Is Someone Stealing Your Identity?
The Hebrew word זהות means identity. It's a word we Israelis use many times throughout the day, like any time we call customer service in Israel. Any guesses as to why?
The Undying Legacy of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz, author and writer, US Editor for the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at Bard College, discusses his book, “The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon”
Your Israeli Soundtrack for April 2024
DJ Antithesis is back with more music influenced by the Israel-Gaza war, and dives deep into Dudu Aharon’s latest album
The “Here and There” Edition
We discuss: 1) Whether and how we Israelis have changed, in light of all that has happened 2) Whether and how we Jews around the world have changed, in light of all that has happened
Procrastinating in Hebrew
We have a task to accomplish and we promise ourselves to do it right after this one last thing. So how did an entire week pass by so quickly and yet we're staring at an even longer to-do list? Let's talk about procrastination in Hebrew.
Has the Jewish Nation-State Model Run Its Course?
The October 7th attack undermined some of the basic assumptions Israelis have had about the tenets of their sovereignty. Will the crisis send the country into a post-nation-state phase?
The “Sidelocks & Sidearms?” Edition
We discuss: 1) The decision by families of the hostages to link their campaign to bring them home to the campaign for “elections now” 2) The Supreme Court injunction that cuts off funding for army-aged, ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students who learn instead of serve
Israel/Palestine: A Gaze From Below
Dr Dafna Hirsch, senior lecturer at the Open University of Israel's Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, discusses her edited book, “Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives”
The “(Feels Like) Sumpin’ Gonna Give” Edition
We discuss: 1) The very fast seeming-decline in US-Israel relations 2) The claim by an urban warfare expert that Israel has displayed an unprecedentedly-high standard of concern for the safety of civilians in Gaza
The Prophet: On Judah Magnes’ Politics and Theology
Dr David Barak-Gorodetsky discusses his book, “Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist,” a biography of one of the more unusual characters in the history of Zionism
The “The P Word?” Edition
We discuss: 1) An opposition conference at the Knesset setting out a new peace plan for our troubled times 2) the trope of an eternal, genocidal Amalek, why it is everywhere these days
The “Unsmote, but Smitten Nonetheless” Edition
We discuss: 1) What to make of this week’s massive Iranian attack on Israel 2) What Passover tells us about how to understand all that has happened since October 7, and what all that has happened since October 7 tells us about how to understand Passover