Monthly Essay
Anti-Semitism as Information Warfare
By Eliana AikenHow Russia, Iran, and China learned to turn Americans against the Jews, and use the Jews to turn Americans against one another.
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How Russia, Iran, and China learned to turn Americans against the Jews, and use the Jews to turn Americans against one another.
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Anti-Semitism on Chinese platforms may be much more complex than state-coordinated information warfare against America.
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The New Third World Order of social media.
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Needing no context and infinitely reproducible, anti-Semitism is perfectly suited for the digital age.
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A daily 15-minute podcast guiding listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible in one year, with insightful commentary and analysis.
Explore the enduring meaning of the High Holy Days through the lens of Scripture, history, and liturgy
Gleanings
Anton Chekhov reminds us how biblical stories invest a seemingly chaotic world with order and meaning.
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
Hear the story of Washington’s letter to the Jews of Newport, the relationship of his early successors to the country's nascent Jewish community, and the birth of religious liberty in America.
Podcast
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik illuminates the beauty, structure, and meaning of the High Holiday liturgy.
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Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
Course Lesson
Is Rosh Hashanah really best understood as the “Jewish New Year”? What is the relationship between British royalty and this esteemed Jewish holiday? What can Ashkenazi Jews learn from their Sephardic brethren about the holiday’s deeper meaning?
Via Maris
How the myth of crisis imprisoned Arab (and leftist) political thought.
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?
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Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter Teaches The Jewish Meaning of Memory
Podcast • Episode 472
Man is a storytelling animal, and conveying the experience of the human condition in poetry and prose helps us understand and contend with it. That’s true in all times and places, and it is why students of a society …
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?
Monthly Essay
Long shut out of the country’s story, Middle Eastern Jews now make up half of Israel’s population, influencing its culture in surprising ways. Who are they?
Podcast • Episode 429
“God created man in His image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Thus reads verse 27 of the first chapter of Genesis, one of the most important lines ever written in …
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Discover the Torah‘s profound political wisdom in this exploration of the weekly parashah.
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Middle Eastern geopoltics and ideas.
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A collection of Mosaic Observations.
Monthly Essay
How four interlocking ways of thinking combined to leave the Jewish state at the mercy of its enemies.
Podcast • Episode 326
Tonight begins Rosh Hashanah, when Jewish communities celebrate the new year and, as part of this celebration, read chapter 22 of Genesis. This contains the famous story in which God asks Abraham to take his son Isaac to a mountain …
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 …
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
Monthly Essay
What happens when, once a year, the urge to accommodate every consumer fashion meets massive Jewish cultural illiteracy?
Observations
Looking back at the founding moments of the state of Israel with the father of the current prime minister.
Podcast • Episode 471
By the spring of 1948, three armed Jewish militias had been fighting and working towards the birth of modern Israel. There was the Haganah, under David Ben-Gurion, which would become the core of the new Israel Defense Forces. There …
Course
A comprehensive look at the history of Zionism—political, social, and religious—and the schools of anti-Zionism that have opposed it.
Observations
What the future prime minister of Israel had to say about his past and present homelands.
Monthly Essay
A generational summons for American Jews and Christians.
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 1
The story of a heroic American POW in World War II can shed light on the three major themes of Rosh Hashanah: kingship, memory, and the sounding of the shofar. Supplemental Materials: Click here to learn more about Roddie Edmonds …
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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.
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Micah Goodman Teaches Deuteronomy: The Last Speech of Moses
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Where literature speaks to Jewish experience.
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Western Art and the Jewish Tradition.
Podcast • Episode 50
In the poignant narrative of Parashat Nitzavim-Vayelech, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik explores the profound covenantal bonds that transcend generations, as exemplified by the story of Yossi Hershkovitz. Hershkovitz, a soldier and educator, composed a song amidst the turmoil of war …
Podcast
Join Rabbi Meir Soloveichik for a year-long journey through all 613 commandments of Judaism.
Podcast • Episode 2
On Rosh Hashanah night, Jews crown God as king. What does that really mean? And why do we do it every year?
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.
Observations
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what's my problem?
Column
Medicine, bioethics, technology, and what it means to be created in the image of God.
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Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Monthly Essay
Relearning the language of nationhood.
Etzem
The modern world claims mastery of medicine and nature, while stripping us of an essence known since our first days in Eden.
Podcast
A year-long series uncovering the 4,000-year history of the most interesting city in the world.
Monthly Essay
The diplomatic case against territorial concessions.
Course
Leon Kass Teaches Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus
