The Promised Podcast – Segment

How much should the wealth gap bug us?

April 19, 2014

Should it bother us that that the average CEO in Israel makes 76 times what the average rest-of-us make?

Why does the peace process seem to be gasping its last gasp?

April 18, 2014

The peace process has faltered and stumbled before, but have we finally hit rock bottom?

IDF taking handouts

April 17, 2014

The IDF increasingly relies on donations by well-wishers for basic supplies like boots and socks.

We Need the Bread, Man!

April 12, 2014

Should stores in Jewish neighborhoods should sell leavened bread on Passover?

On virtue and vice in Israeli politics

April 11, 2014

Israeli leaders just ain’t what they used to be.

Going hungry in Israel

April 10, 2014

As Passover approaches, a new report finds that almost a million Israelis are going hungry.

Playing with knives

April 5, 2014

Why do Israeli parents let their kids play with fire and rusty nails and take candy from strangers?

Trading Places

April 4, 2014

Is Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal to exchange blocs of population sincere or mere smartassery?

How to keep Israeli social networks from becoming slimy

April 3, 2014

What can and should be done to prevent the unjust, inefficient, anti-meritocratic and patently slimy aspects of the tight-knittedness of Israeli social networks, without destroying the networks themselves?

Good Deeds Day inspires and nauseates

March 14, 2014

“Good Deeds Day” makes us want to adopt a puppy and, while we’re at at, vomit.