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1

Kassy Akiva on Conversion after October 7

2

Dr. Raphael BenLevi on Ending U.S. Aid to Israel

3

Jesse Arm on Michigan Democrats' Islamism Problem

4

Roy Altman on Why Educated Young People Believe Lies about Israel

5

Joshua Berman on How the Exodus Story Turns Egyptian Imagery on Its Head

6

Hussain Abdul-Hussain on the Arab Case for Israel

7

Yonah Jeremy Bob on the Mossad's Secret War on Iran

8

Mike Pompeo and Michael Doran on the Iran War

9

Bill Drexel on Narendra Modi's Visit to Israel

10

Yehoshua Pfeffer on the Causes of the Bnei Brak Draft Riot

11

Meir Soloveichik and Carlos Campo on Strengthening Religious Freedom in America

12

Rod Dreher on the American Right's Anti-Semitism Problem

13

Russ Roberts on the Return of Ran Gvili

14

Johnnie Moore and Meir Soloveichik on Jews, Evangelicals, and Israel

15

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Why Saudi Arabia Is Moving Away from Israel

16

Aaron Rothstein on the Medical Aid in Dying Act

17

Our Favorite Episodes of 2025

18

Ruth Wisse on Norman Podhoretz

19

Rabbi Ben Elton on Australian Jewry after Bondi Beach

20

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on the Enduring Power of the Psalms

21

Walter Russel Mead and Elliott Abrams on Navigating the New Middle East

22

Josh Tolle on the State of Hillel on Campus

23

R.J. Snell on Modern Expressions of the Marcionite Heresy

24

Ambassador Ron Dermer Looks Back on His Years in Washington (Rebroadcast)

25

Jonathan Leaf on What New Research about Men and Apes Says about Human Nature

26

Samuel Kassow on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

27

John Spencer on the Fate of Gaza's Tunnels

28

Tomer Persico on the Image of God: How Genesis gave rise to modern secularism

29

Yaakov Katz on Israel's New Laser Defenses

30

Andrew Roberts and Meir Soloveichik on Winston Churchill and His Detractors

31

Daniel Samet on the U.S.-Israel Relationship and the American National Interest

32

Richard Goldberg on How American Energy Dominance Is Reshaping the Middle East

33

Ido Hevroni on Teaching Homer in Wartime

34

David Myers and Andrew Koss on Whether Jewish Studies Has Turned against the Jews

35

Barry Strauss on the Jewish Conflict with Ancient Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion

36

Michael Doran on Israel and the American Right

37

How Islamism Took Over the Middle East

38

Tal Fortgang and David E. Bernstein on Defending Jewish Civil Right on Campus

39

Rabbi J.J. Schacter on the Jewish Meaning of Memory

40

Robert Satloff on Revitalizing Middle East Studies

41

Yuval Levin on American Renewal

42

What the War Reveals about Providence and Jewish History with Meir Soloveichik

43

Jay Lefkowitz on New York City's Democratic Primary

44

Sadanand Dhume on Israeli Arms and the India-Pakistan Conflict

45

Jeffrey Herf on the Transformation of Radical Speech into Violence

46

Judge Matthew Solomson on Orthodox Judaism and American Public Service

47

Yossi Melman on Israel's Most Famous Spy

48

J.J. Kimche on Paul Johnson's Legacy of Philo-Semitism

49

Ari Heistein on the American War on the Houthis, and the Israeli One

50

Michael Doran on Donald Trump's Middle East Policy

51

Benedict Kiely on Pope Francis and the State of Jewish-Catholic Relations

52

Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative

53

Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel

54

Tevi Troy on How Republican Administrations Argue about Israel

55

Micah Goodman on What He's Learned about Israel in the Past Year-and-a-Half

56

Mark Gottlieb and Anna Moreland on Judaism, Christianity, and Forgiveness

57

Ronna Burger on Reading Esther as a Philosopher (Rebroadcast)

58

Reihan Salam on Rebuilding Urban Conservatism

59

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Why the End of Palestinian Nationalism Can Bring Hope to Palestinians

60

David Bashevkin on Orthodox Jews and the American Religious Revival

61

Diana Mara Henry and Gabriel Scheinmann on One Jew Who Fought Back against the Nazis

62

Cynthia Ozick on "The Conversion of the Jews" (Rebroadcast)

63

Amit Segal on Israel's 60-Year-Old Prisoner Dilemma

64

Ross Douthat and Meir Soloveichik on the State of American Belief

65

Michael Doran on Jimmy Carter and the Middle East

66

Brad Wilcox on Americans without Families

67

Our Favorite Conversations of 2024

68

Terry Glavin on Anti-Semitism in Canada

69

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on the Fall of Syria and the Death of Baathism: How Arab intellectuals understand the latest ideological revolution

70

Bella Brannon and Benjie Katz on Anti-Semitic Employment Discrimination at UCLA

71

Ari Lamm on the Biblical Meaning of Giving Thanks

72

Maury Litwack on the Jewish Vote in the 2024 Elections

73

Jon Levenson on Understanding the Binding of Isaac as the Bible Understands It (Rebroadcast)

74

Mark Dubowitz on the Dangers of a Lame-Duck President

75

Matthew Levitt on Israel's War with Hizballah

76

Meir Soloveichik on the Meaning of the Jewish Calendar

77

Elliott Abrams on Whether American Jewry Can Restore Its Sense of Peoplehood

78

Assaf Orion on Israel's War with Hizballah

79

Abe Unger on America's First Jewish Classical School

80

Marc Novicoff on Why Elite Colleges Were More Likely to Protest Israel

81

Liel Leibovitz on What the Protests in Israel Mean

82

Gary Saul Morson on Alexander Solzhenitsyn and His Warning to America

83

Adam Kirsch on Settler Colonialism

84

Raphael BenLevi, Hanin Ghaddar, and Richard Goldberg on the Looming War in Lebanon

85

Josh Kraushaar on the Democratic Party's Veepstakes and American Jewry

86

J.J. Schacter on the First Tisha b'Av Since October 7

87

Noah Rothman on Kamala Harris's Views of Israel and the Middle East

88

Avi Weiss on the AMIA Bombing 30 Years Later (Rebroadcast)

89

Melanie Phillips on the British Election and the Jews

90

Mark Cohn on the Reform Movement and Intermarriage

91

Jeffrey Saks on the Genius of S.Y. Agnon

92

Shlomo Brody on What the Jewish Tradition Says about Going to War

93

Chaim Saiman on the Roots and Basis of Jewish Law (Rebroadcast)

94

Elliott Abrams on American Jewish Anti-Zionists

95

Andrew Doran on Why He Thinks the Roots of Civilization Are Jewish

96

Haisam Hassanein on How Egypt Sees Gaza

97

Asael Abelman on the History of "Hatikvah"

98

Shlomo Brody on Jewish Ethics in War

99

Ruth Wisse on the Explosion of Anti-Israel Protests on Campus

100

Meir Soloveichik on the Politics of the Haggadah

101

Yechiel Leiter on Losing a Child to War

102

Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Service in the Israeli Military

103

Joseph Lieberman on American Jews and the Zionist Dream (Rebroadcast)

104

Seth Kaplan on How to Fix America's Fragile Neighborhood

105

Timothy Carney on How It Became So Hard to Raise a Family in America

106

Jonathan Conricus on How Israeli Aid to Gaza Works

107

Vance Serchuk on Ten Years of the Russia-Ukraine War

108

Yehuda Halper on Maimonides the Physician

109

Cynthia Ozick on the Story of a Jew Who Becomes a Tormentor of Other Jews

110

Yehuda Halper on Guiding Readers to "The Guide of the Perplexed"

111

Ray Takeyh on What Iran Wants

112

Yehuda Halper on Maimonides and the Human Condition

113

Hillel Neuer on How the Human-Rights Industry Became Obsessed with Israel

114

Yehuda Halper on Where to Begin With Maimonides

115

Our Favorite Conversations of 2023

116

Matti Friedman on Whether Israel Is Too Dependent on Technology

117

Ghaith al-Omari on What Palestinians Really Think about Hamas, Israel, War, and Peace

118

Alexandra Orbuch, Gabriel Diamond, and Zach Kessel on the Situation for Jews on American Campuses

119

Roya Hakakian on Her Letter to an Anti-Zionist Idealist

120

Edward Luttwak on How Israel Develops Advanced Military Technology On Its Own

121

Shany Mor, Hussein Aboubakr, and Haviv Rettig Gur on the Palestinian Predicament

122

Assaf Orion on Israel's Initial Air Campaign in Gaza

123

Bruce Bechtol on How North Korean Weapons Ended Up in Gaza

124

Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak on Whether Hamas Doomed Israeli-Turkish Relations

125

Michael Doran on Israel's Wars: 1973 and 2023

126

Ethan Tucker on the Jewish Duty to Recover Hostages

127

Meir Soloveichik on What Jews Believe and Say about Martyrdom

128

Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap and What It Means for Jews

129

Alon Arvatz on Israel's Cyber-Security Industry

130

Daniel Rynhold on Thinking Repentance Through

131

Jon Levenson on Understanding the Binding of Isaac as the Bible Understands It

132

Yonatan Jakubowicz on Israel's African Immigrants

133

Mordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank

134

Ran Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst

135

Dovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History

136

Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition

137

Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

138

Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy

139

Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations

140

Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship

141

Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration's Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism

142

Avital Levi on Loyalty

143

Michael Doran on the Ambiguities in Biden's Middle East Strategy

144

Eric Cohen on the Questions Graduating Jews and Their Parents Must Confront

145

Eli Steinberg on the Warriors of Torah

146

Cynthia Ozick on "The Conversion of the Jews"

147

Leon Kass on Reading Ruth

148

Tara Isabella Burton on the Creation and Curation of the Modern Self

149

Nathan Diament on Whether the Post Office Can Force Employees to Work on the Sabbath

150

Yaakov Amidror on Why He's Arguing That Israel Must Prepare for War with Iran

151

Liel Leibovitz on the Return of Paganism

152

Rick Richman on History and Devotion

153

Yuval Levin on How America's Constitution Might Help Solve Israel's Judicial Crisis

154

Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler on the Political Philosophy of Israel's Declaration of Independence

155

Yehoshua Pfeffer on Israel's Social Schisms and How They Affect the Judicial Reform Debate

156

Jonathan Schachter on What Saudi Arabia's Deal with Iran Means for Israel and America

157

Peter Berkowitz and Gadi Taub on the Deeper Causes of Israel's Conflict

158

Jordan B. Gorfinkel on His New Illustrated Book of Esther

159

Malka Simkovich on God's Maternal Love

160

Joshua Karlip on the Demise of Jewish Studies

161

Richard Goldberg on Recent Joint Military Exercises Between America and Israel

162

Russ Roberts on the Disappointment and the Promise of Prayer

163

Joshua Berman on Traveling to Biblical Egypt

164

Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government

165

Carl Gershman on What the Jewish Experience Can Offer the Uighurs of China

166

Our Favorite Broadcasts of 2022

167

Benjamin Netanyahu on His Moments of Decision

168

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll on the Virtues and the Excesses of Jewish Modesty

169

Maxim D. Shrayer on the Moral Obligations and Dilemmas of Russia's Jewish Leaders

170

Ryan Anderson on Why His Think Tank Focuses on Culture and Not Just Politics

171

Simcha Rothman on Reforming Israel's Justice System

172

Michael Doran on Iran's Growing Military Dominance in the Middle East

173

Scott Shay on How BDS Crept Into the Investment World, and How It Was Kicked Out

174

Haviv Rettig Gur on Netanyahu, Lapid, and Another Israeli Election

175

Yoav Sorek, David Weinberg, and Jonathan Silver on What Jewish Magazines Are For

176

Tony Badran Puts Israel's New Maritime Borders with Lebanon into Context

177

George Weigel on the Second Vatican Council and the Jews

178

Shay Khatiri on the Protests Riling Iran

179

Gil Student on the Journey into Orthodoxy (Rebroadcast)

180

Eli Spitzer on the New York Times's Controversial Yeshiva Report

181

Meir Soloveichik on Jerusalem's Enduring Symbols

182

Daniel Polisar on the First Zionist Congress, 125 Years Later

183

Hussein Aboubakr on the Holocaust in the Arab Moral Imagination

184

Jonathan Schanzer on Israel's Weekend War against Islamic Jihad

185

Yair Harel on Haim Louk's Masterful Jewish Music

186

Micah Goodman on Deuteronomy—Moses's Final Speech (Rebroadcast)

187

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter on Why So Many Jewish Soldiers Are Buried Under Crosses, and What Can Be Done About It

188

Robert Nicholson on the Changing Face of Evangelical Zionism

189

Daniel Gordis and Asael Abelman on the Personality of the New Jew

190

Douglas Murray on the War on the West

191

Podcast: Jeffrey Woolf on the Political and Religious Significance of the Temple Mount

192

Zohar Atkins on the Contested Idea of Equality

193

Steven Smith on Persecution and the Art of Writing

194

Jon Levenson on the Moral Force of the Book of Ruth

195

Tony Badran on How Hizballah Wins, Even When It Loses

196

John Podhoretz on Midge Decter's Life in Ideas

197

Motti Inbari on the Yemenite Children Affair

198

Christine Emba on Rethinking Sex

199

Shany Mor on How To Understand the Recent Terror Attacks in Israel

200

Abraham Socher on His Life in Jewish Letters and the Liberal Arts

201

Yuval Levin on the Exodus and Freedom

202

Ilana Horwitz on Educational Performance and Religion

203

David Friedman on What He Learned as U.S. Ambassador to Israel

204

Andy Smarick on What the Government Can and Can't Do to Help American Families

205

Aaron MacLean on Deterrence and American Power

206

Ronna Burger on Reading Esther as a Philosopher

207

Dovid Margolin on Jewish Life in War-torn Ukraine

208

Vance Serchuk on the History and Politics Behind Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

209

Ruth Wisse on the Stories Jews Tell

210

Yossi Shain on the Israeli Century

211

Michael Doran on the Most Strategically Valuable Country You've Never Heard Of

212

Mitch Silber on Securing America's Jewish Communities

213

Jesse Smith on Transmitting Religious Devotion

214

Matti Friedman on China's New Haifa Port

215

Jay Greene on Anti-Semitic Leanings Among College Diversity Administrators

216

Our Favorite Broadcasts of 2021

217

Three Young Jews on Discovering Their Jewish Purposes

218

Podcast: Annie Fixler on Cyber Warfare in the 21st Century

219

Victoria Coates on the Confusion in Natanz

220

Judah Ari Gross on Why Israel and Morocco Came to a New Defense Agreement

221

Avi Helfand on Jewish Life and Law at the Supreme Court

222

Nicholas Eberstadt on What Declining Birthrates Mean for the Future of the West

223

Suzy Weiss on the Childless Lives of Young American Women

224

Michael Eisenberg on Economics in the Book of Genesis

225

Elisha Wiesel on His Father's Jewish and Zionist Legacy

226

Antonio Garcia Martinez on Choosing Judaism as an Antidote to Secular Modernity

227

Haviv Rettig Gur on the Jewish Agency in 2021

228

Yedidya Sinclair on Israel's Shmitah Year

229

Peter Kreeft on the Philosophy of Ecclesiastes

230

Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews

231

Elliot Kaufman on the Crown Heights Riot, 30 Years Later

232

Allan Arkush on Ahad Ha'am and "The Jewish State and Jewish Problem" (Rebroadcast)

233

Cynthia Ozick on Her New Novel "Antiquities"

234

Jenna and Benjamin Storey on Why Americans Are So Restless

235

Kenneth Marcus on How the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Helps the Government Protect Civil Rights

236

Nir Barkat on a Decade of Governing the World's Most Spiritual City

237

Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews (Rebroadcast)

238

Yehoshua Pfeffer on How Haredi Jews Think About Serving in the IDF

239

Shalom Carmy on Jewish Understanding of Human Suffering

240

Dru Johnson on Biblical Philosophy

241

David Rozenson on How His Family Escaped the Soviet Union and Why He Chose To Return

242

Matti Friedman on How Americans Project Their Own Problems onto Israel

243

Benjamin Haddad on Why Europe is Becoming More Pro-Israel

244

Seth Siegel on Israel's Water Revolution

245

Michael Doran on America's Strategic Realignment in the Middle East

246

Sohrab Ahmari on Why Americans Must Recover the Sabbath

247

Shlomo Brody on Reclaiming Biblical Social Justice

248

Christine Rosen on the New Crime Wave and Its Consequences

249

Jonathan Schanzer on the Palestinians' Political Mess

250

Meena Viswanath on How the Duolingo App Became an Unwitting Arbiter of Modern Jewish Identity

251

Mohammed Alyahya on Two Competing Visions of Power in the Middle East

252

Jacob J. Schacter on Joseph B. Soloveitchik and the State of Israel (Rebroadcast)

253

Sean Clifford on the Israeli Company Making the Internet Safe for American Families

254

Mark Gerson on How the Seder Teaches Freedom Through Food

255

Daniel Gordis on the Israeli Supreme Court's New Conversion Ruling

256

Gil and Tevi Troy's Non-Negotiable Judaisms

257

Richard Goldberg on How Iran Is Already Testing the Biden Administration

258

Shany Mor on What Makes America's Peace Processors Tick

259

Yehoshua Pfeffer on the Coronavirus and Rethinking the Relationship between Ḥaredim and Israeli Society

260

Gerald McDermott and Derryck Green on How Biblical Ideas Can Help Bridge America's Racial Divide

261

Emmanuel Navon on Jewish Diplomacy from Abraham to Abba Eban

262

Michael Oren on Writing Fiction and Serving Israel

263

Podcast: Joel Kotkin Thinks About God and the Pandemic

264

Dore Gold on the Strategic Importance of the Nile River and the Politics of the Red Sea

265

Yuval Levin Asks How Religious Minorities Survive in America—Then and Now

266

Mark Gottlieb on Rabbi Soloveitchik's "Everlasting Hanukkah"

267

Ambassador Ron Dermer Looks Back on His Years in Washington

268

Richard Goldberg on the Future of Israeli-Saudi Relations

269

Matti Friedman on the Russian Aliyah—30 Years Later

270

Daniel Gordis on America, Israel, and the Sources of Jewish Resilience

271

John Podhoretz on 75 Years of Commentary

272

Yossi Klein Halevi on Jabotinsky's Security Strategy (Rebroadcast)

273

Michael McConnell on the Free Exercise of Religion

274

Ruth Wisse on Five Books Every Jew Should Read

275

Dan Senor on the Start-Up Nation and COVID-19

276

Reflections for the Days of Awe

277

Haviv Rettig Gur on Israel's Deep State

278

Ruth Wisse and Hillel Halkin on the Authors Who Created Modern Hebrew Literature

279

Gil Troy on "Never Alone"

280

Jared Kushner on His Approach to Middle East Diplomacy

281

Ambassador Ron Dermer on the Israel-U.A.E. Accord

282

Micah Goodman on Politics, Power, and Kingship in Deuteronomy

283

Michael Doran on China's Drive for Middle Eastern Supremacy

284

Peter Berkowitz on Unalienable Rights, the American Tradition, and Foreign Policy

285

Wilfred McClay on the Historic Jewish-Christian Rapprochement

286

Amos Yadlin on the Explosions Rocking Iran

287

Matthew Continetti on Irving Kristol's Rabbinic Mind (Rebroadcast)

288

Jason Bedrick on School Choice, Religious Liberty, and the Jews

289

Meir Soloveichik on the Genius of Rabbi Norman Lamm

290

Tara Isabella Burton on Spirituality in a Godless Age

291

Gary Saul Morson on "Leninthink"

292

Wilfred McClay on the Soul of America (Rebroadcast)

293

David Wolpe on The Pandemic and the Future of Liberal Judaism

294

Chaim Saiman on the "Zoom Seder" and Its Discontents

295

Leon Kass on Reading Exodus and the Formation of the People of Israel

296

Einat Wilf on the West's Indulgence of Palestinian Delusions

297

Matti Friedman: The End of the Israeli Left?

298

Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Society and the COVID-19 Crisis

299

Menachem Wecker on Yoga and Idolatry

300

Moshe Koppel on How Israel's Perpetual Election Came to an End

301

Michael Doran on Coronavirus in Iran

302

Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music

303

Richard Goldberg on the Future of Iran Policy

304

Rafael Medoff on Franklin Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen Wise, and the Holocaust

305

Eugene Kontorovich on the Trump Peace Plan

306

Mark Gottlieb on Jewish Sexual Ethics

307

Michael Avi Helfand on Religious Freedom, Education, and the Supreme Court

308

Joshua Berman on Biblical Criticism, Faith, and Integrity

309

Ruth Wisse on What Saul Bellow Saw

310

Daniel Cox on Millennials, Religion, and the Family

311

Yuval Levin on Rebuilding American Institutions

312

Neil Rogachevsky on Israeli Electoral Reform

313

Yuval Levin on the Remarkable Legacy of Gertrude Himmelfarb

314

Best of 2019 at the Tikvah Podcast

315

Arthur Herman on China and the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship"

316

Walter Russell Mead on Israel and American Foreign Policy

317

Senator Joseph Lieberman on American Jews and the Zionist Dream

318

Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt and Batya Ungar-Sargon on Why No One Cares about Attacks on the Orthodox

319

Eugene Kontorovich on America and the Settlements

320

David Makovsky: What Can We Learn from Israel's Founders?

321

Christine Rosen on Thinking Religiously about Facebook

322

2019 Herzl Prize Winner Norman Podhoretz on Jerusalem and Jewish Particularity

323

Jacob Howland: The Philosopher Who Reads the Talmud

324

Dru Johnson, Jonathan Silver, and Robert Nicholson on Reviving Hebraic Thought

325

Thomas Karako on the U.S., Israel, and Missile Defense

326

David Bashevkin on Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought

327

Matti Friedman on Israel, the Mizrahi Nation

328

Micah Goodman on Shrinking the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

329

Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part III

330

Meir Soloveichik on the Meaning of Kashrut

331

Avi Weiss on the AMIA Bombing Cover-Up

332

Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part II

333

Ruth Wisse on Tevye the Dairyman (Rebroadcast)

334

Jack Wertheimer on the New American Judaism – Part I

335

Jeremy Rabkin on Israel and International Law

336

Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Politics and Culture

337

Mona Charen on Sex, Love, and Where Feminism Went Wrong

338

Dara Horn on "Eternal Life"

339

David Evanier on the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell, and Jewish Communism

340

Michael Doran on America's Standoff with Iran

341

Daniel Krauthammer on His Father's Jewish Legacy

342

Yaakov Katz on "Shadow Strike"

343

Annika Hernroth-Rothstein on the Miracle of Jewish Continuity

344

Menachem Wecker on What's Wrong with the Jewish Museum

345

Francine Klagsbrun on Golda Meir—Israel's Lioness

346

Jonathan Neumann on the Left, the Right, and the Jews

347

Matti Friedman on Israel's First Spies

348

Dovid Margolin on the Rebbe's Campaign for a Moment of Silence

349

Scott Shay on Idolatry, Ancient and Modern

350

Joshua Berman on Whether the Exodus Really Happened

351

Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews

352

Nicholas Gallagher on Jewish History and America's Immigration Crisis

353

Special Envoy Elan Carr on America's Fight Against Anti-Semitism

354

Malka Groden on the Jewish Family and America's Adoption Crisis

355

Eugene Kontorovich Explains Congress's Effort to Counter BDS

356

Rabbi David Wolpe on the Future of Conservative Judaism

357

Michael Doran on America's Allies and America's Enemies

358

Jonah Goldberg on Marx's Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory

359

Ambassador Danny Danon Goes on Offense at the U.N.

360

A New Year at the Tikvah Podcast

361

The Meaning of Jewish Nationalism - Lecture 1: The Politics of the Bible

362

The Best of 2018

363

Jacob J. Schacter on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and the State of Israel

364

Chaim Saiman on the Rabbinic Idea of Law

365

Daniel Polisar on Herzl's "The Menorah"

366

Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Conservatism

367

Yoram Hazony on Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom (Rebroadcast)

368

Leon Kass on His Life and the Worthy Life

369

Chaotic Friendship: Israel and the Trump Administration

370

Clifford Librach on the Reform Movement and Jewish Peoplehood

371

Michael Doran on Theology, Zionism, and American Foreign Policy

372

Sohrab Ahmari on Sex, Desire, and the Transgender Movement

373

Yoram Hazony on the Bible's Political Teaching

374

The Future of Jerusalem: A View from the Front

375

John Podhoretz on the Best and Worst of Jewish Cinema

376

Jamie Kirchick on Europe's Coming Dark Age

377

Special Podcast - Kikar Ep. 1: Elliott Abrams on Hamas, Gaza, and the Case for Jewish Power

378

Ruth Wisse on the Nature and Functions of Anti-Semitism

379

Jeffrey Saks on Shmuel Yosef Agnon

380

Samuel Goldman on Christian Zionism in America

381

Martin Kramer on Ben-Gurion, Borders, and the Vote That Made Israel

382

Russ Roberts on Hayek, Knowledge, and Jewish Tradition

383

Yossi Klein Halevi on Moving In and Out of Extremism

384

Charles Freilich on the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship"

385

Jeffrey Salkin on "Judaism Beyond Slogans"

386

Erica Brown on Educating Jewish Adults

387

Mark Dubowitz on the Future of the Iran Deal

388

Greg Weiner on Moynihan, Israel, and the United Nations

389

Daniel Polisar on Nationhood, Zionism, and the Jews

390

Jon Levenson on the Danger and Opportunity of Jewish-Christian Dialogue

391

Leora Batnitzky on the Legacy of Leo Strauss

392

Wilfred McClay on America's Civil Religion

393

Robert Nicholson on Evangelicals, Israel, and the Jews

394

Charles Small on "The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism"

395

Daniel Mark on Judaism and Our Postmodern Age

396

Ruth Wisse on the Perversity of Brilliance

397

Daniel Troy on "The Burial Society"

398

Matthew Continetti on William F. Buckley, the Conservative Movement, and Anti-Semitism

399

Jonathan Sacks on Creative Minorities

400

Elliott Abrams on "Dictatorships and Double Standards"

401

Jay Lefkowitz on His Life in the Arena

402

Michael Doran on America's Middle East Strategy

403

Gabriel Scheinmann on Bombing the Syrian Reactor

404

Elliott Abrams on His Calling and Career

405

Jeffrey Bloom on Faith and America's Addiction Crisis

406

Gil Student on the Journey into Orthodoxy

407

A Theology of Rejection: The Haredi Struggle with Zionism and with Modernity

408

Meir Soloveichik on "L'Chaim and Its Limits"

409

Michael Makovsky on Churchill and the Jews

410

The Story of Hebrew and the Story of Judaism

411

Is Zionism Messianic? The Debate over the Soul of Religious Zionism

412

Zionism as the Liberation of Judaism: The Debate over the Soul of Secular Zionism

413

Neil Rogachevsky on the Story Behind Oslo

414

Mark Gottlieb on Jewish Education

415

Elliott Abrams on American Jews and Israel (Rebroadcast)

416

The Future of Religious Liberty

417

Mitchell Rocklin on Jewish-Christian Relations

418

Liel Leibovitz on the Jewish Poetry of Leonard Cohen

419

Ruth Wisse on Tevye the Dairyman

420

Samuel Goldman on Religion, State, and the Jews

421

Bret Stephens on the Legacy of 1967 and the U.S.-Israel Relationship (Rebroadcast)

422

Leon Kass on the Ten Commandments

423

Norman Podhoretz on Jerusalem and Jewish Particularity (Rebroadcast)

424

Ruth Wisse on Cynthia Ozick's "Innovation and Redemption"

425

Yossi Klein Halevi on Ze'ev Jabotinsky's "The Iron Wall"

426

Tevi Troy on the Politics of Tu B'Shvat

427

Jay Lefkowitz and Mitchell Rocklin on the Jewish Vote

428

The Big Stick

429

Yuval Levin on the Long Way to Liberty

430

Ruth Wisse on Sartre and Anti-Semitism

431

Edward Rothstein on Jerusalem Syndrome at the Met

432

Matthew Continetti on Irving Kristol's Theological Politics

433

Is Israel a Military Superpower?

434

Meir Soloveichik on King David

435

R.R. Reno on "Faith in the Flesh"

436

Arthur Herman on Why Everybody Loves Israel

437

Peter Berkowitz on a Liberal Education and Its Betrayal

438

"Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom" Episode 3

439

"Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom" Episode 2

440

"Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom" Episode 1

441

Meir Soloveichik on Rembrandt, Tolkien, and the Jews

442

Yoram Hazony on Nationalism and the Future of Western Freedom

443

Jason Bedrick on Jewish Day Schools and School Choice

444

Allan Arkush on Ahad Ha'am and "The Jewish State and Jewish Problem"

445

Bret Stephens on the Legacy of 1967, and the Condition of the U.S.-Israel Relationship

446

Jay Lefkowitz on Social Orthodoxy

447

Norman Podhoretz on Jerusalem and Jewish Particularity

448

Daniel Johnson and William Kristol - The Left, the Right, and the Future of the West

449

Michael Doran on Western Elites and the Middle East

450

Ruth Wisse on Campus Anti-Semitism

451

Walter Russell Mead - The New Israel and the Old

452

Meir Soloveichik on "Confrontation"

453

Yuval Levin on Religious Liberty

454

Elliott Abrams on American Jews and Israel

455

Charles Krauthammer – At Last, Zion

456

William Kristol – American Democracy Today

457

Yoram Hazony and George Weigel - Modernity, Religion, and Morality

458

Joshua Mitchell - Tocqueville in Arabia

459

Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter on Family and Freedom

460

Rabbi David Stav on Uniting the Jewish People

461

Dara Horn on Jewish Literature and American Life

462

David Stav and Seth Farber – Marriage and Conversion in the State of Israel

463

Dara Horn - Life and Work

464

Elliott Abrams - A Life in the Arena

465

Natan Sharansky - "Defending Identity": Israel and the World

466

Meir Soloveichik and Shai Held - Debates in Jewish Theology

467

William Kristol - Reflections from Israel

468

Michael Doran and Hillel Fradkin – Muslims and Power

469

Christine Hayes and Yehoshua Pfeffer - What is Rabbinic Literature?

470

Leora Batnitzky and Micah Goodman - Modern Judaism

471

Ruth Wisse and Moshe Halbertal - Jews and Power

472

Frederick Kagan - War and Statesmanship

473

Eric Edelman - Wartime Decision Making

474

Charles Hill - War and Human Consciousness

475

Norman Podhoretz - Reflections of a Jewish Neoconservative

476

Ambassador Ron Dermer - Israel's Capitalist Revolution

477

Bret Stephens - The Coming Global Disorder

478

Walter Russell Mead - The Big Five: America's Make-or-Break Challenges

479

Ruth Wisse - Jews and Power

480

Elliott Abrams - Reconsidering America's Democracy Agenda

481

Daniel Gordis - Menachem Begin: Israel's Jewish Prime Minister

482

Shai Held - Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Call of Transcendence

483

Leora Batnitzky - Is Judaism a Religion?

484

William Kristol - American Foreign Policy and the State of Israel