the promised podcast

How Will We Come Out of This?

With one in three Israelis vaccinated, maybe it’s time to figure out what life will be like when this is all over.

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Acting Big?

PM Netanyahu unveils a plan to give most Israelis a pile of free cash, just weeks before elections. Is that necessarily a bad thing?

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What’s in a Name?

What do the names Israelis give our babies say about our society and our souls?

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Jenin, Jenin

A judge orders confiscation of the 2002 movie “Jenin, Jenin” – a record of Palestinian accounts of the IDFs 2002 incursion into that city – while still letting the movie stream on Youtube. Is there any sense to that verdict?

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Helsinki, Helsinki

Israel’s top bioethics board says that PM Netanyahu’s deal to give Pfizer data on everyone who got the vaccinated is illegal, because it amounts to a massive human experiment that was never approved by, well, Israel’s top bioethics board. Should the deal be vacated?

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The Medium Is the Message?

Why will Israelis never ever delete Whatsapp from our phones, no matter how much private information they fork over to Facebook?

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Lift My Eyes Unto the Hills

Idealists? Dropouts? True-Believers? Anarchists? Pioneers? Thugs? What should we make of “Hilltop Youth”?

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In Living Color

An amateur historian and artist colorizes dozens of photos taken by a Wehrmacht officer of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, in order to show a brighter side of day-to-day life in the shadow of the Holocaust. Is that what we want? What we need?

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