Our Favorite Broadcasts of 2021

The Tikvah Podcast

Tikvah

Judaism, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, News

4.6 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In 2021, 49 different guests appeared on the podcast over the course of 44 new episodes. Our conversations touched on some of the most important and interesting subjects in Jewish life, including discussions with leaders of Israel's ḥaredi community, a course developer who is deploying technology to teach people Yiddish, diplomats and strategists shaping foreign-policy debates in Israel, Europe, and America, elected officials and diplomats, historians and social scientists, theologians and rabbis, academics and authors, reporters and entrepreneurs. Each guest, in conversation with Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver, trained his or her unique perspective on some timely or enduring question that stands before the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

In this episode, we present some of our favorite conversations this year. Guests featured in this year-end episode include the Israeli rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer, the foreign-policy analysts Benjamin Haddad and Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal editor Elliot Kaufman, social scientist Nicholas Eberstadt, Jewish educational leader David Rozenson, Yiddish expert Meena Viswanath, tech CEO Sean Clifford, novelist Dara Horn, and the eminent writer Cynthia Ozick.

Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

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0:00.0	In 2021, we broadcast 44 conversations with 49 unique guests on some of the most important and interesting subjects in Jewish life.
0:18.3	I spoke with elected officials and diplomats, historians and social
0:22.1	scientists, theologians and rabbis, academics, and authors, reporters, and entrepreneurs,
0:27.9	all training their unique angle of vision on the timely and enduring questions that confront
0:33.7	the Jewish people and the Jewish state. I hope you've enjoyed these conversations and learned
0:38.3	as much about Jewish ideas and Jewish dilemmas as I have this year. For the final broadcast of the
0:43.2	year, we're looking back at 10 representative excerpts from 2021 in hopes that as we plan 40 or 50 more
0:50.6	conversations in 2022, you'll return to our archive and listen to some of the most
0:56.2	fascinating conversations we've already recorded. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. I'm your host,
1:02.1	Jonathan Silver. On today's show, we present some of our favorite moments from 2021. As ever,
1:08.1	if you enjoy this conversation, you can subscribe to the Tikva podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify.
1:15.5	I hope you'll leave us a five-star review to help us grow this community of ideas.
1:20.0	I welcome your feedback on this or any of our other podcast episodes at podcast at tikfa fund.org.
1:26.3	And of course, if you want to learn more about our work at Tsikva, you can visit our website, ticfund.org, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. First is the discussion that I had back in February with the Haredi-Khalachic-Decisor communal judge and editor of the Haredi Journal of Ideas, Zik Iyun, the Rabbi Yehoshua, Pfeffer.
1:45.5	In thinking about the unique dilemmas put before the Haredi community in Israel
1:49.9	in its dealing with the coronavirus pandemic,
1:53.1	Rabbi Fephyr and I spoke about how he sees the trade-off between civic obligations
1:58.2	and the isolationism that is the very premise of Haredi culture.
2:03.4	Isolationism isn't just a facet of Haredi society. It's a defining element of what it means to be
2:11.0	a Haredi person. A Haredi person has an attitude towards modernity, which is founded on the
2:16.7	concept of isolationism. That's the
2:19.5	strategy that Haredi society espoused in order to deal with a threat, and these are serious
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