This Week’s Podcast: The Best of 2019

In 2019, some 40 different guests came on the Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic to engage in serious conversations covering everything from diplomacy to defense, from Jewish philosophy to Jewish food, from anti-Semitism to Jewish heroism. If it’s in the realm of Jewish ideas, Jewish texts, and Jewish public affairs, there’s a good chance it turned up in some form or another on our podcast.

To prove it, we now present interesting and provocative nuggets of conversation culled from what we regard as our highlights of the year. On this retrospective episode, you’ll hear selections from conversations with Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, Hudson Institute foreign-policy analyst Michael Doran, Swedish journalist Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, Israeli writer Matti Friedman, Israeli public philosopher Micah Goodman, American religion and philosophy professor Jacob Howland, eminent rabbi Meir Soloveichik, commentator Jonah Goldberg, editors Avital Chizik-Goldschmidt and Batya Ungar-Sargon, and, last but not least, Elan Carr, the U.S. special envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

Background

For more on the Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, which appears roughly every Thursday, check out its inaugural post here.

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