The Promised Podcast – Segment

AOC, AOC, Won’t You Fight for Me?

Why all the brouhaha over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision not to speak at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin?

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Who Shall Live

As Israel’s hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid patients, how do doctors decide who gets a ventilator and who doesn’t?

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Atone Again, Naturally

About which public figures have we “spoken slander and evil speech, accused falsely and deceitfully, mocked” and worse? Who deserves our apologies for the sins of podcastery and assholery?

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RBG for She and We

Israel’s Former Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked, says she reveres RBG’s freedom-fighting feminism, but would never have appointed her to the bench here. A contradiction?

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The Other Deal of the Century

Should Prime Minister Netanyahu get amnesty from prosecution for corruption in exchange for resigning?

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The Jews Gotta Go?

Should Israel’s public TV network use public money and public airwaves to present to the public something that lots of people in one part of the public find profoundly offensive?

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It Never Bahrains, But It Pours!

Did this week’s historic signing of historic agreements at the historic White house set us upon new historic path?

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Bestirred

What events and people mattered most in Israel over the Jewish year now drawing to a close?

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Disobedient, Sure! But Is It Civil?

A former Israeli Foreign Minister calls for “civil disobedience” against the government’s coronavirus rules and regulations. Has he crossed a line?

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