the promised podcast – full show

The “Noah is What?!?!?” Edition

In this very special holiday Turducken of a podcast, we’ve stuffed into our own carcass an interview that Allison did for the Haaretz Weekly podcast with Noah and his comrade-in-politics Inbal Orpaz on why they are running for city council and what they stand for

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The “Contrition” Edition

We discuss: 1) Why Israel’s high cost of living has zero-zilch-nada impact on our politics 2) What we’re feeling contemplatively remorseful about, in politics, this Elul month of contrition

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The “Won’t Anyone Think of the Children?!?” Edition

We discuss: 1) The new “extremist moderates” emerging in Israel and what they augur 2) What it is like for kids living through the tumult and angst of Israel in 2023

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The “General Malaise?” Edition

We discuss: 1) A recent poll showing that almost 1 in 3 Israelis are thinking about leaving the country 2) The politicization of the army, and what it augurs

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The “Wonderwomen” Edition

We discuss: 1) The face-of-the-protests particle physicist Shikma Bressler, and whether or not gender played a part in establishing her authority 2) Why Gal Gadot is, among Israelis, the most beloved Israeli since maybe Moshe Dayan

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The “Dei Ex Machina?” Edition

We discuss: 1) Whether tossing out the far-right parties from the gov’t, and swapping in the center-left, makes a lick of sense 2) The appeal of some prominent leftists to Joe Biden and Congress to save Israel from itself

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The “What Happened? What Happens Now?” Edition

We discuss: 1) The law that passed and why no compromise was reached, even though all sides said that’s what they wanted 2) What happens, now that that law has passed

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The “Heat of Summer” Edition

We discuss: 1) The petition to the Supreme Court to strip the premiership from Benjamin Netanyahu 2) What to make of Israel’s two-day operation in Jenin 3) A major new documentary about “secularism” in Israel

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The “It Ain’t the Heat, It’s the Fluidity” Edition

We discuss: 1) the escalation of the protests and counter-protests as summer heats up 2) a new scheme to convene a “Constitutional Convention” and write a founding document for Israel 3) a new report saying Israelis may be more religion-fluid than we usually think!

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The “Good Trouble” Edition

As the massive protests enter their seventh month, the Promised Podcast looks at the place of protest in Israeli society. (This episode contains time-tested content from the vault, so you know it’s good!)

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