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155: American and Israeli Jews don’t understand each other, with Ed Rettig 2026-10-19 · 61m
154: How Israel broke pan-Arabism, and what that means for Iran, with Dan Schueftan 2026-10-15 · 76m
153: Where was Netanyahu on 7/10? With Elliot Kaufman 2026-10-12 · 60m
152: Is Israeli society tearing itself apart? With Micah Goodman 2026-10-09 · 69m
151: Could the hostages have come home sooner? With Brett McGurk 2026-10-06 · 78m
150: The case for Netanyahu, with Gadi Taub 2026-10-04 · 70m
149: Patriotism is too important to leave to extremists, with Prof. Alex Yakobson 2026-09-25 · 75m
148: What can you do for Palestinians? Stop supporting Hamas 2026-09-22 · 17m
147: Are the allegations in NAZA true? 2026-09-15 · 54m
146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor 2026-09-14 · 86m
145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber 2026-09-10 · 28m
144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer 2026-09-07 · 78m
143: How to win the Israeli election 2026-09-03 · 81m
142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib 2026-08-30 · 103m
141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore 2026-08-24 · 68m
140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations 2026-08-20 · 71m
139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question 2026-08-19 · 72m
138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse 2026-08-12 · 75m
137: What does Qatar want? 2026-08-05 · 47m
136: Why not two states from the start? 2026-08-02 · 28m
135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN? 2026-07-29 · 34m
134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005? 2026-07-26 · 22m
133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam 2026-07-20 · 88m
132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron 2026-07-17 · 65m
131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek 2026-07-14 · 82m
130: Here's to the next 250 years 2026-07-10 · 37m
129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi 2026-07-08 · 75m
128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari 2026-07-03 · 78m
127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak 2026-06-30 · 65m
126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman 2026-06-25 · 86m
125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat 2026-06-21 · 67m
124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti 2026-06-17 · 67m
123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews 2026-06-14 · 65m
122: When will the war with Iran end? 2026-06-08 · 45m
121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg 2026-06-07 · 65m
120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us 2026-06-01 · 116m
119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy 2026-05-30 · 78m
118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson 2026-05-25 · 79m
117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi 2026-05-20 · 52m
116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews 2026-05-17 · 104m
115: Is Nicholas Kristof right? 2026-05-12 · 15m
114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt? 2026-05-11 · 20m
113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour 2026-05-07 · 55m
112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse 2026-05-03 · 63m
111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi 2026-04-29 · 36m
110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance 2026-04-26 · 69m
109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb 2026-04-23 · 68m
108: How personal grief built a nation 2026-04-20 · 29m
107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong? 2026-04-16 · 14m
106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf 2026-04-15 · 54m
105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan? 2026-04-11 · 15m
104: The Iran war isn’t over 2026-04-08 · 42m
103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve? 2026-04-03 · 19m
102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav 2026-03-28 · 43m
101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan 2026-03-25 · 65m
100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman 2026-03-22 · 48m
Episode 99: Are we winning? 2026-03-18 · 39m
Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce Hoffman 2026-03-15 · 76m
Episode 97: Can America and Israel finish the job? A conversation with John Spencer. 2026-03-11 · 57m
Episode 96: The first war Israel fought in English, with Yaakov Katz 2026-03-09 · 57m
Episode 95: The idea that broke the Middle East, with Dr. Micah Goodman 2026-03-05 · 66m
Episode 94: America's war, not Israel's 2026-03-02 · 37m
Episode 93: How to win Iran's forever war 2026-02-25 · 127m
Episode 92: Why does Israel hate UNRWA? 2026-02-22 · 17m
Episode 91: Is the Iran war about China? A conversation with Melissa Chen 2026-02-18 · 61m
Episode 90: Is it "fascist" to believe a state can belong to a specific people? 2026-02-15 · 16m
Episode 89: Who benefits from continuing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? 2026-02-12 · 15m
Episode 88: America's "24% problem" with young antisemitism, with Jonah Platt 2026-02-07 · 55m
Episode 87: How can you support a better Palestinian future? 2026-02-05 · 21m
Episode 86: Alliances and rivalries in a new Middle East, with Dan Schueftan 2026-02-02 · 72m
Episode 85: How knowing your story makes you invincible, with Noam Weissman 2026-01-31 · 59m
Episode 84: Why soldiers wept when Ran came home, lessons from Tu Bishvat 2026-01-29 · 48m
Episode 83: From ideology to narcotics, Hezbollah's business model, with Matt Levitt 2026-01-26 · 49m
Episode 82: 'From the River to the Sea' - Lost in Translation? 2026-01-25 · 9m
Episode 81: Israel's future and the ticking Gaza clock, with Andrew Fox 2026-01-22 · 58m
Episode 80: Who is Hamas and what do they want? 2026-01-19 · 10m
Episode 79: Breaking Iran's machinery of oppression 2026-01-14 · 35m
Episode 78: Do you still want to globalize the intifada? 2026-01-13 · 21m
Episode 77: Did Israel intentionally target civilians in Gaza? 2026-01-09 · 13m
Episode 76: How elites drive Jew-hatred, with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour 2026-01-06 · 74m
Episode 75: Power, fear, and the survival of the Iranian regime, with Roya Hakakian 2026-01-02 · 53m
Episode 74: Why the global outrage at Israel's Somaliland recognition? 2025-12-31 · 13m
Episode 73: Is military aid to Israel a good deal for America? 2025-12-30 · 9m
Episode 72: The women fighters behind the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Elizabeth R. Hyman 2025-12-29 · 62m
Episode 71: Why the heck does America support Israel? 2025-12-25 · 15m
Episode 70: The warrior Jews who terrified Rome, with Barry Strauss 2025-12-23 · 53m
Episode 69: Israel's great divide - An insider's look at the judicial reform, with Moshe Koppel 2025-12-19 · 97m
Episode 68: Antizionism is inherently violent, with Adam Louis-Klein 2025-12-17 · 62m
Episode 67: Miracles in the dark. A response to Bondi. 2025-12-15 · 49m
Episode 66: Do BDS campaigns help Palestinians? 2025-12-05 · 13m
Episode 65: The unseen editors rigging the information war, with Ashley Rindsberg 2025-12-02 · 69m
Episode 64: The Soviet roots of today's antizionism, with Izabella Tabarovsky 2025-11-28 · 79m
Episode 63: New York in the age of Tucker and Mamdani, with Noam Dworman 2025-11-25 · 56m
Episode 62: Hard times make strong Jews. Live in London with Daniel Schwammenthal. 2025-11-20 · 109m
Episode 61: Is criticizing Israel antisemitic? 2025-11-19 · 11m
Episode 60: Does it matter what the world thinks? A conversation with Dr. Tal Becker 2025-11-16 · 48m
Episode 59: Are Jews indigenous to Israel? 2025-11-13 · 13m
Episode 58: Rebuilding after disaster with ex-hostage Tal Shoham 2025-11-09 · 58m
Episode 57: When human rights NGOs fail, with Daniel Balson and Danielle Haas 2025-11-05 · 66m
Episode 56: The industrial revolution of prehistoric Israel, with Tom Levy 2025-11-02 · 68m
Episode 55: The real war is not in Gaza, with Dr. Einat Wilf 2025-10-29 · 72m
Episode 54: Can Israel be both Sparta and Athens? With Dan Schueftan 2025-10-23 · 87m
Episode 53: Telling the Jewish story to the Arab world, with Elhanan Miller 2025-10-21 · 63m
Episode 52: Why do people hate Jews, with Dara Horn 2025-10-17 · 72m
Episode 51: Antisemitism and the Black experience 2025-10-12 · 65m
Episode 50: Hostage Deal - A new day for Gaza, a bad day for Hamas 2025-10-09 · 23m
Episode 49: Finding hope in the tunnel of Hamas, with Eli Sharabi 2025-10-08 · 52m
Episode 48: Two years to October 7 2025-10-06 · 25m
Episode 47: Building a new Gaza, with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib 2025-10-03 · 69m
Episode 46: The Trump Plan - Hope for Israel and Gaza 2025-09-30 · 26m
Episode 45: 48 hours in Syria, with David Horovitz 2025-09-30 · 47m
Episode 44: Fateful choices to make in the new year, a comment for Rosh Hashanah 2025-09-22 · 41m
Episode 43: After Doha, Israel needs a new story 2025-09-14 · 50m
Episode 42: Why is Egypt so scared to open its border with Gaza? with Mariam Wahba 2025-09-12 · 56m
Episode 41: The rise and fall of Ottoman Jewry with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak 2025-09-07 · 78m
Episode 40: You still need real life spies to win wars, with Yossi Cohen 2025-09-04 · 62m
Episode 39: Fear and loathing in the diaspora, live in Oslo with Bjørn Gabrielsen. 2025-08-31 · 119m
Episode 38: What will it take to defeat Hamas? With Prof. John Spencer 2025-08-27 · 73m
Episode 37: The genocidal claim of genocide with Adam Louis-Klein 2025-08-22 · 58m
Episode 36: How marginalized Mizrahim became Israel's first spies 2025-08-15 · 57m
Episode 35: Solving hunger in Gaza with Prof. Yannay Spitzer 2025-08-08 · 53m
Episode 34: My life in Al-Qaeda, a conversation with Aimen Dean 2025-08-06 · 129m
Episode 33: Thoughts for Tisha B’Av - We live in history 2025-08-03 · 31m
Episode 32: Hunger and the Gaza war 2025-07-31 · 45m
Episode 31: The century-old harbinger of October 7, a conversation with Yardena Schwartz 2025-07-27 · 60m
Episode 30: How the Middle East broke, a conversation with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour 2025-07-21 · 79m
Episode 29: After the Druze massacre, can Israel make peace with Joulani? A conversation with Druze activist Rania Fadel Dean 2025-07-17 · 56m
Episode 28: The Gaza Paradox 2025-07-14 · 45m
Episode 27: Music amidst trauma - a conversation on life in a war with Aya Korem and Adam Ben Amitai 2025-07-07 · 56m
Episode 26: How Iran’s regime subverted Shia Islam - with Hussain Abdul-Hussain 2025-07-04 · 54m
Episode 25: What is happening in Gaza? 2025-07-01 · 48m
Episode 24: With Iran down, Turkey steps into the breach - a conversation with Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak. 2025-06-26 · 64m
Episode 23: Iran bows out 2025-06-24 · 46m
Episode 22: A new dawn in the Middle East? 2025-06-22 · 47m
Episode 21: Why won’t Haredim serve in the IDF? A deep dive with Shmuel Rosner 2025-06-20 · 60m
Episode 20: Regime change in Iran? What the 1979 revolution can teach us. 2025-06-16 · 36m
Episode 19: Iran faces a humbler, more dangerous Israel 2025-06-13 · 36m
Episode 18: Taking on the ayatollahs with Mark Dubowitz 2025-06-12 · 54m
Episode 17: The Gaza war began 25 years ago, a conversation with Matti Friedman 2025-06-09 · 53m
Episode 16: Hamas and the broken promise of 150 years of Islamic reform 2025-05-30 · 56m
Episode 15: Jerusalem Day, a modern redemption story 2025-05-26 · 20m
Episode 14: Should Israel give up on international law ? A conversation with a former IDF lawyer 2025-05-18 · 48m
Episode 13: John Spencer on war, morality, politics and the fight for the future. 2025-05-13 · 80m
Episode 12: How Qatar gets a free pass for Islamist radicalism, a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer 2025-05-02 · 62m
Episode 11: Iran is imploding - A conversation with Dr. Sharona Mazalian Levi 2025-04-28 · 51m
Episode 10: Thirty years of traumatic peacemaking - what do Israelis really think? 2025-04-22 · 63m
Bonus episode: This Passover, we find our freedom 2025-04-11 · 17m
Episode 9: Did Biden derail Saudi normalization? Breaking down the Abraham Accords with ex-NSC expert Shiri Fein 2025-04-10 · 49m
Episode 8: Prof. Alexander Yakobson on what it means to "decolonize Palestine" 2025-04-03 · 53m
Episode 7 - Judicial Reform: Is tribalism eating Israeli democracy alive? 2025-03-28 · 57m
Episode 6: Why won't Israel fight for the Democrats? With Rep. Ritchie Torres 2025-03-25 · 41m
Extra Episode: Back to war in Gaza 2025-03-19 · 25m
Episode 5: When your family is taken hostage 2025-03-13 · 87m
Episode 4 - Last Jew Standing: The story of Israeli Jews 2025-03-06 · 59m
Episode 3: John Spencer on why Israel hasn't yet won the war in Gaza 2025-02-26 · 54m
Comment: We will protect our own 2025-02-20 · 21m
Episode 2: The lost history of American Jews 2025-02-18 · 44m
Episode 1: The Untold Story of Herzl's Journey to Zionism 2025-02-13 · 51m
Extra: Hamas holds Gaza's future hostage 2025-02-10 · 22m
Episode 0: History That Matters 2025-02-05 · 28m
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