Best Of: This Is Your Brain on Deep Reading. It’s Pretty Magnificent.
Every day, we consume a mind-boggling amount of information. We scan online news articles, sift through text messages and emails, scroll through our social-media feeds — and that’s usually before we e...
28 Nov 20231h 10min
The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts
It is too early to talk about a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. With the trauma of Oct. 7 still fresh for the Israeli public and with the ongoing devastation in Gaza, any talk of confl...
21 Nov 20231h 9min
The Sermons I Needed to Hear Right Now
This is a conversation about the relationship between Jewishness and the Jewish State. About believing some aspects of Israel have become indefensible and also believing that Israel itself must be def...
17 Nov 202356min
Are Democrats Whistling Past the Graveyard?
A New York Times and Siena College poll released Nov. 5 showed Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in five of the six key swing states, with a notable jump in support among nonwhite and young voters. In re...
14 Nov 20231h 5min
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not Understand
Earlier this week, we heard a Palestinian perspective on the conflict. Today, I wanted to have on an Israeli perspective.Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusa...
10 Nov 20231h 4min
An Intense, Searching Conversation With Amjad Iraqi
Before there can be any kind of stable coexistence of people in Israel and Palestine, there will have to be a stable coexistence of narratives. And that’s what we’ll be attempting this week on the sho...
7 Nov 20231h 5min
She Polled Gazans on Oct. 6. Here’s What She Found.
The day before Hamas’s horrific attacks in Israel, the Arab Barometer, one of the leading polling operations in the Arab world, was finishing up a survey of public opinion in Gaza.The result is a rema...
3 Nov 202345min
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?
“Two things are true: Israel must do something, and what it’s doing now is indefensible.” So writes Zack Beauchamp, a senior correspondent at Vox.Almost a month has passed since Hamas fighters slaught...
31 Okt 20231h 4min
