Archive: Great Ideas Seminars
2026
January 2026: Jewish Theology
- Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul by Leon Kass in Azure
- The Jewish Mother: A Theology by Meir Soloveichik in Azure
- How Not to Repair the World by Hillel Halkin in Commentary
February 2026: The Holocaust and Antisemitism
- How Not to Remember and How Not to Forget by Ruth Wisse in Commentary
- The Future of American Jewry After October 7 by Dan Senor in Commentary
- A Tragedy Shrouded in Silence: The Destruction of the Arab World’s Jewry by Adi Schwartz in Azure
March 2026: Great Jewish Debates
- Confrontation by Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Tradition
- Is the Torah a Work of Philosophy? by Jon D. Levenson in Mosaic
- Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Service in the Israeli Military with Jonathan Silver on The Tikvah Podcast
2025
January 2025: Jews and Christians
- Confrontation by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik in Tradition
- On Creative Minorities by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in First Things
- What Christians See in Jews and Israel in 2020 of the Common Era by Wilfred McClay in Mosaic
- A Dissent on Brother Daniel by Marc Galanter in Commentary
February 2025: The Holocaust and Antisemitism
- How Not to Remember & How Not to Forget by Ruth Wisse in Commentary
- Eichmann: The Simplicity of Evil by Hillel Halkin in Commentary
- Imagine: On Love and Lennon by Ze’ev Maghen in Azure
- The Functions of Anti-Semitism by Ruth Wisse in National Affairs
March 2025: Judaism and the Moral Challenges of Technology
- Keeping Life Human: Science, Religion, and the Soul by Leon Kass in Azure
- The Great Partnership-Introduction by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
- What Artificial Intelligence has in Store for Judaism by Moshe Koppel in Mosaic
- The Golem and the Limits of Artifice by Charles T. Rubin in The New Atlantis
2024
October 2024: Jewish Theology
- Going to Shul by Milton Himmelfarb in Commentary
- The Ten Commandments: Why the Decalogue Matters by Leon Kass in Mosaic
- The Jewish Mother: A Theology by Meir Soloveichik in Azure
November 2024: Jews and America
- The Myth of Ellis Island and Other Tales of Origin by Dara Horn in Azure
- The Soul of a Nation by Wilfred McClay in National Affairs
- The Biblical Origins of Equality by Joshua Berman in Azure
- What Adams Saw Over Jefferson’s Wall by Richard A. Samuelson in Commentary
December 2024: Zionism and the Return of Jewish Politics
- The Most Politically Significant Meeting of Any Group of Jews in the Last 1,800 Years by Dan Polisar in Mosaic
- If Israel Ceased to Exist by Hillel Halkin in Commentary
- The Brilliant Failure of Jewish Foreign Policy by Ruth Wisse in Azure