The Promised Podcast – Segment

Tenured Traitors, or Professors of Perfidy

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett appointed an ethicist to write rules governing when and how professors talk politics at university.

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Lousy Leftists Lack Loyalty

A new Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University Monthly Peace Index found that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel.

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Aging Alone

A report prepared by the Government Research Institute unveiled that 32% of elderly people aged 65-74 in Israel report frequent or occasional feelings of loneliness.

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Righteous Jews

Members of Knesset and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum are scuffling as to whether “Righteous Jews” should be lionized alongside “Righteous Gentiles.”

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Cities of Sanctity, Cities of Sin

In a recent speech, President Reuven Rivlin suggested that each city, town, or neighborhood decide for themselves how much attention to pay to religion.

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Our Identity Crisis

A widely discussed NYT Op-Ed argues that Democratic America lost the 2016 election because it fights for the equality of marginalized identity groups under the overarching goal of diversity, but never offered a unified vision for the country.

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Israel is Burning

Israeli politicians responded erratically to the 630 fires that burned throughout Israel last week.

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Post-Mortem & Pre-Natal

Parents of Omri Shahar, a captain in the Israeli Navy who was killed in 2012, just gained the right to create a child from their son’s posthumously-retrieved sperm via a surrogate and raise the child themselves.

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Rabbinic Baskets of Deplorables & Baskets of Rabbinic Deplorables

The Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem R. Shlomo Amar lashed out this week in an interview against LGBTQ folks and Reform Jews, calling homosexuality a cult of abomination.

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