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Israeli sports news: The quick and the ‘red or dead’

Host Laragh Widdess tells this week’s sporting tales from Israel, including speed skating success and unruly soccer fans, and picks a ‘sportsman of the week.’

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Which side are you on?

We discuss a new Foreign Ministry propaganda video that says, basically, “Give us a break, you know that Israel is the good guy and Islam is the enemy.”

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Women in Israel: The seen and the unseen

Allison, Don, and Noah discuss the photoshopping of Angela Merkel out of a picture of the heads-of-state in Paris by an ultra-Orthodox paper.

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Of Labor glossed

We discuss the Labor Party primaries, which produced a list of candidates that is youngish, Ashkenazi-ish, female-ish, and socially-aware-ish.

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Sports news: Palestine scores first Asian Cup goal

Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball; Israel tennis; English and Spanish soccer league round-ups; Have David Blatt and LeBron James turned a corner?

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Sporting mensches: The many guises of Israel’s baseball ‘king’

Nate Fish, the national director of the Israel Association of Baseball and self-styled ‘King of Jewish Baseball,’ joins Laragh in the studio.

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Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel

Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.

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Parashat HaShavua: Avraham Burg on the rebellion of the Israelites

Former Speaker of the Knesset, Avraham “Avrum” Burg, offers a contemporary reading of this week’s Torah portion ‘Va’era.’

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Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood: Past and present

Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’

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