Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host, Jonathan Silver.

For the past many years at our home in New York and at our office in Jerusalem,

the Tikva Fund has been hosting discussions at the crossroads of Jewish text, Jewish thought,

Jewish theology, and the public arena in of Jewish text, Jewish thought, Jewish theology,

and the public arena in which Jewish ideas become Jewish history. At a certain point a few years

ago, we thought we would record some of these conversations and make them available to a wider

community of listeners, first for Tikva's network of alumni, and then for the broader public

interested in our work.

When the Tikva podcast was born, we began to focus on essays.

We'd select an essay and discuss it with either the author or some other interesting guest,

and over the years, we've really been interviewing rabbis and writers, educators, and intellectuals,

and political analysts to bring you inside the seminal

essays and enduring ideas of the Jewish tradition. We're a text-centered people, and so the

Tikva podcast will still take up great books and essays, classic and contemporary, but over time,

we've also broadened the range of subjects we cover. We've really looked at everything from

Israeli security

to Israeli literature, from the Hebrew Bible to the Hebrew language, from the American Jewish community

to the American tradition of religious freedom. Week in and week out, we've tried to situate

the most consequential Jewish writing, ancient and modern, within the dramatic sweep of Jewish

history and Jewish civilization. So this

January, we went back to the laboratory to build on what we've been doing and to refresh the

Tikva podcast. First, we're thrilled to announce a new partnership with the best publication of

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