April 18, 2025
Podcast: Leon Kass on How Exodus Created the Jewish National Narrative
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Leon R. KassListen to one episode of the master teacher's course on the meaning of the second book of the Torah.
Monthly Essays
April 16, 2025
Which Sea Did the Israelites Cross?
By PhilologosExodus's Sea of Reeds wasn't the Red Sea. But was it the Gulf of Suez? Lake Balah? Somewhere else?
April 10, 2025
Podcast: Dara Horn on Her New Graphic Novel
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Dara HornOne Little Goat tells a story about the Haggadah and the meaning of Jewish memory.
April 04, 2025
Podcast: Tevi Troy on How Republican Administrations Argue about Israel
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Tevi TroyDonald Trump’s Team is divided over Middle East policy. That’s nothing new.
March 28, 2025
Podcast: Micah Goodman on What He’s Learned about Israel in the Past Year-and-a-Half
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Micah GoodmanWar, social divisions, and social resilience.
March 21, 2025
Podcast: Mark Gottlieb and Anna Moreland on Judaism, Christianity, and Forgiveness
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicTwo distinct approaches to sin and absolution.
March 19, 2025
The Blood Libel Is Very Old, but the Term Is Surprisingly New
By PhilologosThere’s no more point in arguing with the UN about Israel than there is in arguing about whether Jews really kill Christians for their blood.
March 17, 2025
Israel’s Second War of Independence
By Michael OrenThe generation fighting in Gaza and Lebanon is tempered, steeled, anything but fragile, and intensely patriotic.
March 14, 2025
Podcast: Ronna Burger on Reading Esther as a Philosopher (Rebroadcast)
By Ronna Burger, Tikvah Podcast at MosaicA scholar of philosophy joins us to take a close look at the book of Esther, and the lessons it has to teach about human success and divine providence.
March 13, 2025
“In That Basic Sense the Zionists Were Right”: A Conversation with Irving Howe
By Edward GrossmanAn American Jewish intellectual considers Israel, American Jewry, and anti-Semitism.
March 07, 2025
Podcast: Reihan Salam on Rebuilding Urban Conservatism
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Reihan SalamHow the most Jewish city in America can have its next comeback.
March 05, 2025
The Long Postbiblical History of “Judea and Samaria”
By PhilologosThe controversial terms, unlike “West Bank,” were in common use until 1948.
February 28, 2025
Podcast: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour on Why the End of Palestinian Nationalism Can Bring Hope to Palestinians
By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Hussein Aboubakr MansourPeace demands that the cause of Palestine come to an end.
February 21, 2025
Podcast: David Bashevkin on Orthodox Jews and the American Religious Revival
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicThe changing contours of Orthodoxy in America.
February 19, 2025
Nobody Wants All Hell to Break Loose. But Who’s Breaking, and from Where?
By PhilologosDonald Trump, Paradise Lost, and the origins of a phrase.
February 14, 2025
Podcast: Diana Mara Henry and Gabriel Scheinmann on One Jew Who Fought Back against the Nazis
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicI Am André.
February 12, 2025
Did God Give Moses Ten Sayings, Ten Commandments, or Just Ten Things?
By PhilologosNeither Jewish nor Christian traditions call the Decalogue by its biblical name, but the phrases they choose reveal something about their different approaches to divine law.
February 07, 2025
Podcast: Cynthia Ozick on “The Conversion of the Jews” (Rebroadcast)
By Tikvah Podcast at MosaicThe legendary author joins us to talk about her new short story, about a search for the reason why a 13th-century Jewish man became a Catholic priest.
