Shadow 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 […]
Read MorePodcast: Matti Friedman on Israel’s First Spies
May 8, 2019 | By: Matti Friedman
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. Long before the Mossad became known as one of the world’s greatest intelligence agencies; before the capture of Eichmann and the raid of Iran’s nuclear archive; before Eli Cohen and Rafi Eitan; before Fauda […]
Read MorePodcast: Daniel Gordis on the Rift Between American and Israeli Jews
April 3, 2019 | By: Daniel Gordis
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The occupation. The Western Wall. The nation-state Law. The warm bonhomie between President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The rift between American and Israeli Jews grows daily. How did this happen? Wasn’t Israel an […]
Read MorePodcast: Eugene Kontorovich Explains Congress’s Effort to Counter BDS
March 6, 2019 | By: Eugene Kontorovich
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, and Spotify. The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019 was the very first piece of Senate legislation introduced in the 116th Congress. Sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the bill tackles a […]
Read MorePodcast: Ambassador Danny Danon Goes on Offense at the U.N.
February 6, 2019 | By: Danny Danon
Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play. In the decades since Israel’s founding, the United Nations has been a hostile environment for the Jewish state first recognized by 33 sovereign nations in the U.N. General Assembly. For many years, it has seemed that […]
Read MorePodcast: The Best of 2018
December 28, 2018
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. From the Pittsburgh shooting to rising anti-Semitism in Europe, from the U.S. embassy move to the Trump Administration’s exit from the Iran deal, from Michael Chabon’s controversial speech at Hebrew Union College to Israel’s new nation-state law, 2018 has […]
Read MorePodcast: Jacob J. Schacter on Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and the State of Israel
December 21, 2018 | By: Jacob J. Schacter
Press play below to listen to the podcast, download it in the iTunes Store, or stream it via Stitcher. Chapter 1: The Eve of the Suez Crisis Chapter 2: Personal Suffering, Collective Suffering, and the Shoah Chapter 3: The Six Knocks Chapter 4: Responding to God, Responding the Fellow Jews “Hark, my beloved knocks! ‘Let me in, my […]
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