Wine with Adam

Listen to Amb. Tom Nides like you have never heard him before! Shortly before finishing his post, Tom Nides sat down with Adam Bellos in a tell-all and wide-ranging interview on his time serving as ambassador to what he called America’s “ most important friend, certainly in the Middle East and I would say, in the world".

Meet the woman fighting for human rights and exposing Western hypocrisy. This week's guest on "Wine with Adam" is social media whiz and Ynet journalist Emily Schrader. Together they drink the Spring River White Blend from the Gush Etzion winery. Host Adam Bellos and Schrader discuss: her journey from trained figure skater to social media activist and now a journalist her harrowing experience being...

Think you understand the ultra-orthodox? Think you understand the history of the Temple Mount? Guess again! In this week's Wine with Adam, host, and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund, Adam Scott Bellos talks with Yeshivat Har HaBayit Director of Outreach Yehuda Levi. Rabbi Levi was born in New Jersey and for the last seven years has been working to allow more and more religious freedom and access for...

In this week's Wine with Adam, host, and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund, Adam Scott Bellos, is joined by ex-spy Jonathan Pollard in an exclusive tell-all interview. The discussion takes place over a glass of Kabir Winery's Merlot. They discuss The accusation of dual Loyalty The true nature of the Israel/US "special" relationship His time in prison His late wife Esther This is the episode you don't...

Why be Jewish? What does it mean to be Jewish? This week, host Adam Scott Bellos sat down with guest Minister of the Diaspora Amichai Chikli, to talk about the current protests about judicial reform, his goals in connecting Israel to Diaspora Jewry and more. Chikli is credited with toppling the previous unity government established by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid that included center-left partie...

Host Adam Bellos sat down with special guest and close friend Rudy Rochman, an Israeli-American activist and filmmaker, to talk about his time in prison in Nigeria. In July 2021, Rudy was detained along with three others and spent several weeks in jail while filming the Igbo Jewish community in Nigeria. Automatic weapons, men in ski masks, fear of execution, unmarked vehicles, Shabbat. Chabad, Kos...

Meet the young, secular, socially liberal, politically hawkish MK who frequently visits the Temple mount and has fought for the legalization of cannabis, Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan valley and rejects the idea that giving away land will bring peace. In season 2, episode 3, host and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund Adam Scott Bellos is joined by guest MK Sharren Haskel, a member of the Nationa...

On season 2, episode 2, host and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund Adam Scott Bellos is joined by guest Gil Troy, historian and author of "Theodor Herzl Zionist Writings.” The three-volume work features 11 years’ worth of Herzl’s writings, including his personal journal, articles and plays, all relating to the formulation of his dream of a Jewish state. Troy and Bellos discuss the book over a glass of...

Wine with Adam is back and this season begins with a discussion between host and CEO of Israel Innovation Fund Adam Bellos and Theory of Enchantment founder Chloé Valdary. Valdary, a pro-Israel African American and former activist, explains that after being disillusioned with Hasbara's ability to solve anti-semitism she created the three principled "Theory of Enchantment". The theory of enchantmen...

In the latest episode of "Wine with Adam," Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum talks about the city's present and future. “I'm very proud to have been part of a movement in Jerusalem to make it the capital of the startup nation,” Hassan-Nahoum says, as she explains that one of her new projects is to establish a new high-tech park in East Jerusalem.

In a conversation with Adam Scott Bellos on this week’s “Wine with Adam,” Executive Director of UN Watch Hillen Neuer explains how dictatorships and murderous regimes regularly band together to approve UN resolutions that can then enjoy full international legitimacy. “We're fighting for the United Nations to live up to its founding principles,” Neuer says, while he and Bellos enjoy a glass of Brav...

Is “Judaism” a Jewish concept? In this week’s episode of Wine With Adam, Adam Scott Bellos talks with Professor David Graizbord, associate director of Judaic Studies at University of Arizona. They discuss the modern-day U.S. Jewish life and how American Jews have internalized the non-Jewish conception of religion. “American Jews … have internalized that they are Christians without Jesus,” the prof...

Host Adam Scott Bellos interviews Tuvia Tenebom, a theater director, playwright and the author of such books as "Catch the Jew", "The Lies They Tell" and the most recent " The Taming of the Jew". Sipping a glass of Jezreel Rose from Jezreel Valley Winery, the two discuss Tenebom’s upbringing as an ultra-orthodox yeshiva student and his journey to theatre and investigative journalism. In this inter...

Adam Scott Bellos interviews film writer and director Alon Gur Arye in this episode of “Wine with Adam.” The two explore how Israeli film can connect the world to Israel and the Hebrew language and Arye's recent film "Mossad". Sipping on glasses of Bravdo Sauvignon Blanc 2021 over a window view of green Tel Aviv, - The truth about the Israeli Mossad - How 🇮🇱 film can help us understand Hebrew, Isr...

In this week’s episode of “Wine with Adam,” Adam Scott Bellos talks with authors Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz about the Palestinian refugee crisis and the role that Arab leadership played in preventing Jews from taking refuge before and during World War II. Over a glass of Bravdo Winery’s 2018 2 Cabernet Sauvignon, they talk death and “Westsplaining” - a term you’ll learn if you just tune in to thi...

In the latest episode of “Wine with Adam,” Adam Bellos hosts former Israeli Ambassador to the Ron Dermer. Over a glass of 2018 Shiloh Cabernet Sauvignon, they talk about: - rising anti-Semitism - the need for a “powerful” State of Israel - why the Iran deal is ‘enormously dangerous’ - what it means that his mother is Palestinian

Host Adam Bellos goes behind the scenes with international human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler in his decades-long fight for justice and human rights around the world. As Cotler and Bellos enjoy a bottle of 2018 Tulip Black they discuss: • How Cotler sparked Egypt-Israel peace with a little note • When he freed Nelson Mandela • Why he fought for Natan Sharansky

Filmed in a Jerusalem garden, the episode features Natan Sharansky—famed Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author who spent nine years in Soviet Union prisons during the 1970s and 80s—and Professor Gil Troy, a prominent American historian, author, and Zionist thinker. Together with Adam Bellos, (Founder of The Israel Innovation Fund), the trio drink a bottle of Gush Etzion Winery’s Sp...

Filmed at the Jezreel Winery, the episode features Michal Cotler-Wunsh — fmr. Knesset member, author, and candidate to become the next leader of the Jewish Agency. The host Adam Scott Bellos (founder of the Israel Innovation Fund) talks with her over a bottle of 2017 Jezreel Adumim about her time in the Knesset, her family, Menachem Begin and what she can hope to teach the next generation.

Join Adam Bellos and Michael Oren for a glass of Ella Valley white chardonnay and discussion about democracy, sovereignty, assimilation, terror - and what it means to be a strong Jewish State today and in the future.