Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
"No national trait is biological," says Amotz Asa-El. So why have the Jews fought 12 civil wars?
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"No national trait is biological," says Amotz Asa-El. So why have the Jews fought 12 civil wars?

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 can be made between the 1930s and 2024.

Amotz Asa-El is a rare breed of scholar. One of Israel’s foremost English-language journalists, the author of a best-selling Hebrew book with another book in the works, he has a unique ability to speak with wisdom about the Jewish past and to explain its implications for the Jewish present.

As we hear in today’s conversation, though the Jews have fought…

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Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis
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