Jonathan Silver is the editor of Mosaic, the host of the Tikvah Podcast, the Warren R. Stern Senior Fellow of Jewish Civilization, and the Senior Vice President and Chief Programming Officer of Tikvah.
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With the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the severe damage the Islamic Republic has taken, is the regime's long ideological shadow finally fading away?
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Reflections on Israel, America, and the West that remind us we are not captive to fate.
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Raising Jewish children in a changed America.
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A conversation about Jews and language.
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A conversation about how to fight anti-Semitism in America.
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Elliott Abrams and Jonathan Silver discuss why the two-state solution is likely dead—and what the most realistic path forward might be.
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Operation Rising Lion.
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Read or watch the conversation between Doron Spielman and Jonathan Silver.
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Watch or read our discussion with Elliot Kafuman and Michael Pack about the new documentrary on the 1991 pogrom in Brooklyn, and what it means for American Jewry today.
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A recording and transcript of our subscriber-only conversation between two leading rabbis about two of the animating spirits of the Jewish world.
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A recording and transcript of our subscriber-only July event on how Israel investigates itself are now available.
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A Mosaic editor and a Jewish studies professor discuss if and how Jewish studies has lost its way, and whether it can recover.
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Two leading scholars joined Mosaic's editor to look at why compassionate people, like the brilliant Russian author, can so often hate the Jews.
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Featuring fears, fates, burdens of power, memory wars, Sabbath days, Russian writers and timeless questions, years of upheaval, Japanese Jews, and more.
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Interviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger's attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.
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Michael Doran, a leading analyst and author of "The Hidden Calculation Behind the Yom Kippur War," discusses his essay and the eerie resonances between 1973 and 2023.
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Watch or read a discussion about the perennial power of the Nakba with Hussein Aboubakr and Ghaith al-Omari.
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Grotesque images of abused Israeli hostages and violations of dead Israeli bodies should remind us of the reality of evil and the necessity of countering it.
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Watch our recording of the modern Israeli classic. Then stick around for the discussion with Israeli novelist Ruby Namdar and American rabbi Daniel Bouskila.
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Featuring wars, peacemakers, two cultures, pogroms, plays, four ages, wild problems, caves, magic, letters, American conservatives, liberal parents, radical children, and more.
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One of the world's greatest living political philosophers reflects on his intellectual formation, and how he sees Europe, Israel, and America today.
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Shared myths reveal something elemental about the people who sustain them. A scholar of cultural memory describes the layers of myth that illuminate Israel's quintessentially modern city.
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The Israeli writer joined us last week to talk about growing up in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and the movie made about him and his father.
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Join Samuel Goldman, J.J. Kimche, and Sara Yael Hirschhorn for a discussion about Kahane, Taubes, and the enduring troubles of American Jewish liberalism.
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Two top Israeli observers examine the dominant Jewish personalities in Israel today, and how they compare to the ideas of pre-state Zionist writers.
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With a new nuclear deal looming, two experts met to discuss what it means, and to think more broadly about the nature of Iran's radical leadership.
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Watch our recording of the classic Russian Jewish stories. Then stick around for the discussion with Natan Sharansky, Ruth Wisse, and Gary Saul Morson.
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Five of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring a duke's children, Jewish treasures, zealots and emancipators, revolts, dual allegiances, spies, and more.
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The author of "The Eternal Return of Ethel Rosenberg" joins us for a discussion about his subject's unending—and false—air of innocence.
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The senator joins our foreign-policy columnist to talk about America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, and how the nation's short memory imperils its security.
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