The Pope, the Jews, and Israel: What to Anticipate From Pope Leo XIV, with Dr. Malka Simkovich (BONUS EPISODE)
Last Thursday, Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV. While Jews may believe that this shouldn't matter to us at all, this is most likely false. The pope commands the allegiance of we...
12 Touko 202521min
"You Can't Suppress the Light": The Radical Messages of Rav Kook for Orthodox Jews Today, with Professor Marc Shapiro (247)
The thought of Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, who died in 1935, remains extremely influential today in religious Zionist circles. Rav Kook's ideology, particularly as interpreted by his son, Rav T...
5 Touko 20251h 20min
Inside the Real Rules of War: Colonel John Spencer vs. Media Myths About Israel and Hamas (246)
Colonel John Spencer, one of the world's leading experts on urban warfare, joins me for a wide-ranging conversation about Israel's war against Hamas. We dive deep into the realities of modern combat, ...
28 Huhti 20251h 4min
OTD, Datlash, and the Religious Spectrum: When Orthodox Jews Leave Orthodoxy with Rabbi Alex Israel (CLASSIC EPISODE)
The Orthodox Conundrum Podcast is off this week, and we'll be back next week with a brand new episode. In the meantime, enjoy this classic episode about Orthodox Jews who leave Orthodoxy. There's a ph...
21 Huhti 20251h 20min
Celebrating Pesach in Challenging Times: Haggadah Insights from Eight Teachers of Torah (245)
I'm doing something a little different this week. Instead of discussing an issue in the Jewish world, I want to offer some inspirational words about the Seder as we enter the final week before the beg...
7 Huhti 20251h 17min
"There Are No Shortcuts to a Healthy Jewish Education": Empowering Growth Without Guilt or Fear, with Rabbi Dr. Judah and Rabbanit Shayna Goldberg (244)
We are now less than two weeks away from the night of the Seder, which is almost certainly the most widely practiced example of Jewish education in action. And that raises the issue of how we should d...
31 Maalis 20251h 40min
A Moral Voice for Religious Zionism: The Profound (and Profoundly Human) Thought of Rav Yehuda Amital, with Rabbi Moshe Taragin (243)
This conversation with Rabbi Moshe Taragin presents an introduction to the profound - and profoundly human - religious philosophy of Rav Yehuda Amital zt'l, the founding rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har E...
24 Maalis 20251h 14min
Chutzpah - and Illegal Activity - in the Service of Dodging the Draft, with Sam Sokol (242)
When hundreds of students enthusiastically sing and dance about dodging the draft, while thousands of others protect those same students by spending more and more time in the IDF because of a manpower...
17 Maalis 20251h 8min
