The director of UN Watch explains the human-rights movement’s divorce from Israel.
A Jewish lawyer coined the term because there was no word that described the murder of a whole people. But the definition he favored is so loose it can apply to almost any conflict.
An expert introduces the life and mind of the rabbi and great Jewish philosopher.
When it comes to describing Israel’s actions in war and peace, the world invests established terms with new meaning, and simply invents others.
Excerpts from some favorite conversations last year, with subjects including the art of Hebrew calligraphy, the Palestinian predicament, the conversion of the Jews, and more.
Images of bloodshed in Gaza should upset anyone with a healthy moral sense. But they don’t help determine whether the actions that brought these scenes about were ethical.
Some years in the Jewish calendar, like the current one, have an extra month. How’d that come about and why?
The writer joins Mosaic’s editor Jonathan Silver to talk about the tradeoffs that Israel’s advanced defense technology brings.
A Middle East expert and former Palestinian negotiator breaks down recent polling on Palestinian public opinion.
Featuring fears, fates, burdens of power, memory wars, Sabbath days, Russian writers and timeless questions, years of upheaval, Japanese Jews, and more.
Featuring prime ministers, kidnappings, popes, silences, exiled shadows, portraits, intellectual origins, the best minds, and more.
Two current students and one recent graduate analyze what’s really happening in the universities and how Jewish students are reacting.
The long-running case of the word for private detective can finally be considered closed.
The writer, an Iranian Jewish refugee to America, joins the podcast to discuss a confrontation in writing.