Podcast: 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on Five Books Every Jew Should Read
October 8, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. During this year of lockdowns, shuttered businesses, and working from home, people have made time for many new habits and hobbies, from baking bread to reorganizing closets. In this podcast, Jewish literary and political […]
Read MorePodcast: Dan Senor on the Start-Up Nation and COVID-19
October 1, 2020 | By: Dan Senor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Coronavirus pandemic has undermined years of economic growth and sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis onto the unemployment rolls. How can Israel—the legendary “start-up nation”—recover from this economic crisis? Dan Senor, co-author with […]
Read MorePodcast: Reflections for the Days of Awe
September 24, 2020
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. 2020 has been a chaotic year, and last weekend, millions of Jews the world over celebrated Rosh Hashanah—the Jewish New Year—and prayed that the coming year would be better than the one that just […]
Read MorePodcast: Haviv Rettig Gur on Israel’s Deep State
September 16, 2020 | By: Haviv Rettig Gur
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Over the past several years, debates about America’s so-called “deep state”—the web of agencies, career civil servants, and unelected bureaucrats responsible for a growing amount of federal policymaking—have increasingly found their way into political […]
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