the promised podcast

Israel is Burning

Israeli politicians responded erratically to the 630 fires that burned throughout Israel last week.

Read More

Post-Mortem & Pre-Natal

Parents of Omri Shahar, a captain in the Israeli Navy who was killed in 2012, just gained the right to create a child from their son’s posthumously-retrieved sperm via a surrogate and raise the child themselves.

Read More

Rabbinic Baskets of Deplorables & Baskets of Rabbinic Deplorables

The Chief Sephardi Rabbi of Jerusalem R. Shlomo Amar lashed out this week in an interview against LGBTQ folks and Reform Jews, calling homosexuality a cult of abomination.

Read More

Repealing Godwin’s Law: How Do We Know When That “Again” We Never Want to See Has Arrived?

The chorus of voices protesting possible appointments of bigots, racists, and antisemites, most notably Steve Bannon, violate Godwin’s Law daily.

Read More

Gimme that ol’ time consumption!

A recent article in Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth described the unique mores of advertising to the very pious.

Read More

The Odeum and the Odium: Israel’s National Theater Live in the Settlements!

The National Theater Company Ha-Bima performed a play in Kiryat Arba, the settlement capital in Hebron’s outskirts, for the first time this week.

Read More

Beat the Press

PM Netanyahu dedicated 680 words in response to journalist Ilana Dayan’s story about his office, making numerous accusations against Dayan and failing to address the issues raised in the piece.

Read More

Rabin Rousing

The planning and stage rhetoric of last week’s Rabin Memorial Demonstration were more political than years past.

Read More