
Observation
Bone of My Bone
The modern world claims mastery of medicine and nature, while stripping us of an essence known since Eden.
By Devorah Goldman
Episode 458·The Tikvah Podcast
Does religion restrict man’s freedom, or protect it?

Observation
The Gavriel Tirosh Affair and the costs of Jewish restraint.

Speech
Religious liberty is not merely tolerated in America but is essential to its founding character and constitutional order.

Episode 311·The Tikvah Podcast
A grandparent-grandchild collaboration on the Book of Ruth.

Observation
The modern world claims mastery of medicine and nature, while stripping us of an essence known since our first days in Eden.

Response
Birthrates may be the engine of Israel's population growth, but aliyah still plays a moral and strategic role in shaping Israel's political future.

Observation
Sixty years ago, Leo Strauss spoke against forsaking the Jewish heritage. Now, when assimilation appears easier than ever and when anti-Semitism has found renewed force in American politics, his message is more relevant than ever.

Observation
The Gavriel Tirosh Affair and the costs of Jewish restraint.
The regime is severely weakened, but not yet defeated.
But they might protest too much.
The danger isn’t posed by “forever wars,” but by forgetting why we fought in the first place.
“Reactionary, performative, and individualist.”
An archaeological first.

Essay
American civilization seems to have forgotten the central lesson that, for peace to endure, evil must be defeated.

Episode 149·Poetry and Prayer: A Daily Journey Through the Psalms
Psalm 135 references the different groups of people who will come to the Temple, joined in praise of God.

Speech
The power and popularity of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" reveals that America’s passion for prayer and its love of liberty are always intertwined.

Speech
Religious liberty is not merely tolerated in America but is essential to its founding character and constitutional order.

Weekly, in-depth conversations on Jews, Judaism, America, and Israel with leading thinkers, writers, rabbis, and policymakers.

Episode 458·May 20, 2026
Does religion restrict man’s freedom, or protect it?

Episode 457·May 14, 2026
Making sense of the presidential proclamation encouraging Jews to keep the Sabbath.

Episode 456·May 7, 2026
Being drawn to Judaism and being pushed toward it.

With Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
The Ten Commandments are central to Jewish faith and ethics—but they are also something more: the very wellspring of the moral and political ideas that shaped Western civilization. In this series, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik takes these ancient words seriously—as revelation, as philosophy, and as a living guide to the crises and confusions of our own moment. Across five illuminating episodes, he explores how the Decalogue gave the world its understanding of freedom, human dignity, family, and faith, and why these words, spoken at Sinai thousands of years ago, still ring with startling clarity today.

With Rabbi Meir Soloveichik
As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik examines key moments in the nation’s history—from the revolutionary era to World War II—through a set of iconic images that have shaped the American imagination. Through paintings and symbols both familiar and forgotten, Rabbi Soloveichik explores how Americans have understood themselves, and how visual culture has transmitted that understanding across generations.
In moments of triumph, tension, and transformation, “Images of America” reveals how art both reflects real life and articulates high ideals. Focusing on paintings like John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” and Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms,” Rabbi Soloveichik illuminates how theology, ethics, and political reflection converge in these snapshots of history. Ultimately, this course invites you to see not only what America has been, but what it might yet become.

With Ruth R. Wisse
The great writers of the modern Jewish literary canon captured the struggles, questions, and aspirations of a people entering a new world. Confronted by the promises and perils of religion, Communism, liberty, assimilation, and capitalism, Jews turned to literature to understand—and to confront—the challenges of modern life. What emerged was a rich body of writing, a treasure to which Jews and all thoughtful readers can turn for insight, experience, and moral understanding.
In this nine-part series, Professor Ruth R. Wisse—one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Jewish fiction—guides you through the masterpieces of modern Jewish literature. Through stories by the greatest Jewish writers of the age, you'll see how they wrestled with God and man, tradition and change, suffering and joy—and how their words continue to illuminate both the Jewish and human conditions.
This course, and all of Ruth Wisse's work at Tikvah, is supported by the generosity of Robert L. Friedman.
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