Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  This past fall, Israel’s international shipping port in Haifa completed renovations, and it recently went operational. Almost all of Israel’s international trade comes and goes by sea, and Haifa’s is the busiest of the country’s […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  According to Hillel International, there were 244 anti-Semitic incidents at American campuses reported during the 2020-2021 school year. That’s up from 181 incidents the year before, perhaps an especially significant increase given that many students […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  In 2021, 49 different guests appeared on the Tikvah Podcast over the course of 44 new episodes. Our conversations touched on some of the most important and interesting subjects in Jewish life, including discussions with […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  In a previous podcast, Professors Benjamin and Jenna Storey explored a habit of mind that frustrated their very best students, a sentiment they called restlessness. As the Storeys saw it, their exceptional students had countless life […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  According to a new report, in 2020 2,400 U.S.-based healthcare facilities, local governments, schools, and other institutions were victims of ransomware—a form of cyberattack in which a hacker holds a person’s data hostage and demands […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  On Saturday, December 4, 2021, an explosion occurred near Iran’s nuclear facility outside the city of Natanz. Afterward, two nearby villages were evacuated. Was the explosion the result of a weapons test? An accident? Sabotage? […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  In November, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz visited Morocco, where for the first time he was accompanied by uniformed Israeli military personnel. Gantz’s visit comes on the heels of visits in the last year by […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  There aren’t enough public schools in Maine. By some estimates, about half of Maine’s school districts don’t have the facilities or faculty to educate the students who live in them. The state’s solution is to […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Until recently, America was an outlier: despite rising affluence, its birthrate remained high, unlike in other countries where more riches have brought fewer children. That’s no longer the case today. America is now in demographic […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Today, a number of young American women are pursuing the stuff of dystopian novels: the prospect of a childless future. These young women don’t just choose to avoid motherhood—they actively embrace that choice as a […]