The Beinart Notebook

Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove is the rabbi of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. He has written for a variety of Jewish publications, including The Jewish Week and The Forward. He is the author of the 2024 book “For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today” and the host of the podcast Common Faith . We have some strong disagreements so I’m grateful that he was willing to come on and discuss the...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Chapman University Professor Emeritus Nubar Hovsepian, author of the new book, Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual . We’ll talk about Professor Hovsepian’s insights into Said, his close friend, and about what we might learn from Sai...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman , who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s Democratic convention, and former Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes, co-host of the podcast, Pod Save the World .

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. We’ll talk about the New York mayoral race’s ramifications for the Israel-Palestine debate nationally. Our guests will be Palestinian-American Georgia State Representative, and gubernatorial candidate, Ruwa Romman , who was denied the chance to speak at last year’s Democr...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Jonathan Mahler, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the new book, Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 . With New York on the verge of electing a socialist, Muslim, anti-Zionist mayor, I ask Jonathan how the city h...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Palestinian-American running for Congress in Illinois’s Ninth District, has been federally indicted after being arrested at an ICE protest. We talk about that and about her vision for a revitalized Democratic Party.

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A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Jonathan Mahler, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the new book, Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990 . With New York on the verge of electing a socialist, Muslim, anti...

Our guest is Gaza-born political analyst Muhammad Shehada, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He’s been explaining why Trump’s ceasefire isn’t even a ceasefire, let alone a path to Palestinian freedom. And he’s been discussing the clashes inside Gaza between Hamas and Israeli-supported clans. We talked about the Trump plan, Gaza’s future, and the long-term consequences...

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Cited in Today’s Video Why Israeli doves like former Shin Bet head Ami Ayalon want Israel to release Marwan Barghouti but the Israeli government won’t , despite Hamas’ request. Why Barghouti’s son fears for his father’s life. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit peterbeinart.substack.com/subscribe

Our guest is Israeli-born historian Ilan Pappé, author of the new book, Israel on the Brink . We discuss why he chose a life of political rebellion against the state in which he was born and what he thinks the ceasefire in Gaza will bring. We also talk about his book, which suggests that in the coming decades, Israel may cease to exist as a Jewish state. This is a public episode. If you'd like to...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. If you’re in the US, consider joining the nationwide No Kings protests on October 18. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Israeli-born historian Ilan Pappe, author of the new book, Israel on the Brink . I’ll ask Pappe why he chose a life of political rebellion against the state in which he...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guests are former PLO negotiator, Hussein Agha and former Clinton, Obama and Biden administration official, Rob Malley. We talk about their new book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine and learn what they’ve learned from decades of seeing Israeli, Palestinian, a...

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guests will be the former PLO negotiator Hussein Agha and the former Clinton, Obama and Biden administration official, Rob Malley. They’ll talk about their new book, Tomorrow is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine . I’ll ask what they’ve learned from de...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is the Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Abu Artema, a co-organizer of Gaza’s 2018 Great March of Return. In October 2023, Israel killed his eldest son, Abdullah, and five other relatives. A few weeks ago, he left Gaza for the Netherlands. He wrote about his departure in the Dutch newspaper, D...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is actor and comedian Hannah Einbinder . She recently used the huge platform of her Emmy acceptance speech to stand up for Palestinian freedom. Topics include: Her Zionist upbringing, and how she evolved away from it The schism among Jews today Jewish fragility in the face of disagreement

A list of ways to help Palestinians in Gaza. This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be the Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Abu Artema, a co-organizer of Gaza’s 2018 Great March of Return. In October 2023, Israel killed his eldest son, Abdullah. A few weeks ago, he left Gaza for the Netherlands. He wrote about his departure in the Dutch newspaper,...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is author and attorney Ken Stern , director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate. Ken was an important figure in the drafting of the definition of antisemitism now taken up by the IHRA but has been outspoken against its current uses.

Please Help Palestinians in Gaza. There is no Zoom call this Friday. We’ll return on Friday, October 3. With the Jewish High Holidays approaching, I’m opening up for all readers my conversation with Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, who argues that what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank constitutes a stain on Judaism itself. Cited in Today’s Video...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit peterbeinart.substack.com Our guest is Avrum Burg , the former speaker of the Knesset, who has been using traditional Jewish religious forms in remarkable ways to challenge the genocide in Gaza. He has authored a poem entitled, “If God Were in the Heavens of Gaza” and a Kaddish “for the blessed memory of all innocent” victims. We read t...

An Auction to Support the People of Gaza WEDNESDAY Zoom Call This week’s Zoom call will be at a special time, WEDNESDAY at 1 PM Eastern. Our guest will be Avrum Burg, the former speaker of the Knesset, who has been using traditional Jewish religious forms in remarkable ways to challenge the genocide in Gaza. He has authored a poem entitled, “If God Were in the Heavens of Gaza” and a Kaddish “for t...

Our guest was Abdullah Awwad, a doctor in the orthopedic department of the Al Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. In his Fundraising page , he writes that his “once-vibrant city has been reduced to rubble” and that “we are currently living in overcrowded shelters, struggling for basic necessities like food, clean water, and medical supplies.” Because of the difficulty of connecting to WiFi...

Friday Zoom Call This Friday’s Zoom call will be at 1 PM Eastern, our usual time. Our guest will be Abdullah Awwad, a doctor in the orthopedic department of the Al Shifa Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. In his Go Fund Me page , he writes that his “once-vibrant city has been reduced to rubble” and that “we are currently living in overcrowded shelters, struggling for basic necessities like food,...

Our guest is Angela Davis. We discuss… her history with Jewish people how the civil rights movement saw the Palestinian strugle, and what lessons it offers today when resistance turns violent how student activism today compares to the activism of the 1960s how she comes by her optimism This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v...