The 'Connect the Seas, Being Free & Crap TV' Edition

The President and the Pop-Stars: Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss The Palestinian prisoner release and whether it helps or hinders the peace process Education Minister Shay Piron’s decision to start teaching first-graders about the Holocaust and carry on right... by The Promised Podcast

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Thanksgivukah Extravaganza – Where American and Israeli Cultures Meet: To celebrate the confluence of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah devote the show to the meetings of American and Israeli cultures. They discuss (1) Why the Conservative Movement is ailing in America, and how it’s doing in... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Politicizing, Psychologizing & Corporatizing: Show Summary – Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) Whether we are cheapening the memory of the Holocaust by applying it to our present-day politics, (2) Whether the amateur Abbasologists filing newspaper opinion columns have a clue about... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Big, big love: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: whether polygamy is rampant and unimpeded among the Bedouin of the Negev; the recent finding that the half-life of ethnic neighborhoods in Israel is shorter than almost anywhere else on earth; and the... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Strange Bedfellows: Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) Whether, now that the head of the ultraorthodox Shas party has endorsed Labor Party leader Yitzhak Herzog for Prime Minister, the time has come for the Labor Party to pal up to the haredim, (2) Why Evangelical support... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

The 'Connect the Seas, Being Free & Crap TV' Edition: Eilon, Noah and The Times of Israel’s Miriam Herschlag discuss (1) the proposed Red Sea-Dead Sea pipeline, and whether along with water, peace may flow through the pipe; (2) why and how US college kids are challenging Hillel to allow more... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Low election turnout, and the decline in the old hardline Zionist ideology: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: this week’s local elections, why fewer and fewer folks come out to vote in them, and what we’re voting about when we bother to vote at all, and our changing attitudes towards citizens who opt out,... by The Promised Podcast

62 min listen

The “Best Laid Plans of Mice & Men” Edition: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: all that’s gone down since then PM Ariel Sharon proposed unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, ten years ago this week the rise of chickenshit show-politics how Israeli workers are watched,... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

The Exoneration, Importation & Secularization Edition: Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss (1) the dramatic exoneration of MK Avigdor Lieberman of charges of “breach of trust” on the part of a three judge panel, a verdict that brought to a swift end a languorously slow (17 year) investigation... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

The Compost, Computers & Competitors Edition: Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss (1) the evaporation (or evisceration) of environmental parties in the last elections – where have all the flower-lovers gone?, (2) the yawning digital divide in Israel, whether this google-gap ought to... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

The “Poindexter for President?” Edition: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Whether, with the Middle East in flames around us, Israel ought to adopt a “Castle Strategy” The kerfuffle around whether universities should switch to English Whether Israel’s... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

They can’t handle the truth!: Allison, Eilon and Noah (Or, Travoltafied, Alexis Keezy, Erin Stonz and Niall Edbrards) discuss: Outsourcing our political activism to entrepreneurs and captains of Industry, who claim that they anyway know best what’s best for the... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

The curious case of the rabbis who didn’t bark: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Why Israel’s adoption of arguably the most liberal abortion policy in the world has been silently accepted by the rabbis. What PM Netanyahu means when he demands that Palestinian accept Israel as a... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Dispatches from the war on poverty: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Whether the age of the great military hero turned political leader is gone forever Why Israel’s “War on Poverty” may become a civil war (with special guest, the one and only Emily... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

The “Trials and Errors” Edition: Allison, Don and Noah discuss: the light sentence given the officer who bashed the face of a peace activist with the butt of his gun the tragic struggle over a three-year old Ethiopian boy between two families who love him whether the consensus that... by The Promised Podcast

1 min listen

The “Turn, Turn, Turn” Edition: Allison, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) the new head of the Labor Party – “Buzghi” Herzog – and his plans to give peace a chance, (2) the facebookization of the Knesset, and (3) the (figurative and, sadly, literal) death of the old... by The Promised Podcast

62 min listen

Press, Profs & Passports: Should academics and intellectuals play a more significant roll in Israeli politics? And the ambivalent comforts of holding two passports. All this and more with Allison, Don, and Noah - including Israeli tribute songs to the Beatles. by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Screw You, Screw Them and Screw Us!: Allison, Don and Noah discuss: Whether PM Netanyahu ought to leave his opponents in the Likud behind and start a new party, à la Arik Sharon; A Knesset committee’s vote to force Haredim into the army (well, maybe); and Whether keeping... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Peace, Love & Understanding: Former Ambassador Michael Oren’s “Plan B” for unilateral withdrawal – what could go wrong?!?Why MK Adi Kol is being crucified on Facebook for declaring undying love for her party chief, Yair LapidWhy “Good Deeds... by The Promised Podcast

63 min listen

Power & Money: Show Summary – Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) whether there is (as journalist Yossi Klein Halevi recently wrote) a slowly surfacing, stealthful, steadily swelling, and subtly subversive moderate Center in Israeli politics, (2) why so... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Threats, Sh*t & Tats: Allison, Eilon and Noah discuss the Supreme Court’s dressing down of the government, the hot mic in the UN that divulged the world’s worst secret - yes, it's about Israel's being unfairly singled out - and Israelis' inking habits, or the... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

The “Vision, Fission and Derision” Edition: Eilon, Noah and The Times of Israel’s Miriam Herschlag discuss (1) the sad passing of Nelson Mandela, and Israel’s ambivalent relationship to him, (2) former MK Avraham Burg’s spilling the beans that Israel has nukes, (3) the... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Drawing Lines & Drawing Conclusions: Allison, Don and Noah discuss (1) Why the Conference of Presidents decided to keep J-Street out of their nifty club, and what’ll happen as a result, and (2) Why the proliferating “alternative” ceremonies for Memorial Day and... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

Ayatollah Strangelove: Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: Settlers who say they’ll stay put, even if Israel withdraws and they find themselves in Palestine; Whether “medical tourism” is a way to stave off the collapse of Israel's medical system;... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Shutting Down, Mouthing Off & Paying Up: Allison, Don and Noah discuss: Mahmoud Abbas’ two “Hail Mary” plays, either dismantling the Palestinian Authority or joining up with HamasThe new 83 year-old head of the Council of Torah Sages, who gave a crowd-pleasin’... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Trading Places, Taking Bribes & Playing with Knives: Allison, Don and Noah discuss (1) whether Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal to exchange blocs of population is sincere or mere smartassery, (2) How do we solve a problem like corruption? (With apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein),... by The Promised Podcast

62 min listen

Letters to a young cadet contemplating conscientious objection: Is it time for Lapid and Livni to quit Netanyahu’s government? Tzipi Livni, and to a lesser extent Yair Lapid, joined Netanyahu's government to run the 'Peace Show.' Now there is no Show, should they answer the Leader of the Opposition's call... by The Promised Podcast

62 min listen

We Need the Bread, Man!: Don, Noah, and Miriam Herschlag (Ops & Blogs editor of the Times of Israel) discuss: a new report finding that almost a million Israelis go to bed hungrywhether Israeli leaders ain’t what they used to be, and whywhether or not stores in... by The Promised Podcast

61 min listen

'What's the blockade about?' edition: Summary: Ilene, Don and Noah discuss: 'What's the blockade about?' What is Israel's embattled blockade on Gaza supposed to do, and what does it do in reality? Has Israel lost Europe, now and forever? What to make of Europe's increasingly muscular... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

Dining Out on Sacred Cow: Allison, Don, Noah and special guest star, author Ayelet Waldman discuss: The thinnest of lines — between 'Jewish' and 'Democratic' How do Jews around the world think Israel ought to balance its “democratic” and... by The Promised Podcast

60 min listen

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