the promised podcast – full show

We discuss: 1) our slow slouch seemingly back towards war on four fronts 2) what to make of three new political parties that have set themselves up, as we near the start of Knesset election campaigns

We discuss: 1) the spike in young Jewish thugs, throwing rocks, beating with sticks, setting fires, and sparking fear among Palestinians on the West Bank 2) the UN Security Council’s decision to endorse US President Trump’s 20 point plan for peace in the Middle East

We discuss: 1) the storm of protest and worry over the discovery that the army’s chief attorney leaked a video incriminating reserve soldiers, and (2) the rising swell of Jewish spirituality and religion after October 7th and whether it is something to celebrate or fear (or both)

Noah talks about the big questions about Israel’s future with historian, journalist, public intellectual and podcaster Marc Shulman

We discuss: 1) the on-again-off-again fragility of the ceasefire 2) whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu successfully steered us through the war and managed to achieve things that matter

We discuss what the hell we make of the neither-fish-nor-foul liminal state we find ourselves in now and what the hell the future holds for us. Then we are joined by Danielle Haas to talk about bias in the Human-Rights-Industrial-Complex.

We waited and we waited and now they are here.

We discuss: 1) US President Trump’s “Twenty Point Plan” to bring home the hostages and end the war 2) On the second Yahrzeit of Oct. 7, how we have changed, personally, and as a society.

For this Yom Kippur, we return to stuff that gave us solace and understanding in the past

We discuss: 1) The very viral essay by Yossi Klein Halevi, pressing Israelis to engage in the moral conversation that we have, until now, avoided 2) The new 5785 Jewish People Policy Institute’s Annual Assessment of the Jewish People, and why our grades are so lousy, and what we ought to do about it