Episodit
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Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron are live from the astonishing, brilliant, taste-of-the-world-to-come Limmud Festival in Birmingham, England.
âWhatâs Changed, Here?â
How we in Israel, and the lives we lead, have changed since, and because of, October 7th.
âWhatâs Changed, Everywhere Else?â
How Jews around the world, and the lives they lead, have changed since, and because of, October 7th.
Plus, how a 56 year old Soviet song came to express our longing and fears today. Plus, International Dalek Remembrance Day.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and scholar-extraordinaire Sara Hirschhorn 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
â(Un)settlingâ
Why do Israeli Jews who think it might be a good idea to set up Jewish towns in Gaza, think what they think?
âHostage (Dis)agreementâ
Would an agreement that brings home some of the hostages might, in the end, be worse than no agreement at all?
âSafe, Save for the Bombs and Bulletsâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Why do most Israelis think the safest place in the world for Jews is Israel when, statistically, thatâs not even close to being true?
Plus, a remembrance of Corinne Allal, may her memory be for a blessing.
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Puuttuva jakso?
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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
âGradually, then Suddenly, then OMGâ
The shocking, sudden fall of strong-man ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria left Jihadist Islamists poised to replace him. What does it all means for, well, us?
âDay in Courtâ
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stand to testify on his own behalf in his four-years-and-running bribery, fraud and breach of trust trial. What does it all means for, well, us?
âQuo Vadis, Adis?â
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The renowned and storied DC Conservative Synagogue, Adis Israel, disinvites former Israeli Foreign Minister Yoav Gallant, after congregants complain about this community hosting an architect of Israelâs war in Gaza, and a man indicted by the ICC for war crimes. We ask, Quo Vadis, Adis?
Plus, a remembrance of the man who hanged Adolf Eichmann, and a tribute to the star quality of the impossibly-talented and enchanted daughter-of, Naomi Sommer!
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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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âBoogie Unboundâ
Former IDF Chief of Staff and former Defense Minister Moshe âBoogieâ Yaâalonâs flatly asserts that Prime Minister Netanyahuâs Gaza policy amounts to ethnic cleansing.
âPutting the Press in Suppression and Depressionâ
A Knesset declaratory motion resolves that the government will no longer advertise in Haâaretz, after its publisher Amos Schoken presses the world to sanction and boycott Israel on account of its âwar crimes.â
ââALL HELL TO PAY?ââ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the social media post by once and future President Donald Trump calling for the return of all hostages by the time he enters the Oval Office.
Plus, Omer Neutra and an encouraging word about El Al.
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Linda Gradstein, 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.
âFor the Time Being, Anywayâ
The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah: It ainât victory and it sure ainât peace.
âICC Youâ
Why does the world court want to put our prime minister in the slammer?
Plus, An Ethiopian Room-of-Their-Own, before-and-after selfs, and an exploration of the age-old question, âWhen is a challah not a challah?â
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Tova Cohen 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
ââHope Is Patience With the Lamp Litâ (With Apologies to Tertullian)â
A voice in the wilderness. Should we listen?
ââCabinet of Wondersââ
Is Donald Trumpâs new cabinet more pro-Israel than most Israelis?
âFreshman Leninism at Berkeleyâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the fufera that developed over a Berkeley course description. We ask, âWTF?â
Plus, Nir Oz votes to go home and Eden Hasson comes out.
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Miriam Herschlag, 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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âJabalia, Againâ
Israel conquers northern Gaza for a third deadly time.
âThe âJâ is Silentâ
Is Amsterdam a harbinger?
âLimping Towards the Lightâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the essay written by Rachel Goldberg-Polin that was recently published on the Times of Israel.
Plus, a tribute to Prof. Aharon Sheâar Yashuv, the Orthodox Rabbi son of an Waffen SS officer father. And music for 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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âGallantryâ
Is it o.k. to sack the guy in charge of your army, while generals in Iran are planning to attack?
âTrumperyâ
Prime Minister Netayahu tweets to once-and-future US President Donald Trump that his âhuge victoryâ in âhistoryâs greatest comebackâ is âa powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.â But what will Trumpâs win mean to the Middle East?
â12 Hours That Shook, Well, Usâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: How did we handle the Gallantry & Trumpery one-two punch, and how do we now gather our broken selves and move forward?
All that and more music of our times.
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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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âDays of Repentance, This Time With Bombsâ
What are we to make of Israelâs weekend attack on Iran?
âAll We Knowâ
What Wikipedia has to say about Israel and Zionism is changing before our eyes, and not for the better.
âOther Peoples' Electionsâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Two of every three Israelis polled say theyâre pulling for Trump to win. Is this true and, if so, why?
All of that and more music of our times.
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Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss one topic 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
Making Sense of Sinwar, asking four questions:
Now that Yahya Sinwar is dead, should Israel take the win or fight on? In light of the fact that Yahya Sinwar was killed in Rafiah, can we conclude retrospectively that going into Rafiah was a good idea? Is the unremitting and uncompromising focus with which Israel pursued Yahya Sinwar â at the cost of hundreds of Israeli lives and tens of thousands of Palestinian lives â a demonstration of its alpha-and-omega security policy, first set out by Zev Jabotinsky 101 years ago, called âThe Iron Wallâ?, and What should we think and feel about the very violent death of that very violent man, Yahya Sinwar?âSimchat Tora One Hebrew Calendar Year After Oct. 7thâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: One Hebrew calendar year after Hamasâ attack on Israel, our religious communities have thought long and hard about the appropriate way to celebrate Simchat Tora.
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Tova Cohen 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
âBest Laid Schemes (Leaâe Us Nought but Grief Anâ Pain), With Apologies to Robert Burns (And to Mice)â
Bringing down the Azrieli Towers? Conquering Israel top-to-bottom by 2025? Minutes of Hamas meetings sets out the groups grim vision.
âWhatâs So Funny âBout Peace, Love and Understanding?â
Has âpeaceâ left the building?
âJed Bartlet Is in the Sukkah!â
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Who, this year, would be our âUshpizinâ in our (notional or real) Sukkah.
All of that and Sukkot suddenly turning up everywhere.
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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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âRegional Inferno?â
Israelâs war with Gaza may soon become an all-out regional war. How do you say âYikes!â in Farsi?
âAccounting of the Soulâ
What should we have in mind, this Yom Kippur, when we thump our chests in repentance?
âPrayer in the Square?â
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Our hot take on last nightâs Supreme Court ruling regarding the legality of organized gender-separated public prayer in liberal Tel Aviv.
All of that and marking a year of the nightmare of October 7. Plus, music that moves us from the memorials.
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A New Year and a year since. What are we remembering when we remember October 7?
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Elul is here and people all over the country are keeping the before-the-high-holidays tradition of saying Selihot, asking for forgiveness and offering atonement. All this as rockets and planes fly, and bombs fall.
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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
âMajor Pager Ragerâ
A stunning attack-by-pager left dozens of Hezbollah militiamen dead and thousands maimed and wounded. What are we to make of a thing like that?
âCommemoration Vexationâ
How do you memorialize October 7, when October 7 hasnât ended yet?
âTesticles in the Twitterverse?â
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Hezbollah pagers explode, social media memes erupt, but not all Israelis are laughing.
All this and the music from the remarkable new record ר×× ××× ××ר×× (Wind Comes from the South).
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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
âNot Too Brotherly, Not Much Loveâ
How did the âPhiladelphi Corridorâ become a matter of life and death?
âErrors of Omission and Commissionâ
The government hasnât investigated itself, so a bunch of citizens took it on itself. Is that a good thing?
âMuch Ado About a Handful of Sandâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: A 27-year-old Tel Aviv resident was arrested for allegedly tossing wet sand at National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Was the minister being purposely provocative for personal political gain?
Songs
Tuna â Bein ha-Ir LaPardes Peâer Tasi â Yoni Yarin â Ein Laila -
For 331 days, Rachel Goldberg-Polin went everywhere, spoke to everyone and did everything to save her son, Hersh.
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703 IDF soldiers have fallen since October 7th. Each was an entire world. This is a small bit of the story of one of them, Zachariah Haber.
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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.
Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
âBennett, Done Thatâ
Israelâs next prime minister will be ⌠Naftali Bennett?
âJewish Life During Wartimeâ
Why does war make more-secular Israelis more secular, and less-secular Israelis less secular?
âOur Flights Are Cancelledâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: What happens when every airline stops flying to Israel?
Plus, a reflection on how time itself has stopped working, and music by women weâve loved for decades, speaking now to our present moment.
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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
âTIME Is on His Side?â
Prime Minister Netanyahu gives his longest interview since October 7. Whatâs it tell us?
âTime Is on HIS Side?â
How is this man growing more popular at this time, after everything?
âFraying at the Edgesâ
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: How we doinâ at this moment?
Plus, co-joined Kibbutzim, Tisha BâAv at Hostage Square, and the bipolar music of Tamir Grinberg.
- Näytä enemmän
