The mayor of Ramat Gan successfully campaigns to get his municipal art museum to take down a painting he finds offensive. What can we learn from this about who ought to decide what we see in the museums our taxes pay for?

Revered kids-book writer Rabbi Chaim Walder kills himself after it comes out that he sexually abused dozens of women and girls over decades, and ultra-Orthodox leaders don’t know what to do and say

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz meet in Gantz’s living room. Cause for hope?

Politicians, professors and pundits are all turning up on Reality TV. Is gravitas dead?

Based on what was recently divulged under oath in Benjamin Netanyahu’s ongoing corruption trial, did we have Sara all wrong, all along?

United Arab List head, Dr. Mansour Abbas, says that Israel always has been, and always will be a Jewish State, and that it’s time for everyone to accept that. How big a deal is that?

Would we all be better off if more of us lived off the grid, Henry David Thoreau style?

Why do folks on the left and the right see such very different things when they look at violence on the roads and in the fields of the West Bank?

Israel’s Corona Czar says the time has come to consider a “vaccine mandate.” Is this why the word “omicron” anagrams to “moronic”?

Every year, twelve exemplary Israelis are chosen to light torches at the main Independence Day Celebrations, because they represent the best of us. The call for nominations just went out, and the Promised Podcast answers that call, picking our own dazzling dozen