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The Tikvah Podcast
1d ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes and Spotify. On February 8, 2025, three hostages ascended from the dungeons of Hamas and returned to freedom in Israel: Eli Sharabi, age fifty-two; Or Levy, age thirty-four; and Ohad Ben Ami, age fifty-six. They had been held captive for sixteen months. […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
1w ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes and Spotify. In July of the year 1263, the Dominican friar Pablo Christiani met to debate Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, sometimes known as Nahmanides, to discuss whether Jesus was the messiah, and thus whether Christianity or Judaism had a greater claim to […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
1w ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes and Spotify. In 2024, we convened 42 new conversations, taking up some of the great questions of modern Jewish life, questions of war and peace, of Israel’s security and Israel on the global stage, and of Jewish survival and flourishing in the […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
1w ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes and Spotify. Modeh ani l’fanekha, I thank you, are the first words uttered by observant Jewish women and men every day of their waking life. The first conscious thought is one of gratitude. The impulse to give thanks is a natural human sentiment, as […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
2w ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. On January 15, Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary cease-fire. About 30 Israeli hostages would be released, each one in exchange for some 30 to 50 convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons. Of course, this is a controversial arrangement […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
2w ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. Ross Douthat occupies one of the most fascinating roles in the religious life of the American public. He is a serious Christian, a devout Catholic, a learned student of American religious history, and a perspicacious observer of the spiritual […]
The post Ross Douthat and Meir Soloveichik on the State of American Belief appeared first on Tikvah ..read more
The Tikvah Podcast
1M ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. The holidays are always times for Americans to come together with their families. Anyone can summon archetypal images of a dining table with three generations—grandparents, parents, and children—together with siblings and the extended family they bring with them—cousins, aunts, […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
1M ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. In 2024, we convened 42 new conversations, taking up some of the great questions of modern Jewish life, questions of war and peace, of Israel’s security and Israel on the global stage, and of Jewish survival and flourishing in […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
2M ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. About 120,000 Jews live in Toronto, a city of about three million residents. Eight out of every ten hate crimes in this city involve what local officials call an “anti-Jewish occurrence.” Then there is Montreal, with its 90,000 Jews […]
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The Tikvah Podcast
2M ago
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. On March 8, 1963, the Baath party overthrew the government of Syria, and since then the Assad family has ruled the country—until last weekend, when the son of Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad, fled to Russia. The 60-year Baathist domination […]
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