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The “Take From Us Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free” Edition

The “Take From Us Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free” Edition

FromThe Promised Podcast


The “Take From Us Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free” Edition

FromThe Promised Podcast

ratings:
Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Nov 23, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

If you wish to attend our live show at the Boston URJ Biennial conference you must fill out this form by this Sunday, Nov. 26th!   Noah Efron, Don Futterman, and Ha’aretz International Director Charlotte Halle discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Help support the show. Learn how on Patreon.   Take From Us Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free Israel contemplates paying $8,500 a head for African asylum seekers to leave for Rwanda. Is this solving a thorny problem, or indulging an ugly xenophobia? Losing Our Religion? Has Israel’s left “forgotten what it means to be Jews,” as the new head of the Labor Party says? The End of the Zooish People? Tel Aviv is closing all its zoos and petting zoos, because they are inhumane and harmful to animals. But isn’t something crucial lost when kids grow up seeing no animals besides dogs, cats, pigeons and rats? Music by Avior Malasa, off his new, eponymous debut album: Kaitz Matzanu Ahava Makom Leshinui (with Noa Kirel) Baleilot
Released:
Nov 23, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.