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Podcast: Daniel Rynhold on Thinking Repentance Through

Podcast: Daniel Rynhold on Thinking Repentance Through

A Jewish philosopher stops by to talk about how Jews—and one major non-Jew—have thought about repentance.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Daniel Rynhold
Sept. 22 2023 12:01AM
"This Is the Yom Kippur of"

"This Is the Yom Kippur of"

In the wake of the Yom Kippur War, the words yom kippur shel, “the Yom Kippur of,” have referred in Israeli speech to any debacle that might have been prevented by better judgment.

Sept. 20 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Jon Levenson on Understanding the Binding of Isaac as the Bible Understands It

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

The temptation is overwhelming to excuse or soften the drama of Genesis 22. A leading professor of Jewish thought explains how to get past that, and what meaning lies beyond it.

Sept. 15 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Yonatan Jakubowicz on Israel's African Immigrants

Podcast: Yonatan Jakubowicz on Israel's African Immigrants

Some 40,000 non-Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan now live in Israel. How did they get there, why did they come, and what obligation, if any, does Israel have to them?

Yonatan Jakubowicz and Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic
Sept. 8 2023 12:07AM
What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

In both Hebrew and English.

Sept. 7 2023 12:33AM
Podcast: Mordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank

Podcast: Mordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank

Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, the main source of violence against Israel has been the Gaza Strip rather than the West Bank. Is that changing?

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Mordechai Kedar
Sept. 1 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Ran Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst

Podcast: Ran Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst

The Israeli journalist stops by to talk about the deeper emotions at play on all sides of the current civil crisis, and how they can be addressed.

Aug. 25 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Dovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History

Podcast: Dovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History

The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.

Aug. 18 2023 12:01AM
The Mysterious Glossary of Maimonides

The Mysterious Glossary of Maimonides

What might the great scholar have been intending with a recently discovered list he made of seemingly random words from random European languages?

Aug. 16 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition

Podcast: Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition

Earlier this month, the man who killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh in 2018 was sentenced to death. A rabbi and ethicist joins us to think about Jewish views of capital punishment.

Aug. 11 2023 12:01AM
A Solution to Israel's Woes? A Judaism of Yes

A Solution to Israel's Woes? A Judaism of Yes

Judaism has many “thou shalt nots.” It also has many positive elements, and emphasizing those could bring a nation divided by religious observance back together.

Ze'ev Maghen
Aug. 9 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

The author talks about the world’s fascination with dead Jews and its indifference to living ones.

Aug. 4 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy

Podcast: Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy

The author of a new book on the subject joins Mosaic’s editor to talk about the technology and artistry of Hebrew writing, and the vocation of the Hebrew scribe.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Izzy Pludwinski
July 28 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations

Podcast: Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations

The author of a new commentary stops by to talk about one of the most disturbing days in Jewish history, and how its survivors and their descendants tried to understand it.

July 21 2023 12:01AM