The Tikvah Podcast

Eliana Aiken on the Information War against the Jews

Even the most casual consumer of social media has noticed it. The explosion of anti-Jewish memes, videos, grotesque jokes, snickering, trolling—and, in a different regist

Michael Weingrad on Contemporary Israeli Poetry

Man is a storytelling animal, and conveying the experience of the human condition in poetry and prose helps us understand and contend with it. That's true in all times an

Avi Shilon on the Legacy of the Altalena

By the spring of 1948, three armed Jewish militias had been fighting and working towards the birth of modern Israel. There was the Haganah, under David Ben-Gurion, which

Rachel Fish on the Corruption of Jewish Studies

Friends of Israel and enemies of Israel both commit the same mistake when they assume that, in American colleges and universities, the faculty hired to teach Jewish subje

Rabbi Mark Dratch on Jews' Obligations to Christians in Israel

Visitors to Jerusalem's Old City see a marvelous religious diversity that is unique in the contemporary Middle East, and made possible by Israeli sovereignty. For most of

John Bursch on the Freedom to Pray at Home

Traditional Jews pray in a minyan, a quorum of ten men who form the communal setting in which an individual Jew prays as a part of the Jewish people. In January of 2021,

Dan Schueftan on Israel's Doctrine of Preventive Violence

For half a century, Israel treated its adversaries as if their intentions could be tracked and might change according to circumstances. With the states surrounding it, th

Rabbi Mitchell Rocklin on the Legacy of Masada

In the spring of the year 73, after Jerusalem had already fallen to Roman forces, 960 Jews atop a desert fortress chose death by their own hand rather than surrender. We

Ari Lamm on Chosenness

This week, Rabbi Ari Lamm joins Mosaic's editor Jonathan Silver to discuss the biblical idea of election or chosenness. Rabbi Lamm has argued that Genesis itself is a lon

George Deek on Israel's Relationship with the Christian World

In April of this year, Israel's Foreign Ministry created a position that had never before existed: special envoy to the Christian world. The appointment came after a stri

Michael Doran and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Power, Ideology, and Understanding the Middle East

When students begin to study international politics, they meet some very old and well-established schools of thought. These approaches disagree about a fundamental questi

David Arnovitz on the Tanakh of the Land of Israel

Today's conversation is about a publishing project: the Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel. The concept of the series is that it takes the books of the Hebrew Bible and s

Mike Pence and Eric Cohen on What It Means to Be Endowed with Natural Rights

This week we bring you a conversation between Eric Cohen, president and CEO of Tikvah, and the former vice-president of the United States, Mike Pence. The conversation wa

Mark Gottlieb and Shilo Brooks on Why Reading Matters

In 2024, the Atlantic ran a splashy feature titled "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books." Professors at the Ivy League and at other elite universities reporte

Ryan McBeth on Why the U.S. Doesn't (Yet) Have a Munitions Crisis

From the phone that sits in his pocket, a person can now order almost anything online and have it delivered to his door the next morning. For all of human history, no one

Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Religion, the Defense of Western Civilization, and the Assault on the Jews

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, grew up in Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, and Kenya, fled to the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage, became a member of the

Tevi Troy on America's National Shabbat

On May 4, President Trump issued a proclamation which reads: In special honor of 250 glorious years of American independence and on the weekend of Rededicate 250—a nati

Kassy Akiva on Conversion after October 7

Every year on Shavuot, many Jews have the custom of reading the book of Ruth. The holiday commemorates the giving of the Torah at Sinai—the moment when the Jewish people

Dr. Raphael BenLevi on Ending U.S. Aid to Israel

In the spring of 2026, Israel and the United States conducted joint offensive military operations against Iran: coordinating targets, dividing airspace, and operating wit

Jesse Arm on Michigan Democrats' Islamism Problem

Something has been happening in Michigan politics that deserves the attention of everyone who cares about the health of American democracy. And, as they so often are, the