Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  This week, Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian airstrikes are now hitting Ukrainian military installations and Russian tanks are now rolling into Ukrainian cities. This invasion is an inflection point in Russian-Western relations, […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  By reading literature, one can experience what it’s like to be, say, a king, or a soldier, or a mother, or a stranger, or a tyrant, or for that matter a slave, not to mention […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  The reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel changed the Jewish people, giving them a place to live in their historic home, if they wanted it. But what about the Jews who remained, […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  The Republic of Azerbaijan scrambles the assumptions of even the most veteran of foreign-policy hands. Sitting at the nexus of Europe and Asia, Azerbaijan is the only nation that borders both Iran and Russia; it […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher.  Last week, a British jihadist entered a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and held four of its members hostage. In mid-October of last year, a woman emptied a container of gasoline and set it on fire […]