The Promised Podcast

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   —A Tale of Four Cities— Fifteen times as many people are turning out for anti-government demonstrations in Tel Aviv as are coming to demonstrations in Jerusalem. But are the s...

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   —Estoppel Anagrams to "Lost Peeps"— The Supreme Court bars Shas head Aryeh Deri from being a minister, and half the country thinks justice has been done and half the country thinks...

Noah Efron and prodigal son Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida 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   —Courting Disaster?— The "Judicial Reform" has so many people so very worried. Is it needed reform or coup d'état? —Our Bialik— People still call Hayim Nahman Biali...

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   —This Time Feels Different— When historians look back, will they say the elections of 2022 were when Israel changed forever (and not necessarily for the better)? —You're Not the Jud...

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 Paper It's Written On?— What good are the new "coalition agreements" Benjamin Netanyahu just signed, if the guy is already saying he ain't gonna honor at l...

Ever since the elections produced what the elections produced, including a new Minister in charge of the police who used to have hanging on his wall, as a tribute, a picture of a man who murdered 29 Palestinian worshippers in the Tomb of the Patriarch, we've been wondering what our Sally Abed makes of all this. This week, finally, we had a chance to ask. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segme...

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 Other Two-State Solution?— More and more progressive Israeli Jews dream of separation from the more religious, more right wing Jews. What's up with that? —...

Noah Efron and  Times of Israel Ops & Blogs impresario Miriam Herschlag 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   —Rock of Our Salvation?— Why do so many people think that giving the head of a homophobic party control over school enrichment programs migh...

Noah Efron and journalist-extraordinaire Linda Gradstein 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   —Can't Spell "Minister Ben Gvir" Without "Bite Me"— Minister Ben Gvir?!? —This Time, It's Personal— Anything wrong with tidying up a 'Basic Law' so Aryeh D...

Noah Efron and Professor, Environmental Activist and outgoing Member of Knesset Alon Tal 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   —Is a Dream a Lie?— Did Israel's outgoing government prove that right-center-left-Arab-Jewish politics is possible? Or did...

Don Futterman, Noah Efron and journalist-extraordinaire Linda Gradstein 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   —Yes, Virginia, There is an Override Clause— All the parties in Netanyahu's presumptive coalition agree to pass a law letting the Knesset to...

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   Earth's Promise שבועת האדמה Donation: https://bit.ly/Earthsgive Website: https://www.earthspromise.org.il/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/earthspromise   —M...

As the very last votes are still being counted, Miriam, Don and Noah try to make sense of the election results that will bring Benjamin Netanyahu back to the Prime Minister's office, and what they say about the heart and soul of the country, and what they do to our own hearts and souls. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —As the Dust Settles— What just happened? —The ״Battl...

Sally Abed, 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   —It Just Doesn't Matter?— Why do some people wake up on election morning with the feeling that it just doesn't matter who they vote for, or if they vote at all? —So Goes t...

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 Stakes— Just what happens if Benjamin Netanyahu is elected Prime Minister? —A Line in the Sea— Israel negotiates an historic treaty with Lebanon, but Prime...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —Ad Hominem, Ad Absurdum, Ad Victorium & Ad Nauseum— We watched hundreds of election ads, so you don't have to. What do they tell us about that the parties ar...

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   —Yair in Dag Hammarskjöld Square— A month before elections, caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid tells the UN he supports the creation of a Palestinian state. How come? —We Are...

In this very special, carbon-neutral episode, we look back on people who lately left us, leaving a huge mark on our lives and world. In Memoriam Clips Architect Danny Karavan Activist Miriam Levenger Rabbi Bent Melchior Lyricist, poet and writer Yarom Tahar-Lev Feminist Activist and MK Marcia Freedman MK Aharon Abuhatzera Rabbi, Scholar and Leader, Chaim Kanievsky Noam Schwartz All songs by jazz g...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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. —Cutting to the Core— Benjamin Netanyahu promises ultra-Orthodox politicians, in exchange for their support, to fully-fund Haredi schools no matter what they do and do not teach. Is that unhinged and irresponsible? —A...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —What Gantz Wantz— A little from Column A, a little from Column B: What does the "National Unity Party" candidate list tell us about what the party stands...

In this very-special episode from Limmud Oz in Melbourne, Australia, Noah puzzles out – What? – why he and Susan uprooted their family tree from rich American soil, replanting it in the alluvium of Israel, and how that's worked out for them and their kids, who are now the age their parents were when they first came to the country. Not a story for everyone, but maybe one that will interest a few. W...

In this 100% reused-reduced-recycled episode, Noah bloviates about Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the city we love so well!   The Pussycat Club  Coffee Lab  Tal Tenne Czaczkes Tel Aviv's City Council Debates Things that Matter Bartleby in Tel Aviv  The Boteach Sex Store  The Bus on Ben Yehuda Theodor Herzl's Funeral Pal The Hotel Where Eichmann Slept Up in the Old Palatin Hotel   (Plus music of the city, by the...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Gilad Halpern 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     —Back to the Future— Did the Meretz party primaries just send the party back to the future? —Homo Sionisticus Religiosus— What, if anything, do the primarie...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —In Labor— After its recent primaries, does Labor still look like a party that could ever rule Israel again? —Likud: The Screwed, Renewed and Netanyahu'ed—...

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   —My War & Yours (& Ours)— Can a Palestinian Israeli (like Sally) and a Jewish, Zionist Israeli (like Noah) find even a common language and common facts to talk abo...