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What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

What Forgiveness Shares with Forgetting

In both Hebrew and English.

Sept. 7 2023 12:33AM
Podcast: Mordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank

Podcast: Mordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank

Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, the main source of violence against Israel has been the Gaza Strip rather than the West Bank. Is that changing?

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Mordechai Kedar
Sept. 1 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Ran Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst

Podcast: Ran Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst

The Israeli journalist stops by to talk about the deeper emotions at play on all sides of the current civil crisis, and how they can be addressed.

Aug. 25 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Dovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History

Podcast: Dovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History

The author took a recent journey to a Soviet mass gravesite where his great-grandfather is buried, and speaks about how it helped him understand Jewish and Soviet history.

Aug. 18 2023 12:01AM
The Mysterious Glossary of Maimonides

The Mysterious Glossary of Maimonides

What might the great scholar have been intending with a recently discovered list he made of seemingly random words from random European languages?

Aug. 16 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition

Podcast: Shlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition

Earlier this month, the man who killed eleven Jews in Pittsburgh in 2018 was sentenced to death. A rabbi and ethicist joins us to think about Jewish views of capital punishment.

Aug. 11 2023 12:01AM
A Solution to Israel's Woes? A Judaism of Yes

A Solution to Israel's Woes? A Judaism of Yes

Judaism has many “thou shalt nots.” It also has many positive elements, and emphasizing those could bring a nation divided by religious observance back together.

Aug. 9 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

Podcast: Dara Horn on Why People Love Dead Jews (Rebroadcast)

The author talks about the world’s fascination with dead Jews and its indifference to living ones.

Aug. 4 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy

Podcast: Izzy Pludwinski on the Art and Beauty of Hebrew Calligraphy

The author of a new book on the subject joins Mosaic’s editor to talk about the technology and artistry of Hebrew writing, and the vocation of the Hebrew scribe.

Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic and Izzy Pludwinski
July 28 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations

Podcast: Joshua Berman on the Traumas of the Book of Lamentations

The author of a new commentary stops by to talk about one of the most disturbing days in Jewish history, and how its survivors and their descendants tried to understand it.

July 21 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship

Podcast: Meir Soloveichik on Ten Portraits of Jewish Statesmanship

The rabbi and podcast host stops by to talk about his new book, Providence and Power: Ten Portraits in Jewish Statesmanship.

July 14 2023 12:01AM
How the King James Bible Misled Generations of Readers

How the King James Bible Misled Generations of Readers

A misunderstanding about mirrors, with far-reaching, metaphysical consequences.

July 13 2023 12:01AM
The Biden Administration's Anti-Semitism Blindspot

The Biden Administration's Anti-Semitism Blindspot

Will the administration’s new strategy to counter anti-Semitism camouflage its own inaction?

July 10 2023 12:01AM
Podcast: Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism

Podcast: Tevi Troy on the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fight Anti-Semitism

The D.C. veteran joins us to talk about what the government can do to fight anti-Semitism, and what, despite good intentions, it can’t.

July 7 2023 12:01AM