Podcast: Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later
September 30, 2022 | By: Daniel Polisar
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Earlier this week, in the Swiss city of Basel, the World Zionist Organization convened to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress, which was the brainchild of one of Zionism’s founding fathers, Theodor Herzl. At the time, […]
Read MorePodcast: Hussein Aboubakr on the Holocaust in the Arab Moral Imagination
September 28, 2022 | By: Hussein Aboubakr
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Fifty years ago, at the 1972 Olympic summer games in Munich, eleven Israeli olympians were held hostage and murdered by members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Recently, the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, while meeting with […]
Read MorePodcast: Jonathan Schanzer on Israel’s Weekend War against Islamic Jihad
September 28, 2022 | By: Jonathan Schanzer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In August of 2022, Israeli forces captured the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the West Bank city of Jenin after he had been involved in planning a number of terrorist attacks. Infuriated, PIJ threatened to fire […]
Read MorePodcast: Yair Harel on Haim Louk’s Masterful Jewish Music
August 12, 2022 | By: Yair Harel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Just as Israeli society has become more at home with Judaism, so too has Israeli music. Across the Israeli music scene, songs and albums infused with religious themes, language, and sentiments have become far more […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Why So Many Jewish Soldiers Are Buried Under Crosses, and What Can Be Done About It
July 29, 2022 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. More than half a million Jewish men and women served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II. They fought in every theater of the war, from North Africa and Italy to France and […]
Read MorePodcast: Robert Nicholson on the Changing Face of Evangelical Zionism
July 29, 2022 | By: Robert Nicholson
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In October 2013, Robert Nicholson wrote a defining essay in Mosaic, “Evangelicals and Israel: What American Jews Don’t Want to Know (but Need to).” It in he outlined the wide and deep support that millions of […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis & Asael Abelman on the Personality of the New Jew
July 29, 2022 | By: Daniel Gordis & Asael Abelman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Before the state of Israel was founded, some early Zionists argued not only for the recovery of Jewish political sovereignty, but also for the emergence of a new type of Jew. This “New Jew,” […]
Read MorePodcast: Douglas Murray on the War on the West
July 6, 2022 | By: Douglas Murray
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In his 2022 book, The War on the West, the British journalist Douglas Murray argues that many now-prominent cultural ideas unfairly single out Western sins, discounting the good that Western civilization has brought about and […]
Read MorePodcast: Jeffrey Woolf on the Political and Religious Significance of the Temple Mount
June 28, 2022 | By: Jeffrey Woolf
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. The Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem is the holiest physical site in all of Judaism. Religiously observant Jews ask God to restore the Temple and its services each and every day in […]
Read MorePodcast: 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 […]
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