Daniel Gordis on Israel at 75, the Impossible Takes Longer Daniel Gordis

Anthropologist Ron Duncan Hart talks about the intertwined legacy of Jews and Arabs in the Middle East with a discussion of how the current conflict developed over the last century.

Dr. Tomer Persico talks about the history of religion and the state in Israel over recent decades with special attention to the last Netanyahu government and the crisis of 2023.

Rabbi Dr. Raphael Zarum, the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought, at the London School of Jewish Studies and Rabbi Dr. Jack Shlachter of Los Alamos National Laboratory discuss the life, achievements, and Jewishness of Robert Oppenheimer. Both Rabbis Zarum and Shlachter are physicists and are uniquely prepared to discuss this subject. Rabbi Shlachter was the head of the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos, a position that Oppenheimer once held, and he knows the history of the Jews in the Manhattan Project, perhaps better than anyone else. The mentor of Rabbi Zarum was Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the British Commonwealth and a leading Jewish thinker and author.

Prof. Daniel Gordis of Shalem College in Israel analyses the 75 year history of Israel in terms of the vision of the founders of the states and what has been achieved. Prof. Gordis is a two time winner of the Jewish National Book Award.