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.
Interviews with Norman Podhoretz and Elliott Abrams recreate the foreign-policy debates of the cold war, and illuminate Kissinger’s attitudes toward Israel and the Jewish people.
The distinguished strategist explains how such a small state has managed to become such a major innovator in defense technology.
Rarely heard in the speech of most Israelis in the past, b’sorot tovot, an ironic “good news,” has suddenly become a common way of saying goodbye.
A retired IDF brigadier general offers a preliminary retrospective on what happened in the three weeks before Israel’s ground forces moved into Gaza.
The name of the biblical tribe of murderers, the arch-rivals of ancient Israel, has been much discussed in the wake of October 7. Is that appropriate?
Why do we suddenly care so much about Israel or Jewish survival? Is it only the Jew as eternal victim that we cherish? Hardly—it is the Jewish way of living that matters.