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 23: The “Reform School” Edition
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
—The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle—
Newly proposed reform of the schools would give principals the power to fire bad teachers and give extra pay to the good ones, bringing free-market principles to grade-school principals. Do we really need another major reform right now?
—SS, Mein Kind—
It seems like Nazis are so much on the minds of so many who are fighting Netanyahu’s judicial reforms. Are we a Godwin-forsaken country?
—An Open Letter to Israel’s Friends in North America—
For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: When American-immigrant-Israeli “Dream Team” issues a Cri de Coeur you pay attention!
All that and Kiss’s Gene Simmons singing the praises of Hebrew and the music of Avi Aburomi!