Podcast: Zohar Atkins on the Contested Idea of Equality
June 20, 2022 | By: Zohar Atkins
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The idea of equality has a long and intricate history, one that the philosopher, rabbi, and writer Zohar Atkins joins this podcast to discuss. In conversation with Mosaic Editor Jonathan Silver, he looks at how […]
Read MorePodcast: Steven Smith on Persecution and the Art of Writing
June 14, 2022 | By: Steven Smith
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. There is the argument and there is the context in which that argument is made. It’s easy to sing the praises of American life when you’re sitting in the United States, but you’d likely express […]
Read MorePodcast: Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth
June 3, 2022 | By: Jon Levenson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Beginning Saturday night, the Jewish people will celebrate the holiday of Shavuot. During the festival, Jews traditionally study the Book of Ruth, the biblical text that tells the story of a non-Jewish widow who becomes […]
Read MorePodcast: Tony Badran on How Hizballah Wins, Even When It Loses
May 27, 2022 | By: Tony Badran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since initiating a war against Israel in 2006, the Shiite revolutionary movement Hizballah has built a massive arsenal of rockets that continues to threaten Israel’s northern cities and towns. Hizballah is able to sustain this […]
Read MorePodcast: John Podhoretz on Midge Decter’s Life in Ideas
May 24, 2022 | By: John Podhoretz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. On May 9, the cultural commentator Midge Decter passed away. Author of essays and books, editor of magazines, and mentor to generations of writers, Decter was subtle, clear, and courageous in her thinking. Though a […]
Read MorePodcast: Motti Inbari on the Yemenite Children Affair
May 17, 2022 | By: Motti Inbari
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, thousands of Middle Eastern Jews left their countries of origin and moved to Israel. Among them were the Jews of Yemen. There is a myth, believed by some […]
Read MorePodcast: Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex
May 10, 2022 | By: Christine Emba
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. For most young men and women today, sexual ethics have been collapsed into one idea: consent. Consent, whereby two responsible, conscientious, free people agree to enter into a sexual relationship, has become a shorthand way […]
Read MorePodcast: Shany Mor on How to Understand the Recent Terror Attacks in Israel
April 29, 2022 | By: Shany Mor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, during which Israel endured attacks constantly, terrorism there has been comparatively rare. There have been knifings, and many rockets fired from Gaza and from […]
Read MorePodcast: Abraham Socher on His Life in Jewish Letters and the Liberal Arts
April 21, 2022 | By: Abraham Socher
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since its first issue twelve years ago, the Jewish Review of Books, a beautifully-designed quarterly that was founded and supported by Tikvah, has produced 49 issues of high-level Jewish discourse. Much of that success can […]
Read MorePodcast: Ilana Horwitz on Educational Performance and Religion
April 13, 2022 | By: Ilana Horwitz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Why do some American children do better in school than others? Social scientists tend to look to family structure, race, class, and gender in an effort to find factors that correlate to better or worse […]
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