The Promised Podcast – Segment

Defending the Haganah

For 28 years, HaHaganah fought underground to protect Jews in Palestine and to end British rule, and ever since, the organization and its fighters have been lionized in Israel as heroes. Has the time come to focus on the darkest of their deeds?

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Rest in Peace?

It’s like a koan: Is a cemetery that stopped being a cemetery more than a hundred years ago still a cemetery? (Answer: When your backhoe turns up 19th century graves, it is.)

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“The Revolt of Diaspora Jews”?

Are we seeing a “revolt” of Jews in England, America and elsewhere in the diaspora against Netanyahu’s planned annexation of territory in the West Bank?

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Virtually Palestine

What do we have to learn from virtual visits to virtual Palestine on our smartphones?

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Through American Eyes

Why was Bernie Sanders the main speaker at this week’s big anti-annexation demonstration in Rabin Square?

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Unsettled!

Settler leaders oppose Israel’s annexation of any towns in the West Bank? Is this bizarro world? Are dogs cats? Is up down?

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Thrice the Advice!

If you’re an Israeli abroad, is it your responsibility to present the country in a good light?

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18 Years of Death, Misery and Despair: There’s an App for that Now!

A new app/site lets Israelis who fought in Israel’s long miserable war in Lebanon return virtually to the outposts where they froze and watched their friends die. But why?

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God & Country

Are the ultra-Orthodox the big winners in Israel’s new government? Does that make the rest of us losers?

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What is the Good Book Good For?

As we celebrate Shavuot, a festival marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai, we can’t help but wonder: What are we supposed to do with that book, anyway?

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