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The “Small Screen, Big Government” Edition

The “Small Screen, Big Government” Edition

FromThe Promised Podcast


The “Small Screen, Big Government” Edition

FromThe Promised Podcast

ratings:
Length:
83 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and wunderkind critic Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   --Big Government-- Israel’s new government is the largest in history, with 36 ministers. But can we expect big things from it?   --Court TV?-- When Supreme Court hearings are broadcast on TV, does it humanize the justices, or just make them look small?   --God TV?-- An Evangelical cable TV channel cheeses people off when it tries to convince Israeli Jews to accept Jesus in our hearts. But isn’t that the sort of things we want to have in a “marketplace of ideas”?   --Worrying About Our Loved Ones-- For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra segment, we talk about (following a great article by Allison in Haaretz) what it is like to worry about loved ones living in the US, where the corona-news is so scary, at the moment when here in Israel things seem so much better.   All that and songs by Frube, four talented kids from Sde Boker!
Released:
May 14, 2020
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.