The Promised Podcast – Segment

Will Judaism survive Israel?

Tomer Persico’s Haaretz essay insists that the growing dichotomy between Judaism and democracy in Israel is “one disaster that Judaism will not survive.”

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The wages of boycott

A recent Supreme Court decision upholds a law that makes Israelis liable for business damages caused by boycotting.

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Burn, Baby, Burn!

We discuss a Haaretz essay arguing Israel is in flames, but the best thing to do is to bring a bag of marshmallows and develop our appetite for destruction.

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Pillorying Peres for Pilfering

We discuss whether Shimon Peres deserves to be pilloried for shilling for Israel’s richest bank, Bank HaPoalim, in exchange for $30,000 a month.

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The bio-matrix

Should Israel require citizens to swap out old-fashioned identify cards and passports for new “biometric” ones even if they are invasive on our privacy?

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Coalition proposition disquisition

the dilemma facing opposition leader Isaac Herzog: Is opposition a form of perdition? Is joining the coalition electoral sedition demanding contrition?

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So much to protest, so little protest music?

Whether, as one music critic has just written, Israeli pop music is hopelessly and cluelessly apolitical and navel-gazing.

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