The Promised Podcast

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...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and star journalist Linda Gradstein 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   —Smells Like Zionist Spirit— Two small right-wing parties join to form "The Zionist Spirit". What's that all about? —Gimme Shelter— A judge...

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   —One Man's Extremist— Prime Minister Yair Lapid says he'll form a government "without extremists." What could possibly be wrong with that? —If I Can't Dance— Is...

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   —Ben-Gvir, Bistu Schein?— The popularity of a one time acolyte of Rabbi Meir Kahane is growing leaps and bounds. Why? —Energy Drain— Why are the leaders of Is...

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   —Biden' Time— What is US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel much ado about, nothin' or sumpin'? —New Blue, or the Great White Hope— What do you get when a centr...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —The Torch Has Been Passed— Yair Lapid, once a weight-lifting, party-going, celebrity hunk, is sworn in as Israel's 14 th  Prime Minister. What a long strang...

Sally, Miriam, Ohad, Don and Noah tell stories of people who made and make our lives worth living. Plus, duets and collaborations by singers we love. (If the stories sound familiar, it is because, as renowned folklorist Joseph Campbell said, there are tales that live deep in our collective unconscious, that all of us know without being told. That, and because we've played them on the podcast in th...

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   —Going to the Polls!— Prime Minister Bennett decides to throw in the towel and take the country to new elections. What does it say about what was, what is, and...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —Dead Man Governing?— Is it time for Naftali Bennett to say when? —"I Am Not Mentally Ill!"— Why is ex-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suin...

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and prodigal son Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida 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   —Temporary Regulations Make Temporary Governments— Israel's government fails to renew temporary provisional regulations first put into plac...