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Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âNow, Rafahâ
What are we to make of Israelâs rolling incursion into Rafah? Oy.
âOn Filmâ
Thereâs a new hour-long movie about the rape and sexual assault of Israeli women on October 7 and since. Oy.
âA Huge Win Despite the Lossâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Eden Golanâs amazing adventure at the Eurovision song contest.
All this and more music of these troubled times.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âDays of Aweâ
What do Yom Ha-Zikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Ha-Atzmaut (Independence Day) mean in this annus horribilis? How can we celebrate, now?
âSchool Dazeâ
What should we make of the enraged protests raging on university campuses? Kids these days, am I right?
âAl Jazeera on the Chopping Blockâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Israel blocks Al Jazeera for 45 days, on the grounds that the network is neither fair nor balanced. Dumb move?
Plus, a look back fifty years, a vegetable vending machine, and more music of these troubled times.
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Fehlende Folgen?
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To mark Yom Ha-Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Noah describes the decades-long path Israelis followed to come to terms with the Holocaust, culminating in a record in 1988, fully 43 years after the camps were freed.
(Out of concern for the environment, this episode is reused and recycled, though not reduced.)
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At Passover Seders all around the world, a place setting was laid before a chair left empty for one of the 133 hostages held in Gaza. We look back at the 200 days of anguish, hope, and despair that divide Simchat Torah on October 7 from this weekâs holiday.
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Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
âGoing Too Farsi? (Or, the Persian Incursion)â
We â with the help of the US, UK, Jordan and other capable allies â buffly rebuffed the biggest missile and drone attack on Israel ever. But what does it tell us about the past and augur for the future?
âPassover, 5784â
How is this Passover different from all other Passovers?
Plus, a bereaved father on solidarity, flower-girls, fruit bats and more music of our times.
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Marking six months since the massacres and the start of the war, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âUs, Hereâ
Whether and how we Israelis have changed, in light of all that has happened. Are we different than we were six months and one week ago?
âUs, Thereâ
Whether and how we Jews around the world have changed, in light of all that has happened. Are we different than we were six months and one week ago?
âIranâs Promised âPersian Incursionââ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Are we losing sleep over Iranâs promised âPersian Incursionâ?
Plus, the presence of October 7 around the Seder table. And, more music of our times.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âFamilies 2.0â
The organization of the families of the hostages has decided to change strategies, linking its campaign to bring the hostages home to the campaign for âelections now.â Is the fight to get the hostages home entering a new phase?
âSidelocks & Sidearmsâ
A Supreme Court injunction cuts off, cold-turkey, funding for army-aged, ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students who learn instead of serve. Couldnât they have let the turkey get to room-temperature?
âSnap Judgementâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Should a photographer who watched and snapped his shutter while people were being killed, raped and kidnapped get a prize for a picture he took?
Plus a farewell to one of the countryâs greatest novelists and activists. And, more music of our times.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and newly-minted Doctor of Thinkology Gilad Halpern discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âAbstention Dissensionâ
There seems to be a very fast decline in US-Israel relations, after the Americans abstain on a UN Security Council resolution that Israel expected them to veto. Are Israel and America, like Ross and Rachel, on a break?
âStandard Deviationâ
An expert in urban warfare says Israel is more careful to protect the lives of civilians in Gaza than any other army in history. But even if that is true, does it matter?
âThe Great Rupture in American Jewish Lifeâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Is Peter Beinart right that there is a âgreat rupture in American Jewish lifeâ? If he is, should we worry?
Plus a farewell to a man who spent decades rebuilding violins that survived the Holocaust, often when the musicians who played them did not. Plus more music of our times.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and ubermensch writer Bradley Burston discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âDespite It All, Peace?â
Is all we are sayinâ, just give peace a chance?
âAmalekâ
Is it like reverse anti-Semitism?
âThe End of Israelâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Kafka said, âA book must be an ice-axe for the frozen sea within us.â This one is.
Order Bradley Burstonâs new book, The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe, here!
Plus a glimpse into the worlds of ultra-Orthodox parents of kids who grew up ultra-Orthodox and were murdered at the druggy, dancy, free-lovey Nova festival. Plus more music of our times.
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Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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This monthâs Atlantic cover story argues that the âGolden Ageâ for American Jews has come to a close and, with it, maybe the âGolden Ageâ for America and the âGolden Ageâ for Jews. Is the US putting the âmeanâ back into âreversion to the meanâ?
âRetractedâ
A well-regarded literary journal retracts an essay by an Israeli on account of, well, what exactly? Is it a literary crime to be an Israeli in 2024?
âHurricaneâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: This yearâs Eurovision is gonna be a sh*tshow.
Plus poetry on the moon and more songs of these troubled days.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âJerusalem, Mon Amour?â
Whatâs it mean that Jerusalem just elected to its city council a straight-up majority of ultra-Orthodox men?
âReckoning?â
Is it time for soul-searching and spiritual reckoning over the death and destruction in Gaza?
âFive Monthsâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Five months since October 7, we are awfully tired.
All that and remembering Beige Shohat, plus more songs of these troubled days.
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Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âGoing Localâ
They say that, in a democracy, even the most humble among us can be elected to public office. Now we know itâs true!
âMayor for Lifeâ
Few positions have more job security than mayor of a major city in Israel.
âJon Stewart Goes Viral on the Gaza Warâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Jon Stewart goes viral on the Gaza war.
All this and a memorial tribute to MK Charlie Biton, and more songs of our troubled times.
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138 days in, The Promised Podcast looks back.
âPremonitionâ
âCity of Slaughterâ
âSallyâ
âThe Wheat Grows Againâ
âThe Battalionâs WhatsAppâ
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âElections Now?â
Billboards all over the country and full-page ads in the papers call for new elections now. Is this a good idea?
âThe Draft on the Draft: Getting the Shaft?â
A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
âWartime Hookupsâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: What is it about war that makes people want to pair off?
All that and risking the lives of dozens of young men to save the lives of two old men, plus more moving songs of these troubled days.
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Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âNegotiating With Terroristsâ
Hamas finally sets out their demands in exchange for releasing the 136 living-and-dead Israeli hostages dragged to Gaza from their homes. Is there anywhere to go from here?
âBar-Raving Time!â
Itamar Ben-Gvir is having a moment.
âThe New York Talk Timesâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The New York Times brings together five historians to explain how Israelis and Palestinians got to where we got. Howâd they do?
All that and more moving songs of these troubled days.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âA Few Murderous Applesâ
A dozen United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) workers killed, raped and kidnapped on October 7, and one in four Gazan men who work for UNRWA have ties to Hamas. What can you say to that?
âSoldiers of the Dreamâ
Have the reserve soldiers in Gaza discovered the secret to making Israel a better, more decent place?
âWhat Those Dog-Tags Are All Aboutâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Whatâs up with those dog-tags millions of Israelis wear these days?
All that and still more music of our time.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âGeneral Malaiseâ
Former IDF Chief of Staff and member of Israelâs âWar Cabinetâ says the government is not telling us the truth or making the right decisions when it comes to the war. What now?
âIn the Shadow of the Shoahâ
Seventy-nine years after the Nazis surrendered, thereâs more talk of the Holocaust than ever. How come?
âSending Your Kid off to the Army When the Countryâs At Warâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: What is it like to drop your kid off at an army induction camp?
All that and new, soulful music of our time.
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Linda Gradstein, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
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âWhy Did the Army Fail Us?â
The first job of the army is to protect us at our borders.
âWhy Do We Still Believe In the IDF?â
Even after everything went wrong, and so many people died, we still trust the IDF. Why?
âA New âNormalââ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Whatâs it like for us to try to get back to some sort of ânormalâ?
All that and a sad voice calling in the wilderness, plus new music for our times by some of the grand eminences of Israeli music.
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Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âPhase IIIâ
The last phase of the Israel-Hamas war is starting. Why donât we feel relieved?
âSouth Africa v. Israelâ
Eighty years after the Holocaust ended, Israel is on trial for genocide.
âHow Do You Podcast a War?â
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: How do you podcast this war? (With Jen Richler, genius producer âCan We Talk?â)
All that and the music of Idan Amedi, who was injured badly this week as an IDF reservist in Gaza.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âBasicâ
Israelâs Supreme Court decides, by the thinnest of margins, to overturn an amendment to a âBasic Lawâ passed by the Knesset. Is that a good thing?
âOctober 90thâ
Are we stuck reliving over and over the nightmare of October 7?
âA New PTSD Treatmentâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Will oxygen help wipe our trauma clean?
All that and new music for coping with grief and worry.
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