The Promised Podcast

The “On the Road to Perdition with Waze” Edition

We discuss the ethics of using militants’ bodies as “bargaining chips”, the perennial debate over whether descendants of dispossessed Palestinians should be allowed to return to their ancestor’s holdings, and the moral quandary of traffic app Waze.

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The “Is it Time to Retire the ‘Z Word’?” Edition

We discuss the centennial of the Balfour Declaration which was controversial then and remains so today, the assertion of some leaders of Meretz that the party is no longer Zionist, and a Supreme Court ruling allowing stores to stay open on the Sabbath.

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The “A Presidential Address of Existential Distress” Edition

We discuss President Reuven Rivlin’s warning that Israeli democracy may be imperiled, presumptive leader of the left Avi Gabbay’s shift to the right, a feminist Member of Knesset who suggested that kids might be better off if there were no marriages or nuclear families.

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The “UNESCO = United Nations, Eat Sh*t & Choke On It?” Edition

We discuss the historic reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the decisions by the US and Israel to bolt from UNESCO, and an ultra-Orthodox rejection of the market economy.

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The “A Girl, and I Shoot Well!” Edition

We discuss a documentary series about armed female settlers, a university managing a prison, and whether Jewish pride means Zionism has failed.

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The “A Pall to Arms” Edition

We discuss the reduced sentence of the IDF soldier who killed a subdued Palestinian attacker, the morality of Israel’s weapons industry, and twenty new museums in Israel’s development towns.

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The “For the Sins We Have Sinned” Edition

We discuss the a public opinion poll that serves us up a mess of conflicting opinions, young settlers rejecting the nationalism of their parents, and which of our collective sins should most occupy us on this Yom Kippur.

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The “Serving God and Country” Edition

We discuss the Supreme Court’s rejection of allowing religious exemptions from army service, the desertion and collapse of malls in Israel, and the most important events and people of the year 5777.

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The “Keeping Up With the Netanyahus” Edition

We discuss the reality-TV foibles of the First Family, the leftist “New Likudniks” taking over their party, and why animal rights resonates with Israelis.

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The “From Sex Industry to Ex-Industry?” Edition

We discuss a video of IDF soldiers searching a West Bank Palestinian home, PM Netanyahu’s conversations with the Yisrael Ha-Yom newspaper, and the fate of the Israeli sex industry.

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