In honor of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the crew shares thoughts and memories about one of the most important events of year!

We discuss: 1) The huge right-wing rally in favor of the judicial reforms 2) Whether or not the opposition’s idea of enshrining (as a Basic Law) Israel’s Declaration of Independence is a good one

The crew tell share stuff in celebration of Israel’s 75th Independence Day! Plus, one great song from each decade!

We discuss: 1) The worries and complaints about “politicizing” Memorial Day 2) A video made by Ashkenazi kids in a religious high school, flush with stereotypes about Sefaradim 3) A new duet sung, using AI, by two beloved, tragic, and long dead Yemenite singers

We discuss: 1) “The rift splitting the nation” that everyone is so worried about 2) A prominent political theorist’s theory that 56 years of occupying the West Bank has transformed Israeli Judaism

A medley of favorite old stories and discussions about Passover by the people of the Promised Podcast. (After all, we read the same goddam Haggadah every year, and I don’t hear anyone complaining about that!)

We discuss: 1) What the hell just happened and what’s gonna happen next 2) Whether Benjamin Netanyahu has lost a step, or maybe a marble

We discuss: 1) the President’s compromise plan for judicial reform and why it failed 2) Mijal’s notion of “Ne’emanut” and how maybe there’s more to morality than being principled

We discuss: 1) the growing number of elite reservists refusing to serve because of the judicial reform 2) whether the energy behind the protests comes mostly from secular folks who are fed up with religious folks

In this very special episode, recorded on a “National Day of Resistance Against Dictatorship,” Noah tries your patience trying to figure out what the hell this conflict is about