ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Hebraica is a weekly newsletter and podcast about Jerusalem and the world shaped by it. Through essays, conversations, and occasional dispatches, it explores Israel and the Near East from the inside out—the languages, beliefs, histories, peoples, and ideas that still shape events today. Written and hosted by Robert Nicholson.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
26 minutes
English
United States
20 episodes
since May 28, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What is Hebraica really about?
Friedrich Nietzsche believed the ancient Jews launched a revolution in human values that eventually conquered Rome and transformed the Western world. He called it a catastrophe. Robert thinks he was right about the revolution and wrong about almost everything else.
In…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Can America defeat radical Islam? It's the question everyone is asking as we commemorate 9/11—but it could be the wrong question.
Twenty-five years after the attacks that changed his world, Robert revisits the War on Terror, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Iran, and a new argument for overwhelming vic…
In this episode of Hebraica, Robert takes up two listener questions: the tension between the Church’s universal mission and Israel’s particular identity, and the harassment of Christians by some Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.
He argues that the two questions are connected. Christianity emerged from Is…
Watching Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey got Robert thinking about one of the most powerful stories in Western culture, the Hero’s Journey, and the very different story outlined by the Bible.
In this episode of Hebraica, Robert compares Odysseus and Abraham—the hero and the Hebrew—and asks what hap…
Israeli settlers are back in the headlines. But who are these people, what do they believe, and why is a violent fringe hijacking the rest?
In this episode, Robert travels back to a Shabbat evening in Ofra, the murder of an innocent young man, and the trauma of the Gaza disengagement to understand…
What does a Christian owe his Jewish neighbor in a time of rising antisemitism?
In this episode, Robert explains why he’s come to see the Jewish people not simply as friends or neighbors, but as brothers—and why that conviction carries practical obligations. Drawing on the New Testament and the his…
Why does Christian Armenia maintain close ties with Iran while Israel has built a strategic partnership with Muslim Azerbaijan?
In this episode, Robert explores the strange logic of Middle Eastern alliances and introduces the “minority shuffle”—the way small, vulnerable peoples navigate a region do…
Where the modern world promises universal rules, the Hebraic tradition sets the world against the backdrop of time. The effect on judgment is enormous.
Drawing on verses from Ecclesiastes to Proverbs, Robert looks to Solomon for clarity in a moment of temporal distortion and distraction. The upshot…
Israel's rapidly growing Haredi population is forcing the Jewish state to confront a question buried in the Zionist project from the beginning: What happens when the institutions that preserved a stateless people collide with the demands of Jewish sovereignty?
In this episode -- the first of s…
A Wall Street Journal article about artificial intelligence provokes reflection on a saying from the Talmud: "From the forest itself comes the wood for the axe handle."
It's a simple saying with profound implications. Throughout history, people, institutions, businesses, and societi…
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