The Promised Podcast – Segment

Primum non nocere?

Medical experiments were performed on Yemeni Jewish children in the early 1950s. What does this tell us about ourselves and what should we do now?

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Babies for LGBTQ Folk? Nyet!

Was Israel was wrong to acquiesce to Russia’s diktat that babies adopted from there not got to LGBTQ folks?

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Will Politics be on the Midterm?

The Minister of Education is advancing a “Code of Ethics” for college and university teachers, but it is being decried as an attack on democracy.

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Is the Man Israel Needs a Moroccan, Ultra-Orthodox Woman?

Dina Dayan, an ultra-Orthodox woman from the Negev Desert, is the only female candidate to head the Labor Party. Is she the future of the Israeli Left?

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Waiting for Gadot

Is there widespread fascination with Wonder Woman Gal Gadot’s IDF past and Israeli identity, reflecting some strange and unnerving psycho-sexual fetishization?

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Anthologizing the Occupation?

A new anthology of essays about the occupation was published by several brilliant writers. What results might this politics-by-literature approach produce?

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Climate Change and the Jewish Question: We’ll Always Have Paris?

Is climate change a danger to Israel’s very existence? Does America’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord a blow to Israel’s security?

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University Diversity Perversity?

More ultra-Orthodox students could mean gender segregation and restrictions on female faculty. What should university inclusion and diversity cost?

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MK = Meager Kapabilities?

The Israel Democracy Institute asked parliamentary assistants how effectively members of Knesset do their jobs.

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That War

The 1967 War, or Six-Day War to Israelis, began and ended this week fifty years ago. How should we regard it?

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