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The “Leaders Come and Leaders Go” Edition
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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
Nov 5, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —9,499 Kilometers— Washington lies 9,499 kilometers from Jerusalem, and yet the politics of the one affects the politics of the other. What, if anything, can we learn from the mess of American politics about the mess of Israeli politics? —Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots & Trump Jews— Haaretz’s Anshel Pfeffer writes that Jews in Paris, Brasilia and Jerusalem splitting into two tribes: Trump Jews & Anti-Trump Jews. Does he have a point? —“Your Rabin, Not Mine”— An Minister in Israel says Rabin’s legacy means nothing to her. Is that cool? —“I’ve Never Felt More American and Never Felt Less American”— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we talk about how we experienced the elections, in our different ways. Hint: At least one of us never felt more American and never felt less American, than he did at 3:30 am, Israel time, after the polls closed, pressing refresh over and over again like a rat pressing a pellet bar in a skinner box. All that and the happy harmony of Moonshine!
Released:
Nov 5, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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