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After the Ayatollah
By Hussein Aboubakr MansourThe death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power.
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The death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power.
Observation
For Hashem, for country, and for Yale.
Podcast • Episode 84
As Psalm 78 continues, it describes one moment that changed Jewish history, which is meant to teach us about gratitude today. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 78 in English. Click here to listen to …
Podcast • Episode 449
At 1:15 in the morning on February 28, more than 200 Israeli Air Force jets took off from bases across the region, bound for Iran. They were soon joined by American B-2 and B-1 bombers and the …
Course
A comprehensive look at the history of Zionism—political, social, and religious—and the schools of anti-Zionism that have opposed it.
Podcast • Episode 83
Psalm 78 describes the story of the Israelites from the Exodus to the Davidic monarchy. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 78 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 78 in …
Course Lesson
In this classic memoir of Jewish resistance, Menachem Begin tells the story of the Irgun and its struggle against the British to achieve Jewish independence. It is the book that turned Menachem Begin into Rabbi Soloveichik's political hero, and …
Podcast
In this daily podcast, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik guides listeners through all 150 chapters of King David's Psalms, exploring their poetry, meaning, and enduring place in the life of faith.
Podcast • Episode 82
A psalm expresses anguish over exile and then exultantly describes the Exodus. What is the link between the psalm's two parts? Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 77 in English. Click here to listen …
Observation
A true-crime mystery in the Persian court.
Podcast
A daily 15-minute podcast guiding listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible in one year, with insightful commentary and analysis.
Observation
The spy show seems so accurate I found myself wondering whether its creators are themselves former Mossad agents who spent time in the titular city.
Monthly Essay
A young secular Viennese writer had an experience 125 years ago that would lead him to change Jewish history forever. He could never explain it. Can anyone else?
Observation
America ignores the Gaza War’s “eighth front” at its own peril.
Observation
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what's my problem?
Monthly Essay
October 7 was not Palestine’s independence day, but the final nail in the two-state solution’s coffin. Is confederation with Jordan all that remains?
Monthly Essay
One-hundred years of betrayal, beginning with directives from Stalin.
Course Lesson
Jews lived in Judea for thousands of years, but even after the exile, they were still set apart from other societies. That changed in the 19th century, when Jews were offered the political equality they had hitherto been denied. But …
Podcast • Episode 81
Purim’s date reveals what we are truly celebrating—and why a remarkable event seemingly described in this psalm never became a holiday. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 76 in English. Click here to …
Podcast
Professor Ruth Wisse explores the wit and wisdom of the greatest stories in the modern Jewish literary canon.
Monthly Essay
With a new nuclear deal on the way, attention is again turning to Iran. Four recent books, plus the deal itself, suggest that America and Europe are blind to the regime's motivating spirit.
Podcast
Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
Observation
Fun with Hebrew numbers.
Course
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik examines key moments in the American history through a set of iconic images.
Podcast • Episode 80
The themes of exile and salvation are bound together in a tradition regarding the reading of the Megillah—and in these two psalms of Asaf. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 74 in English. Click …
Monthly Essay
Today’s Islamism promises authenticity but is postmodern in form, postcolonial in posture, and pretends to retrieve the sacred through the techniques of the profane.
Observation
Jewish education is being overrun by digital media that promise efficiency and convenience at the cost of mastery.
Monthly Essay
The case of the literary master helps explain why people who devote themselves to compassion for all so often make an exception for Jews.
Course Lesson
Emanuel Leutze’s “Washington Crossing the Delaware” is one of the most recognizable images of the American Revolution, yet also one of its most contested for its historical liberties. In this lecture, Rabbi Soloveichik examines the painting’s famous inaccuracies …
Response
The first complete translation of the Yiddish classic, in which former classmates rediscover one another after the Holocaust and resume their old debates about God, man, and history.
Podcast
Join Rabbi Meir Soloveichik for a year-long journey through all 613 commandments of Judaism.
Course
Leon Kass Teaches Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus
Podcast • Episode 231
The celebrated novelist Dara Horn’s new book, People Love Dead Jews, has an arresting title, one designed to make the reader feel uncomfortable. That’s because Horn makes an argument that tries to change the way people think about …
Course
Ruth Wisse Teaches Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman
Course Lesson
Can a single painting capture the American Revolution? John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” attempts just that. In this lecture, Rabbi Soloveichik examines what the painting reveals about the Founding Fathers and America itself. Through a dual focus on Jefferson …
Course
Delve into the masterpieces of modern Jewish literature with one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Jewish fiction.
Observation
For almost 100 years, appeasement of Arab violence has paid bloody dividends. The lesson has yet to sink in.
Monthly Essay
Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.
Podcast • Episode 1
The first two chapters of Genesis both describe the creation of mankind, but in profoundly different ways. What can these two stories, taken together, teach us about the astonishing technological achievements of our age? Text: Genesis 1-2
Observation
America paid Iran $1.7 billion in cash—funds that by law were not to be released unless and until Iran paid what it owed to American victims of its terrorism.
Response
Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Course
Micah Goodman Teaches Deuteronomy: The Last Speech of Moses
Podcast • Episode 448
On February 25th, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India became the first Indian head of government to address the Knesset. It was a moment that, years ago, would have been difficult to imagine. India and Israel established full diplomatic …
Response
Islamists absorbed the ideas of Fanon and Foucault from the air around them.
Course Lesson
At the turn of the 20th century, political Zionism was just one of many responses to the “Jewish question.” Communism and Bundism, two variants of anti-Zionism, were also attractive answers. And even within the Zionist movement, competing types of …
Monthly Essay
Three catastrophes, all marked by euphoria at the start and denial at the end, have shaped the Palestinian predicament. Has the fourth arrived, and is the same dynamic playing out?
Podcast • Episode 79
A story about Rome and Jerusalem helps us ponder this psalm of Asaf. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 73 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 73 in Hebrew. Click …
Monthly Essay
The post-October 7 explosion of hostility challenges decades of Jewish communal strategy.
Podcast • Episode 425
In the span of just twelve days, the strategic balance of the Middle East was fundamentally altered. Israel systematically dismantled Iran’s drones, missiles, and air defenses, while American strikes turned its most important nuclear facilities into dust. But for …
Observation
The controversial terms, unlike “West Bank,” were in common use until 1948.
