The Tikvah Podcast

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Death is an uncomfortable topic. It has deprived us of people we love, and we know that, ultimately, it is the one…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Anti-Semitism knows no party. Throughout modern history, it has manifested in different forms, in different countries, across the political spectrum. In the…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. From the breakdown of family and faith to rising political partisanship, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and an emboldened secular dogmatism defining the…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. We like to think that, amidst all of the pressures of decision, ideas can somehow inspire political action. But how do the…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Has support for Israel become a partisan issue in the United States? What role can a commitment to Jewish culture play in…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Civil war in Syria, the rise of Islamic State, a strengthened Iran—these are a part of the Obama Administration’s Middle East legacy. Elected…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. On September 5, 2007, just before midnight, four F-15s and four F-16s took off from Israeli Air Force (IAF) bases and flew…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. “The proper method for the study of politics,” said the late political scientist Walter Berns, “is biography.” And while analysis and disquisition…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. America is in the throes of an addiction crisis. The ravages of the opioid epidemic can be seen across the country, as…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Ellen Willis’s brother Michael decided to leave behind his secular American life and study in an Orthodox yeshiva in Jerusalem, she…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. When Jews raise their glasses in celebration, they toast “l’chaim!” “to life!” Judaism’s belief in the inherent value of our time in…

Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store. Soldier, statesman, Nobel Prize-winning author—Sir Winston Churchill was one of the most important figures of the 20th century. His judgment was vindicated…