Podcast: Motti Inbari on the Yemenite Children Affair
May 17, 2022 | By: Motti Inbari
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, thousands of Middle Eastern Jews left their countries of origin and moved to Israel. Among them were the Jews of Yemen. There is a myth, believed by some […]
Read MorePodcast: Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex
May 10, 2022 | By: Christine Emba
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. For most young men and women today, sexual ethics have been collapsed into one idea: consent. Consent, whereby two responsible, conscientious, free people agree to enter into a sexual relationship, has become a shorthand way […]
Read MorePodcast: Shany Mor on How to Understand the Recent Terror Attacks in Israel
April 29, 2022 | By: Shany Mor
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, during which Israel endured attacks constantly, terrorism there has been comparatively rare. There have been knifings, and many rockets fired from Gaza and from […]
Read MorePodcast: Abraham Socher on His Life in Jewish Letters and the Liberal Arts
April 21, 2022 | By: Abraham Socher
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Since its first issue twelve years ago, the Jewish Review of Books, a beautifully-designed quarterly that was founded and supported by Tikvah, has produced 49 issues of high-level Jewish discourse. Much of that success can […]
Read MorePodcast: Ilana Horwitz on Educational Performance and Religion
April 13, 2022 | By: Ilana Horwitz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Why do some American children do better in school than others? Social scientists tend to look to family structure, race, class, and gender in an effort to find factors that correlate to better or worse […]
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