Subscribe to the podcast

[button style=’orange’ url=’https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-promised-podcast/id768142013?mt=2′ target=’_blank’ icon=’iconic-rss’]Subscribe via iTunes[/button] [button style=’orange’ url=’http://promised.tlv1.libsynpro.com/rss’ target=’_blank’ icon=’iconic-rss’]Subscribe via RSS[/button]

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

Fox News for the Jews

The Israel “Jewish Heritage Network” (otherwise known as Channel 20) is morphing into a right-wing news network before our very eyes. What does the addition of a local, right-wing partisan news organization auger for the country?

Princes of resentment

We discuss a fascinating new book that suggests the key to understanding Israeli politics may be the resentment felt by the children of a generation of right-wingers who were cruelly excluded from the institutions of the state when it was established.

Let Us Now Praise: Political hacks, functionaries & smoke-filled rooms

A Brookings Institution genius, Jonathan Rauch, claims that all America’s efforts to do away with smoke-filled rooms are actually damaging its politics. Might something like that be true here in Israel as well?

All songs by LFNT (a short and fun way of saying “Elephant,” and also a life philosophy hidden inside an acronym: Live Free Not Troubled):
The Birds And The Bees
I Won’t Tell
Chance
Between Understanding And Salvation