Podcast: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel's Internal Conflict
March 16, 2023 | By: Peter Berkowitz & Gadi Taub
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. To understand the dramas, disagreements, and protests roiling Israeli politics at this moment requires an understanding of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, as well as the history of Israel’s Supreme Court and its relationship to the Knesset. It also […]
Read MorePodcast: Jordan B. Gorfinkel on His New Illustrated Book of Esther
March 3, 2023 | By: Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. This year, Koren Publishers released a new edition of the Book of Esther. It contains the complete, unabridged Hebrew text of Esther, the same text found in any other volume of the Hebrew Bible. But the rest of it […]
Read MorePodcast: Malka Simkovich on God's Maternal Love
February 24, 2023 | By: Malka Simkovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. One of the great debates in the history of Jewish theology is about how to reconcile two contradictory truths. First, that God is beyond human comprehension, and—unlike pagan deities—does not have a corporeal presence and is not subject […]
Read MorePodcast: Richard Goldberg on Recent Joint Military Exercises Between America and Israel
February 10, 2023 | By: Richard Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. When the United States entered the Second World War, it needed to fight against both the Nazis in Europe and the Middle East and the Japanese in the Pacific. To manage that gargantuan task, American military planners divided the […]
Read MorePodcast: Russ Roberts on the Disappointment and the Promise of Prayer
February 3, 2023 | By: Russ Roberts
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. “Prayer is the language of the soul in conversation with God. It is the most intimate gesture of the religious life, and the most transformative.” Those lines are from an essay called “Understanding Jewish Prayer” by Jonathan Sacks, […]
Read MorePodcast: Joshua Berman on Traveling to Biblical Egypt
January 27, 2023 | By: Joshua Berman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. To understand the inner life of the biblical world, one must look to Egypt. In the Hebrew Bible, it plays a role in the psyche of the Jews as the great other, the great alternative. Thus, when the […]
Read MorePodcast: Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government
January 20, 2023 | By: Elliott Abrams
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. As 2023 began, Israeli opponents of the new government have been organizing protests and demonstrations. Manifest there, and in the newspapers and magazines and television programs of the center and left, is the fevered and frustrated political rhetoric […]
Read MorePodcast: Carl Gershman on What the Jewish Experience Can Offer the Uighurs of China
January 12, 2023 | By: Carl Gershman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Uighur people is an ethnic group historically located in central and east Asia; the bulk of its population lives in western China. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party has severely restricted Uighur religious life and has […]
Read MorePodcast: Benjamin Netanyahu on His Moments of Decision
December 27, 2022 | By: Benjamin Netanyahu
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Benjamin Netanyahu was Israel’s prime minister from 1996 to 1999, and then again from 2009 to 2021. Already Israel’s longest-tenured leader, he just won another electoral victory and is expected to take office again later this week. Netanyahu […]
Read MorePodcast: Maxim D. Shrayer on the Moral Obligations and Dilemmas of Russia's Jewish Leaders
December 9, 2022 | By: Maxin D. Shrayer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On February 24, when Russian president Vladimir Putin began his country’s invasion of Ukraine, Jewish leaders found themselves caught on opposing sides of an active war. Ukrainian rabbis have suggested that the war is a holy fight between […]
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