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Subscribe NowPodcast • Episode 356
Yechiel Leiter is a distinguished Israeli public servant and thinker. A scholar of political philosophy, the head of the international department of the Shiloh Policy Forum, and the former chief of staff to then-Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he is …
Podcast • Episode 453
Roy Altman came to America as a little boy. He came from Venezuela, where his own grandparents had fled to during the Holocaust. Altman and his family arrived in the U.S. with very little and knowing almost no one …
Podcast • Episode 119
A psalm about the importance of memory is an apt one to study on Yom Hazikaron, Israel's Memorial Day. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 112 in English. Click here to listen to a …
Podcast • Episode 118
A reference to an early king of Jerusalem is seemingly the heart of this psalm. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 110 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 110 in …
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 117
The danger of words wielded to achieve malicious ends is the subject of the psalm. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 109 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 109 in …
Response
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?
Monthly Essay
The death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power.
Course Lesson
The declaration of Israeli independence and the Israeli victories in 1967 were two of the most significant moments in Jewish History. But what does it mean to mark these moments as holidays, to commemorate and celebrate them as part of …
Podcast
A daily 15-minute podcast guiding listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible in one year, with insightful commentary and analysis.
Podcast
Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
Response
Geographic representation won’t fix it. What Israel needs is a senate formally designed to protect each of its distinct sectors.
Monthly Essay
The diplomatic case against territorial concessions.
Monthly Essay
Since 2023, the Jewish state has been teetering on the edge of a constitutional crisis. Expanding the legislative branch could bring stability and maturity to Israeli democracy.
Podcast • Episode 116
A Talmudic story about David's "alarm clock" is linked to this psalm. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 108 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 108 in Hebrew. Click …
Podcast
Professor Ruth Wisse explores the wit and wisdom of the greatest stories in the modern Jewish literary canon.
Podcast • Episode 452
There is an irony set at the cornerstone of Jewish memory. The very texts that proclaim the Jewish people’s liberation from Egypt—the Song of the Sea, the Haggadah that we recite at the Passover seder—borrow their most …
Podcast • Episode 189
The UN’s vote to partition Palestine and create a Jewish state can only be seen as a miracle. Supplemental Materials: Click here to read Paul Johnson’s essay, “The Miracle” [subscription required]. Click here to read Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik …
Course
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik examines key moments in the American history through a set of iconic images.
Monthly Essay
Sixty years ago, the infamous Nazi official was abducted in Argentina and brought to Israel. What really happened, what did Hollywood make up, and why?
Podcast • Episode 115
A psalm of thanksgiving is linked to the Pilgrim story. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 107 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 107 in Hebrew. Click here to read …
Observation
The answer comes down to the nature of deliverance, and to what you think the Jewish state represents.
Course Lesson
Rabbi Soloveichik examines Arthur J. Stansbury's sketch, "John Quincy Adams Unconscious in the Capitol Rotunda," drawn soon after the former president and legendary congressman suffered a stroke while on the floor of the House of Representatives. Rabbi Soloveichik reflects …
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
A native of Odessa, the Jewish thinker needed no convincing that Ukrainians were a distinct nation. He understood that if they were subdued, no other nation would stand a chance.
Observation
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what's my problem?
Course
A comprehensive look at the history of Zionism—political, social, and religious—and the schools of anti-Zionism that have opposed it.
Monthly Essay
One-hundred years of betrayal, beginning with directives from Stalin.
Observation
Reflections on Israel, America, and the West that remind us we are not captive to fate.
Course
Leon Kass Teaches Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus
Response
Harvey Klehr, Eli Lake, and Izabella Tabarovsky on how Soviet ideology created Jewish opposition to the Jewish state—and what it means for American Jews now.
Course
Yoram Hazony Teaches The Meaning of Jewish Nationalism
Observation
What the laws of Leviticus reveal about Israel’s national days.
Response
Having lost its audience in the Middle East, the ideology of the Islamic Revolution is finding new adherents in Europe.
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?
Podcast • Episode 450
On February 28, 2026, Ali Khamenei was assassinated. He was killed in a joint American and Israeli airstrike, in a bunker so deep the elevator took five minutes to reach it, at a meeting with senior advisers whose location intelligence …
Monthly Essay
How generations of Arab thinkers and leaders tried to turn the humiliation of their losses to Israel into a springboard to launch their nations into an enchanted new age.
Podcast • Episode 2
The earliest appearance of Jerusalem in the Bible embodies its ultimate impact and the role it plays today. Supplemental Materials: Click here to read an article or watch a video about the stone pillar in Jerusalem where Abraham may have …
Course
Join Rabbi Dr. Meir Soloveichik as he shows you how, from national symbolism to functional governance, Jewish ideas were at the very heart of the American founding.
Podcast • Episode 113
The wonders of early Israelite history are described in this psalm, as well as why God brought these miracles about. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 105 in English. Click here to listen to a …
Course
Delve into the masterpieces of modern Jewish literature with one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Jewish fiction.
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 • Episode 114
This psalm’s tenor is the opposite of the previous one, but in fact, both of the psalms are meant to be taken together. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 106 in English. Click here …
Monthly Essay
Understanding and defeating the assault on Jewish moral self-confidence.
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.
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?
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.
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 …
Podcast • Episode 112
Psalm 104 is an ode to the natural world and the way in which its intricacy proclaims the glory of God. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 104 in English. Click here to listen to …
Observation
Jewish education is being overrun by digital media that promise efficiency and convenience at the cost of mastery.
