special covenant with God. While no other nation has the same covenant as the Jews do, the idea […]
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Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. For much of its history, the Jewish people hasn’t had a state. The Israel described in the Hebrew Bible had emissaries and military power, and the modern state of Israel has a foreign ministry and […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Oren on Writing Fiction and Serving Israel
January 21, 2021 | By: Michael Oren
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Very few contemporary public figures have had as many successes in as many fields as Michael Oren. A writer-statesman in the model of Thucydides, Oren was Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the Obama […]
Read MorePodcast: 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 […]
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