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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 20251h 1min
Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi.
This Hanukkah began in darkness, in the brutal massacre of Jews in Sydney, Australia. Our hearts are broken, but our light is not dimmed.In this episode, we dive into the meaning of Hanukkah in the Je...
15 Dec 202548min
Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians?
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: Do BDS campaigns hel...
5 Dec 202512min
Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsberg
The internet has democratized information. Or so we are told. The world's knowledge is now at everyone's fingertips. No government and no power structure can gatekeep what everyone sees and hears.But ...
2 Dec 20251h 9min
Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky
Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism, a contributor to many books and a senior fellow at the Z3 Institute. Her latest book is “Be a Refusenik: A Jewish ...
28 Nov 20251h 19min
Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman
Noam Dworman is the owner of the legendary Comedy Cellar comedy club in New York. He a lifelong New Yorker, a podcaster and an astute observer of his city and his country.What does he make of the inco...
25 Nov 202555min
