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.
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The Age of Uncertainty
What thoughts, fears, hopes, worries and other reactions does Trump’s decision (and the escalation in the North) raise in us, people who are watching with worry as they open and prepare bomb-shelters up north, who very much hope never to be incinerated along with their dogs, cats and children, and who have kids in the infantry?
The Long Arm of Israeli (Rabbinic) Law
Is the “Rabbinic Courts Bill (Marriage and Divorce)” as risible as its critics make it seem? After all, it is meant to ameliorate the terrible suffering of thousands of women. If it can do that, doesn’t it perhaps justify a little expansion of Israeli Rabbinic authority? What’s a little international Rabbinic hegemony among Jews?
Boots on the Ground
What do we think about tiyul culture, and whether it partakes of, and advances, a politics that is not our own? What is to be done with the tiyul?
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Dear Folks,
I love listening to your banter, your aires, your total ‘Fuck You’ to the normal. But I have to say, it appears most of the Israeli public, like our own public here in the US, is being swallowed in a mire of corruption and ego that just might get a lot of EVERYBODY killed. Netanyahu is trying to be like drumpf, and drumpf is going to let Israel eat shit and bark at the moon! Mark my words, that man will find a way to fuck it all up because WE LET HIM, just as Israel is about to find out what is wrong about going to war with Iran right now (!) The whole embassy to Jerusalem thing, the ‘Oh we love Israel’.., no the motherfucker love the Jewish/Russian MOB that is what he loves, because they gave him money without knowing HE DOESN”T PAY ANYTHING BACK. Some of us here in the US, (I am not Jewish and am not trying to pretend I am, ) find ourselves buying Geiger Counters and Hazmat suits… you think it is a joke: not hardly. This is life and death, and that is a fact – for ALL of us. There is a lot more to the scenario than people are putting together. I wish you all well because it is only going to get darker from here.