Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform
Hamas's rule in Gaza is a theocratic dictatorship. But its roots lie in the 19th-century movement for Islamic reform that believes modernization, science and even political liberalization. How did the...
30 Touko 202556min
Episode 15: Jerusalem Day, a modern redemption story
Jerusalem Day falls on May 25th this year. It is the day of Jerusalem's unification in the 1967 Six Day War, and so a symbol of both Jewish rescue from the genocidal plans of its enemies, a palpable e...
26 Touko 202520min
Episode 14: Should Israel give up on international law ? A conversation with a former IDF lawyer
If the requirements of international law mean that Israel is effectively prohibited from defeating its enemies or protecting its borders, should Israelis turn their backs on international law? Why do ...
18 Touko 202548min
Episode 13: John Spencer on war, morality, politics and the fight for the future.
After a delay (Haviv got a bad flu), we're happy to share a great panel with Haviv and Prof. John Spencer that took place at the Woodbury Jewish Center in Woodbury, New York on May 7.Thank you to Rabb...
13 Touko 20251h 19min
Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer
Qatar has just 330,000 citizens but controls vast wealth due to its plentiful natural gas. It has used that wealth to support radical and violent terrorist groups and regimes throughout the Middle Eas...
2 Touko 20251h 2min
Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi
As the Trump administration tries to strike a deal curtailing Iran's nuclear program, I turned to Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi, an Iran expert and proud Persian Jew, to try to take us past the headlines ...
28 Huhti 202550min
Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think?
Palestinian advocates like to quip that the current war "didn't begin on October 7." That's true, of course, though unhelpful. It didn't begin in any one specific place. There are no singular first ca...
22 Huhti 20251h 2min
Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom
Passover is upon us, the seder is Saturday night.Freedom, the Sages teach, is not an end, it is a path; no mere escape from Pharaoh's tyranny but a becoming, filled with substance and responsibility a...
11 Huhti 202516min
