Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Israel’s success in military cyber-operations and cyber-security, from disrupting Iranian nuclear development to covert intelligence gathering, is well known. It has given birth to a cluster of companies that have made Tel Aviv a global hub for cyber-security. Alon […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  “When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty; then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall make restitution […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Tonight begins Rosh Hashanah, when Jewish communities celebrate the new year and, as part of this celebration, read chapter 22 of Genesis. This contains the famous story in which God asks Abraham to take his son Isaac to a […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Last Saturday, supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s president, Isaias Afwerki, confronted one another in violent clashes. Yet rather than in Asmara, Eritrea’s capital city, this confrontation took place in the streets of south Tel Aviv. In the second half […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Since the end of the second intifada nearly twenty years ago, and the attendant calming of the West Bank, the main source of violence against Israel has been the Gaza Strip. That’s involved fewer terrorists blowing themselves up in […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Starting in January of this year, there have been popular protests each week in Israel. On Saturday night, when Shabbat comes to a close, hundreds and thousands of people go into the streets protesting the government and its policies, […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  In the period between 1936-1938, now known to historians as the Great Terror, Joseph Stalin oversaw the murder of over 700,000 Soviet subjects. Some of them were political rivals. Some of them held heterodox views. Some of them were […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  On October 27, 2018, a gunman burst into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, armed with a Colt AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and three Glock .357 semi-automatic pistols. He executed eleven Jews at prayer. When police arrived, they shot […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  The celebrated novelist Dara Horn’s 2021 book People Love Dead Jews has an arresting title, one designed to make the reader feel uncomfortable. That’s because Horn makes an argument that tries to change the way people think about the […]

Press play below to listen to the podcast, you can also find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify.  Perhaps more than any other major religious tradition, Judaism is mediated through words. God first communicated to Abraham through intelligible speech. Moses brought down from Mount Sinai tablets inscribed with words codifying the structure of Jewish moral order. The […]