New Year's Wish from the Promised Podcast

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New Year's Wish from the Promised Podcast

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Sep 14, 2023

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After a momentous week, after many momentous months, the Promised Podcast wishes you and yours a new year of every good thing!

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Sep 14, 2023

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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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The way the war ends: The way the war ends How can and should this war be brought to a close? Might Israeli demands for 'demilitarization' as a condition for ending the operation become an excuse for prolonging it? Can there be too much solidarity? Does the moving... by The Promised Podcast
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