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Rabbi Binyamin: Zionism’s Ultimate Contrarian

Dr Avi-Ram Tzoreff discusses his new book, “R. Binyamin, Binationalism and Counter-Zionism,” dedicated to one of the most unusual Jewish and Zionist intellectuals of the 20th century

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Your Israeli Soundtrack for March 2024

DJ Antithesis is back with more music influenced by the Israel-Gaza war

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The “You Know, I Read It in a Magazine” Edition

We discuss: 1) The Atlantic cover story arguing that the “Golden Age” for American Jews has come to a close 2) The well-regarded literary journal's retraction of an essay by an Israeli on account of, well, what exactly?

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What Are You Sitting On?

The word לשבת means to sit, and there’s a plethora of uses for this verb in Hebrew. We'll be talking about jails and cafes, dog trainers, Ottoman Jews, and restaurant hosts, all in the same episode!

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Their War, Our War

Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, discusses his new book, “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence.” What parallels can be drawn between Ukraine's war with Russia and Israel's with Hamas?

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The “Reckonings” Edition

We discuss: 1) The Jerusalem election results which gave, for the first time ever, a majority to Ultra-Orthodox men 2) Whether it’s time for soul-searching and spiritual reckoning over the death and destruction in Gaza

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Are You in the Country?

The word ארץ means land/country. But it changes when we add prepositions to it. It's also an important word if you are training your dog to lie on the floor. Guy explains

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Jews for Palestine, The First Generation

Dr Geoffrey Levin discusses his book which looks at a network of early anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian thought leaders, active in the immediate aftermath of the establishment of the State of Israel

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The “Local Yokels” Edition

We discuss: 1) The weird city council race that ushered Noah into the corridors of immense power 2) Why Israeli mayors, once elected the first time, keep getting reelected over and over again

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The Time They Wrote Old Dixie Up

Yael Sternhell, Prof. of History and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book, “War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War,” a historians' history which looks at Washington's Civil War archive, rather than through it

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People of the Books

Yosef Halper, a legendary Tel Aviv bookdealer, discusses his book, “The Bibliomaniacs: Tales from a Tel Aviv Bookseller”

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