Rootless with Liel Leibovitz
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From weekly deep dives into breaking news to modern takes on very old texts, Tablet Studios podcasts bring you Jewish insight and inspiration. Our new flagship show, Rootless, tackles one urgent question facing Jews each week, with guests who will share often inconvenient but always essential truths.
Episodes
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- How To Do Activism Right, with Jay Ruderman, Tuly Weisz, and Pesach Wolicki · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 28These days, it seems like everyone is a so-called activist. Activism itself seems to have morphed into something different; it’s not about organizing communities or advocating…
- Israel’s Most Controversial Politician, with Itamar Ben-Gvir · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 27There’s no more divisive Israeli public figure than Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. Starting out his career as a Kahanist firebrand known for his controversial…
- Passover Crossover - How to Be a Jew ... Like Dara Horn · 49 minRootless is off this week for Passover, but we wanted to bring you an episode of How to Be a Jew we think you'll like. Like most Jews, the news of the murder of the Bibas…
- Why Oct. 7 Victims Are Suing a Palestinian Mogul, with Gary Osen · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 26When people concerned with the future of the Palestinian people talk about the future, they often say, hopefully, that change will come only once we can replace Hamas and other…
- Why God Was Right, with Mark Gerson · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 25Like most highly successful entrepreneurs, Mark Gerson likes things he can measure, quantify, and know for certain. So as a student of the Torah, a question came to mind: If the…
- How Israel Will Save Western Civilization, with Josh Hammer · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 24In his new and best-selling book, Israel and Civilization, Josh Hammer makes a bold claim: the future of Western civilization depends on the State of Israel and the Jewish people…
- How Universities Lost Their Way, With Cary Nelson · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 23Universities are meant to be spaces of free inquiry, knowledge, and rigorous debate. But according to academic and writer Cary Nelson, they’ve instead become hotbeds of…
- Why Dual Loyalty is Good for the Jews, with Rabbi Nolan Lebovitz · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 22The charge of dual loyalty has long been a key weapon in the arsenal of anti-Semites everywhere. But in his new book, The Case for Dual Loyalty: Healing the Divided Soul of…
- Why Trump’s Deportation of Mahmoud Khalil is Perfectly Legal, with Ilya Shapiro · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 21Last Saturday, ICE agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born Palestinian who was one of the leaders behind the year-long Tentifadah in Columbia University. Khalil and his…
- What to Do in Ukraine, and in Gaza? With Eli Lake · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 20It’s been a week of fast-paced breaking news, from a bit of Hamas propaganda winning the Academy Award for best documentary to President Trump and Vice President Vance presiding…
- Can Orthodox Judaism Be Reformed? with Rabbi Irving Greenberg · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 19One of American Jewry’s leading theologians and thinkers, Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg has spent decades engaging—and enraging—orthodoxy by suggesting it was time for religious…
- Is This the End of Woke Capitalism?, With Jennifer Sey · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 18Jennifer Sey was a national gymnastics champion who then won awards for exposing the abuse many female gymnasts suffered at the hands of their male coaches. She was also a…
- Are We Really About to Empty Gaza of Palestinians?, with Tony Badran · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 18Welcoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump has repeatedly made a bombshell proposal: Empty Gaza of its 1.8 million…
- Are Science and Religion Mutually Exclusive? With Spencer Klavan · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 17Not long ago, a prominent Silicon Valley technologist told anyone who would listen that he believed he would never die because Artificial Intelligence was basically a God-like…
- Saving Western Values: Rotherham and the Perils of Multiculturalism with Melanie Phillips · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 16Elon Musk recently reignited discussion of a decade-old child sex scandal in England, in which more than 1,000 girls were groomed and raped by gangs largely composed of men of…
- Is the Hostage Deal a Disaster? with Gadi Taub · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 15According to reports, Israel is about to sign a ceasefire deal with Hamas that will secure the return of some hostages in return to a partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, paving…
- Can we Forgive Our Worst Enemies? Should We? With R.R. Reno · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 14For the past two years, a group of esteemed Christian and Jewish thinkers and theologians met regularly to discuss the one thing they felt was most sorely missing from the…
- Will We All Soon Be Haredi? With Rabbi Gil Student · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 13In 2012, tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews packed Citi Field to protest the Internet and demand that believers tune out of the new nascent new medium. Rabbi Gil Student, an…
- Rootless: The Best of 2024 · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 12It’s been a whopper of a year: Israel at war with Hamas and Hezbollah, a decisive Trump victory, anti-Semitism on the rise, and formerly great American institution on the…
- How to Save New York from Itself, with Nicole Gelinas · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 11When Jordan Neely, a mentally disturbed man with a long rap sheet began threatening his fellow subway passengers one day last year, they were all terrified. But one straphanger…
