Podcast: Christine Rosen on Thinking Religiously about Facebook

A global presence that hovers above the world declaring that it desires nothing but to connect us with each other, Facebook now invites serious religious questions.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Christine Rosen

Nov. 14 2019 12:01AM

Who Presides Over the Dead in Judaism? His Name Is Dumah.

And what you need to know in case you ever encounter him.

Philologos

Nov. 13 2019 12:01AM

The Sorry Significance of Susan Sontag

In a new biography, the critic emerges as an advanced exemplar of a nexus of glamor and moral self-regard.

Michael Weingrad

Nov. 12 2019 12:01AM

Podcast: Norman Podhoretz on Jerusalem and Jewish Particularity

The storied intellectual wonders why so many 21st-century men and women find Jewish particularity such a scandal.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Norman Podhoretz

Nov. 8 2019 12:01AM

What American Jews Can Do to Help Keep Herzl's Dream Alive

Miracles like Israel are not self-sustaining, an uncharacteristically worried Jewish American writes.

Joseph Lieberman

Nov. 7 2019 12:01AM

What Kind of God Is the God of the Jews?

For thousands of years both friends and enemies of Judaism have labeled it a religion of deed rather than creed, of law rather than faith. A new book firmly and fervently disagrees.

Neil Rogachevsky

Nov. 6 2019 12:01AM

What "The Farewell" Has to Say About Western Involvement with China

In a season of mass protests in Hong Kong and a fierce dustup with the NBA, the acclaimed new Chinese-American film is (almost) silent on the costs of engaging with authoritarianism.

Julian Sinclair

Nov. 5 2019 12:27AM

Podcast: The Philosopher Who Reads the Talmud

Jacob Howland drops by our studio to talk about the ways in which Greek thought can illuminate the Talmud—and vice-versa.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Jacob Howland

Nov. 1 2019 12:01AM

The Balfour Declaration and the Jewish Threat that Made Britain Honor It

How Zionist leaders held Britain to its promise of a Jewish national home.

Martin Kramer

Oct. 31 2019 12:01AM

God's American Israel

As two new books show, the influence of the Hebrew Bible (and of biblical models) on the founding generations of Americans was as vast as the new country they were trying to create.

Daniel L. Dreisbach

Oct. 30 2019 12:01AM