Podcast Episodes

Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America?

Episode 73

Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.

Our current question: Is military aid to …

Published on 4 hours ago

Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth R. Hyman

Episode 72

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising stands as one of the few shining moments of (temporarily) successful Jewish resistance in the bottomless evil and despair that was the Holocaust. Heroes of the uprising lik…

Published on 23 hours ago

Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel?

Episode 71

Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.

Our current question: Why the heck does A…

Published on 5 days, 4 hours ago

Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss

Episode 70

Between the outbreak of the Jews’ Great Revolt against Rome in the year 66 CE and the final suppression of the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135, the Jews of the Roman Empire constituted the empire’s single b…

Published on 1 week ago

Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, with Moshe Koppel

Episode 69

Until October 7, Israel’s politics were consumed by the fight over the government’s judicial reform proposals. The issue drove hundreds of thousands of Israelis to the streets in protest. It triggere…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein

Episode 68

After the massacre at Bondi Beach, anthropologist Adam Louis-Klein returns to the podcast to help us make sense of the new Jew-hatred.

Antizionism, Adam argues, may be a form of hatred of Jews, but it…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi.

Episode 67

This Hanukkah began in darkness, in the brutal massacre of Jews in Sydney, Australia. Our hearts are broken, but our light is not dimmed.

In this episode, we dive into the meaning of Hanukkah in the J…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians?

Episode 66

Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.

Our current question: Do BDS campaigns he…

Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsberg

Episode 65

The internet has democratized information. Or so we are told. The world's knowledge is now at everyone's fingertips. No government and no power structure can gatekeep what everyone sees and hears.

But…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky

Episode 64

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism, a contributor to many books and a senior fellow at the Z3 Institute. Her latest book is “Be a Refusenik: A Jewish…

Published on 1 month ago