Podcast: Eugene Kontorovich on America and the Settlements
November 26, 2019 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
n November 18, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a momentous announcement: The United States does not consider Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria—the West Bank—illegal or illegitimate. The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Israeli building in the territories. . .
Read MorePodcast: David Makovsky—What Can We Learn from Israel’s Founders?
November 20, 2019 | By: David Makovsky
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The establishment of a sovereign Jewish state just three years after the Holocaust is both a miracle and the achievement of some remarkable women and men. Now that the founding generation has passed on, […]
Read MorePodcast: Matti Friedman on Israel, the Mizrahi Nation
September 25, 2019 | By: Matti Friedman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. In the American Jewish imagination, the story of Israel’s founding is a story of East European pioneers, socialist kibbutzim, and a Jewish state rising from the ashes of the Holocaust. And all of these […]
Read MorePodcast: Micah Goodman on Shrinking the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
September 18, 2019 | By: Micah Goodman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. If you follow Israeli politics, then you know that within the past year, the Jewish state has experienced two deadlocked elections. What explains this political stalemate? According to Micah Goodman, one of Israel’s leading […]
Read MorePodcast: Yehoshua Pfeffer on Haredi Politics and Culture
July 24, 2019 | By: Yehoshua Pfeffer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since 1949, every election in Israel’s history has yielded a governing majority…until now. Though the bloc of right-wing parties emerged from the April 2019 Knesset elections with a clear majority, coalition negotiations fell apart […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Krauthammer on His Father’s Jewish Legacy
June 19, 2019 | By: Daniel Krauthammer
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. It is hard to believe that it has been almost a year since the eminent columnist—and great Jewish conservative—Charles Krauthammer passed away. Krauthammer’s clarity of mind and force of argument were the cornerstone of […]
Read MoreShadow Strike: How Israel Destroyed Syria's Nuclear Reactor
June 13, 2019 | By: Yaakov Katz
On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad. But this time, there was no warning and no explanation. This was a covert operation, with one goal: to destroy a nuclear reactor being built by North Korea […]
Read MorePodcast: Yaakov Katz on Shadow Strike
June 12, 2019 | By: Yaakov Katz
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad, but this time, there was no warning […]
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Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Since the destruction of the Second Temple at the hands of Rome, most Jews, for most of Jewish history, have lived in the Diaspora. What are the survival strategies, built up over centuries, that […]
Read MorePodcast: Francine Klagsbrun on Golda Meir—Israel’s Lioness
May 22, 2019 | By: Francine Klagsbrun
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. She was one of only two women to sign the Israel’s Declaration of Independence. She served as Israel’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union, as labor minister, foreign minister, head of the Israeli Labor […]
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