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The "Egypt Within Us" Edition
Linda, Noah and journalist Judah Ari Gross discuss: 1) the Jewish thugs attacking, hurting and terrorizing Palestinians on the West Bank and, relatedly, 2) what our exodus story needs to be this year. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra S
The "Radio Days" Edition
Ninety years ago this week, Hebrew was heard on airwaves as the Voice of Jerusalem had its first broadcast. The feint echoes of the thing are worth listening for today.
The "Confounded, Unbounded & Undergrounded" Edition
In this gala return of the Podcast, Miriam and Noah talk about (A) What this thing with Iran is, (1) Whether these days we're seeing a new, more Strangelovian Prime Minister Netanyahu, and (2) What life underground in the homefront tells us
The "Ran's Sheloshim" Edition
Today marks the thirtieth day since we buried Ran Gvili, the hostage who came home last. The thirty day mark, the Sheloshim, signifies the end of the period of intense mourning. It may also be taken as the end of the terrible war in Gaza th
The "'We Did Nothing Special': Remembering Uri Lupolianski" Edition
Uri Lupolianski was the first ultra-Orthodox mayor of Jerusalem, and he was convicted of corruption. A week after his death, Noah says that he was also a reflection of all of us, at our imperfect best.
The "Candles in the Wind and Candles in the Window" Edition
In this last episode before our two month break (save for an occasional special, check your feed!) Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) What to make about Bondi Beach and the many, many violent things around the world that maybe le
The "Aftermaths" Edition
Allison, Don and Noah talk about (1) whether we are being buffeted by what some experts call a "mental health tsunami," after all that has happened, and (2) the decision by members of Kibbutz Be'eri not to preserve as memorials the mostly w
The "Pardon Me?" Edition
Miriam and Noah talk about (1) the Prime Minister's request that the President pardon him, to put an end to our long, national downer, and (2) what to make of the movie, The Sea, which took all the important Israeli prizes this year, for it
The "Old Ends & New Beginnings" Edition
Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) our slow slouch seemingly back towards war on four fronts – Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran – why is it happening and where might it lead? and (2) what to make of three new political parties that
The "Keeping the Peace?" Edition
Allison and Noah talk about (1) the spike in thuggish thuggery of young Jewish thugs, throwing rocks, beating with sticks, setting fires, sparking fear among Palestinians on the West Bank, and also Jewish protestors and soldiers, and (2) th
The "All the iPhones in the Sea" Edition
Miriam Herschlag, Noah Efron and managing editor at eJewishPhilanthropy Judah Ari Gross talk about (1) the storm of protest and worry over the discovery that the army's chief attorney leaked a video incriminating reserve soldiers, and (2) t
The "The Big Picture" Edition
Noah talks about the big questions about Israel's future with historian, journalist, public intellectual and podcaster Marc Shulman.
The "So Maybe He Did Know What He Was Doing?" Edition
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron talk about (1) the on-again-off-again fragility of the ceasefire, visiting death on both sides, and (2) whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu's admirers have a point when they say that he steered us through
The "To Arrive Where We Started" Edition
Allison and Noah talk about what the hell they make of the neither-fish-nor-foul liminal state we find ourselves in now and what the hell the future holds for us. Then they are joined by Danielle Haas, who for ten years was Human Rights Wat
The "Two Years & Twenty Points" Edition
Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) US President Donald Trump's "Twenty Point Plan," to bring home the hostages and end the war, and (2) On the second Yahrzeit of October 7, how we have changed, personally, and as a society. For o
The "Atonement, Judgement, Compassion, Forgiveness, Pardon, and Repentance" Edition
For this Yom Kippur, we return to stuff that gave us solace and understanding in the past.
The "Reckoning with Reckoning" Edition
Linda Gradstein, Don Futterman and Noah Efron talk about (1) The very viral essay by Yossi Klein Halevi, pressing Israelis to finally engage in the moral conversation that we have, until now, avoided, and (2) The new 5785 Jewish People Poli
The "Spartan and Smartin'" Edition
Linda and Noah talk about (1) Israel's newest invasion of Gaza City, and Prime Minister Netanyahu's chillingly Strangelovian gird-your-loins speech ahead of the invasion, about how Israelis need to learn to be "Super Spartans", and (2) The
The "Reckoning and Wreckoning" Edition
Miriam and Noah talk about (1) Israel's bombing of Qatar, in failed hope of killing the leaders of Hamas, with the possible result of killing the negotiations over a ceasefire in Gaza, and (2) the controversial movie that aired on Israeli T
The "Sixteenth Sheep" Edition
Noah wonders why the show people here in Israel most want to see—more than at any time in the country's history, and maybe in all of Jewish history—is a performance of children's songs from a 47-year-old book of kids' poems. The answer says
The "Elul, Baby!" Edition
Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) Benny Gantz's proposal to form a "Government of Hostage Redemption" and why everyone hated it, and (2) The surprising return of an army unit devoted to building and rebuilding Kibbutzim and Mosh
The "The Big Questions" Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sara Hirschhorn and Noah Efron discuss (1) when is it genocide, and does it matter if people use that word or not, and why, and (2) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's claim that this week he (and Israel) just put the
The "More War, More Bloodshed" Edition
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss (1) the thinking behind the Prime Minister's decision (and his "Security and Diplomatic Cabinet") to extend and intensify the war in Gaza, and (2) the thinking behind the "national strike" called by s
The "Gaza: Yesterday & Tomorrow" Edition
Linda Gradstein, Gilad Halpern and Noah Efron discuss (1) the 20th anniversary of the "disengagement plan" and the evacuation of 21 Jewish towns in Gaza, and its lasting impacts, and (2) the plan cooked up in the UN by 21 countries and orga
The "No Guide to the Perplexed" Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss (1) Hunger in Gaza, and (2) French, English and Canadian plans to recognize the state of Palestine in September. Plus, Tisha B'Av in the Land of Israel, lifeguards in Tel Aviv, a
The "Reuniting & De-uniting" Edition
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss (1) The dramatic moments this week when hundreds of Druze from Israel crossed into Syria to help Druze in Suwayda under attack by Bedouin militia and the Syrian army, and hundreds of Druze from Suwayd
The "Means, Ends & Mean Ends" Edition
Linda Gradstein, Gilad Halpern and Noah Efron discuss (1) What to make of the New York Times Magazine's percussive essay called, "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power," and (2) The "humanitarian city" that Prime Minister
The "Washington, Doha & Oslo" Edition
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss (1) Prime Minister Netayahu's trip to DC to break bread with President Donald Trump, to dot the I's an cross the T's on an expected-at-any-moment temporary cease-fire and hostage release deal with Ham
