Podcast: A New Year at the Tikvah Podcast
February 1, 2019
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes , Stitcher, and Google Play. The Tikvah Podcast is back and better than ever. We went back to the drawing board, and are excited to let you know that in the coming weeks, we’ll be bringing you interviews with Israel’s […]
Read MorePodcast: The Best of 2018
December 28, 2018
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. From the Pittsburgh shooting to rising anti-Semitism in Europe, from the U.S. embassy move to the Trump Administration’s exit from the Iran deal, from Michael Chabon’s controversial speech at Hebrew Union College to Israel’s new nation-state law, 2018 has […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and the State of Israel
December 21, 2018 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Eve of the Suez Crisis Chapter 2: Personal Suffering, Collective Suffering, and the Shoah Chapter 3: The Six Knocks Chapter 4: Responding to God, Responding the Fellow Jews “Hark, my beloved knocks! ‘Let me in, my […]
Read MorePodcast: Chaim Saiman on the Rabbinic Idea of Law
December 7, 2018 | By: Chaim Saiman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Law in Heaven and Hell Chapter 2: The Weightier Matters of the Law Chapter 3: Jerusalem, Athens, and Rabbinic Legal Discourse Chapter 4: Halakhah in Exile, Halakhah in Israel “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Polisar on Herzl’s “The Menorah”
November 27, 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: Who Herzl Was and to Whom He Was Speaking Chapter 2: A Man Who Felt the Need to Be a Jew Chapter 3: Self-Doubt, Storytelling, and Looking Ahead Chapter 4: The Menorah, Aesthetics, and the Zionist Story […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Conservatism
November 8, 2018 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Conservatism, Radicalism, and Bourgeois Life in Haredi Society Chapter 2: Books and Burke Chapter 3: The Necessity of Change, and Its Dangers Chapter 4: The Role of Women in Haredi Life Chapter 5: A Return to Tradition […]
Read MorePodcast: Leon Kass on His Life and the Worthy Life
September 7, 2018 | By: Leon Kass
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Growing Up—The Prophets Without the Law Chapter 2: Between Athens and Jerusalem Chapter 3: Patriotism, Identity Politics, and the Jews Chapter 4: The Image of God Chapter 5: The Miracle of Modern Israel What is the good? […]
Read MorePodcast: Clifford Librach on the Reform Movement and Jewish Peoplehood
August 24, 2018 | By: Clifford Librach
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Chabon Speech and Its Aftermath Chapter 2: Pluralism, Prayer Books, and Peoplehood Chapter 3: Outsourcing Observance Chapter 4: Presiding over a Funeral Chapter 5: The State of Israel—A New Life Just Beginning On May 14, 2018, […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Doran on Theology, Zionism, and American Foreign Policy
August 10, 2018 | By: Michael Doran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Protestant Fundamentalists Chapter 2: The Protestant Modernists Chapter 3: The Cold War, Jacksonianism, and Russia Chapter 4: Zionism and American Foreign Policy America is living through a partisan age, with the seemingly intractable divides between Republicans […]
Read MorePodcast: Sohrab Ahmari on Sex, Desire, and the Transgender Movement
July 27, 2018 | By: Sohrab Ahmari
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: Sex, Gender, and Embodiment Chapter 2: Is the Science Settled? Chapter 3: “Girls Like Us” Chapter 4: People of Faith and Our Transgender Moment Contemporary Americans are living through an age of expressive individualism. No right, it […]
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