The Promised Podcast – Segment

Amalek

The trope of an eternal, genocidal Amalek is everywhere these days. What role does it play in the war and in our politics?

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Despite It All, Peace?

An opposition conference at the Knesset is setting out a new peace plan for our troubled times. Is all we are sayin’, just give peace a chance?

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Retracted

A well-regarded literary journal retracts an essay by an Israeli on account of, well, what exactly? Is it a literary crime to be an Israeli in 2024?

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אַ סוף צו אַ גאָלדען עלטער אין אַ גאלדענע מדינה

This month’s Atlantic cover story argues that the “Golden Age” for American Jews has come to a close and, with it, maybe the “Golden Age” for America and the “Golden Age” for Jews. Is the US putting the “mean” back into “reversion to the mean”?

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Reckoning?

Is it time for soul-searching and spiritual reckoning over the death and destruction in Gaza?

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Jerusalem, Mon Amour?

For the first time ever, Jerusalem elected a straight-up majority of ultra-Orthodox men to its city council. What’s it all mean?

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Mayor for Life

Few positions have more job security than mayor of a major city in Israel. But why is that?

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Going Local

They say that, in a democracy, even the most humble among us can be elected to public office. Now we know it’s true!

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The Draft on the Draft: Getting the Shaft?

Perhaps now is the moment to extend the draft to the ultra-Orthodox, because a crisis is a terrible thing to waste

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Elections Now?

Billboards all over the country and full-page ads in the papers call for new elections now. Is this a good idea?

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