Iyun Podcast

Mar 26 2025 19 ep. 66 mins 16
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The Iyun Podcast explores the many dynamics of chareidim in relation to the broader context of Israeli society and beyond. Hosted by long-time podcaster Rabbi Ari Koretzky, Iyun features stimulating and courageous conversations with guests from a diverse range of stakeholders in the future of chareidi society. Join us on this exciting new adventure in Jewish podcasting!

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Episode 19 - Chareidim and Judicial Reform w/Dr. Moshe Koppel

Mar 26 2025 69 mins  
Dr. Moshe Koppel is a leading computer scientist in Israel, with a specific expertise in AI. But over past twenty years he has led an intellectual movement promoting judicial reform within Israel.Through his Kohelet Policy Forum, Dr. Koppel researches alternatives to the entrenched judicial dynamics, and advocates for what he considers a more balanced and democratic approach, in li

Episode 18 - Bridging the Divide: Shabbos with Hostage Families and NOVA Survivors

Mar 01 2025 64 mins  
Tzili Schneider has created one of the most remarkable bridge-building educational operations in Israel, Kesher Yehudi. Ari Koretzky has previously interviewed Tzili on his other show, Jews You Should Know.Relevant to the Iyun Podcast, however, we focus in this episode on Tzili’s recent efforts with hostage families and NOVA survivors; she has engaged each of these populations wi

Episode 17 - Facts on the Ground: Hasbara to American Chareidim

Feb 02 2025 51 mins  
The charedi communities of the United State and Israel are separated physically by an ocean, but culturally and psychologically by a great deal as well. Many Americans lack basic awareness of current developments on the ground in Israel, the actual attitudes towards army service and general integration being promulgated there.The resulting gap leads to widespread misconceptions, an

Episode 16 - "A Year in Mea Shearim" with Tuvia Tenenbom

Jan 01 2025 60 mins  
Tuvia Tenenbom is quite a colorful character. An author, playwright, mathematician, computer scientist, and all-around polymath, Tuvia was raised in a chareidi Israeli home, in the lap of the Chazon Ish, Rav Shach and other great luminaries. His own life veered on a different course, but he recently returned to those ideological precincts, spending a year in Mea She’arim, Jerusal

Episode 15 - The Purpose of Life

Nov 20 2024 79 mins  
Why are we here? What’s it all about? Obviously, Judaism has quite a bit to say about this topic. In fact, it may be its entire animating essence!Still, as expressed in contemporary living, even those who identify as strictly Torah-observant may respond divergently to this most-important question.On this episode, Tzvi Goldstein will argue that the Chareidi mindset on “the purpo

Episode 14 - The Role of Chareidi Media, with Jonathan Rosenblum

Oct 14 2024 60 mins  
Jonathan Rosenblum is a long-time columnist, pundit and observer of the Orthodox/chareidi communities in Israel and worldwide. He joins us on this episode to explore the unique role and purpose of chareidi media.His wonderful new volume, “Ordinary Greatness,” a compilation of many columns, and more, is available for purchase wherever great Jewish books are sold.

Episode 13 - Chareidim and the Army (Pt. 12): The "Dati/Torani" Perspective

Sep 22 2024 60 mins  
Rabbi Moshe Taragin is a long-time Ram at Yeshivat Har Etzion (“The Gush”), as well as a popular speaker and author on a wide variety of Torah topics. A student of Rav Aharon Lichsteinstein, zt”l and Rav Yehuda Amital, zt”l, R’ Taragin absorbed their weltanschauung over many years.In this episode, we ask him to sketch out, for the uninitiated, the “Dati Leumi” communi

Episode 12 - Charedim and the Army (Pt. 11): Do Chareidim See Themselves as Israeli?

Aug 25 2024 63 mins  
In his role as founding director of the Haredi Institute of Public Affairs (HIPA), Eli Paley is well positioned to evaluate the chareidi relationship to Israeli society.As Iyun founder Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer has written, the most vital factor in the entire chareidi conscription conundrum may just be whether, or to what degree, chareidim see themselves as “Israeli.” In this

Episode 11 - Chareidim and the Army (Pt. 10): Halacha and the Chain of Command

Aug 11 2024 58 mins  
One of the under-appreciated concerns - sometimes articulated, often unconscious - held by Chareidim with respect to army service, is the concept of “chain of command.” For a young man whose guiding force in life is G-d, the Torah and rabbinnic authority, submission to faceless officers high up the IDF’s ladder can seem sacrilegious.This is compounded when considering possibl

Episode 10: Chareidim and the Army (Pt. 9): What Does Daas Torah Say?

Jul 30 2024 67 mins  
“Daas Torah.” These two words are among the most loaded in modern hashkafic - and political - discourse. But what, in fact, does it mean, and how might it apply to the current crisis over chareidi conscription, whatever one’s view of the matter? It would be presumptuous to attempt to treat the topic of Daas Torah comprehensively on one episode of a conversational podcast