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The “Changing Fortunes” Edition
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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Jan 28, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —New Labor, Again?— Did we eulogize the Labor Party too soon? —Acting Big?— PM Netanyahu unveils a plan to give most Israelis a pile of free cash, just weeks before elections. Is that necessarily a bad thing? —How Will We Come Out of This?— With one in three Israelis vaccinated, maybe it’s time to figure out what life will be like when this is all over. —Is One Day Commemorating the Holocaust Just Not Enough?— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, after marking this week’s “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust,” we wonder what it means to have two Holocaust days, one for the world (and not for us), and one for us (and not for the world). Would we be better off if the two were combined? All that and the music of Yakir Hillel!
Released:
Jan 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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