Podcast Episodes

Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller

Episode 53

Rabbi Elhanan Miller has half a million online followers, and almost all of them are Arabs. They tune in to his "People of the Book" project on YouTube and other platforms to learn in Arabic about Je…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn

Episode 52

Dr. Dara Horn, award-winning novelist and scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, joins the podcast to help us dig deep into the Jewish bookshelf, the whirlwind of antisemitism in which so many Jew…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Episode 51: Antisemitism and the Black experience

Episode 51

Coleman Hughes is an American writer, host of the podcast Conversations with Coleman, a visiting professor at the University of Austin, and the author of The End of Race Politics.

He joins the podcast…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Episode 50: Hostage Deal - A new day for Gaza, a bad day for Hamas

Episode 50

On October 8, President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to his peace and hostage release deal. Israel's tormented hostages will soon be home.

The agreement delivers almost ever…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 49: Finding hope in the tunnel of Hamas, with Eli Sharabi

Episode 49

On October 7, 2023, Eli Sharabi's home was surrounded by Hamas terrorists. As he was dragged into Gaza, he shouted to his wife Leanna and two daughters Noiya and Yahel that "no matter what they do to…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 48: Two years to October 7

Episode 48

The two-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre falls on the joyous holiday of Sukkot. The Hebrew calendar anniversary will fall on the holiday of Simchat Torah, literally "the Joy of Torah."

How d…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 47: Building a new Gaza, with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib

Episode 47

The day after Trump's release of his 20-point plan for an end to the Gaza war, Haviv sat down with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, Palestinian-American analyst and director of the Atlantic Council's Realign fo…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Episode 46: The Trump Plan - Hope for Israel and Gaza

Episode 46

Trump's 20-point grand bargain to end the Gaza war is a remarkable document. It offers Israel much of the Israeli cabinet's formally declared war goals, not least the summary release of Israeli hosta…

Published on 3 months ago

Episode 45: 48 hours in Syria, with David Horovitz

Episode 45

Earlier this month, Times of Israel editor David Horovitz became one of only two or three Israeli journalists to have ever walked the streets of Damascus, Syria’s capital.

But he was the very first to…

Published on 3 months ago

Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah

Episode 44

Rosh Hashanah is the only Jewish holiday that falls on the first day of the lunar month - that begins in darkness. It is also the holiday most associated in Jewish tradition with great turning-points…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago