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'Israel has committed genocide in Gaza': California Democrat Scott Wiener on his controversial U-turn
Season 1 Episode 470
California State Senator Scott Wiener, the frontrunner for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat, insisted on the Haaretz Podcast th…
1 month ago
'Birthright is tone-deaf': Why many young Jews don’t want their free trip to Israel
Season 1 Episode 469
Birthright Israel is celebrating 25 years of offering a free 10-day trip to Israel to every young Diaspora Jew with the hope of fighting assimilation…
1 month, 1 week ago
AIPAC's worst nightmare? Why Netanyahu said Israel doesn't want U.S. military aid
Season 1 Episode 468
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell in a recent interview when he declared he had told U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel no l…
1 month, 1 week ago
How will the Iran protests end? Arash Azizi says 'This won't be a classic revolution'
Season 1 Episode 467
Once again, Iranians have taken to the streets. Starting in late December, the plummeting value of the national currency, along with the soaring cost…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
How 2025 rocked the Jewish world: From Gaza to Mamdani to Bondi
Season 1 Episode 466
It was a challenging year to be a Diaspora Jew.
The war in Gaza and growing hostility to Israel had an undeniable impact on Jewish life across the…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
From Trump's Gaza Riviera to the Iran war and Qatargate: Israel's 2025 in review
Season 1 Episode 465
For Israel, 2025 was a year in which war turned the unimaginable into reality: from the terrifying exchange of missiles with Iran to the horrors of t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘Deradicalize Hamas, give them less dangerous weapons and turn them into police,' says French ambassador
Season 1 Episode 464
France’s ambassador to Israel Frédéric Journès said on the Haaretz Podcast that any postwar Gaza plan must acknowledge that completely disarming and …
2 months ago
Boycotts and 'red lines': A famed NY Jewish institution grapples with tough post-Oct. 7 questions
Season 1 Episode 463
Before October 7th, Trump’s second term and the election of Zohran Mamdani rocked New York’s Jewish community, Manhattan’s famed 92nd Street Y – like…
2 months ago
‘Schindler for the animals’: How a Jewish oligarch rescued 5,000 zoo animals from the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war
Season 1 Episode 462
Over the past two years, many filmmakers have hesitated or refrained from bringing their films to Israeli film festivals as part of cultural boycott …
2 months ago
‘It’s horrific. We begged our government to prevent this’: Australian Jews are angry after the Bondi terror attack
Season 1 Episode 461
Australian Jews are “shocked but not surprised” by the “horrific” mass shooting on Bondi Beach, which turned a Hanukkah celebration into a tragic mas…
2 months, 1 week ago