The noted scholar joins our podcast to analyze an important speech Soloveitchik gave on the eve of the Suez Crisis, deriving meaning for the circumstance from the Bible’s Song of Songs.
Halakhic thought tends naturally to theocracy.
U.S. Jews who care about Israel tend to be more religious and more right-wing than those who don’t.
Another casualty of the peace process.
Isaac Jacob Reines.
The story of Ayelet Shaked.
Parliamentary maneuvering and Jewish values.
Moving beyond the religious-secular divide.
“The voice of my beloved knocks.”
A lost work by Abraham Isaac Kook.
“The most systematic, comprehensive commentary on Maimonides’ code ever produced.”
Ben-Gurion, Thomas Jefferson, and declarations of independence.
And the theological crisis of the withdrawal from Gaza.