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The Perverse Incentives That Keep Haredim from Contributing to the Israeli Economy
By Sagi BarmakWithout change, Israel risks losing its dynamism and military dominance.
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Without change, Israel risks losing its dynamism and military dominance.
Podcast • Episode 477
Fauda is one of the most surprising and interesting success stories of the streaming age. When conventional opinion looks with such studied contempt on Jewish expressions of strength and violence for the sake of national security, Netflix somehow greenlit a …
Monthly Essay
After decades devoted to survival, a new generation is asking what it owes the Jewish state.
Podcast • Episode 478
If you have been following the news from France over the last few weeks, you have seen the images of cities in flames and high-school students in the streets. And if you have been reading the American press, you …
The Seeing Eye
A tale of two museums.
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
A daily 15-minute podcast guiding listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible in one year, with insightful commentary and analysis.
Podcast • Episode 2
In the exploration of Parashat Noach, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik delves into the profound symbolism of the rainbow as a divine covenant and a testament to humanity's potential for redemption. The Hebrew word "hamas," meaning violence, is intricately linked to …
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.
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
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?
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Ruth Wisse Teaches Sholem Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman
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
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Leon Kass Teaches Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus
Monthly Essay
Behind Erdogan’s escalating rhetoric, a strategic encirclement years in the making.
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 5
The British journalist Norman Ewer supposedly quipped, “How odd/of God/to choose/the Jews.” Even many traditional Jews misunderstand why it was Abraham that was chosen by the Almighty, but a careful reading of Genesis allows us to divine …
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Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
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Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
Etzem
The modern world claims mastery of medicine and nature, while stripping us of an essence known since our first days in Eden.
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The National Middle East History Competition, a new Tikvah initiative co-hosted with the Alexander Hamilton Society, represents a unique opportunity to inspire college students from across North America to deepen their understanding of the history, culture, and politics of …
Podcast • Episode 30
Psalm 28 finds David praying for personal salvation, but he can only do so as a member of the covenantal people. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 28 in English. Click here to listen to …
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A new online course with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
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 …
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 301
The last words of the Hebrew Bible can be seen as a hint to the age in which we live. Text: 2 Chronicles 36
Podcast • Episode 237
It is often thought that the Hebrew Bible focuses on the human capacity for good rather than on urging prosperity; that, in other words, trade and markets―areas where rational actors seek to maximize their self-interest―are distinct from …
Course
Micah Goodman Teaches Deuteronomy: The Last Speech of Moses
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Join Dan Schueftan, Michael Doran, Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, and Jonathan Silver as they discuss the emerging threat Turkey poses to Israel.
Podcast • Episode 3
In Parashat Lech Lecha, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik explores the profound themes of Jewish resilience and identity through the narrative of Abram, later Abraham, in Genesis 12-17. The story begins with God's call to Abram to leave his homeland …
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Dr. Micah Goodman Teaches The Book of Job: Power, Justice, and Divine Ethics
Podcast • Episode 3
Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem was not the first text to feature a raven, and the birds that appear in Genesis allow us to understand the nature of human resilience, and the reconciliation of God with the world after …
Monthly Essay
French Jews are emigrating to Israel by the tens of thousands. Their departure isn't just about them; it's about the end of the French idea.
Observations
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what's my problem?
Podcast • Episode 164
A verse expressing longing for Jerusalem and a psalm describing the return to Zion together capture the emotional and spiritual range of the Psalter. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 126 in English. Click here …
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 474
"I cried to the Lord out of my distress, and he heard me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried and Thou didst hear my voice. For Thou didst cast me into the deep, into the heart of …
Monthly Essay
The Bible shows our humanity while taking us back to the solitary, deep-water worm of our primordial origins.
Podcast
Discover the Torah‘s profound political wisdom in this exploration of the weekly parashah.
Course Lesson
The Book of Job opens with a curious dialogue between God and Satan. God argues that humans can be good—just look at Job—while Satan points out that Job’s goodness is a result of his circumstances, not his …
Podcast • Episode 9
The Bible’s tale of the twins Jacob and Esau is enigmatic, and the resulting differences between Isaac and Rebecca are, at least initially, mystifying. But perhaps a careful reading allows us to understand each of their perspectives, and why …
Podcast • Episode 8
The burial of Sarah in the cave of Machpelah marks the first death in Abraham’s family. But the patriarch’s response to death teaches us a great deal about life, and allows us to understand the significance of a …
Podcast • Episode 6
The name of the second patriarch is rooted in a seemingly prosaic event: Abraham and Sarah’s laughter at the news that they would have a child. Why would a founding father of a people be named in such a …
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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.
Via Maris
The West’s habit of converting mass murder into self-recrimination moved from Ground Zero to Gaza.
Monthly Essay
How Russia, Iran, and China learned to turn Americans against the Jews, and use the Jews to turn Americans against one another.
Column
Western Art and the Jewish Tradition.
Observations
The Gavriel Tirosh Affair and the costs of Jewish restraint.
Course
Delve into the masterpieces of modern Jewish literature with one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Jewish fiction.
Course Lesson
In his opening lecture, Professor Goodman situates the Book of Job within the broader Hebrew Bible. He looks at the role it plays within Tanakh, its unique structure, and the criticism it levies against the rest of the biblical text …
