The Promised Podcast

Noah, Don and Times of Tel Aviv Review founder and co-host Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Donald Does the Holy Land! We discuss President Donald Trump's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and what it augurs for peace in the region. Road Trip! We mull over Why the Zionist Un...

Noah, Don and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Breaking News: Ehud Barak Admits He's Been Right All Along! We discuss Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak's book-review-cum-manifesto about why the Left is right and the Right is wrong. Not that Conversi...

Noah, Don and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Palestinians and Peace in the Age of Trump We discuss the quick and remarkable developments in Palestinian diplomacy, with Pres. Abbas coming away optimistic from his meeting with US President Trump, Ham...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Labor's Battle Royal We discuss the nine (!) candidates to head the Labor Party: what kind of leader does the left need now, and what sort of platform should she or he advance? Living Together and Apart We mull over a poll finding that almost th...

This episode of The Promised Podcast is sponsored by:  The Dreyfus Affair Apr 27 — May 7, 2017 Special pricing for listeners Visit RomanticCentury.org and use code 68857 Or call 718-636-4100 and mention code 68857   Allison, Noah and Don observe Memorial Day and celebrate Independence Day by discussing three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that...

This episode of The Promised Podcast is sponsored by:  The Dreyfus Affair Apr 27 — May 7, 2017 Special pricing for listeners Visit RomanticCentury.org and use code 68857 Or call 718-636-4100 and mention code 68857   Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   L'Affair Barghouti: The Times...

Allison, Noah and Tel Aviv Review co-host, political scientist and pollster Dahlia Scheindlin discuss   three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Peace Train We discuss the Minister of Transportation's ambitious plans to build a vast network of trains connecting Israel with Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf St...

Allison, Noah and Tel Aviv Review co-host Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Press, under Stress and Duress We discuss the controversy over public broadcasting that just almost toppled the government. A Settlement for the New Millennium We mull over the cabinet's decision to build the firs...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   BDS and the Rat Bastard Conundrum We discuss how the right uses the left's defense of the free-speech rights of BDS'ers as a cudgel and what, if anything, can be done about this. Secrets of Israel's High-Tech Boom, Revealed! We mull over Ministe...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. The Primacy of Primaries As elections are in the air, we ask: Should parties like liberal leftist Meretz chose their candidates through "open primaries," or will that just rouse the rabble? Does Feminism have Room for Zionism?: Reflections on l'Af...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Right and Wrong We discuss the debate over whether Israel should forge ties with far right leaders in Europe, now that they are growing in power and (mostly) denouncing antisemitism. You Gotta Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, E-Lim-inate the Negat...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Shriveling Settlements? We discuss the shocking, but seemingly true, suggestion that the settlements are shrinking, not growing and failing, not succeeding. The Shunning! We mull over the Supreme Court's sanction of the literally medieval punish...

Allison, Don and Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Courting Change We discuss the four new Supreme Court Justices, and whether together they add up to a "conservative Judicial revolution." Peace in Just Ten Easy Steps! We mull over Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog's new "Ten Point Peace Plan," tha...

Allison, Noah and Don discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Eighteen Months We discuss the sentence meted out to Alor Azaria, the combat medic who shot knife-assailant Adel Fattah al-Sharif dead while he lay prone; some are outraged he's going to prison, others are outraged he's going to prison for only...

Allison, Noah and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Two States, One State, Whatever We discuss Prime Minister Netanyahu's meetings in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, and what the hell they mean for Israelis, Palestinians, American Jews...

Allison, Noah and Tel Aviv Review Host Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   This Land Is Your Land, This Land is My Land (An Expropriation Meditation) We discuss the bill approved by the Knesset this week that allows the expropriation of privately-owned land in the occupied territories, an...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Alt-Zionism We discuss White-Supremacist claims that their dreams of an "ethno-state" is "very similar to the idea of Zionism," and why lots of folks on the right and the left seem to agree, leading us to wonder if it is time to slit our wrists. S...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Heart & Home We discuss the tragic events at the Bedouin Village of Umm Al-Hiran, leaving two dead and dozens dispossessed of their homes. "Reports of our Death are Greatly Exaggerated" (With apologies to Mark Twain) We mull over the surprisingly gr...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Cubans, Champaign and Bringing Bibi Down We ask  whether or not we should take to the streets to demand the resignation of PM Netanyahu, as evidence of influence peddling accumulates. Should We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Lieberman? We mull ov...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Killer-Hero-Scapegoat? We discuss the furor over the manslaughter conviction of Sgt. Elor Azaria, for shooting in the head a subdued stabber in Hebron. TEDs We mull over a new effort by settlers to present themselves in a more sophisticated way, usi...

Allison Kaplan Sommer sits down for a conversation with decorated journalist Dahlia Lithwick about Trumpism, American Jewry's relationship to Israel, and Axe body spray.

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   The Unsettling Cost of Unsettling We discuss  the Government's decision to spend 130 million shekels to resettle 42 settler families from an illegal outpost.  If he wasn't good, he wouldn't be rich, right? We mull over  the recent entry of busines...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   And as a Parting Gift: UN Security Council Resolution 2334 We discuss UN Security Council Resolution 2334, calling Israeli settlements illegal, and America's failure to scuttle it, and the righteous apoplexy of Israel's official response . The Don...

Allison, Don & Noah discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   675 Kilometers North We mull over the human tragedy of Aleppo, and what Israelis are saying (or not saying) and doing (or not doing) about it. You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your ambassador! We ask  how we should regard David Fr...

Allison, Noah & Times of Israel Ops & Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag  discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.   Lousy Leftists Lack Loyalty We mull over a new poll finding that almost one in two Israeli Jews think that leftists are not loyal to Israel. Tenured Traitors, or Professors of Perfidy We discuss the...