the promised podcast

Where We Live, There Is Our Country!

For 68 years, there were Bundists in Israel – socialist, internationalist Yiddishists. Finally, only now, their Tel Aviv headquarters is shuttering. But what is their legacy?

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Goodbye to All That!

Forty Jewish-American Rabbis, professors and activists say it’s time to say goodbye to Zionism once and for all. Do they have a point?

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Everyone from Benny Gantz to Ayman Odeh

There are signs of a new openness to cooperation between Jews and Arabs on the Israeli Left. But are these signals a fundamental change or just more election posturing?

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Je M’Accuse

A week after we buried another Ethiopian kid killed by a police officer, the eleventh in two decades, what accounts for our omnipresent racism? As Tolstoy never said, “Every racist society is racist in its own way.” What is our way of being racist?

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You Don’t Have to Be Religious to Be Religious, but It Helps

Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked aspires to lead Israel’s religious right, even though she’s as secular as can be. Must you be religious to be religious?

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Protean Protein

Can hummus play a role in finding regional peace? A new book that asserts that it might!

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Is a Dream a Lie If It Don’t Come True?

Ten years have passed since PM Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a Palestinian state in his famous “Bar Ilan Speech.” Did that speech have an enduring impact on Israeli politics, or was it just a thing that happened long ago and then dissipated into the fetid vapors of time?

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Parties Like It’s 1999

Israel’s Left recombobulates itself by returning to yesterday’s leaders, all of whom are men. What explains this sudden lurch to the Father-Knows-Best ghosts-of-politics past?

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Last Picture Show?

Tel Aviv will soon have only one movie theater, down from more than 50. Why are pictures leaving the city and what, if anything, can be done about it?

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