Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Why Does a Knitted Kippah Mean Keep-on Fighting?
Religious-Zionists oppose the hostage and prisoner release and ceasefire agreement more than any other sector of society (more than secular Zionists, more than Haredim). Why?
War Games
There’s a strange and profound simpatico between sports clubs, athletes and fans, on the one hand, and the hostages and their families on the other.
What We Knew and When Did We Know It
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Bringing home the bodies of the Bibases (and Oded Lifshitz).
All that and the 40th anniversary of the most popular protest song in Israel’s history. Plus, more music of our troubled times.
Songs
- Alma Gov and Avner Toag — Lifnei she-ha-kol Nirdam
- Jane Bordeaux — Kishuf (Live)
- Benaia Barabi — Neshamah Tehorah
Allison is a heartless person. Her unabashed hatred and maligning of the religious is the reason I will stop listening to a podcast that I love.
Noah, Linda and Dan are excellent. Having Allison on the podcast degrades it.
The way Netanyahu has consistently avoided any contact with the residents of the Gaza Envelope gives support to Allison’s argument about the neglect of the hostages.
I don’t believe for a minute that Sharon meant for the withdrawal from Gaza to succeed. It was done completely cynically and since then the Israeli government has done everything it could to make it to fail.
Gaza was never part of Eretz Israel.