Podcast: Tony Badran Puts Israel’s New Maritime Borders with Lebanon into Context
October 19, 2022 | By: Tony Badran
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On October 12, 2022, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid approved an agreement with the government of Lebanon to establish maritime borders between the two countries. The deal, brokered by the United States, is important because large fields of […]
Read MorePodcast: George Weigel on the Second Vatican Council and the Jews
October 13, 2022 | By: George Weigel
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The legacy of Christian anti-Semitism is not a happy one. Early in the history of Christianity, as the religion grew, the persecution of Jews became a normal feature of life in Christian lands. By the Middle Ages, the […]
Read MorePodcast: Shay Khatiri on the Protests Roiling Iran
September 30, 2022 | By: Shay Khatiri
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On September 16, a squad of Iranian police officers arrested a twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini. Charged with improperly wearing a hijab, Amini died in police custody. Since then, suspicion that she was beaten by Iranian forces, […]
Read MorePodcast: Meir Soloveichik on Jerusalem’s Enduring Symbols
September 30, 2022 | By: Meir Soloveichik
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Jerusalem is perhaps the most interesting and spiritually important city in the world. For the Jewish people, it is the most treasured city in their long history. It is mentioned over 600 times in the Hebrew Bible; every time […]
Read MorePodcast: 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, […]
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