Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Move Over, Winston
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to congress, again. What did he say to the senators and congresspeople, and what didn’t he say?
Kamala Harris and the Jewish Question
Kamala Harris anagrams to “A rakish alarm.” Who is Kamala Harris, and if she becomes president, what will it mean for, well, us?
You’re Voting for Who?!
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: When Israeli-Americans say they’re voting for Trump because he’s good for Israel, what do they mean?
Plus, consecrating a Torah scroll for Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and trans-folk in Tel Aviv City Hall, and more music of these days.
Songs
- Eliad and May Sfadia — Lo Me’anyen Oti
- Or Cohen — Bediuk Kemo ha-Netzah
- Loren Peled — Onat Ha-Levad
Thank you for this episode in particular.
I hold dual citizenship. I bitterly resent Bibi’s presence. He is wildly irresponsible to leave Israel while bodies are being brought home, while attacks happen and while thousands protest every motza. How dare he waste our elected official’s time. How dare he display such selfishness and care about himself more than his country. He is the worst PM ever. The last time elections were held I flew from Philadelphia to Jerusalem to vote because I was on the rolls. I went to my old neighborhood in Talpiot, into a little school room on a tiny oasis of a gan in the middle of the city. It felt wonderful. We lost but that’s how committed I am.