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Today, the Jewish state is restored and Jerusalem is in our hands. Why do we still mourn ancient Jerusalem’s destruction when we have so much to celebrate?
Observations
As Israelis fight and then come home, Homer’s Odyssey helps them understand their own experiences.
Monthly Essay
A generational summons for American Jews and Christians.
The Seeing Eye
For Christian and Jewish artists, the prophet has revealed something about timeless human struggles.
Via Maris
How a revolution in Tehran, a book in New York, and a peace treaty in Cairo converged to end one era of politics and begin another.
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.
A curated collection of content recognizing Jewish contributions to America's 250 year history.
Podcast • Episode 465
This week, Rabbi Ari Lamm joins Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver to discuss the biblical idea of election or chosenness. Rabbi Lamm has argued that Genesis itself is a long sequence of choosing and rejection—Adam over the animals, Abel …
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Micah Goodman Teaches Deuteronomy: The Last Speech of Moses
Podcast • Episode 149
Psalm 135 references the different groups of people who will come to the Temple, joined in praise of God. Supplemental Materials: Click here to listen to a recitation of Psalm 135 in English. Click here to listen to a recitation …
Podcast
A daily 15-minute podcast guiding listeners through the entire Hebrew Bible in one year, with insightful commentary and analysis.
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Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter Teaches The Jewish Meaning of Memory
Observations
Even after a decade of electoral failure, the Labor party prefers to console itself with platitudes about the reasons why. It won't be successful until it confronts the truth.
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In Exodus, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. In this opening lecture, Dr. Goodman shows how in Deuteronomy, Moses seeks to take Egypt out of Israel.
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?
Column
A collection of Mosaic Observations.
Observations
Despite extensive similarities, few readers have studied Genesis together with the Odyssey in hopes of illuminating the human condition. What lies waiting to be discovered?
Course Lesson
In our first lecture, Rabbi Schacter discusses the foundational question of this course: how can a person remember an event that he never experienced? He goes on to discuss the difference between individual and collective memory; what makes Jewish memory …
Observations
Reading Homer in wartime.
Podcast • Episode 43
In the recent Parashat Devarim, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik reflects on the profound themes of faith and courage as depicted in the Book of Deuteronomy. This week's reading, set against the backdrop of Israel's contemporary challenges, draws a parallel …
Course
Dr. Micah Goodman Teaches The Book of Job: Power, Justice, and Divine Ethics
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A comprehensive look at the history of Zionism—political, social, and religious—and the schools of anti-Zionism that have opposed it.
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Tisha b'Av—the ninth of the Jewish month of Av—is the saddest day of the Jewish year. It is the day that Jewish tradition commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples—but that's not all …
Observations
Why do Christian depictions of the Jewish Temple look like the Dome of the Rock, the 7th-century Muslim structure built on that site?
Observations
Sixty years ago, Leo Strauss spoke against forsaking the Jewish heritage. Now, when assimilation appears easier than ever and when anti-Semitism has found renewed force in American politics, his message is more relevant than ever.
Podcast
Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.
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In 1096, Pope Urban II urged Christians across Europe to go to the Middle East and recapture the Holy Land from Islamic rule. On the way to Jerusalem, Christians perpetrated brutal pogroms against Jewish communities in Germany, in particular against …
The Seeing Eye
If Judaism’s idea of art is one that can truly represent our frail, fallible humanity, then Rembrandt, who captured faces "without any attempt to beautify them," is the artist for Jews.
Response
Join Chaim Saiman, Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, and Jonathan Silver for a conversation about how and why Tanakh was sidelined in Jewish education, and why it’s now making a comeback.
Via Maris
Is America falling for the Middle East’s anti-Zionist delusions?
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.
Podcast • Episode 51
The valedictory delivered in Deuteronomy provides a window into Moses’s mind, and reveals the singular achievement that was his life. Text: Deuteronomy 1-3
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What is the Jewish idea of time? How can it be made sacred? Rabbi Soloveichik ties together three incredible stories about Hasidim in Alaska, former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and former refusenik Natan Sharansky.
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Deuteronomy is not just a repetition of the Torah. It is Moses's unique interpretation of it—his own Oral Torah.
Monthly Essay
Relearning the language of nationhood.
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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 …
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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.
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?
Commentary on the connections and differences between Homer's epics and Jewish tradition.
Observations
Fifty years on, no work by or about Jews has won American hearts so thoroughly. So what's my problem?
Observations
Deuteronomy erases the separation between leader and led; for better or for worse, they're yoked together.
Podcast
Professor Ruth Wisse explores the wit and wisdom of the greatest stories in the modern Jewish literary canon.
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 …
Podcast • Episode 463
When students begin to study international politics, they meet some very old and well-established schools of thought. These approaches disagree about a fundamental question: what is the most important kind of information to acquire? One school of thought recommends …
Column
Western Art and the Jewish Tradition.
The Seeing Eye
The Great Masters saw eternal stillness in Christian Scripture, and dynamism and change in Jewish Scripture.
Response
Mosaic and Ruth R. Wisse invite you to a special holiday dramatization of the classic Yiddish story.
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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik examines key moments in the American history through a set of iconic images.
Podcast • Episode 464
In April of this year, Israel’s Foreign Ministry created a position that had never before existed: special envoy to the Christian world. The appointment came after a string of incidents that have strained Israel’s standing with Christian communities …
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A new online course with Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter
