(Re-)Imagining Israel with MK Merav Michaeli
Israel celebrated its 75th birthday in the midst of one of the biggest crises of democracy that the country has ever experienced and one of the most energetic protest movements in its history. In this...
2 Touko 20231h 5min
Next Generation Jews
American Jews have a long tradition of being anxious about the next generation of American Jews. Are they sufficiently engaged in Jewish communal life? How are they forming opinions about Zionism and ...
25 Huhti 202351min
The Only Woman in the Room
A highly competent bureaucrat who conceived the modern Israeli economy, a bungler who mismanaged the Yom Kippur War, or "the only man in the Israeli cabinet:" these are only a few of the many images o...
18 Huhti 202343min
Jewish Inside Baseball
It's Passover, a time for new beginnings--and that's especially true for baseball fans, who celebrated this year's Opening Day just a week before the holiday began. In this episode, host Yehuda Kurtze...
11 Huhti 202330min
How to Run a Seder
Is the Passover Seder the right place for a political debate? Who is the target audience when your guests are generations apart? What kind of book is the Haggadah, anyway? In this episode, Yehuda Kurt...
3 Huhti 202349min
Six Stories About the Protests in Israel
Ever since Israel's current government proposed a judicial overhaul that would render the Israeli Supreme Court powerless to strike down legislation, protesters have been flooding the streets. The cur...
27 Maalis 202353min
More Dollars, Fewer Moonshots (Re-Release)
Organized philanthropy has become the most powerful force in American Jewish communal life. As the culture of philanthropy has transformed, so has the allocation of power in the community. In an episo...
22 Maalis 202347min
American Judaism, the Chain Novel
We are all inevitably shaped by the "dusty old books" of the Jewish past: our institutions, ideas and identities are built on the thought and work of our intellectual forbearers, even when we ultimate...
15 Maalis 20231h 16min
