Podcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on the Jewish Agency in 2021
October 8, 2021 | By: Haviv Rettig Gur

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The Jewish Agency for Israel is the largest Jewish nonprofit in the world. Founded in 1929, it incubated the state of Israel’s proto-government, and, upon the state’s declaration of independence, its officers became Israel’s ministers. […]
Read MorePodcast: Yedidya Sinclair on Israel's Shmitah Year
October 1, 2021 | By: Yedidya Sinclair

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Every week, on the seventh day—the Sabbath—observant Jews rest. They perform no labor and they dedicate the day to serving God. This idea, the Sabbath, has another application in the Hebrew Bible: God also commands […]
Read MorePodcast: Peter Kreeft on the Philosophy of Ecclesiastes
September 24, 2021 | By: Peter Kreeft

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. This week, Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkot, during which it is traditional to read one of the most philosophically interesting books of the Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes. The narrator of the book, identified by Jewish […]
Read MorePodcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews
September 3, 2021 | By: Dara Horn

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The celebrated novelist Dara Horn’s new book, People Love Dead Jews, has an arresting title, one designed to make the reader feel uncomfortable. That’s because Horn makes an argument that tries to change the way […]
Read MorePodcast: Elliot Kaufman on the Crown Heights Riot, 30 Years Later
August 27, 2021 | By: Elliot Kaufman

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Thirty years ago, in August 1991, riots broke out in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, a neighborhood shared by African Americans and Jews, the latter of whom were mostly members of the hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch […]
Read MorePodcast: Cynthia Ozick on Her New Novel Antiquities
August 13, 2021 | By: Cynthia Ozick

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the year 1970, the distinguished American writer Cynthia Ozick published an essay arguing that Jewish literature might succeed if it embraced and conveyed the rich particularism of the Jewish experience. In a famous metaphor, […]
Read MorePodcast: Jenna & Benjamin Storey on Why Americans Are So Restless
August 6, 2021 | By: Jenna Storey & Benjamin Storey

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Two liberal arts professors were intrigued by a habit of mind they detected in their students, especially their high-achieving ones. Despite material abundance and the freedom to pursue a profession or passion of their choosing, […]
Read MorePodcast: Kenneth Marcus on How the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Helps the Government Protect Civil Rights
July 30, 2021 | By: Kenneth Marcus

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. With anti-Semitism on the rise over the last few years, it is essential for institutions to be able to assess clearly whether an incident is anti-Semitic or not. For this purpose, over the last two […]
Read MorePodcast: Nir Barkat on a Decade of Governing the World’s Most Spiritual City
July 23, 2021 | By: Nir Barkat

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Home to the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the city of Jerusalem has unparalleled spiritual significance for millions of people around the world. But in addition […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on How Haredi Jews Think About Serving in the IDF
July 9, 2021 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Mandatory army service plays an essential function within Israeli civic culture, absorbing and equalizing Ashkenazi, Mizrahi (Middle Eastern), religious, secular, male, female, Ethiopian, Russian, Druze, and more. In the IDF, all of these identities step […]
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