The Promised Podcast – Segment

Elections!

Netanyahu calls new elections, spurring the talking heads to talk, the pundits to pund, the experts to expectorate, and all the rest of us to grasp our heads in our hands and rock back and forth while muttering, “Let something good come of this, Puleeeze.”

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The Grinch and the Jewish Question

A big honkin’ Christmas tree goes up in the Ashdod Mall. Is it good to have more pluribus in our unam?

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The Left is from Mars, the Right is from Venus

A new study shows that Israeli leftists are from Mars, and right-wingers from Venus. They don’t even agree on what the word ‘democracy’ means. What does that augur for the future of the country?

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The Vested Quest of the Oppressed

Some Israelis watch yellow-vested Parisian protestors burn cars and break windows and thing, “We’d like in on that action.” But will Israel’s yellow-vest demonstrations produce any positive change?

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Censoring Computer Copulation

PM Netanyahu shelves a bill to make porn “opt-in” in Israel, arguing that it is a threat to free expression. But is regulating the internet really so bad?

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Dissed

Why do so many Israeli parents worry that kids with disabilities might rob their own kids of the attention they deserve at schools and in after-school clubs and activities?

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Unsettling

A Tel Aviv leftist sets out to meet settlers in Tekoa, and makes a remarkable documentary about the discussions she has. The settlers come off as decent, human and humane. Is that a problem?

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28,000 Shots

Hackers upload 28,000 historic photos purloined from Israeli archives. We go through them all and find an amazing vanished world!

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What?!? Some Europeans Don’t Like Jews?!?

A CNN-sponsored poll finds that almost half of all Europeans don’t think Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. What’s an Israeli to do?

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In Which Memory of George Herbert Walker Bush?

George H.W. Bush remade the Middle East and changed US-Israel relations forever. Was this a good thing?

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