We discuss: 1) how the huge victory of Yair Golan in the primary for Labor leadership may shift the future of Israeli politics 2) a lachrymose TV comedy sketch that portrays Jewish history as one damn-pogrom-after-another, up to and including October 7

We discuss: 1) The ultimatums for Netanyahu from members of his own “War Cabinet” 2) A warrant to arrest Israeli politicians when they travel abroad?

We discuss: 1) Israel’s rolling incursion into Rafah, and
2) a new hour-long movie about the rape and sexual assualt of Israeli women on Oct. 7

We discuss: 1) What Memorial Day and Independence Day mean in this annus horribilis, and 2) What to make of the enraged protests raging on university campuses

To mark Yom Ha-Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Noah describes the decades-long path Israelis followed to come to terms with the Holocaust, culminating in a record in 1988, fully 43 years after the camps were freed

At Passover Seders all around the world, a place setting was laid before a chair left empty for one of the 133 hostages held in Gaza. We look back at the 200 days of anguish, hope, and despair that divide Simchat Torah on October 7 from this week’s holiday

We discuss: 1) What to make of this week’s massive Iranian attack on Israel 2) What Passover tells us about how to understand all that has happened since October 7, and what all that has happened since October 7 tells us about how to understand Passover

We discuss: 1) Whether and how we Israelis have changed, in light of all that has happened 2) Whether and how we Jews around the world have changed, in light of all that has happened

We discuss: 1) The decision by families of the hostages to link their campaign to bring them home to the campaign for “elections now” 2) The Supreme Court injunction that cuts off funding for army-aged, ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students who learn instead of serve

We discuss: 1) The very fast seeming-decline in US-Israel relations 2) The claim by an urban warfare expert that Israel has displayed an unprecedentedly-high standard of concern for the safety of civilians in Gaza