Episode 75: Power, fear, and the survival of the Iranian regime, with Roya Hakakian
Iran’s streets are in tumult. The latest protests are of a scale not seen before. New sections of Iranian society are in the streets — middle class merchants, the elderly and others. The protestors ha...
2 Jan 52min
Episode 74: Why the global outrage at Israel's Somaliland recognition?
Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.Our current question: Why the global outra...
31 Des 202513min
Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America?
Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.Our current question: Is military aid to I...
30 Des 20259min
Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth R. Hyman
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising stands as one of the few shining moments of (temporarily) successful Jewish resistance in the bottomless evil and despair that was the Holocaust. Heroes of the uprising like...
29 Des 20251h 2min
Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel?
Welcome to our new short-form episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.Our current question: Why the heck does Am...
25 Des 202515min
Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss
Between the outbreak of the Jews’ Great Revolt against Rome in the year 66 CE and the final suppression of the Bar Kochba Revolt in 135, the Jews of the Roman Empire constituted the empire’s single bi...
23 Des 202552min
Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, with Moshe Koppel
Until October 7, Israel’s politics were consumed by the fight over the government’s judicial reform proposals. The issue drove hundreds of thousands of Israelis to the streets in protest. It triggered...
19 Des 20251h 37min
Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein
After the massacre at Bondi Beach, anthropologist Adam Louis-Klein returns to the podcast to help us make sense of the new Jew-hatred.Antizionism, Adam argues, may be a form of hatred of Jews, but it'...
17 Des 20251h 1min
