Podcast: Michael Doran on Coronavirus in Iran
March 31, 2020 | By: Michael Doran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In the past two months, the Coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe, affecting nearly every nation in the world. As disruptive and damaging as this pandemic has been in the United States, Israel, […]
Read MorePodcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music
March 25, 2020 | By: Yossi Klein Halevi
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Understanding the soul of a nation requires more than understanding the way it orders its laws and governing institutions. True understanding demands that we also look at a people’s culture—its art, its theater, and […]
Read MorePodcast: Richard Goldberg on the Future of Iran Policy
March 18, 2020 | By: Richard Goldberg
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Over the past two decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has financed terrorism, civil war, and repression throughout the Middle East—and even in Europe and Latin America—while working to develop nuclear weapons. What can […]
Read MorePodcast: Rafael Medoff on Franklin Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and the Holocaust
March 12, 2020 | By: Rafael Medoff
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has long been one of the most admired presidents among American Jews. He led the nation out of the depression and ultimately brought a previously isolationist America into World War II. […]
Read MorePodcast: Eugene Kontorovich on the Trump Peace Plan
March 4, 2020 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since the administration of President Jimmy Carter, nearly every American president has sought to attain the holy grail of diplomacy: a solution to the conflict between Israel and her Arab neighbors. In some ways, […]
Read MorePodcast: Mark Gottlieb on Jewish Sexual Ethics
February 26, 2020 | By: Mark Gottlieb
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In the year 2020, we live in the shadow of the sexual revolution. The radical changes in sexual mores and family life that American society experienced in the 1960s and 1970s still reverberate today, […]
Read MorePodcast: Michael Avi Helfand on Religious Freedom, Education, and the Supreme Court
February 19, 2020 | By: Michael Avi Helfand
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Kendra Espinoza is a low-income single mother from Montana who applied for a tax-credit scholarship program—created by the state legislature in 2015—that would allow her to keep her daughters enrolled in a private Christian […]
Read MorePodcast: Joshua Berman on Biblical Criticism, Faith, and Integrity
February 12, 2020 | By: Joshua Berman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza denied the Mosaic authorship of the Torah, traditional Jews have had to contend with serious intellectual challenges to the doctrine of the divine origin of the Scripture. This […]
Read MorePodcast: Ruth Wisse on What Saul Bellow Saw
February 5, 2020 | By: Ruth Wisse
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Born in 1915 to a traditional Jewish family recently arrived from Russia, Saul Bellow was raised in Chicago and soon became “part of a circle of brainy Jewish teenagers who read and debated weighty […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Cox on Millennials, Religion, and the Family
January 29, 2020 | By: Daniel Cox
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. That the young are less religious than the old is not news. But the alienation of today’s millennials from religious faith may indeed be something new, and far more permanent than many have thought. […]
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