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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 27 days 15 hours 30 minutes
episode 6: The “Days of Awful” Edition
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. —Partition Plans?— On Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv became a...
episode 5: The “A Song for Peace” Edition
Noah tells the story of one song that is also, in a way, the story of Israel itself.
episode 4: The “Atone Home” Edition
In this very special episode of sustainably recycled stuff devoted to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, hear about the evolution of the great piyyut and prayer, u’netanah tokef, and hear how members of the crew make sense of the strange and...
episode 3: The “Noah is What?!?!?” Edition
In this very special holiday Turducken of a podcast, we’ve stuffed into our own carcass an interview that Allison did for the Haaretz Weekly podcast with Noah and his comrade-in-politics Inbal Orpaz on why they are running for city council and what...
New Year's Wish from the Promised Podcast
After a momentous week, after many momentous months, the Promised Podcast wishes you and yours a new year of every good thing!
episode 2: The “The Memory & the Blessing” Edition
Maybe no one is a better symbol of how Israel is changing (and did more to cause this change) than Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, who died at 83 in 2020.
episode 1: The “Contrition” 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. —It Ain’t the Economy, Stupid!— Israel may be the most...
episode 52: The “Won’t Anyone Think of the Children?!?” Edition
Linda Gradstein, Noah Efron, and scholar-public intellectual-podcaster Masua Sagiv discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Extremism in the Name of...
episode 51: The “General Malaise?” Edition
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. —Out of Dodge?— A recent poll shows that almost one in three Israelis are...
episode 50: The “Wonderwomen” Edition
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. —Shikma— Does it matter that the first-among-equals leader of Israel’s...