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"No national trait is biological," says Amotz Asa-El. So why have the Jews fought 12 civil wars?
Listen now | As we open the "Three Weeks," Amotz Asa-El on Israeli divisiveness, and why today's war is not just regional, but global—what similarities…
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"On the seventeenth of Tammuz, the walls were breached"
Those ancient texts we're often quick to dismiss beg us to ask a question that sounds almost blasphemous: How would we know when the end has begun?
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"Ani lo yachol yoter," he said. “I cannot go on.”
It's an appropriate day to remember one of Israel's leaders, who told his colleagues that he knew it was time.
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"I honestly don't know how you are all still standing ..."
With lots of people coming through Jerusalem this summer, we're seeing friends and colleagues. Many of them say, "I knew, of course. But I didn't really…
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"Maybe Copernicus never knew what love is"
Listen now | A fabulously talented, young Israeli poet speaks to us about poetry, writing and three of her new poems, one written after October 7.
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There's a home-front, too, and small Israeli businesses are getting some much needed help
Listen now | Our conversation with three senior members of the Koret Israel Economic Development Fund
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Turns out, a war can have a playlist
As part of a very moving exhibit at Tel Aviv's ANU museum, a playlist of many of the songs that have become almost liturgy in this fraught period.
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An Israeli Perspective on American Jews at this moment—hard choices, stark realities
Watch now | My recent conversation with Eylon Levy on his ISRAEL: State of a Nation
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From "Phew, we might just avoid war in the north" to "We need to go to war, and right away"
Some believe we can win in the north, some are less certain. We all know that war with Hezbollah would be devastating for us. But still, there are…
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Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth
Listen now | Our conversation with Asaf Elia-Shalev about his new book, which captures a much-forgotten but critically transformative time in Israel's…
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An army increasingly under scrutiny, but still filled with extraordinary people
Watch now | Two very recent news stories have people muttering about "what's really going on with this army?"—but a social media clip is a reminder of…
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"Share your vision for the future of this region"—an assignment none of us could complete
Listen now | At a recent conference under Church auspices, fifteen Israeli Jews gathered to talk about what comes not next, but after. The conference…
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