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 26: The “Seeing Ourselves and Others” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and URJ VP and Renaissance Rabbi Josh Weinberg 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
—Laying Low—
Israel’s leaders are heartsick about Ukraine and still nervously worried about Putin, and it shows in their muddled response to the war. Should we be doing something more and different for Ukraine?
—If It Displease the Court—
If your parents came from Morocco, is it harder to get the courts to listen?
—30 Years Gone—
Menachem Begin was beloved and reviled in his lifetime. As we mark the 30th anniversary of his death, what is the legacy of this remarkable man?
—Meeting of the Minds—
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we discuss the recent meeting between the leaders of American Reform and Conservative Judaism and Israel’s Prime Minister for the first time in six years. Here’s the straight dope.
All this and the first, young sounds of Nitzan!