
Response
The Universities and the American Crisis
Leading thinkers examine how to strengthen, reform, and renew American universities—and where Jews fit in that project.
By Ben SasseEpisode 424·The Tikvah Podcast
The dust and blood and bronze of the Trojan War come to life in Gaza.
Speech
A conversation on religion in the founding, the nature of God, and more.
Episode 87·The Pillars: Jerusalem, Athens, and the Western Mind
The spirit of discovery in the Renaissance pushes Europe to expand its horizons.
Essay
With anti-Semitism on the rise and the humanities in decline, how can young Jews pick the right university?
Response
The spotlight on Israel should be seen as a chance to explain the country to those who misunderstand it.
Response
We have a golden opportunity to remember what higher education is for.
Lebanon will say farewell to a 47-year-old interim force.
But its goals are more modest.
The suicide bomber now flows seamlessly into the icon of the Palestinian Christ.
Separation of powers.
Revisiting The Chosen.
Episode 233·10-Minute Mitzvah
The peculiar ritual that follows a murder reminds the community of their duty to care for one another.
Essay
The university hall ransacked by a mob was named for a founding father who understood the role of Jews in America.
Episode 179·Bible 365
The Book of Joel elucidates the meaning of the most famous biblical instrument.
Speech
Rabbi Soloveichik and Christine Rosen discuss the deeper assumptions shaping our environment today.
Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
Episode 424·Aug 28, 2025
The dust and blood and bronze of the Trojan War come to life in Gaza.
Episode 423·Aug 21, 2025
Has the field lost its way, and can it recover?
Episode 422·Aug 14, 2025
Two Centuries of Rebellion
With Mrs. Rachel Besser, Dr. Mijal Bitton, Rabbi Shmuel Braun, Dr. Erica Brown, Eric Cohen, Rabbi Mark Gottlieb, Talia Harcsztark, Dara Horn, Dr. Doran 'Dodie' Katz, Rabbi Hershel Lutch, Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Unger
Where can modern Jews, both young and old and across the spectrum of observance, turn for guidance on timely and timeless questions, on the most urgent and most perennial issues?
For nearly two millennia, Jews from all around the world have dedicated the six Sabbaths between Passover and Shavuot to the regular study of Pirkei Avot, the Ethics (or Chapters) of the Fathers. Pirkei Avot—or Avot, for short—is a section of the Mishna, the first formal codification of the Jewish Oral Law, which portrays the moral-ethical universe of Judaism in all its fullness. These teachings, culled from the sayings of almost sixty sages, stretching over some five centuries, are the building blocks of a Jewish life well-lived. In short, Avot is the foundational text for any authentic transmission of Jewish values and virtues.
With Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
Rabbi Soloveichik explores the history and hidden depths of Jewish ritual through the extraordinary art of Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Oppenheim brought Jewish ritual to life as no other modern artist has. In this course, Rabbi Soloveichik will study his paintings to uncover the spiritual meaning, historical context, and enduring relevance of the Jewish practices and people he depicts.
With Dr. Ruth Wisse
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Jews flooded into the United States. Large numbers settled in New York, fashioning an intellectual community that became the basis of American Jewish culture today.
Through essays, poems, novels, and short stories—in Yiddish and English—the writers who formed this “concentrated explosion of intellectual talent” sought to understand what this new country was about, and what it ought to be about. In doing so, they also prompted important changes in America itself.
In this course, the distinguished literary critic Dr. Ruth R. Wisse will explore the writing and ideas of the women and men who made up the first generation of the New York Intellectuals.
Unlock the most serious Jewish, Zionist, and American thinking.
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