the promised podcast

Terrorists in Tel Aviv? A pleasure!

We discuss some rather troubling reactions to last week’s heartbreaking terrorist murders at Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market.

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The Good (for-what-exactly?) Book

In honor of the holiday of Shavuot, we discuss what role the Torah should play, if any, in Israel’s public sphere.

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Tots & moms & fallacies of feminism

There is a controversial push to repeal a 54-year-old law that places children with their mothers in divorce cases.

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Peace in Paris or conciliation in Cairo?

We discuss the weird-ass peace retreat in Paris, without Israelis or Palestinians, and the Egyptian-Saudi peace initiative.

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Who are you to lower the rent?

The Ministry of Housing seems to be moving against municipal affordable housing programs on the grounds that they discriminate.

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The Other F-Word

There’s a new trend on the left of using the word “fascist” to describe the direction in which our government is traveling.

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IDF = “It Don’t Fucking-Matter”?

Human rights group B’Tselem says it is no longer going to refer complaints about soldiers’ behavior to the IDF’s lawyers.

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Exhibiting confusion

Is an Israeli national museum possible or even desirable in 2016? Or is collective identity soooo twentieth century?

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Donald Trump & the Jewish Question

Will Trump rend asunder once and for all right wing Jews from left, or could he unite Jews who may reject him en masse?

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