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Rabbi Hirsch: The Normalization of Evil
February 11, 2025
Having just returned from Israel, Rabbi Ammi Hirsch shares his own feelings upon witnessing the first Israeli hostages being released.
Rabbi Hirsch: Agony and the Ecstasy
March 12, 2025
Speaking to his congregation, Rabbi Hirsch mournfully reflects on the Bibas family tragedy, seeing it as a harrowing symbol of innocence confronted by pure evil, and a turning point in his hope for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence.
Rabbi on the Sidelines: Bruce Pearl
April 2, 2025
Auburn University men’s basketball coach Bruce Pearl, who used his NCAA Tournament press conference to call for the hostages’ release, joins Rabbi Sherman to discuss being a proud Jew, supporting Israel, and confronting antisemitism in college sports.
Rabbi Hirsch: The Calling
April 24, 2025
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch delivers a sermon urging American Jews to respond to today’s challenges not with despair but with action, embracing the Jewish imperative of tikkun olam.
The ISGAP Hour Fighting Antisemitism: Ruth Wisse
June 4, 2025
Renowned scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish political thought, Ruth Wisse joins Dr. Charles Asher Small and David Harris for a conversation on the history of antisemitism, Jewish identity and contemporary ideological challenges in academia.
Defending Israel: Dalia Ziada on the Muslim Brotherhood
July 30, 2025
Egyptian writer and human rights advocate Dalia Ziada returns for a timely conversation with David Harris on current events and Middle East affairs. For this visit, she and David focus exclusively on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Defending Israel: Rewriting the Playbook
August 13, 2025
David Harris shares his perspective that in a post-October 7 world, the American Jewish community urgently needs a new playbook because, regrettably it’s happening way too slowly, if at all.
Fighting Antisemitism: The ISGAP Hour – Amy Elman and Rabbi Kingsley Onyia
September 30, 2025
Dr. Charles Asher Small explores African sources of strength for Israel with Rabbi Kingsley “Kish” Onyia, president of Nigeria’s Igbo Jewish Communities, and confronts denial of the sexual violence on 10/7 with Kalamazoo College professor Amy Elman.
Jewish Insights: Rabbi E. Samuel Klibanoff on Israel, Memory & the American Jewish Soul
April 23, 2026
Rabbi E. Samuel Klibanoff, of Congregation Etz Chaim in Livingston, NJ, reflects on Yom HaZikaron, Yom Ha’tzmaut, and what it means to love Israel as an American Jew — from relief missions during wartime to the soldiers who never came home
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch reflects on finding happiness amid life’s challenges, exploring the Jewish notion that God created an imperfect world and that our task is to improve it through struggle and moral responsibility.