In this very special episode devoted to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, hear about the evolution of the great piyyut and prayer, u’netanah tokef, and hear how members of the crew make sense of the strange and beautiful holiday from their strange and beautiful perspectives

After a momentous week, after many momentous months, the Promised Podcast wishes you and yours a new year of every good thing!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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