Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel?
We’re trying something new at AHA: Short-from episodes interspersed with the regular interviews that dive into an often-asked question about Israel, Jews and the Middle East. Our first question sent i...
13 Nov 202513min
Episode 58: Rebuilding after disaster with ex-hostage Tal Shoham
As Israelis wait with bated breath to discover if the body of Hadar Goldin, killed and taken into Gaza in 2014, will be returned for burial in Israel, we sit down with returned hostage Tal Shoham for ...
9 Nov 202557min
Episode 57: When human rights NGOs fail, with Daniel Balson and Danielle Haas
Human rights organizations help shape the world's understanding of conflicts, including the one between Israelis and Palestinians. Some of the biggest groups, especially Amnesty International and Huma...
5 Nov 20251h 5min
Episode 56: The industrial revolution of prehistoric Israel, with Tom Levy
Today we step out of the politics and anxious debates of this difficult time and go back 5,500 years to the Chalcolithic, the so-called Copper Age. Our guide is Prof. Tom Levy, eminent archaeologist a...
2 Nov 20251h 7min
Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf
Trump's peace plan explicitly calls for deradicalization of the Gazan population. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia are hoping to take part in Gaza's rebuilding in part so they can help push b...
29 Okt 20251h 11min
Episode 54: Can Israel be both Sparta and Athens? With Dan Schueftan
The Gaza war may now be over. But Hamas remains entrenched in the half of Gaza from which the IDF has withdrawn.Many are hopeful that this marks a new and better day for Gaza, but it's hard to see how...
23 Okt 20251h 26min
Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller
Rabbi Elhanan Miller has half a million online followers, and almost all of them are Arabs. They tune in to his "People of the Book" project on YouTube and other platforms to learn in Arabic about Jew...
21 Okt 20251h 2min
Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn
Dr. Dara Horn, award-winning novelist and scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, joins the podcast to help us dig deep into the Jewish bookshelf, the whirlwind of antisemitism in which so many Jews...
17 Okt 20251h 11min
