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The “You Know, I Read It in a Magazine” Edition
The “You Know, I Read It in a Magazine” Edition
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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Mar 14, 2024
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Podcast episode
Description
Miriam Herschlag, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two 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 —אַ סוף צו אַ גאָלדען עלטער אין אַ גאלדענע מדינה— This month’s Atlantic cover story argues that the “Golden Age” for American Jews has come to a close and, with it, maybe the “Golden Age” for America and the “Golden Age” for Jews. Is the US putting the “mean” back into “reversion to the mean”? —Retracted— A well-regarded literary journal retracts an essay by an Israeli on account of, well, what exactly? Is it a literary crime to be an Israeli in 2024? —Hurricane— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: This year’s Eurovision is gonna be a sh*tshow. Plus poetry on the moon and more songs of these troubled days.
Released:
Mar 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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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