Podcast: Erica Brown on Educating Jewish Adults
February 23, 2018 | By: Erica Brown
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Craft of Pedagogy Chapter 2: Unsettling Education Chapter 3: Institutional Failure and Asking the Wrong Questions Chapter 4: Chabad, Shabbat, and the Bible The twenty second Mishnah of the fifth chapter of Pirkei Avot is one […]
Read MorePodcast: Mark Dubowitz on the Future of the Iran Deal
February 16, 2018 | By: Mark Dubowitz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Obama, Trump, and the Iran Deal Chapter 2: Decertification Chapter 3: Fix It or Nix It Chapter 4: Russia, China, and North Korea Chapter 5: The View from Israel In 2007, Barack Obama, then a U.S. Senator and […]
Read MorePodcast: Greg Weiner on Moynihan, Israel, and the United Nations
February 9, 2018 | By: Greg Weiner
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Moynihan at the U.N. Chapter 2: Carter, Israel, and American Values Chapter 3: A Fated Political Loss Chapter 4: Liberal Internationalism and Liberal Politics In December of 2017, Nikki Haley, America’s ambassador to the United Nations, stood […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Polisar on Nationhood, Zionism, and the Jews
February 2, 2018 | By: Daniel Polisar
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: What Is a Nation? Chapter 2: Jewish Nationhood Chapter 3: America, Race, and Nationalism Gone Wrong Chapter 4: Challenges—Minorities and Dual Loyalty Since God confused the language of man at the Tower of Babel, humankind has been […]
Read MorePodcast: Jon Levenson on the Danger and Opportunity of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
January 16, 2018 | By: Jon Levenson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Purpose of Interfaith Dialogue Chapter 2: How Not to Conduct Jewish-Christian Dialogue Chapter 3: Jews, Christians, and Israel Chapter 4: Lowest Common Denominators Nostra Aetate, the Catholic Church’s 1965 Declaration on the Relation of the Church […]
Read MorePodcast: Leora Batnitzky on the Legacy of Leo Strauss
January 5, 2018 | By: Leora Batnitzky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Who Was Leo Strauss? Chapter 2: Esotericism, Revelation, and the Limits of Reason Chapter 3: The Philosophic Life Chapter 4: Historicism vs. Natural Right Chapter 5: Strauss as a Jewish Thinker Friends and critics alike agree that […]
Read MorePodcast: Wilfred McClay on America’s Civil Religion
December 26, 2017 | By: Wilfred McClay
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Civil Religion and September 11 Chapter 2: Uses and Abuses Chapter 3: The History of American Civil Religion Chapter 4: Judaism, Christianity, and America’s Canon Chapter 5: Losing Our Religion America remains one of the most religious […]
Read MorePodcast: Robert Nicholson on Evangelicals, Israel, and the Jews
December 15, 2017 | By: Robert Nicholson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: What Drives Christian Zionism? Chapter 2: Jewish Ambivalence Chapter 3: The Uncertain Future of Evangelical Zionism Chapter 4: Muslims, Catholics, and Jerusalem At a time when the State of Israel lives under the threat of jihadist Islam and […]
Read MorePodcast: Charles Small on ”The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism”
December 8, 2017 | By: Charles Small
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: A Vast Intellectual Void Chapter 2: Medieval and Modern Anti-Semitism Chapter 3: European Anti-Semitism and Political Islam Chapter 4: The Old Jew-Hatred in New Clothes Chapter 5: Thinking about Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism has, regrettably, been with us for millennia. […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Mark on Judaism and Our Postmodern Age
November 28, 2017 | By: Daniel Mark
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Postmodern Conservatism Chapter 2: Locke, America, and the Jews Chapter 3: Halacha, Religion, and Freedom Chapter 4: Politics and the Individual Chapter 5: Not All Identities are Created Equal Are we living at the end of modernity? Is […]
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