The Promised Podcast

Miriam Herschlag, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Phase Change?— As summer heats up, there's an escalation of the protests and counter-protests. Looks like it's going to be a scorching summer. —Israel's "Constitu...

As the massive protests enter their seventh month, the Promised Podcast looks at the place of protest in Israeli society. (This episode contains time-tested content from the vault, so you know it's good!)

In the waning days of Pride Month, the Promised Podcast ransacks its archives for memorable LGBTQ+ moments and music!

Prodigal Wunderkind Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —What's More Reasonable Than Reasonableness?— Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to move forward the judicial reform by passing a law li...

Sally Abed, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Selectile Dysfunction— There was a weird Knesset vote this week that elected a representative from the opposition to the Judicial Selection Committee but no repre...

Ace reporter Linda Gradstein, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —On Foreign Shores?— Israeli ministers and MKs are drowned when they try to speak overseas, by Israeli protestors. Is that cool? —The Past is Nev...

Ace reporter Linda Gradstein, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Food Fight!— Can the government's war on Coca Cola be resolved by diplomatic means? —Can You Dig It?— Is the best thing Israeli archeologists ca...

Ace reporter Linda Gradstein, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Spending, Rending, Upending— Opponents say the two-year budget Netanyahu's government just passed is "a looting of the public coffers." Do the...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Gaza Nova— What the hell just happened between us and Gaza? —Taxation, Like Charity, Begins at Home— Redistribution of income seems like a good idea until it's...

In honor of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the crew shares thoughts and memories about one of the most important events of year! Music Lesser-known, but still great, songs from the Eurovision 1973 - Shlomo Artzi, At ve-Ani. 11 th Place  1989 – Gili ve-Galit, Derekh Hamelekh. 12 th Place 2000 – Ping Pong, Sameah!. 22 nd Place 2009 - Ahinoam Nini & Mira Awad, Einayich / There Must Be Another W...

Ace reporter Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Million Person Protest— More than 200,000 gather in Jerusalem to demonstrate their support of Netanyahu's judicial reforms. What do we learn from this? —Declaration Co...

The crew tell share stuff in celebration of Israel's 75 th  Independence Day! Plus, one great song from each decade!   Songs from Paskol Shelishi, New songs inspired by Survivors First Decade:  He'amini Yom Yavo, Yaffa Yarkoni  (1948) Second Decade : Kol ha-Shavua Lach, Ha-halonot ha-gevohim (1967) Third Decade:  YoYa, Kaveret (1973) Fourth Decade:  Mihakim Lamashiach, Shalom Hanoch (1985) Fifth D...

Sally Abed, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Politics of Memory— Is it possible to keep politics outside the gates of our cemeteries? —Kids & Vids— Seven Ashkenazi teens at a religious high school for girls mak...

Miriam Herschlag, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Riff-Raff Rift— Everyone's worried about "The rift splitting the nation." Is is real? And, if so, what's it all about? —Not the New Jew We Wanted?— Did 56 years of...

A medley of favorite old stories and discussions about Passover by the people of the Promised Podcast. (After all, we read the same goddam Haggadah every year, and I don't hear anyone complaining about that!)

Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —The Hell?— After 85 fever-dream days, what the hell just happened? —Has Bibi Lost It?— Is it time to administer Trump's old "Person-Woman-Man-Camera-TV" test to Benjamin Netanyahu?...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and very special guest Mijal Bitton discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —The Best Laid Plans— President Herzog's compromise plan for judicial reform failed straight out of the gate. But why? —Ne'emanut Now— Mijal e...

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Insubordi-Nation— There's a growing number of elite reservists who are refusing to serve in the IDF because of the judicial reform. Is staying home from an army a fair respon...

In this very special episode, recorded on a "National Day of Resistance Against Dictatorship," Noah tries your patience trying to figure out what the hell this conflict is about.

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —In Flames— We just witnessed the rampage on Huwara that many here are calling a pogrom. A pogrom in 2023? —Flagging Spirits (or, Vexing Vexillology)— Israeli flags are weirdl...

In this first-in-all-of-human-history, cross-over edition of TLV1's Tel Aviv Review and TLV1's The Promised Podcast, we discuss the open letter of more than 160 renowned historians of Jews, Judaism and/or Israel ("Israel on the Edge of an Abyss"), which opens, "We, historians of the Jewish people and of the State of Israel, accuse the sixth government of Benjamin Netanyahu of endangering the very...

Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Uncivil Disobedience?— Strikes, blocking roads, doxing, boycotts, intimidating demonstrations right outside the doors of legislators and ministers – Where's the line that divides...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sally Abed and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —Presidential Importunity— President Herzog addressed the nation, looking like he'd just seen a ghost. Many say it was the most important speech of Herzog's life,...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —The Invisible Hand that Rocks the Cradle— Newly proposed reform of the schools would give principals the power to fire bad teachers and give extra pay to the g...

Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —When Cannons Roar— There were 32 attacks on Israeli Jews – some deadly – in January. How does the violence affect the protests over Netanyahu's reforms that have roiled the c...