The “Justices Supreme and Crises Constitutional” Edition

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Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

A New Crisis, and this Time, It’s Constitutional
What does it augur when the Justice Minister refuses to “recognize” the newly selected chief justice of the Supreme Court?

Survivors
Why did this year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day become a referendum on October 7th?

The Trump-Netanyahu Tete-A-Tete
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: What should we think, ahead of the Trump-Netanyahu tete-a-tete next week?

All that and how living-and-dead have stopped being a simple binary. Plus, the music of Aviv Shriki.

Songs

  • Kiddush
  • Ness
  • Mashihu Ra Amad Likrot Lekha (with Daniella Tourgeman)

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1 comment on “The “Justices Supreme and Crises Constitutional” Edition

  1. Susan Jeffers says:

    Greetings! I’m just now listening to the January 30 episode, the part about people “making analogies” between Oct 7 and the Holocaust. Most of the people I hear “making analogies” in my real life are really saying that X reminds them of Y, or when X happened I flashed back to Y…. It seems like analogies can be analyzed and debated, but people being reminded of some past important experience… not so much… I’m just now getting around to reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book “The Message” and I can certainly understand how he came to be reminded of African-American experience on his visit to Israel, and how my US Quaker peacenik brethren are reminded of prior “peace and justice” causes… It’s really hard…. I keep wanting to find a way to be heard when I claim “the analogy doesn’t hold up” but they know what they feel and therefore which side is the good guys and which side is the power to which they need to speak truth…. I hope this makes sense… Thanks as always for the podcast and for modeling spirited discussion of challenging topics about which y’all approach from different places.

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