Listening and Learning from the Tikvah Podcast and the Shalom Hartman Institute

8:39 PM Wednesday.

I have recently discovered the Tikvah Podcast hosted by Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver and the Shalom Hartman Institute's Identity Crisis podcast hosted by Yehuda Kurtzer. In this post I will share two podcasts that I have already listened to completely, and two podcasts that I am still processing:

Here are the four podcasts:

1. An Ancient Christian Heresy Is Back—And Jews Are Its Target | R.J. Snell on the Tikvah Podcast
2. Can the Jewish Big Tent Hold After October 7? with Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire Sufrin
3. The Progressive Takeover of Jewish Campus Life | Josh Tolle on the Tikvah Podcast
4. What Broke the Black–Jewish Alliance? with Terrence Johnson

All four of these dialogues are incredibly brilliant. 

1. The problem of Marcionism is rather subtle. Paradoxically, is Marcionism both more honest than orthodox Christianity, on the one hand, and less of a cultural appropriation of the Tanakh than orthodox Christianity, on the other? Can all Christian supersessionism be considered a subtle form of Marcionism by thoughtful Jewish scholars? 

https://share.google/aimode/9NlFsJZG7TboIkdhn

2. Who was Rabbi David Hartman and what does it mean that the Shalom Hartman Institute is dedicated to pluralism? How has friction in the Jewish world between Zionist and anti-Zionist discourse challenged the pluralist mission of the Shalom Hartman Institute in the aftermath of October 7?

https://share.google/aimode/I7Tb2T2zPLyN3I6Vn

3. How is the Tikvah Fund a complementary organization and in what way has the response of the Tikvah Fund diverged from that of the Shalom Hartman Institute since October 7? Are the Tikvah Fund and the Shalom Hartman Institute competing for influence with young Jews on the American campus through Hillel?

https://share.google/aimode/6tB6Jmb9RgrsbWR4p

4. What has the scholar Terrence Johnson from Harvard said about Black-Jewish relations in America since 1967? What role does Johnson believe the 6-Day War of 1967, decolonization discourse and allegations of Israeli apartheid have played in the fracturing of this relationship?

https://share.google/aimode/unqMKwXEP6lK5LGbM

As I understand it, we are looking at the roots of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic revelation - Abrahamic revelation - and we are seeing a tremendously powerful force for good. We are seeing a gift from our Creator for lives of purpose and harmony on our way to the Olam Ha-Ba, the world to come. At the same time, there is a shadow side at the root of this revelation that can lead - particularly from a contemporary leftist perspective - to speciesism, racism, sexism, and other unhelpful expressions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim supremacy.

In his work Not in God's Name, did Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks identify a potential within religion for violence alongside the potential for good, and if so, how did he define or describe this negative potential?

https://share.google/aimode/3pDEGPjTj73NfCUzZ

Ah. Very compelling: "altruistic evil" and "pathological dualism." For further reflection and teshuvah on my part, to be sure.

End 10:00 PM.