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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episode 51: The “73 Days In” Edition
Sally Abed, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.
Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon
—What We Learned While Skipping School—
Kids are finally returning to desks-and-whiteboards after missing almost all of last year. What did we learn from the pandemic about how to make schools better?
—73 Days In—
The Knesset goes into a “summer recess” after the most tumultuous session anyone can remember. How’s the new government doing, 73 days in?
—Wigging Out—
We watched a movie about an ultra-Orthodox woman ambivalating over whether to stop wearing a wig, as women of her station are expected to wear, and came to opposite conclusions about what it all means.
—3 Beautiful Audio Essays by the Lovely & Incomparably Beautiful Miriam Herschlag—
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, an encore presentation of three (count ‘em!) lovely, incomparably beautiful little audio essays by the lovely and incomparably beautiful Miriam Herschlag.
All that and the uncategorizable music of musician, painter, sculptor and performance artist Ayelet Avni!