Ep. 170: Getting ready for the Academy Awards with shoe designer Stuart Weitzman, actor Kurt Fuller, and film critic Jordan Hoffman

Parshat Ki Tisa: What’s so bad about idol worship?

A new group called Kugel brings together the ‘multicultural bubble’ of New York’s Jewish scene

American foreign policy is unmoored from American reality

Western societies can either accept moderate forms of ethnic majority politics or risk the current populist uprisings mutating into more extreme versions

The not-so-secret history of Christian Zionism and its legacy

From the Pilgrim founders to Donald Trump, ‘a belief in the exceptional role of an American nation’

The protagonist of ‘Synonyms’ refuses to speak Hebrew. Is that why director Nadav Lapid snagged the Jewish state’s first top prize in nearly 70 years of the Berlin Film Festival?

Eighty years ago tonight, thousands of Americans gathered in New York to rally behind the Nazi Party and its ideals. An Oscar-nominated short documentary retrieves footage of the event, but leaves out the context that gives it meaning.