The Tikvah Podcast
1) Our Favorite Episodes of 2025
In 2025, we convened about 40 new conversations, taking up the great questions of modern Jewish life—questions of war and peace, providence and civilization, memory and meaning. This year, Mosaic's ed...Show More
2) Ruth Wisse on Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz, z"l, died on December 16 at the age of ninety-five. For more than three decades, he served as editor of Commentary, transforming it into what Irving Kristol deemed the most influenti...Show More
3) Rabbi Ben Elton on Australian Jewry after Bondi Beach
On the evening of December 14, 2025—the first night of Hanukkah—Rabbi Benjamin Elton was driving home from performing a wedding, looking forward to lighting candles with his family. Then his phone beg...Show More
4) Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on the Enduring Power of the Psalms
On October 6, 2023, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik sat at his desk facing a deadline for his monthly column. Israel's citizens were then furiously debating judicial reform, but he'd already had his say on tha...Show More
5) Walter Russel Mead and Elliott Abrams on Navigating the New Middle East
It's now December, and thus a natural time to look back and think about all that's changed in 2024. What did the Middle East and the world look like at this time a year ago? President Biden was in the...Show More
6) Josh Tolle on the State of Hillel on Campus
For many Jewish parents and grandparents, Hillel holds a special place in their memories of college life. Founded in 1923 above a barbershop at the University of Illinois, Hillel grew into a leading J...Show More
7) R.J. Snell on Modern Expressions of the Marcionite Heresy
This episode of the Tikvah Podcast might be the first dedicated entirely to Christian theology. Why would a Jewish podcast devote so much attention to a theological debate that took place among Christ...Show More
8) Ambassador Ron Dermer Looks Back on His Years in Washington (Rebroadcast)
This week, Ron Dermer resigned from the Israeli cabinet, stepping down as minister of strategic affairs after years of working closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu to guide Israel through this last h...Show More
9) What New Research about Men and Apes Says about Human Nature
Every schoolboy has been told that, to understand human nature, we must look to our closest genetic relatives—the chimpanzees. Jane Goodall's pioneering research revealed that chimps use tools, hunt c...Show More
10) Samuel Kassow on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Last week, Michael Smuss died at age ninety-nine. Born in 1926, he was the last surviving fighter of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. His passing marks the end of an era, and brings to a close a chapter of...Show More