The Promised Podcast – Segment
Who the Hell Would Vote for Shas?!?
Why will hundreds of thousands of Israelis vote for the ultra-Orthodox, Sefaradi Shas Party?
Read MoreBoys on TV
What are we to make of the heart-rending Israeli HBO series about the 2014 murders of Jewish kids by Palestinians and a Muslim kid by Jews, that forces us to doubt a lot of what we thought about ourselves?
Read MoreBrits, Canucks, Aussies, Kiwis, Saffers, Rhodies, Paddies, Scots & Yanks
There’s a new group aiming to politically empower English-speaking Israelis, on the theory that we’ve got a thing or two to teach everyone else. Do Israel’s Brits, Yanks and Aussies offer a way out of the country’s political mess?
Read MoreIs Netanyahu Done?
Hemingway said, folks go bankrupt gradually, then all at once. Has PM Netanyahu lost his political power in the same way?
Read MoreDo the Ends Justify the Mean?
Is being a kind-of-a-dick to the Prime Minister’s kid justified, because the Prime Minister is kind-of-a-dick to the rest of us?
Read MoreTwo Tales of Settlements
A revisionist history of the settler movement argues that it was never really about messianic, religious ideology as much as it was about nuts-and-bolts issues of economy and class. Were we wrong all along about Israel’s settler movement?
Read MoreCarmen and the Devil
A Mizrahi activist was added to the Labor Party list who once called it a party of racist oppression. Is Israel’s Labor Party, once the epicenter of toxic Ashkenazihood, the new Shas? What it says about Israeli politics?
Read MoreBussed Are the Right, for Theirs Are the Beaches and Cinemas
There is a revolution underway, bringing public transportation to Israeli cities on the Sabbath for the first time ever. Why is the Likud leading the charge?
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