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On the NoseChabad’s Extremist TurnIn April, Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir toured the United States in his first-ever trip to the country as a government official. Many Jewish groups refused to meet with Ben-Gvir, a follower of Meir Kahane whose extremism stands out even in an Israeli political scene awash in anti-Palestinian racism. But Ben-Gvir was welcomed by Chabad rabbis at Yale in New Haven, in South Florida, as well as at 770 Eastern Parkway, the Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The latter appearance sparked protests outside 770, which were met with violence by Chabadniks. In particular, a mob chanting “Death to A...2025-05-1539 min
The Audio Long ReadKahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politicsA violent fanatic and pioneer in bigotry, Meir Kahane died a political outcast 35 years ago. Today, his ideas influence the very highest levels of government By Joshua Leifer. Read by Kerry Shale. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod2025-04-1846 min
Jewish Crossroads: Jewish Identity in Times of CrisisWhy Progressives Failed The Test of October 7 with Joshua LeiferWhen Joshua Leifer’s book Tablets Shattered was released, it was clear he wasn’t pulling any punches. A fierce critique of the Jewish establishment, a personal reckoning with American Jewish identity, and a progressive take on Israel that refuses easy answers – the book was bound to provoke strong reactions. But no one expected his Brooklyn launch event to be canceled at the last minute because his guest, a Reform rabbi, was a Zionist. In this episode, Leifer joins Tamarto unpack that surreal moment and the deeper tensions it exposed. With sharp insight and unflinching honesty, he delves into the st...2025-03-251h 00
Identity/CrisisA Critique of American Judaism with Joshua LeiferDuring an increasingly sensitive time for American Jews, how can we critically examine our own communities in ways that don’t feel disloyal? On this episode of Identity/Crisis recorded in front of a live audience, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Joshua Leifer, author of Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, who wrestled with this question while critiquing communities to which he feels deeply loyal.You can now sponsor an episode of Identity/Crisis. Click HERE to learn more. JOIN OUR...2025-03-0452 min
18Forty PodcastListener Feedback with David BashevkinIn this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we hear questions, criticisms, complaints, thoughts, and feedback from our listener community. We respond to your comments about the direction of the podcast, the diversity of Jewish experience, and the increased centrality of Israel of our lives. In this episode we discuss:How has the 18Forty mission evolved in light of changes in the world and in Jewish life?Is there an opposite phenomenon to “gvir culture”?How should we discuss important issues that are contentious and divisive, such as the Haredi draft and the identity of the m...2025-01-141h 24
Talking in Shul - Jewish Public MediaTalking in Shul Ep. 97: Politicshis month we’re talking about… politics. How does it show up in our Jewish communities? And how do we want it to show up in our communities? How and when do we talk about politics at shul? Endorsements: Zahava endorses (1) the Gabfest Reads episode about Tablets Shattered by Joshua Leifer; (2) Rav Yehuda Amital’s […]
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Jewish Public Media (All Feeds)Talking in Shul Ep. 97: Politicshis month we’re talking about… politics. How does it show up in our Jewish communities? And how do we want it to show up in our communities? How and when do we talk about politics at shul? Endorsements: Zahava endorses (1) the Gabfest Reads episode about Tablets Shattered by Joshua Leifer; (2) Rav Yehuda Amital’s […]
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Origin StoryBenjamin Netanyahu – Part two – Divide and conquerThis week we complete the story of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s most politically successful prime minister — and its most divisive. We pick up the story in 1996, with Netanyahu’s first term in office, clashing with both President Clinton and his hard-right coalition partners over the future of the Oslo peace process. We follow his subsequent decade in opposition, as the dwindling of hope and the misfortunes of his rivals enabled him to make yet another unlikely comeback in 2009.Apart from 18 months of political chaos, he has been in power ever since, growing more hostile towards the Pal...2024-11-271h 22
In The Spotlight with Abigail PogrebinIn the Spotlight: Joshua LeiferAbigail Pogrebin is joined by journalist Joshua Leifer to discuss "Tablets Shattered," his personal exploration of the American Jewish experience and its evolution from mid-20th century pillars of identity to today's multifaceted and divided landscape.
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Origin StoryBenjamin Netanyahu – Part one – Making enemiesThis week we commence the story of Benjamin Netanyahu. The 75-year-old has become Israel’s longest serving prime minister despite never winning the love of his people, his international allies or even his political colleagues. Now he is accused of prolonging Israel’s horrific wars in Gaza and Lebanon to preserve his own power and save himself from prosecution for corruption. How did the man known even to his foes as Bibi rebound from so many scandals and defeats to become the dominant force in Israeli politics, and what does that say about the country Israel has become? If you...2024-11-201h 03
ami1649Tablets Shattered – The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, Joshua Leiferhttps://www.youtube.com/@ami16492024-11-121h 04
PeaceCast#330: Tablets Shattered: Book Talk with Joshua LeiferRecording of our October 29th, 2024 webinar with Joshua Leifer. This conversation was hosted by Maxxe Albert-Deitch and Karen Paul. We spoke with Joshua Leifer about Tablets Shattered, his lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in the middle decades of the twentieth century, the settled-upon pillars of American Jewish self-definition (Americanism, Zionism, and liberalism) have begun to collapse. The binding trauma of Holocaust memory grows ever-more attenuated; soon there will be no living survivors. After two millennia of Jewish life defined by diasporic existence, the majority of the world’s Jews will live...2024-10-3157 min
The Beinart NotebookJoshua Leifer on the Future of American JewsJoshua Leifer is author of the new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. It’s the best history of American Jewish politics I’ve read and offers a provocative analysis of the American Jewish future. Josh’s launch event was cancelled the week of this discussion, when the bookstore that was hosting it objected because the moderator, Rabbi Andy Bachman, is a “Zionist.” We discussed that, and much more.Audio Podcasts unlock after six weeks for free subscribers. To get them right away, and suppor...2024-10-1042 min
What Matters NowWhat Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise againWelcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, US bureau chief Jacob Magid is joined by journalist Joshua Leifer to discuss his new book Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life." Tablets Shattered made some extra headlines upon its release when a rogue Brooklyn Bookstore employee cancelled a rollout event because the emcee slated to interview Leifer identified as a Zionist. The incident highlighted one of the critiques Leifer makes in the b...2024-10-0333 min
From the Bimah: Jewish Lessons for LifeTablets Shattered: A Conversation with Rabbi Wes Gardenswartz and Author Joshua LeiferIn late August Joshua Leifer, author of Tablets Shattered, was going to be in dialogue about his new book with a local Brooklyn rabbi. They were infamously banned from the bookstore because they are Zionists. While the employee who tossed them was fired, it is sobering that in America, in New York, in August of 2024, an author could get banned for believing that the Jewish people have a right to a homeland.
The day that Josh Leifer was banned by the bookstore I called him. His mother and Shira have been the best of friends for more than forty...2024-09-241h 00
18Forty PodcastTuvia Tenenbom: How a Secular Jew Came To Love the Haredi World [Teshuva IV 3/5]This series is sponsored by Mira and Daniel Stokar, and this episode is sponsored by dailygiving.org.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Tuvia Tenenbom, a formerly Haredi and now secular Jew and the author of Careful, Beauties Ahead!, about how he developed a new love for Haredi religious life.When Tuvia Tenenbom wrote a book about Haredim in Mea Shearim, he found that all Jews—no matter how different their communities—are interconnected in more ways than we might think. In this episode we discuss:2024-09-241h 33
Slate Daily FeedPolitical Gabfest: Donald Trump Takes The BaitThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’ win against Donald Trump in the presidential debate; the Harris endorsements by Taylor Swift and Dick and Liz Cheney; and election integrity with Professor Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School.Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Willa Paskin and Cheyna Roth for Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check? and Wangjie Hu et al. in Science: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transitionJohn: Sas...2024-09-121h 08
Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest: Donald Trump Takes The BaitThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’ win against Donald Trump in the presidential debate; the Harris endorsements by Taylor Swift and Dick and Liz Cheney; and election integrity with Professor Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School.Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Willa Paskin and Cheyna Roth for Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check? and Wangjie Hu et al. in Science: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transitionJohn: Sas...2024-09-121h 08
Political GabfestDonald Trump Takes The BaitThis week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Kamala Harris’ win against Donald Trump in the presidential debate; the Harris endorsements by Taylor Swift and Dick and Liz Cheney; and election integrity with Professor Nathaniel Persily of Stanford Law School.Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Willa Paskin and Cheyna Roth for Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check? and Wangjie Hu et al. in Science: Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transitionJohn: Sas...2024-09-121h 08
18Forty PodcastJoshua Leifer and Shaindy Ort: How Progressive Activists Rediscovered Traditional Jewish Life [Teshuva IV 1/5]This series is sponsored by Mira and Daniel Stokar, and this episode is sponsored by dailygiving.org.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Joshua Leifer and Shaindy Ort, married progressive activists who are reembracing traditional Jewish life.Joshua and Shaindy grew up in Conservative and Yeshivish communities, respectively, but struggled to find a Jewish community as they joined left-wing circles, specifically those highly critical of Israel. After October 7, Joshua resigned from the anti-Zionist magazine Jewish Currents, and in August, he published Tablets Shattered: The E...2024-09-101h 55
Tel Aviv ReviewA Jewish Roadmap for a People in CrisisJoshua Leifer, an American journalist (Dissent, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian) and PhD candidate in history at Yale University, discusses his new book Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. The episode is sponsored by the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA and co-hosted by Prof David N. Myers.2024-09-0945 minSlate Daily FeedPolitical Gabfest: Why Isn’t Harris Doing Better?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the state of the presidential race; the possibility of a hostages-for-Gaza-ceasefire deal with Ruth Margalit of The New Yorker; and foreign interference in U.S. politics. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna RothResearch by Julie HuygenPublic.com+Public Investing: All inve...2024-09-051h 01Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest: Why Isn’t Harris Doing Better?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the state of the presidential race; the possibility of a hostages-for-Gaza-ceasefire deal with Ruth Margalit of The New Yorker; and foreign interference in U.S. politics. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna RothResearch by Julie HuygenPublic.com+Public Investing: All inve...2024-09-051h 01Political GabfestWhy Isn’t Harris Doing Better?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the state of the presidential race; the possibility of a hostages-for-Gaza-ceasefire deal with Ruth Margalit of The New Yorker; and foreign interference in U.S. politics. In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Joshua Leifer about his book, Tablets Shattered. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna RothResearch by Julie HuygenPublic.com+Public Investing: All inve...2024-09-051h 01
Not in HeavenBrooklyn Book BanningJoshua Leifer made headline last month when he was slated to do a public talk at a Brooklyn bookstore about his debut book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life, and discovered, an hour before the event was scheduled to start, that the event had been unilaterally cancelled by an employee who didn't want to host a Zionist onstage. (The Zionist in question wasn't even Leifer—it was the Reform rabbi who would be interviewing Leifer, who, like Leifer, is quite progressive.) Leifer swiftly took to social media, and the story ca...2024-09-0541 minSlate NewsPolitical Gabfest: Will Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08Slate NewsPolitical Gabfest: Will Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08Slate Daily FeedPolitical Gabfest: Will Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08Political GabfestWill Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08Slate Daily FeedPolitical Gabfest: Will Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08Political GabfestWill Harris and Trump Actually Debate?This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Kamala Harris-Donald Trump debate and other campaign goings-on; the January 6th and classified documents cases brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith; and the national housing shortage with Conor Dougherty of The New York Times. Here are this week’s chatters:Emily: Wayne Homes: The Great Debate: Front Porch vs. Back Porch; Mariah Timms for The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuits Fly Over Election Rules and Who Gets to Vote; Fin Gómez and Nidia Cavazos for CBS News: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raid...2024-08-291h 08
The Beinart NotebookLet Zionists SpeakOur call this week will be at a special time: Wednesday at 11 AM EasternOur guest will be Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and one of the most thoughtful and best-informed observers in Washington about the relationship between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran. We’ll discuss Israel’s recent attack, US policy and the danger of a regional war.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan...2024-08-2605 minSlate NewsPolitical Gabfest: The Democrats ‘Do Something’ ConventionThis week, John Dickerson returns and joins Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to discuss the Democratic National Convention; presidential polls; and overtourism. Here are this week’s chatters:John: @jdickerson on Threads: Background Sounds on iPhoneEmily: Tablets Shattered by Joshua Leifer; Gabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?; and Ginia Bellafante for The New York Times: A Bookshop Cancels an Event Over a Rabbi’s Zionism, Prompting OutrageDavid: David Wade for WBZ News: How do you stop political texts on your phone?; Presu...2024-08-221h 04Political GabfestThe Democrats ‘Do Something’ ConventionThis week, John Dickerson returns and joins Emily Bazelon and David Plotz to discuss the Democratic National Convention; presidential polls; and overtourism. Here are this week’s chatters:John: @jdickerson on Threads: Background Sounds on iPhoneEmily: Tablets Shattered by Joshua Leifer; Gabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?; and Ginia Bellafante for The New York Times: A Bookshop Cancels an Event Over a Rabbi’s Zionism, Prompting OutrageDavid: David Wade for WBZ News: How do you stop political texts on your phone?; Presu...2024-08-221h 04
Get Lost In This Immersive Full Audiobook — Perfect Right Now.Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
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Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2
Genres: World
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From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in...2024-08-201h 13Dive Into The Powerful Full Audiobook Now, Knowledge Hunters!Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. For...2024-08-201h 13Discover Top Full Audiobooks in History, WorldTablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. Formed in...2024-08-201h 13
Discover Top Full Audiobooks in History, WorldTablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life Author: Joshua Leifer Narrator: Eli Schiff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. For...2024-08-2010 min
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceTablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life Author: Joshua Leifer Narrator: Eli Schiff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 13 minutes Release date: August 20, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish pre...2024-08-2010 minListen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceTablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life by Joshua LeiferPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/731812to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Release date: August 20, 2024
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
From esteemed journalist Joshua Leifer, a definitive look at the history and future of American Jewish identity and community from the tipping point we are living in. Tablets Shattered is Joshua Leifer’s lively and personal history of the fractured American Jewish present. For...2024-08-201h 13
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Title: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
Author: Joshua Leifer
Narrator: Eli Schiff
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Release date: 08-20-24
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The Beinart NotebookJoe Biden is Not a HeroOur call this week will be at our new regular time: Friday at 11 AM Eastern.Our guest will Joshua Leifer, author of the new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. It’s the best history of American Jewish politics I’ve read and offers a provocative analysis of the American Jewish future.Paid subscribers will get the link this Tuesday and the video the following week. They’ll also gain access to our library of past Zoom interviews with guests like Rashid Khalidi, Thomas Friedman, Ilhan...2024-08-1903 min
Slate BooksGabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?Political Gabfest host Emily Bazalon talks with author Joshua Leifer about his new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. They discuss Leifer’s experience growing up Jewish in America, the conflict in Gaza, how what it means to be Jewish has evolved, and more. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad...2024-08-1759 minPolitical GabfestGabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?Political Gabfest host Emily Bazalon talks with author Joshua Leifer about his new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. They discuss Leifer’s experience growing up Jewish in America, the conflict in Gaza, how what it means to be Jewish has evolved, and more. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad...2024-08-1759 min
Slate HistoryGabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?Political Gabfest host Emily Bazalon talks with author Joshua Leifer about his new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. They discuss Leifer’s experience growing up Jewish in America, the conflict in Gaza, how what it means to be Jewish has evolved, and more. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad...2024-08-1759 min
Slate CultureGabfest Reads: Where Does the American Jewish Experience Go from Here?Political Gabfest host Emily Bazalon talks with author Joshua Leifer about his new book, Tablets Shattered: The End of An American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. They discuss Leifer’s experience growing up Jewish in America, the conflict in Gaza, how what it means to be Jewish has evolved, and more. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad...2024-08-1759 min
Turek Books PodcastR Rated Jurassic Park with Simon Gibson (Amazon's Inside Jokes)Comedian Simon Gibson has been seen on Amazon and NBC's Canonball, he joins Joshua to talk about the show they are co-headlining in Portland Oregon on Saturday night August 24th, 2024 so tell your Portland friends tickets are available here: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/85326006/simon-gibson-joshua-turek-portland-mississippi-studios . They also discuss books, Simon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphic novels he has had since he was 5 years old and might not be worth the millions he thought? A memoir on stand up comedy he wishes he had read twice at different moments in his career. While Simon also explains how on of...2024-08-1351 min
RevDem PodcastJoshua Leifer on the Autumn of American Jewish Life, the Most Serious Test of the Jewish Left, and Much MoreIn this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Joshua Leifer – author of the new book Tablets Shattered. The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future
of Jewish Life – analyzes the unravelling of the postwar American Jewish consensus and the reemergence of
oppositional Jewish politics; discusses what he sees as the four main political-religious tendencies in our times and how his own relationship to them has evolved over the years; explores the radical potential of traditional
Judaism; and reflects on how the diasporic double bind may be navigated today.
Joshua Leifer is a journalist, editor, and tran...2024-06-1053 minThe Audio Long ReadWhat is the real Hamas?How Israeli, Palestinian and US political actors understand Hamas is not merely a theoretical question – it will determine what kind of agreement can be reached to end the current war, and what the future of Gaza will look like. By Joshua Leifer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod2024-04-2242 min
Parallelwelt PalästinaDie HamasWer oder was ist eigentlich die Hamas? In dieser Folge räumen Lena und Michael mit einigen Mythen auf und verfolgen die Geschichte der Hamas von dem ideologischen Ursprung in der Muslimbruderschaft bishin zu der Hamas-Regierung im Gazastreifen.Quellen:Hasan al-Banna über den Faschismus: “Six Tracts”, s. 70. https://pdfs.openmaktaba.com/other-books/hasan-al-banna-six-tracts.pdf Enzo Traverso über Gaza: https://jacobin.com/2024/04/gaza-genocide-holocaust-memory-democracy/ Enthüllungen zur Zielwahl bei israelischer Angriffe in Gaza: https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1181223.gaza-krieg-lavendel-die-ki-maschine-die-israels-angriffe-in-gaza-lenkt.html Hamas-Grundsatzpapier 2017: https://archive.org/details/hamas-grundsatzpapier-2017 Tareq Baconi: Hamas Contained https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26309 What is the r...2024-04-1446 min
Apans anatomiJudisk vänsterVänstern har alltid haft en viktig representation av judar bland sina intellektuella. Finns det en judisk vänster i Sverige? Hur bemöts kritik av Israel inom den svenska judiska gemenskapen? Isak Gerson, Hanna Rajs och David Buzaglo är aktiva i judiskt församlingsliv och utifrån deras debattartikel pratar vi om hur det är att vara judisk vänster idag. Vad finns det för inspiration att hämta och vad går att göra idag? Samtalet knyter an till diskussionen om sorg, sörjbarhet, minne, melankoli, trauma och återtraumatisering för den judiska erfarenheten som förs inom tidskrif...2024-01-011h 19The Audio Long ReadThe Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his imageHe first became prime minister in 1996, and has been pushing the country further right ever since. Most agree his political days are numbered – but the approach he established will prove very difficult to shift. By Joshua Leifer. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod2023-11-2737 min
Bad Rabbi Media"I Just Couldn't Accept That That Was Something That Was Being Said": Contemplating Humanity & Inhumanity from "A Weird Place," with Joshua Leifer"So now I'm in a weird place" is a sentiment many can relate to these days. Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, following the latter's barbaric 10/7 torture-rape-massacre of 1400 Israelis, and kidnapping of 240 more, has provoked some of the most acute fissures of my generation, with implications that can't be fully predicted except to say we will be living with them for generations more. Joshua Leifer experienced what he describes as an acute awakening about the nature of left-politics in the wake of the massacre. "I reacted very personally to people I knew personally from the left-journalism milieu, reacting excitedly...2023-11-141h 06
The Listening PostIsrael’s media: Between trauma and anger | The Listening PostAfter three weeks of a punishing Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel is still refusing to allow international journalists in.News outlets and audiences are entirely reliant on local Palestinian reporters, who risk their lives to provide a window into the war.Contributors:Tal Schneider - political and diplomatic correspondent, Times of IsraelNathan Thrall - author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine StoryJoshua Leifer - journalist, Dissent MagazineOmar Baddar - deputy director, Arab American InstituteOn our radar:The ethnic cleansing...2023-11-0425 min
Know Your EnemyYour Questions, AnsweredOnce a year Matt and Sam take questions from listeners—and they always prove to be incredibly smart and interesting. This time around was no different, with questions that include such topics as: the crisis in Israel and Palestine, the influence of postliberal thinkers on the right, polarization and our political future, the state of the GOP, Willie Nelson, conservative art (and artists), and more!Sources:Joshua Leifer, "Toward a Humane Left," Dissent, Oct 12, 2023; read Gabriel Winant's reply, "On Mourning and Statehood," and Leifer's response to Winant herePatrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward a...2023-10-281h 35
The DigZionism’s Civil War w/ Edo Konrad & Joshua LeiferFeaturing Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.
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Jacobin RadioDig: Zionism's Civil War w/ Edo Konrad & Joshua LeiferFeaturing Edo Konrad and Joshua Leifer on how Zionism's long-running contradictions led to the current political crisis in Israel.Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDigCheck out +972 Magazine at 972mag.comSubscribe to Jewish Currents' Israel/Palestine newsletter at jewishcurrents.org/newsletterBuy The New Cold War: The United States, Russia, and China from Kosovo to Ukraine by Gilbert Achcar haymarketbooks.org/books/2007-the-new-cold-war Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-04-081h 53
The Listening PostHow Israel’s protests are dividing mainstream media | The Listening PostThe hard-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu is facing off against Israeli protesters triggered by sweeping changes to judicial powers in the country. Adding to the cacophony is news coverage from outlets that range from the Fox-style Channel 14, with its conspiracy theories and pro-government talking points, to the opportunistic Channel 13, which is trying to recast itself as being supportive of the protests.Contributors:Eva Berger - Senior lecturer in media studies, COLMANJoshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish CurrentsDiana Buttu - Lawyer and political activistOren Persico - Writer, The Seventh Eye...2023-04-0124 minOn the NoseUnpacking Israel’s Political CrisisAfter Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defense minister for calling for a halt to government plans to gut the power of Israel’s judiciary, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets, participating in spontaneous mass protests and setting bonfires in the street. The next day, after a general strike brought the economy to a halt, Netanyahu backtracked, announcing the Knesset would not vote on the first part of his government’s judicial overhaul plan and that he would instead engage in negotiations with the opposition to forge consensus. To discuss these developments, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arie...2023-03-3046 minOn the NoseThe Trouble with Germany, Part IIIn recent years, German state officials and media outlets have cracked down on Palestinian speech and activism. In 2019, the German parliament passed a nonbinding resolution declaring the global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement antisemitic, and comparing it to Nazi boycotts of Jewish businesses. Early last year, a state-funded news outlet fired seven Arab and Muslim journalists for “antisemitism” that mostly amounted to criticism of Israel. And last May, Berlin banned several protests planned to mark Nakba Day, which commemorates the 1947–1949 expulsion of an estimated 750,000 Palestinians at the hands of Zionist militias. To discuss Palestine solidarity in Germany, the state’s intens...2023-03-0940 min
The Listening PostAttacks on Palestinians are on the rise | The Listening PostIsrael’s incoming government, elected six weeks ago, is shaping up as the most extreme in the country’s history - waging war on media workers, then trying to cover up its crimes.But evidence of those crimes frequently ends up online thanks to citizen journalism and satellite imagery - and that is making an impact, often bigger abroad than at home.Contributors:Yara Hawari - Senior policy analyst, al-ShabakaDiana Buttu - Human rights lawyer & former adviser to the PLOJoshua Leifer - Contributing editor, Jewish CurrentsDaniel Levy - President, US/M...2022-12-1024 minOn the NoseVictory for Netanyahu’s Far-Right AllianceIn last Tuesday’s Knesset elections, the Israeli electorate delivered a big win to Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition in the fifth Israeli election since 2019. The right-wing bloc won 64 Knesset seats, which will likely give Netanayhu and allied parties enough votes to form a stable and ideologically coherent coalition government. Netanyahu’s probable return to power is thanks to the strength of the Religious Zionism coalition, consisting of three of the most extreme parties in Israeli politics. The coalition won 14 seats, the most it has ever gotten. Jewish Currents senior reporter Alex Kane spoke to editor-at-large Peter...2022-11-0826 minOn the NoseYeshiva EducationIn the wake of the recent extensive New York Times investigation into Hasidic yeshivas, a fierce and often acrimonious debate has emerged about the ethics of covering the Hasidic world from the outside, how private institutions that receive government funds are accountable to the broader public, and religious minority communities’ right to insist on their way of life, even when it brings them into conflict with the state. On this episode, Jewish Currents Contributing Editor Joshua Leifer hosts a conversation between Naftuli Moster, executive director of Young Advocates for Fair Education (YAFFED), and Frieda Vizel, a writer and tour gu...2022-09-2938 minOn the NoseDocumenting the StruggleOn this episode, Jewish Currents Contributing Editor Joshua Leifer talks with Oren Ziv—co-founder of the award-winning photojournalist collective Activestills and reporter for +972 Magazine and its Hebrew sister site, Local Call—about Oren’s decade-plus experience documenting protest and resistance in Israel/Palestine. Since the Activestills collective’s founding in 2005, Ziv and the group have captured some of the most iconic, and often painful, images of social and political struggle: from the demonstrations against the Israeli separation barrier in the late 2000s, to the campaign for African asylum seekers’ rights in the 2010s, to the opposition to gentrification in the Mizrah...2022-08-2541 minOn the NoseThe Trouble with Germany, Part 1On this episode, Jewish Currents editor-in-chief Arielle Angel speaks with two Germany-based writers and organizers, Emily Dische-Becker and Michael Sappir, about the bizarre and worrisome ways that Germany’s understandably zealous Holocaust memory culture is playing out among Jews, Palestinians, and other Germans in contemporary Germany. An anti-BDS resolution passed in the Bundestag in 2019 has led to draconian repression of speech across German society, much of it directed not only at Palestinian Germans, but also at some critical Israeli Jews, upward of 10,000 of whom live in Germany. These politics are complicated further by the prevalence on the left of an...2022-07-281h 06On the NoseCampus WarsSince the launch of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel and the collapse of the Oslo Peace Process in the early aughts, the college campus has been a locus of American political conflict over Israel/Palestine. As student Palestine solidarity activists have attempted to introduce BDS resolutions across the country, Israel advocacy organizations have responded by building a vast organizing infrastructure to intervene in student debates about Israel, painting campuses as threatening and hostile places for Jewish students and pushing for greater restrictions on pro-Palestine student speech. In only the latest example, members of the...2022-05-0554 minOn the NoseJamaal Bowman and DSAOn December 2nd, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)’s National Political Committee declined to expel New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman from the socialist organization. This decision capped a weeks-long debate within DSA over how to respond to Bowman’s “yes” vote on funding Israel’s anti-rocket Iron Dome system and his participation in a recent J Street trip to Israel/Palestine. Beyond the specific issue of how DSA should respond to Bowman’s divergence from the group’s line on Israel/Palestine, the controversy highlighted broader ideological and strategic questions: What’s the relationship between electoralism and the struggle for Pal...2021-12-1643 minOn the NosePolitical DepressionAs climate change-induced flooding and wildfires wreak havoc across the globe, and the Delta variant brings us into another perilous phase of the pandemic, the Jewish Currents staff is thinking about political depression—and how to cope with it. What does it mean to bring political feelings into therapy? Editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, publisher Jacob Plitman, culture editor Ari M. Brostoff, and contributing editor Joshua Leifer discuss the relationship between melancholia and the left, the difficulties of reconciling the therapeutic subject with the social collective of movement politics, and how therapy might be radicalized.Listen to On the No...2021-08-101h 06On the NoseRallies, Surveys, and Ice CreamIt’s been a rough few weeks for the “pro-Israel” establishment, from a pitiful showing at the “No Fear” rally against antisemitism (whose “big tent” excluded non-Zionists), to the release of a Jewish Electorate Institute survey of American Jewish voters showing surprisingly prevelant left-wing attitudes about Israel, to last week’s announcement that Ben & Jerry’s will stop selling ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories. Editor-in-chief Arielle Angel, culture editor Ari M. Brostoff, assistant editor Mari Cohen, and contributing editor Joshua Leifer discuss these developments, what they suggest about evolving public opinion among American Jews, and what questions they raise about J...2021-07-271h 29On the NoseIn This Moment & Tough ConversationsIs it worthwhile to focus our organizing on moving Jewish American public opinion on Israel/Palestine? How effective is it really in shifting the dynamics on the ground? Jewish Currents staff members discuss these questions.Then, starting at 33:58, we discuss one of the main questions we’ve received in the last week: How do I talk to my family about what’s happening? We recount personal victories and failures, and explore how people actually change their mind.Reading & Resources Mentioned in "In This Moment & Tough Conversations"Are 95% of Jews Really Zionists? by Caroline Morga...2021-05-201h 17
Time To Say GoodbyeSheikh Jarrah and What Feels Different This Time about Israel/Palestine with Josh Leifer of Jewish CurrentsHello!This week we talked with Joshua Leifer, an editor at Jewish Currents, about the ongoing military violence against Palestinian communities in Gaza this past month (for those keeping track, Josh helped organize that Jewish Current-TTSG webinar from two weeks ago!)(Tammy unfortunately had to sit out today’s episode with a last-second conflict 😔 )We talk to Josh about his recently co-authored explainer on the clashes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, resistance from Palestinian groups and the Israeli Left, and the role of Biden and US (and international) solidarity. We...2021-05-181h 38
UnsettledAnan Maalouf: The Joint ListIsrael is about to hold its fourth parliamentary election in the past two years. The last time Israelis went to the polls, in March 2020, the Joint List — a coalition of four Arab Palestinian political parties — won an unprecedented 15 seats in the Knesset. But since then, the Joint List has fractured. Why? And what does this mean for the future of Palestinian politics?Producer Max Freedman speaks with Anan Maalouf, former chief of staff and policy advisor to Ayman Odeh, head of the Joint List and leader of its largest party, Hadash-al Jabhah.CREDITSUnse...2021-03-0833 min
UnsettledJoshua Leifer: The Tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn"Five years ago, Jeremy Corbyn brought Palestine solidarity politics into the heart of the largest left-wing party in Europe. And [his leadership has] ended with criticisms of the occupation being untenable in British politics." How did this happen?The unlikely election of Jeremy Corbyn to lead the Labour Party in 2015 appeared to signal the renewed political viability of both socialism and Palestine solidarity. But under Corbyn's leadership, Labour was consumed by a series of anti-semitism scandals, with disastrous results. Was the charge of anti-semitism simply a weapon in Labour's long-running factional conflict, or is the British left...2020-12-2837 min
十萬八千里世界觀點︰特朗普有系統地終結未來巴勒斯坦建國的可行性 (Joshua Leifer@《衛報》)2019-11-2203 min十萬八千里美國眾議院完成彈劾聽證會 / 美國改稱以色列殖民區無違反國際法世界觀點︰特朗普有系統地終結未來巴勒斯坦建國的可行性 (Joshua Leifer@《衛報》)
國際追蹤︰波蘭《制止戀童癖法》被指將性教育刑事化（蔡君穎）2019-11-2221 min