The Promised Podcast

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The Promised Podcast

An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.

  1. The “Trauma-Rama” Edition

    10 HRS AGO

    The “Trauma-Rama” Edition

    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   —Standard Deviation— An expose in the New York Times shows that on October 7th the IDF took an extraordinary decision to double the number of civilians whose lives it was willing to risk in order to attack Hamas leaders and rank-and-file fighters. What should we make of that? —Again, This Time With Less Feeling— Anthropologist Amalia Sa’ar asserts that Israeli political discourse is filled-to-the-gills with a “narrative of trauma” that keeps us from being able to have rational political discourse and make rational political and military decisions. Is she right? —New Year’s Resolutions— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: It’s January.  What are our political political “resolutions” for the new year? Plus, Yehudit Ravitz with a new record at 68.

    1h 21m
  2. The “What’s Changed” Edition

    2024-12-26

    The “What’s Changed” Edition

    Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron are live from the astonishing, brilliant, taste-of-the-world-to-come Limmud Festival in Birmingham, England. —What’s Changed, Here?— How we in Israel, and the lives we lead, have changed since, and because of, October 7th. —What’s Changed, Everywhere Else?— How Jews around the world, and the lives they lead, have changed since, and because of, October 7th. Plus, how a 56 year old Soviet song came to express our longing and fears today. Plus, International Dalek Remembrance Day.

    1h 17m
  3. The “Manifest Destinies” Edition

    2024-12-19

    The “Manifest Destinies” Edition

    Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and scholar-extraordinaire Sara Hirschhorn 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   —(Un)settling— Why do Israeli Jews who think it might be a good idea to set up Jewish towns in Gaza, think what they think? —Hostage (Dis)agreement— Would an agreement that brings home some of the hostages might, in the end, be worse than no agreement at all? —Safe, Save for the Bombs and Bullets— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Why do most Israelis think the safest place in the world for Jews is Israel when, statistically, that’s not even close to being true? Plus, a remembrance of Corinne Allal, may her memory be for a blessing.

    1h 35m
  4. The “Judgement Days” Edition

    2024-12-12

    The “Judgement Days” Edition

    Allison Kaplan Sommer, 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   —Gradually, then Suddenly, then OMG— The shocking, sudden fall of strong-man ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria left Jihadist Islamists poised to replace him. What does it all means for, well, us? —Day in Court— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the stand to testify on his own behalf in his four-years-and-running bribery, fraud and breach of trust trial. What does it all means for, well, us? —Quo Vadis, Adis?— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The renowned and storied DC Conservative Synagogue, Adis Israel, disinvites former Israeli Foreign Minister Yoav Gallant, after congregants complain about this community hosting an architect of Israel’s war in Gaza, and a man indicted by the ICC for war crimes. We ask, Quo Vadis, Adis? Plus, a remembrance of the man who hanged Adolf Eichmann, and a tribute to the star quality of the impossibly-talented and enchanted daughter-of, Naomi Sommer!

    1h 30m
  5. The “Breaking Ranks” Edition

    2024-12-05

    The “Breaking Ranks” Edition

    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   —Boogie Unbound— Former IDF Chief of Staff and former Defense Minister Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon’s flatly asserts that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Gaza policy amounts to ethnic cleansing. —Putting the Press in Suppression and Depression— A Knesset declaratory motion resolves that the government will no longer advertise in Ha’aretz, after its publisher Amos Schoken presses the world to sanction and boycott Israel on account of its “war crimes.” —“ALL HELL TO PAY?”— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the social media post by once and future President Donald Trump calling for the return of all hostages by the time he enters the Oval Office. Plus, Omer Neutra and an encouraging word about El Al.

    1h 30m
  6. The “The Paper They’re Written On” Edition

    2024-11-28

    The “The Paper They’re Written On” Edition

    Linda Gradstein, 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. —For the Time Being, Anyway— The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah: It ain’t victory and it sure ain’t peace. —ICC You— Why does the world court want to put our prime minister in the slammer? Plus, An Ethiopian Room-of-Their-Own, before-and-after selfs, and an exploration of the age-old question, “When is a challah not a challah?”

    1h 30m
  7. The “Leaders We Got & Leaders We Need” Edition

    2024-11-21

    The “Leaders We Got & Leaders We Need” Edition

    Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and Tova Cohen 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   —“Hope Is Patience With the Lamp Lit” (With Apologies to Tertullian)— A voice in the wilderness. Should we listen? —“Cabinet of Wonders”— Is Donald Trump’s new cabinet more pro-Israel than most Israelis? —Freshman Leninism at Berkeley— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the fufera that developed over a Berkeley course description. We ask, “WTF?” Plus, Nir Oz votes to go home and Eden Hasson comes out.

    1h 25m
  8. The “Violence, Here & There” Edition

    2024-11-14

    The “Violence, Here & There” Edition

    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   —Jabalia, Again— Israel conquers northern Gaza for a third deadly time. —The “J” is Silent— Is Amsterdam a harbinger? —Limping Towards the Light— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: We talk about the essay written by Rachel Goldberg-Polin that was recently published on the Times of Israel. Plus, a tribute to Prof. Aharon She’ar Yashuv,  the Orthodox Rabbi son of an Waffen SS officer father. And music for these troubled days.

    1h 41m
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An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.

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  • Creator
    TLV1 Studios
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2025
  • Episodes
    594
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © TLV1 Studios
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    The Promised Podcast

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