The Promised Podcast – Segment

Water Bottles Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink

Drinking fountains have disappeared from Israel’s cities. Are the gears of capitalism being greased with the blood of the workers?

Read More

Netanyahu’s Trump Card

Benjamin Netanyahu has borrowed the war against “Fake News.” Are Israelis buying the idea of a media conspiracy?

Read More

The Queer Thing about Israel’s LGBTQ

What is it about the struggle for LGBTQ rights that especially inspires so much support and sympathy in Israel?

Read More

Moving Up?

New research finds that the path for the poor into the upper-middle class is twisty and perverse.

Read More

Sacred Sites, Fights, and Plights

Frightful tensions are mounting over the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif: are we teetering at the edge of religious war?

Read More

BDS? There’s an App for That Now!

Facebook meets Tinder meets Pokemon Go meets Spy vs. Spy meets Hasbara: it’s a new government funding app meant to undo BDS.

Read More

Movin’ Pictures

The radical, political ‘Cinematheque’ in Tel Aviv seems to be going mainstream. Is that what an avant garde art emporium is for?

Read More

A Tale of Two ‘One Percents’

A study found that Israel has two ‘one-percents,’ an economic elite and a political elite, each screwing us in their own way.

Read More

Jews with Javelins!

The Maccabiah Games have inexplicably (but charmingly) survived the years, like a living time capsule.

Read More