Boundless Insights - with Aviva Klompas

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When it comes to Israel, antisemitism, and American Jewry, the conversations are seemingly endless—there are so many perspectives and so many difficult questions that it can be hard to know where to start.That’s why we created Boundless Insights—to bring you thoughtful, in-depth, and engaging discussions to help make sense of the issues.Our goal is to become your trusted source for insights that are not just informative, but also empowering – giving you the confidence to start conversations of your own.

  1. 3d ago

    What Happened to American Power? – Live with Dr. Michael Oren

    We want to hear from you. Have a question, comment, or idea for the show? Email us at podcast@boundlessisrael.org What happens when antisemitic ideas begin to shape how people understand American power, Israel, and the country’s interests abroad? Recorded live at the University of Texas at Austin, Aviva is joined by historian, bestselling author, and former Israeli ambassador to the United States Dr. Michael Oren for a conversation about antisemitism through the lens of national security. They examine how America’s understanding of terrorism and military power has changed in the years since 9/11, why the Palestinian cause has become intertwined with broader ideological battles over colonialism and the West, and the growing debate over whether Israel remains a strategic asset to the United States. They also grapple with where legitimate criticism of the U.S.-Israel alliance ends and older antisemitic ideas about Jewish power and influence begin. Our thanks to the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission, and Texas Hillel for hosting this live conversation at the Topfer Center for Jewish Life. Guest Bio: Dr. Michael Oren served in the IDF as a Lone Soldier in the paratroopers. He was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and later served as a Member of Knesset and Deputy Minister of Diplomacy. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including Six Days of War, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israel Divide, and Power, Faith, and Fantasy. Ambassador Oren published 2048: The Rejuvenated State in 2023 and is the founder of Israel Advocacy Group.

    What Happened to American Power? – Live with Dr. Michael Oren

  2. Oct 14

    Is There a Future for Jews in Canada? – with Warren Kinsella

    We want to hear from you. Have a question, comment, or idea for the show? Email us at podcast@boundlessisrael.org. Canada has long presented itself as a model of multiculturalism, tolerance, and minority inclusion. But for many Canadian Jews, that image is becoming increasingly difficult to reconcile with their lived reality. Jews make up roughly one percent of Canada’s population, yet they have become the target of a vastly disproportionate share of religious hate crimes. So what happened to Canada? Warren Kinsella joins Aviva to examine how antisemitism became so pervasive in a country that prides itself on protecting minorities. And they confront the question many Canadian Jews are increasingly asking: Is there still a future for Jews in Canada? Guest Bio: Warren Kinsella is a lawyer, political strategist, and bestselling author with decades of experience at the highest levels of Canadian politics. A former chief of staff in the Chrétien government and veteran of multiple federal and provincial election campaigns, he has also worked as a journalist, communications consultant, and legal expert. He is the author of ten books, including his latest, The Hidden Hand, which examines the global propaganda campaign against Israel and the West More from Warren Kinsella The Hidden Hand The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda The Campaign Documentary Trailer Jew-haters push vile propaganda in wake of Flydubai hijacking

    Is There a Future for Jews in Canada? – with Warren Kinsella

  3. Oct 7

    Mission in Captivity – with Dr. Shoshan Haran

    We want to hear from you. Have a question, comment, or idea for the show? Email us at podcast@boundlessisrael.org. Three years after being taken hostage on October 7, Dr. Shoshan Haran recounts the fifty days she spent as a hostage in Gaza with her daughter and young grandchildren. Abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri after her husband and sister were murdered, Shoshan found herself responsible for helping her family survive captivity while protecting children too young to comprehend what was happening around them. She gave herself a mission: bring everyone home alive. Drawing on her memoir, Mission in Captivity: One Woman’s Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza,  Shoshan joins Aviva to share her story of survival and reflect on whether, three years later, she can still imagine a future of peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Guest Bio: Dr. Shoshan Haran is a Fulbright scholar and the founder and president of Fair Planet, a global nonprofit that helps smallholder farmers in Africa improve food security and escape poverty. On October 7, 2023, Shoshan was abducted from Kibbutz Be’eri and held hostage in Gaza for 50 days along with members of her family. Her husband, Avshalom, was murdered in the attack. Since her release, Shoshan has become an advocate for international action to prevent civilian abduction from being used as a weapon of war. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Mission in Captivity: One Woman’s Struggle to Survive and Save Her Family in Gaza, which received the 2026 Bernstein Prize for Non-Fiction Literature.

    Mission in Captivity – with Dr. Shoshan Haran

  4. Sep 30

    Lessons from a Mossad Psychologist - with Glenn Cohen

    We want to hear from you. Have a question, comment, or idea for the show? Email us at podcast@boundlessisrael.org. What allows a person to survive the seemingly unendurable? Glenn Cohen has spent much of his career trying to understand how human beings respond under extreme pressure. A former Israeli Air Force helicopter pilot and chief psychologist of the Mossad, he helped select and prepare elite personnel for high-risk missions, including the possibility of capture. After October 7, that expertise was suddenly needed on an unprecedented scale. Cohen was called back into service, helped develop Israel’s protocols for receiving returning hostages, and led the team responsible for debriefing the 168 hostages who came home alive. In this conversation, Cohen takes Aviva inside the psychology of captivity and survival. He explains what happens when people are stripped of control, how individuals can preserve agency under extreme conditions, and why enduring terrible trauma does not necessarily mean being permanently broken by it. He also reflects on the delicate process of bringing hostages home, the lessons Israel learned from earlier generations of returning POWs, and what the hostages themselves taught him about the limits — and surprising strength — of human resilience. As Cohen puts it: “We are capable of going to hell and coming back.” Guest Bio: Glenn Cohen is a former Mossad Chief Operational Psychologist, Israeli Air Force pilot, and IDF hostage negotiator. Following October 7, he returned to emergency reserve duty and was appointed the first mental-health professional to meet freed hostages upon their return to Israel. He helped develop Israel’s protocol for receiving returning hostages and led the team of psychologists that debriefed the 168 hostages released by October 2025. Today, he coaches executives and trains organizations on resilience and peak performance. His upcoming book on Post Traumatic Growth has been acquired by Simon and Schuster and Glenn is a sought-after international speaker. More information is available on his site Glenn-cohen.com.

    Lessons from a Mossad Psychologist - with Glenn Cohen

  5. Sep 23

    Israel’s Reckoning at the Ballot Box – with Dr. Michael Oren

    We want to hear from you. Have a question, comment, or idea for the show? Email us at podcast@boundlessisrael.org. On October 27, Israelis will head to the polls for the first national election since the October 7 attacks, after three years that have profoundly reshaped the country. Three years of war have altered the country’s sense of security, tested its institutions, and forced Israelis to confront fundamental questions about the leadership and policies that brought them to this moment. Yet the political system Israelis are returning to remains remarkably familiar. Benjamin Netanyahu is still at its center. His opponents are still struggling to assemble a coalition capable of replacing him. And a deeply divided electorate must now decide what comes after one of the most consequential periods in Israel’s history. Dr. Michael Oren, historian, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, and former member of the Knesset, joins Aviva to look beyond the campaign and consider what this election reveals about Israel three years after October 7 — how the country has changed, what hasn’t, and what Israelis are choosing when they cast their ballots. Guest Bio: Michael Oren served in the IDF as a Lone Soldier in the paratroopers. He was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013 and later served as a Member of Knesset and Deputy Minister of Diplomacy. He is the author of several New York Times bestsellers including Six Days of War, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israel Divide, and Power, Faith, and Fantasy. Ambassador Oren published 2048: The Rejuvenated State in 2023 and is the founder of Israel Advocacy Group.

    Israel’s Reckoning at the Ballot Box – with Dr. Michael Oren

  6. Sep 16

    The United Nations – with Hillel Neuer

    As world leaders gather in New York for a new session of the United Nations General Assembly, Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, joins host Aviva Klompas to examine the power and politics of an institution he has spent more than two decades scrutinizing. They discuss the influence authoritarian regimes wield within the UN, the disproportionate attention directed at Israel, and the political forces that help explain that focus. The conversation also tackles a larger dilemma: if democracies retreat from international institutions they believe have become deeply politicized, do they simply surrender those institutions to authoritarian regimes? Guest Bio International lawyer, writer and activist, Hillel Neuer is the Executive Director of UN Watch, a human rights organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Neuer’s speeches at the United Nations have been seen by millions around the world. He has appeared in debates on CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. McGill University awarded Neuer an honorary doctorate for his work to advance human rights and for being “a voice for those without one.” In 2016, the City of Chicago declared “Hillel Neuer Day,” citing his role “as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates.” The Tribune de Genève said Neuer is “feared and dreaded” by the world’s dictatorships. The Journal de Montréal wrote that Neuer “makes the U.N. tremble.” The Jerusalem Post, Ynet, and Ma’ariv have listed Neuer as one the most influential Jewish people in the world  Learn more at UNWatch.org

    The United Nations – with Hillel Neuer

  7. Sep 9

    Rosh Hashanah – with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

    Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis joins host Aviva Klompas for a wide-ranging conversation about the meaning of the Jewish New Year and the questions it asks us to confront. As Jews around the world prepare to welcome 5787, Chief Rabbi Mirvis reflects on what we might learn from Rosh Hashanah about the lives we are living, the choices we make, and the possibility of a different year ahead. He also shares the question he would put to every Jewish family around the Rosh Hashanah table and his blessing for the Jewish people in the year to come. Guest Bio: Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis is only the 11th Chief Rabbi of Great Britain since the office was introduced in 1704. He is the religious figurehead for Jewish communities right across the Commonwealth, from Hull to Hong Kong and from Cardiff to Cochin. He was installed on 1st September 2013 in an historic ceremony attended by His Majesty King Charles III, then The Prince of Wales. Born in South Africa, he previously served as Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Rabbi of the Western Marble Arch and Finchley (Kinloss) Synagogues in London, making him one of the UK’s most respected community Rabbis. As Chief Rabbi, he is a primary representative of the Jewish community to government, other faiths and civil society as well as being responsible for oversight of crucial parts of the UK Jewish community’s religious infrastructure. Chief Rabbi Mirvis is known as a principled leader who has broken new ground in the fields of interfaith and social responsibility as well as tackling a number of particularly complex or controversial issues including the welfare of LGBT+ students in Orthodox Jewish Schools and antisemitism in the British Labour Party. Chief Rabbi Mirvis serves as Associate President of the Conference of European Rabbis, President of the London School of Jewish Studies and was made a Knight Commander of the British Empire, by His Majesty The King in 2023.

    Rosh Hashanah – with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis

  8. Sep 2

    Is the Campus Crackdown Good for America? – Live with Noah Pollak and Jonathan Rauch

    SAPIR is a journal exploring the future of the American Jewish community and its intersection with cultural, social, and political issues. It is published by Maimonides Fund with Bret Stephens serving as Editor-in-Chief. Subscribe at www.sapirjournal.org/subscribe. Since October 7, American universities have become the center of a fierce debate over antisemitism, free speech, civil rights, and the proper role of government. In this special live debate, recorded at the Israel on Campus Coalition's National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C., host Aviva Klompas moderates a discussion on the resolution: "The campus crackdown is good for America." Noah Pollak and Jonathan Rauch debate whether federal intervention has made campuses safer for Jewish students, where the line between oversight and overreach should be drawn, and how universities should balance civil rights, free expression, and institutional independence. This debate is part of the SAPIR Debates, a forum for thoughtful disagreement on some of the most consequential issues facing the American Jewish community today. Guest Bios Noah Pollak is a political appointee in the Trump administration. He is Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Education, where he works on higher education policy and civil rights enforcement, and he’s a Senior Advisor in the Treasury Department's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, and a board member of Heterodox Academy. He is the author of The Constitution of Knowledge and has written extensively on free speech, liberal democracy, and the institutions that sustain them.

    Is the Campus Crackdown Good for America? – Live with Noah Pollak and Jonathan Rauch
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When it comes to Israel, antisemitism, and American Jewry, the conversations are seemingly endless—there are so many perspectives and so many difficult questions that it can be hard to know where to start.That’s why we created Boundless Insights—to bring you thoughtful, in-depth, and engaging discussions to help make sense of the issues.Our goal is to become your trusted source for insights that are not just informative, but also empowering – giving you the confidence to start conversations of your own.

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