The crew discuss: Israel’s new efforts to “reset” relations with the U.S.; A grandson’s efforts to understand the Zionism of his late Grandfather; A new Israeli docu-series about American Jews

Is a new-ish law that lets Ministers resign their Knesset seats and be replaced by new MKs wasteful and corrupt? How should leftist members of the gov’t vote on a law they hate? Should there be brooks, streams, rivers and lakes reserved, for a few hours every so often, just for women or just for men?

What do the coalition agreements tell us about Israel’s new gov’t? What legacy is left by Benjamin Netanyahu after 12 years as PM? Why are most Israelis squeamish about nudity?

Is Naftali Bennett the right-wing ideologue most people take him to be? Should the first family be forced to live in the official PM’s residence in Jerusalem when they don’t want to? What explains Israel’s canine-mania?

What does the new governing coalition mean and what does it augur? What does the election of Yitzhak Herzog to be Israel’s next president say about the country in this unsettled time? Why are so many young Jewish-American progressives saying they’re done suffering for the sins of a Jewish state?

What, if anything, changed with the clashes of the past weeks? So maybe 5th elections are a good idea? Did the Supreme Court just save Israeli democracy (or destroy it)?

What to make of the suggestion that the war with Hamas is not a “fair fight”? Does the collapse of the negotiated “National Unity Government” prove that an Arab-Jewish political alliance cannot survive an Arab-Jewish war? Was the IDF Spokesman justified in lying to the press when it helped the IDF to do so?

Rockets and missiles from the south and mob violence most everywhere else: Why did Israel just dissolve into bloodshed? How do you celebrate the “reunification” of Jerusalem (and how don’t you)?

Who or what is to blame for the deaths at Mount Meron? Is “family-uber-alles” the only value shared by all Israelis? What does it mean when Palestinian citizens of Israel use the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe parts of their experience?

Why are parts of the center-left hoping to see the head of the Yamina party as our next PM? What and who are behind the violence and demonstrations in Jaffa? Why does Hebrew touch us in the most intimate ways in the most intimate places?