The Promised Podcast – Segment

Spending, Rending, Upending

Opponents say the two-year budget Netanyahu’s government just passed is “a looting of the public coffers.” Do they have a point?

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Taxation, Like Charity, Begins at Home

There’s a Robin-hoodish proposal to use some property taxes from rich cities to help out poor cities. So why are folks on the left so opposed to it and with such sound and fury?

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Declaration Contemplation

People want to make Israel’s Declaration of Independence into a basic law and the foundation of a constitution. But is that really a good idea?

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Million Person Protest

More than 200,000 gather in Jerusalem to demonstrate their support of Netanyahu’s judicial reforms. What do we learn from this?

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Definitely Not Live

There’s a new duet by two of Israel’s most revered, tragic, Yemenite singers, who have been dead for decades. What happens to culture, once AI can vanquish death?

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Kids & Vids

Seven Ashkenazi teens at a religious high school for girls make a video full of stereotypes about Sefaradim. Sure, it’s icky, but what’s it mean?

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Not the New Jew We Wanted?

Did 56 years of occupying the West Bank change the nature of the Jewish religion fundamentally (and not for the better)?

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Riff-Raff Rift

Everyone’s worried about “The rift splitting the nation.” Is it real? And, if so, what’s it all about?

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