An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.
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The “Judges and Grudges, Libel and Bible” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and wunderkind critic Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
--J’Accuse?, Non, J’Accuse!--
As his corruption trial begin, PM Netanyahu’s supporters take to the streets to say their leader is a latter day Dreyfus, persecuted by a cabal of leftist judges and journalists. What should we make of that?
--Exiled to Providence--
Are leftists leaving Israel as “political exiles”?
--What is the Good Book Good For?--
As we celebrate Shavuot, a festival marking the giving of the Torah at Sinai, we can’t help but wonder: What are we supposed to do with that book, anyway?
--Was Israel’s Response to COVID-19 Wrongity-Wrong-Wrong?--
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra segment, we discuss an essay in Ha’aretz arguing that everything we’d done up to now to respond to coronavirus was wrongity-wrong-wrong. Has the time come to second-guess all we’ve done for the past months?
All that and songs by Asaf Avidan, with and without the Mojos!