Israel

J. J. Kimche on Meir Kahane

J. J. Kimche joins the podcast to discuss what lessons can be learned from the life and work of a highly divisive Jewish extremist. Continue Reading »

30 Mar 2022

What Sally Rooney Thinks Reading Is For

by Liel Leibovitz

Rooney’s decision not to publish her books in Hebrew isn’t really about Israel or its policies at all. It’s about the meaning of culture, how it should be produced and consumed, and who and what it should serve. Continue Reading »

15 Oct 2021

Bob Dylan in Plain Sight

by Dominic Green

Becoming a superstar almost ruined Bob Dylan's songwriting. His return to form was typically provocative. Continue Reading »

20 Sep 2021

Storming the Barricades

by Shalom Carmy

As the bicentennial of the United States Constitution was approaching in 1989, Michael Kammen published a book about its place in American culture—A Machine That Would Go of Itself. At the time, proud Americans passionately embraced their faith in the perfection of the country’s founding . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2021

Israel: The Longer View

by Michel Gurfinkiel

Western countries should follow recent events in Israeli politics closely. Continue Reading »

20 Apr 2021

Coronavirus Shabbat

by Cole S. Aronson

Israelis are praying and loving and studying at home, the true center of Jewish life. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2020

Letters

by Various

Patricia Snow (“Hawthorne’s Daughter,” January) may perhaps be unaware of St. Jerome’s error in countering Jovinian’s heresy, namely, his denigration of marriage in order to uphold the superiority of the virgin state. Snow makes Jerome’s mistake in her attempt to rationalize Rose . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

Catholic Zionism

by Gavin D’Costa

In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is irrevocable. Lumen Gentium had done the same the year before, concurring with what St. Paul says about biblical Judaism in Romans 11:29 (“For the gifts and the call of God . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2020