Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis

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1:29
NAZA, Fauda and the battles over narratives
While on Israeli social media, moral nuance still manages to survive amidst all the toxicity and binary responses to both.
 • Daniel Gordis
Wishes for a much better year for the Jewish people, the State of Israel and the world at large
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2:03
“This is how we want to inherit the land of Israel? By spilling innocent blood?” asks one of Israel’s leading Orthodox rabbis ...
Plus, one of Yair Golan’s many responses to Sara Netanyahu’s intimation that he had prior knowledge of the Hamas attack on October 7
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42:09
“I wish that I had hope, but it’s been destroyed.” A young Israeli woman reflects on her relationships with her Israeli Arab and American…
Tamar Frank, who recently graduated from high school, will join the IDF next year. She has participated in programs with both Israeli Arabs and American…
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47:36
What are the core Jewish values that Jews of all stripes would want to make central to their lives?
Rabbi David Stav, one of Israel’s most admired rabbinic personalities, has a uniquely universal message for a wounded and searching Jewish people as the…
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How (not) to tell your wife that you’ve been wounded 😜
Hanoch Daum shares a story that’s kind of funny ... but that he shared because it is a reminder of the terror that lurks in the hearts of thousands of…
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47:13
Is a different kind of Israeli religious leadership possible? Meet Rabbi Menachem Froman, z’l, and his biographer, Dr. Mordy Miller.
We speak today with the author of an insightful, somewhat ironic and inspiring biography of one of the most enigmatic, multifaceted, and iconoclastic…
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A Woman Was There to Save Their Lives. They Wouldn’t Get in the Vehicle.
When the army jailed the soldiers who refused, cabinet ministers rushed to defend them — not the army. Which tells you something about where this…
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49:26
“The two-state solution is totally dead,” say almost all our political parties. If that’s true, what now?
Meredith Rothbart discusses peace-making in an era in which too many of us have no bandwidth to think about it, even though all of us need to if we are…
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43:01
A reader asked me, “Are you willing to admit you were wrong in your call to American Jews in the Times of Israel?”
It was a thoughtful and very fair question. In the absence of a clear “yes” or “no,” I decided to share my thinking with the IFTI community.
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52:07
“The truth does not begin and end with me.”
A rabbi of great profundity and the father of a soldier who fell on October 7, Rabbi Doron Perez has a vision of Jewish life which we urgently need to…
 • Daniel Gordis
19:05
The last fallen soldier from the Sultan Yaqoub battle finally comes home
Some personal thoughts and memories of how the stories of Zechariah Baumel, Zvi Feldman and Yehudah Katz have haunted Israel — long after they would…
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Can America still be a home for the Jews, and what might the very question mean for Israel?
A video podcast as a followup to my recent article in HaShiloach, in conversation with Yuval Siman Tov.
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"People who no longer live in Israel who are returning to vote have a lot of nerve."
Kalman Libeskind, the Editor-in-Chief of Makor Rishon, makes a passionate argument that there's nothing noble about all the Israelis returning to vote…
 • Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside is for people who want to understand Israel with nuance, who believe that Israel is neither hopelessly flawed and illegitimate, nor beyond critique. If thoughtful analysis of Israel and its people interests you, welcome!
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