The Promised Podcast – Segment

Crass Combat Couture

As reported by Haaretz, an army t-shirt tradition has turned into shirt prints of sex, violence and maybe especially, sexual violence.

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Reports of our Death are Greatly Exaggerated

A recent Geocartographia poll shows that if the elections were held today, the present center-left opposition would win 60 seats in the Knesset.

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Heart & Home

All of Israel was riveted on the small, embattled Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran this past week.

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It is Good to Drink for our Country!

A party was thrown at a youth-movement center and thereafter busted, debauchery exposed. But Israel’s youth movements are still going strong.

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Cubans, Champagne and Bringing Bibi Down

PM Netanyahu is accused of taking expensive gifts from rich folks eager for his good will, and apparently, agreeing to shutter Sheldon Adelson’s free daily paper in exchange for positive coverage from another.

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Yiddishkeit, that Trojan Horse!

Rami Livni recently wrote an article headlined (in Hebrew) “Secular people, enough self-abnegation, the time has come to fight,” we paid attention.

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TEDs

A new online video lecture series, called Talk17, features 18-minute talks from Israeli settlers and their supporters and even a few Palestinians about issues regarding the West Bank.

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Killer-Hero-Scapegoat?

The public reaction to Elor Azaria’s trial and verdict revealed the sharp split of Israeli society into deeply divided political and social camps.

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Promised Podcast extra: Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick

Allison Kaplan Sommer sits down for a conversation with decorated journalist Dahlia Lithwick about Trumpism, American Jewry’s relationship to Israel, and Axe body spray.

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