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 […]