The ‘Jumpin’ Hegemony’ Edition – The Promised Podcast

 

Allison, Don, Noah, and special guest Miriam Hershlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance, and end with an anecdote each about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

 

A protest of the Black Panthers, Israel's 1970s Mizrahi civil rights movement.

Jumpin’ hegemony!

We discuss why Mizrahim – Jews of Middle Eastern descent – shun the Israeli Left (hint: It’s the oppression, stupid!). Is there anything the Left can do to change this?

 

The separation wall in Bethlehem. Dec. 2014. Credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90.

The tourguide’s dilemma 

We discuss the growing phenomenon of tourists who come to Israel not to see the country’s sites of historic and cultural wonder, but rather its sites of conflict and oppression: Why is this happening, and is it a good or bad thing?

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929 Tanakh

The good book club

As the Ministry of Education spends tens of millions on what is essentially a huge nationwide bookclub to read the Bible, in an initiative called ‘929,’ we ask if it’s money well spent.

 

Playlist:

All songs by Ramzailech – the greatest hardcore Klezmer band in all of Kfar Saba!

Fir Zin
Shtetle
Amzaleg
Al Titakni Oti

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