Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
In Praise of Progressive Populism
Dov Khenin, the sole Jewish lawmaker representing the Joint List, delivers remarks criticizing the Israeli Left’s purism and calling for a left-wing populism like the movements that formed around Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom. Are there signs of an Israeli progressive populism developing? Is this the path the Israeli Left should take right now?
“Selfie in Auschwitz”
The latest video to sweep viral through Israel is by a duet who call themselves Reggie & Sig, and is called “The Trip to Poland.” Sample lyrics: To take a selfie in Auschwitz is disrespectful/ it’s disrespectful/ it’s disrespectful/ Selfie in Auschwitz!” What are its creators trying to say?
Decaffeinated to Death?
Some of Tel Aviv’s most storied coffeehouses are shuttering their doors. Does the demise of once beloved, one-time coffeehouse meeting places of intellectuals and artists signal the end of the intellectual culture and cultural intellect that once thrived in these caffeinated colossuses of creativity?
Music: Talisman, in honor of being selected as the breakout act of the year by Galgalatz:
Sim ha-Kol ba-Tzad (with EZ)
Kmo She’ani
Le’an she’ha-ruach tikach (with DJ Only and Omri Sabach)
Barbarim
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