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"Ecstasy and Amnesia in the Gaza Strip" — A conversation with Dr. Shany Mor
Listen now | Mor discusses his recent piece in Mosaic Magazine, in which he wrote: "the principal grievance of the Palestinian cause is not the absence…
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The first women-led armored battle in history
And not just Israel's history. History period. An interview with six women soldiers who drove their tanks into battle early in the morning of October…
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"I hadn’t fully understood how much the country had so profoundly changed." BUT FIRST, a Thanksgiving quiz: is that cousin of yours a "Brit…
Listen now (41 mins) | Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with some unexpected takeaways from his time on the ground…
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Israel is going to feel a different kind of responsibility for Jews around the world
Listen now | Rabbi Seth Farber discusses some of the surprising halakhic dimensions to these horrifying months in Israel, and has a very optimistic take…
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The night many Israelis realized we might not win this war
An evening that many hoped would be marked by continued (even if muted) celebration morphed into hours of frustration, anger and a sense of impotence
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"I hadn’t fully understood how much the country had so profoundly changed." BUT FIRST, a Thanksgiving quiz: is that cousin of yours a "Brit…
Listen now | Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with some unexpected takeaways from his time on the ground in Israel
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Two existential threats: faith in the country if the hostages don't return, and Israel's long not-so-secret war with Iran
Listen now | A conversation with Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar on their new book which discusses how Israel uses sabotage, cyberwarfare…
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"If you don't defend citizens from kidnap and murder, you end up choosing between terrible options and slightly less bad options."
Nadav Eyal, one of Israel's mosts respected journalists, on the very lousy deal to which Israel rightly agreed last night.
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"The man, my grandfather's age, asked, 'why did it take you so long to arrive?' I had nothing to say. We failed them."
Israel is starting to release footage of the ground war, and a sense of the Oct. 7 failure, as we'll see, is still palpable. Here's what the battles…
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"We have to re-found this country. We've gone back in history to before Israel existed."
Listen now | Saul Singer discusses with us the new book he's written with Dan Senor, "The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided…
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"With your bravery, we can begin all over again, from the beginning, from Creation."
Watch now (5 mins) | Israel's leading novelist, David Grossman, on why Israel matters to him (then), and how it can be created anew (today).
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"It was not the security of biblical Israel’s states, but rather the fear of those states’ collapse, that established a national Jewish…
Listen now | A conversation with Professor Jacob Wright about his new book Why the Bible Began, and how it is catastrophe, not victory, that has always…
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