Podcasts

The clash between brothers amid Israel’s War of Independence.

While Friedrich Schiller was a paragon of optimism, E.T.A. Hoffmann saw a darker side of human nature.

A recent audit shows that a disturbing number of professors in the field are opponents of Israel.

The viability of the newly formed United States would be tested in its early years.

The founders’ writings and legacies reveal the roots of American exceptionalism and the singularity of Jewish life in America.

Two founders laid to rest, and a third grave that whispers the singularity of the Jewish story—and America's covenantal nature.

Pondering how posterity might judge them, the Founders wrestle with the fragile line between truth and legacy.

Two speeches reveal the equality and embrace Jews found in early America—and the biblical roots of that welcome.

A religious Jew who served in the Revolution and the bravery he displayed.

Desecrating and sanctifying the name of God.

Jefferson and Adams clash over faction and the Sedition Acts as America's first political parties take shape.

The United States Constitution remains a brilliant legal document as significant today as it was in 1789.

A dinner among unlikely guests carries the same story of civic equality that Washington had already set in motion.

Jefferson saw the French Revolution as heir to 1776. Adams saw it as a betrayal of the American Revolution's principles.

Two revolutionaries, two theologies, and two ways of reading America's Hebraic inheritance.

Before they wrote a revolution together, Adams and Jefferson first clashed over faith.

An Orthodox Jew wanted to hold services in his house. Now the case is going to the Supreme Court.

Longfellow's elegy for the dead meets Lazarus's hymn to the living—together marking a religious liberty unique to America, and still unfolding.

Washington's letters to American Jews reveal a nation built on both unity and religious difference. Why does the Newport letter loom larger than the rest?

The Declaration of Independence was far from unanimous, yet it became the backbone of the Revolutionary War.