Yonatan Jakubowicz on Israel's African Immigrants
September 11, 2023 | By: Yonatan Jakubowicz

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 […]
Read MoreMordechai Kedar on the Return of Terrorism in the West Bank
September 5, 2023 | By: Mordechai Kedar

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 […]
Read MoreRan Baratz on the Roots of Israeli Angst
August 29, 2023 | By: Ran Baratz

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, […]
Read MoreDovid Margolin on Kommunarka and the Jewish Defiance of Soviet History
August 18, 2023 | By: Dovid Margolin

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 […]
Read MoreShlomo Brody on Capital Punishment and the Jewish Tradition
August 11, 2023 | By: Shlomo Brody

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 […]
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