We discuss what the hell we make of the neither-fish-nor-foul liminal state we find ourselves in now and what the hell the future holds for us. Then we are joined by Danielle Haas to talk about bias in the Human-Rights-Industrial-Complex.

We waited and we waited and now they are here.

We discuss: 1) US President Trump’s “Twenty Point Plan” to bring home the hostages and end the war 2) On the second Yahrzeit of Oct. 7, how we have changed, personally, and as a society.

For this Yom Kippur, we return to stuff that gave us solace and understanding in the past

We discuss: 1) The very viral essay by Yossi Klein Halevi, pressing Israelis to engage in the moral conversation that we have, until now, avoided 2) The new 5785 Jewish People Policy Institute’s Annual Assessment of the Jewish People, and why our grades are so lousy, and what we ought to do about it

We discuss: 1) Israel’s newest invasion of Gaza City, and PM Netanyahu’s chillingly Strangelovian gird-your-loins speech ahead of the invasion 2) The 5th year anniversary of the Abraham Accords, and what they have meant in the past and may mean in the future

We discuss: 1) Israel’s bombing of Qatar, in failed hope of killing the leaders of Hamas, with the possible result of killing the negotiations over a ceasefire in Gaza 2) The controversial movie that aired on Israeli TV this week, after an 865 day delay, about the 1948 war

Noah wonders why the show people here in Israel most want to see—more than at any time in the country’s history, and maybe in all of Jewish history—is a performance of children’s songs from a 47-year-old book of kids’ poems

We discuss: 1) Benny Gantz’s proposal to form a “Government of Hostage Redemption” and why everyone hated it 2) The surprising return of an army unit devoted to building and rebuilding Kibbutzim and Moshavim

We discuss: 1) when is it genocide, and does it matter if people use that word or not 2) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s claim that this week he (and Israel) just put the kibash, once and for all, on the two-state solution