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Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic


A weekly podcast, produced in partnership with the Tikvah Fund, offering up the best thinking on Jewish thought and culture.

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  1. Observation ·

    Podcast: Judge Matthew Solomson on Orthodox Judaism and American Public Service

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    A conversation with one of the highest-ranking observant Jews in the federal judiciary.

    Podcast: Judge Matthew Solomson on Orthodox Judaism and American Public Service
  2. Observation ·

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

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dr. Micah Goodman

    War, social divisions, and social resilience.

    Podcast: Micah Goodman on What He’s Learned about Israel in the Past Year-and-a-Half
  3. Observation ·

    Podcast: Gary Saul Morson on Alexander Solzhenitsyn and His Warning to America

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    The scholar of Russian literature harkens back to a famous warning to Americans about deep-seated tendencies that could lead their nation into societal sickness.

    Podcast: Gary Saul Morson on Alexander Solzhenitsyn and His Warning to America
  4. Observation ·

    Podcast: Eli Steinberg on the Warriors of Torah

    By Eli Steinberg, Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    What were 27,000 ḥaredi men doing in a sports arena in Philadelphia last week, and what does it reveal about their world?

    Podcast: Eli Steinberg on the Warriors of Torah
  5. Observation ·

    Watch, Read, or Listen to Eli Spitzer on the New York Times’s Controversial Yeshiva Report

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Eli Spitzer

    Watch the recording or read the transcript of our columnist's conversation last week about the hasidic yeshiva controversy.

    Watch, Read, or Listen to Eli Spitzer on the New York Times’s Controversial Yeshiva Report
  6. Observation ·

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

    By Dr. Daniel Gordis, Asael Abelman, Jonathan Silver, Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    Two top Israeli observers examine the dominant Jewish personalities in Israel today, and how they compare to the ideas of pre-state Zionist writers.

    Daniel Gordis and Asael Abelman on the Personality of the New Jew
  7. Response ·

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

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    A former senior civil-rights official joins us to explain why properly defining anti-Semitism is so important to the U.S. government's fight against discrimination.

    Podcast: Kenneth Marcus on How the IHRA Definition of Anti-Semitism Helps the Government Protect Civil Rights
  8. Response ·

    Podcast: Jared Kushner on How American Diplomacy Created the Conditions for the Israel-UAE Deal

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    An interview with the senior adviser to the president on the thinking behind the deal, and America's role in the Middle East.

    Podcast: Jared Kushner on How American Diplomacy Created the Conditions for the Israel-UAE Deal
  9. Response ·

    Podcast: Ron Dermer on His Hopes for the Relationship between Israel and the UAE

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    Israel's ambassador to the U.S. joins us to share his vision for the region and the strategic insight that brought us to this moment.

    Podcast: Ron Dermer on His Hopes for the Relationship between Israel and the UAE
  10. Observation ·

    Podcast: Chaim Saiman Talks Zoom Seder Out Loud

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Chaim Saiman

    The author of our May essay on the Zoom seder joins us to talk about his ideas and the debate surrounding them.

    Podcast: Chaim Saiman Talks Zoom Seder Out Loud
  11. Observation ·

    Podcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Yossi Klein Halevi

    The noted author and political thinker drops by our studio to talk about his other passion: Israeli music and the ways it has shaped the country.

    Podcast: Yossi Klein Halevi on the Transformation of Israeli Music
  12. Observation ·

    Podcast: David Makovsky on What Can We Learn from Israel’s Founders

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    The co-author of a new book on Israel's founding generation of leaders stops by to discuss their legacy.

    Podcast: David Makovsky on What Can We Learn from Israel’s Founders
  13. Observation ·

    Podcast: Ruth Wisse on Tevye the Dairyman

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Ruth R. Wisse

    The renowned expert on Yiddish literature stops by to talk everything Tevye, Fiddler, Sholem Aleichem, and more.

    Podcast: Ruth Wisse on Tevye the Dairyman