Eli Yishai, the natty ex-Shas leader, has just started his own competing party, Ha’am Itanu (The Nation is with Us). Allison, Don, and Noah wonder, can Eli Yishai remake Mizrahi politics in Israel?
As Christians all over the world celebrate Christmas Eve tonight, we travel to the Galilee region of Israel through the eyes of the novelist Anton Shammas.
The recent Palestinian proposal to the UN Security Council mandates peace negotiations that must, within a year, produce an agreement ending the occupation and establishing a state in Palestine. A deadline on peace? Where will it lead?
Prof. Joel Mokyr is a world-renowned economic historian & award winning author who made Aliyah after WW2. He currently teaches at Northwestern University.
Moshe Feiglin, the man challenging Netanyahu for leadership of the Likud, wants to annex the territories but make marijuana freely available to us all.
From dreidels to doughnuts, host Marcela Sulak explains the holiday’s traditions, and then lets the historian Josephus tell the story in his own words.
Debbie Goldsmith is the Director of Aardvark Israel, a gap year program in Israel for Jewish students, which she co-founded with the late Keith Berman.
Shabbat Sha-shut-up!
Why did a campaign promoting Shabbat observance have everyone grousing and grumbling? Allison, Don, and Noah ask, what’s all the fuss about?
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