'Birthright is tone-deaf': Why many young Jews don’t want their free trip to Israel
Birthright Israel is celebrating 25 years of offering a free 10-day trip to Israel to every young Diaspora Jew with the hope of fighting assimilation. The celebrations include a $900 million fundraisi...
16 Tammi 27min
AIPAC's worst nightmare? Why Netanyahu said Israel doesn't want U.S. military aid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell in a recent interview when he declared he had told U.S. President Donald Trump that Israel no longer needed a long-term commitment from the U.S. f...
14 Tammi 31min
How will the Iran protests end? Arash Azizi says 'This won't be a classic revolution'
Once again, Iranians have taken to the streets. Starting in late December, the plummeting value of the national currency, along with the soaring cost of living, were the catalyst for a fresh wave of p...
8 Tammi 26min
How 2025 rocked the Jewish world: From Gaza to Mamdani to Bondi
It was a challenging year to be a Diaspora Jew. The war in Gaza and growing hostility to Israel had an undeniable impact on Jewish life across the world in 2025. Events in Israel became a focus in lo...
2 Tammi 43min
From Trump's Gaza Riviera to the Iran war and Qatargate: Israel's 2025 in review
For Israel, 2025 was a year in which war turned the unimaginable into reality: from the terrifying exchange of missiles with Iran to the horrors of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, to the joy and reli...
30 Joulu 202547min
‘Deradicalize Hamas, give them less dangerous weapons and turn them into police,' says French ambassador
France’s ambassador to Israel Frédéric Journès said on the Haaretz Podcast that any postwar Gaza plan must acknowledge that completely disarming and ridding the Strip of Hamas militia members is not a...
24 Joulu 202550min
Boycotts and 'red lines': A famed NY Jewish institution grapples with tough post-Oct. 7 questions
Before October 7th, Trump’s second term and the election of Zohran Mamdani rocked New York’s Jewish community, Manhattan’s famed 92nd Street Y – like most mainstream Jewish institutions – played it re...
23 Joulu 202524min
‘Schindler for the animals’: How a Jewish oligarch rescued 5,000 zoo animals from the front lines of the Russia-Ukraine war
Over the past two years, many filmmakers have hesitated or refrained from bringing their films to Israeli film festivals as part of cultural boycott of Israel over the Gaza war. But for Joshua Zeman, ...
18 Joulu 202522min
