How to Make Passover Sangria
Last night marked the first night of Passover, which commemorates the freedom of the Jews from slavery in ancient Egypt.Around the world, Jewish families sat down to take part in Seder, a traditional...
View ArticleAmerica: Israel's Best Friend?
Secretary of State John Kerry has fallen short on his diplomatic efforts to end the fighting in Gaza. Now, he's looking to salvage talks for a temporary cease fire, and is keeping the door open to...
View ArticleAccusations Fly in Wake of Argentine Prosecutor's Mysterious Death
Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman's body was found beside the gun that shot him. His death comes mere days after he accused President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and top members of her...
View ArticleThe Battle Against Hitler: A Portrait of Defiance & Courage
Today, 300 former prisoners gather at the site of an unspeakable atrocity to mark an anniversary and recall their stories of survival.Seventy years ago today, on January 27, 1945, Soviet forces...
View ArticleRabbi Sacks on The Refugee Crisis: Time for Compassion to Triumph
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.“Europe is being tested as it has not been tested since the Second World War,” says Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the United Kingdom from...
View ArticleJewish America Generational Divide
An edited version of this segment aired as part of a best-of Brian Lehrer Show on Friday, November 29, 2013. The original conversation aired live on October 4. A recent Pew survey of American Jews...
View ArticleSlate: The "How Clean Is Your CR?" Gabfest
Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The government shutdown, the Obamacare rollout, and the assimilation of American Jews. Show notes at...
View ArticleReza Aslan; Humans of New York; Astronaut Chris Hadfield
The Brian Lehrer Show is not live today, so we won't be taking any calls. As always, you can join the conversation online through our comments section (links below), on Facebook, or on Twitter through...
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[Unedited] Avivah Zornberg with Krista Tippett
Avivah Zornberg is a scholar of Torah and rabbinic literature, and author of several books including "The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus." This interview is edited and produced with...
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Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharaoh, Moses, and God
With a master of midrash as our guide, we walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Passover. It's not the simple narrative you've watched at the movies or learned in Sunday school. Neither Moses...
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[Unedited] Adele Diamond with Krista Tippett
Adele Diamond is a professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode...
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Adele Diamond — The Science of Attention
What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music,...
View ArticleJewish settlers establish a new West Bank outpost in the name of the murdered...
In the heart of the West Bank, Israelis have started building a settlement. The area is where three Israeli teenagers were killed — allegedly by Hamas — back in June. While the settlers say this is a...
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[Unedited] Mario Livio with Krista Tippett
Mario Livio is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute. His books include: "Is God a Mathematician?" and "Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal Mistakes...
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Mario Livio — Mysteries of an Expanding Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 25 this year, has brought the beauty of the cosmos into our lives. Mario Livio works with discoveries it makes possible, studying things like dark energy,...
View ArticleRemember Us Unto Life
"Remember Us Unto Life" is a one-hour celebration of Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement - eight days known as the Jewish High Holidays.The program takes the form...
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[Unedited] Jonathan Sacks with Krista Tippett
Jonathan Sacks was Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth for 22 years. He is now the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at...
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Jonathan Sacks — The Dignity of Difference
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and one of the world’s deep thinkers on religion in our age. He’s just released a new book, Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious...
View ArticleTradition Returns to Broadway
The fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof will begin previews on November 20th at the Broadway Theatre. Fiddler is one of the most-produced musicals in theatre history, with productions in...
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Amid Europe’s refugee crisis, fears of anti-Semitism rise
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: A surge in anti-Semitic attacks is driving European Jews to move to Israel and other countries where they feel safe. Over the last two years, nearly 20,000...
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Sanders keeps his Judaism in the background, irking U.S. Jews
Sen. Bernie Sanders prays with Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, before delivering an address to Liberty University students in Lynchburg, Virginia, in September. Photo by Jay...
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[Unedited] Tiffany Shlain with Krista Tippett
Tiffany Shlain is the founder of the Webby Awards and a co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. She has directed and co-written 28 films, some with accompanying books,...
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Tiffany Shlain — Growing Up the Internet
When Tiffany Shlain thinks of her favorite quote from naturalist John Muir, she thinks of the internet: "When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it's attached to everything else." As a...
View ArticleCan Public Pools 'Ban' Men?
A public swimming pool in Williamsburg has had “women-only” hours since the nineties.And despite a recent complaint, the parks department has decided to maintain those hours.Yair Rosenberg, senior...
View ArticleSnap Classic - The Rabbi and the KKK
A New York Rabbi has his faith tested when he takes a job in Nebraska. Producer: Anna Sussman
View ArticleSchwartz Brothers on Offense
Geoff Schwartz, former NFL player, talks about the book he co-authored with his brother Mitchell Schwartz, Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle, called Eat My Schwartz: Our Story of NFL Football, Food,...
View ArticleReligious Leaders React to Trump
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11 the Bush administration implemented the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. The program ran from 2002 to 2011 and under it certain "foreign citizens and...
View ArticleHoliday Weekend Special: Van Jones, Your God, Dear President, Fiction...
Happy Holidays from The Brian Lehrer team! For today's show you'll hear a few of our past favorites:Van Jones, CNN political commentator, former "green jobs" advisor to President Barack Obama and the...
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Q&A: Can teaching about religion reduce intolerance?
A boy prays during a Christmas Eve mass at a Catholic church in North China’s Shanxi province. Photo by REUTERS/Jason LeeWhere’s the line between teaching and preaching religion in school? It’s a...
View ArticleThe Threats to Jews Now; Living Off The Grid; How Bernie Sanders Organized
Philosopher, journalist, filmmaker and activist Bernard-Henri Lévy joins us to discuss his latest book, The Genius of Judaism. The Outsider Art Fair owner, Andrew Edlin, and curator, Janet Hicks join...
View ArticleBernard-Henri Lévy Reflects on Being Jewish Today
Philosopher, journalist, filmmaker and activist Bernard-Henri Lévy joins us to discuss his latest book, The Genius of Judaism, a memoir and reflection on his own spiritual roots as he reckons with what...
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What can the Trump administration do to quell anti-Semitism?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: The past couple of months have seen a wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, including a dozen bomb threats at Jewish community centers in...
View ArticleBomb Threats Ripple Across American Jewish Communities
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Since January, 100 different Jewish day schools and community centers have been evacuated after bomb threats. Just this Monday, sites in 16...
View ArticleThe New Justice Department, Director Olivier Assayas, 'Making a Murderer'
Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and a senior research fellow at Yale Law School, joins us to discuss her recent cover story, “Department of Justification.” Director...
View ArticleSitting Down to Passover Seder with Three Comedians
Comedians and writers Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, and Adam Mansbach join us to discuss their new book, For This We Left Egypt?: A Passover Haggadah for Jews and Those Who Love Them, a parody haggadah....
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How Jewish tables around the world serve a feast of traditions
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now, as we approach the Jewish holiday of Passover, we have a new addition to the NewsHour Bookshelf. It’s a celebration of cooking and tradition.JOAN...
View ArticleFrench Elections: Bernard-Henri Levy Calls For Jews to Be Vigilant
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Following months of buildup, French voters went to the polls on Sunday during the nation's first round of presidential voting. The field of 11...
View ArticleIs It Okay to Say "Jew"?
In the words of comedian Louis C.K., “Jew” is both the polite thing to call a group of people and a slur. The dodgy associations with this word, accumulated over centuries of anti-Semitism, have...
View Article#124 When Mom Says Oy! And Dad Says ¡Ay!
What traditions should you pass down to your kids when you and your partner come from completely different cultures? And why does keeping those rituals alive even matter? The Mash-Up Americans help us...
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Avivah Zornberg — The Transformation of Pharoah, Moses, and God
With a master of midrash as our guide, we walk through the Exodus story at the heart of Passover. It's not the simple narrative you've watched at the movies or learned in Sunday school. Neither Moses...
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Adele Diamond — The Science of Attention
What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music,...
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Mario Livio — Mysteries of an Expanding Universe
The Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 25 this year, has brought the beauty of the cosmos into our lives. Mario Livio works with discoveries it makes possible, studying things like dark energy,...
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Jonathan Sacks — The Dignity of Difference
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and one of the world’s deep thinkers on religion in our age. He’s just released a new book, "Not in God’s Name: Confronting...
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Tiffany Shlain — Growing Up the Internet
When Tiffany Shlain thinks of her favorite quote from naturalist John Muir, she thinks of the internet: "When you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it's attached to everything else." As a...
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Joy Ladin — Transgender Amid Orthodoxy: I Am Who I Will Be
For as far back as Joy Ladin can remember, her body didn’t match her soul. Gender defines us from the moment we’re born. But how is that related to the lifelong work of being at home in ourselves? We...
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Lyndsey Stonebridge — Thinking and Friendship in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt...
Along with George Orwell, the 20th-century political theorist Hannah Arendt is a new bestseller. She famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil” and wrote towering works like The Origins of...
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Amichai Lau-Lavie — First Aid for Spiritual Seekers
Forms of religious devotion are shifting just like every institution right now. But there’s a new world of creativity towards crafting spiritual life while exploring the depths of tradition. Rabbi...
View ArticleSynagogues Show Solidarity With Detained Immigrants on Holy Day
On Tisha B'Av, the holy day commemorating the destruction and expulsion of Jewish communities throughout history, some synagogues in New Jersey chose to show their solidarity with immigrants and...
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Arnold Eisen — The Opposite of Good Is Indifference
“In a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.” A mystic, a 20th-century religious intellectual, a social change agent, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched alongside Martin Luther King,...
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Sarah Bassin and Abdullah Antepli — Holy Envy
The tensions of our time are well-known. But there are stories that are not being told, because they are not violent and not shouting to be heard. One of them is that all over this country, synagogues...
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