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Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition
Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition
On October 27, 2018, a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, armed with a Colt AR-15 semi-automati... Read more
10 Aug 2023
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36mins
Ranked #2
Rebroadcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews
Rebroadcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews
The celebrated novelist Dara Horn's new book People Love Dead Jews has an arresting title, one designed to make the read... Read more
4 Aug 2023
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59mins
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Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy
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Perhaps more than any other major religious tradition, Judaism is mediated through words. God first communicated to Abra... Read more
27 Jul 2023
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44mins
Ranked #4
Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations
Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations
In the sixth century BCE, the kingdom of Judah and its capitol in Jerusalem were besieged by the Babylonian forces of Ne... Read more
20 Jul 2023
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30mins
Ranked #5
Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship
Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship
The first century Roman essayist and philosopher Plutarch is perhaps most famous today for his stylized, paired biograph... Read more
13 Jul 2023
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46mins
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Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration's Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism
Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration's Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism
At the end of May, the Biden administration released the first-ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Anti-Semitism. Thi... Read more
6 Jul 2023
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56mins
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Avital Levi on Loyalty
Avital Levi on Loyalty
Loyalty—as a human sentiment, as a moral virtue, as a matrix of decision-making—is the subject of this podcast conversat... Read more
30 Jun 2023
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59mins
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Michael Doran on the Ambiguities in Biden's Middle East Strategy
Michael Doran on the Ambiguities in Biden's Middle East Strategy
Earlier this week, the American foreign-policy expert and Mosaic writer Michael Doran published an important essay calle... Read more
23 Jun 2023
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40mins
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Eric Cohen on the Questions Graduating Jews and Their Parents Must Confront
Eric Cohen on the Questions Graduating Jews and Their Parents Must Confront
This week, the Tikvah Podcast offers up not a conversation but a speech. It’s a speech that was offered up to American ... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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11mins
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Eli Steinberg on the Warriors of Torah
Eli Steinberg on the Warriors of Torah
This past Sunday, photographs began to appear on social media of a sports stadium, the Wells Fargo Center just outside o... Read more
9 Jun 2023
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50mins