The Promised Podcast – Segment

Relearning to remember

April 18, 2015

We discuss how we should remember the greatest tragedy to befall the Jewish people.

The bio-matrix

April 17, 2015

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?

Coalition proposition disquisition

April 16, 2015

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

So much to protest, so little protest music?

April 11, 2015

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

Trailing off: Is hiking on the decline in the Holy Land?

April 10, 2015

We discuss whether Israel’s culture of hiking the land is as imperiled as the Zionist ethos that gave birth to it.

Fission indecision

April 9, 2015

We discuss how leftist Israelis ought to react to the framework agreement limiting Iran’s military nuclear program.

Why is this podcast different from all other podcasts?

April 4, 2015

What should we tell our kids about the meaning of the Exodus story now, in Israel of 2015?

Keeping the generals in their barracks

April 3, 2015

We discuss a recent petition saying that ex-generals are politicizing the army when they try to use their positions to influence Israeli politics.

How do you solve a problem like Ted Cruz?

April 2, 2015

Ted Cruz showed love for Israel as he declared his candidacy for US Presidency. How does “Support Israel!” fit with “Ban Abortion!,” “Guns for All!,” & “Abolish the IRS!”?

Angry, angry Ashkenazim

March 28, 2015

We ask why one white leftist after another expresses crazy rage in crazy ways against the Mizrahi voters who came out to support Netanyahu.