What is Israel’s embattled blockade on Gaza supposed to do, and what does it do in reality? What to make of Europe’s increasingly muscular anti-Zionist population? The Promised Podcast tries to make sense of it all.
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Today, Mendele Mocher Sforim is known as a quiet, Bauhaus-filled street that runs from Hayarkon to just past Shalom Aleichem. Yet in the late 18th century, Mendele Mocher Sforim, or ‘Mendele the book peddler,’ was an author who depicted the world of the shtetl (village) with all of its poverty and decay. He is now considered the…
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Guy teaches us more naughty words and reveals the unlikely connection between ‘friends with benefits’ and the Austrian composer Franz Schubert.
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Host Rogel Alpher meets Ilana Shemesh, a midwife whose goal is to help empower women through the natural home-birth process.
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Do we need art in troubled times? Ron Laufer, manager of the ‘Art and Twist’ gallery and auction house, tells host Ilene Prusher we do.
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Ilene, Don and Noah discuss whether too much Jewish-Israeli solidarity over the war can be a bad thing.
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Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director of Btselem, tells host Ilene Prusher why his organization is petitioning Israel’s High Court.
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Host Ilene Prusher leans in on the war on empathy for “the other” in the age of social media.
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Beyond the double standard
Ilene, Don and Noah discuss how we should respond to the double standard imposed on Israel by the rest of the world.
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