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  • 1 hour 19 minutes
    Inside the Mind of the Israeli Religious Right with Rabbi Yishai Fleisher

    Rabbi Yishai Fleisher is the International Spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron - a Middle East hotspot, King David's first capital, and home of the Mearat Hamachpela - the Tomb of the Biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs. He is also an elected Councilman in one of the largest Jewish community in Judea - Efrat - and an advisor for international affairs to Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir. Rabbi Yishai is a popular English-language podcaster and YouTuber on the topics of Israel, Judaism, and the Middle East and has appeared in major media outlets including CNN, Piers Morgan, and more. Yishai is a rabbi, a graduate of Cardozo Law School in NYC, a former paratrooper, and continues to serve in the IDF reserves.



    12 June 2025, 3:49 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    Fighting Anti Semitism in the Era of Tik Tok with Daniella Greenbaum Davis

    Daniella Greenbaum Davis is an Emmy-award-winning producer, writer, and social media strategist with bylines in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Daily Beast, Commentary, and Washington Post. She executive produced the first ever holocaust-edu-series for TikTok, How to: Never Forget, which garnered 20M views and was profiled by ABC, NBC, Deadline, Variety, PBS, and E!.


    6 June 2025, 8:55 pm
  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    AI, Israel and Living with a Robot with Sarah Rose Siskind

    Sarah Rose Siskind is a science comedy TV writer, psychedelic comedian, roboticist, and founder of Hello SciCom, a science comedy and communication agency that helps smart people get their message across.



    31 May 2025, 3:10 am
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    Trans Rights and Twitter Wars with Jesse Singal and Ross Barkan

    Noam Dworman invites Ross Barkan and Jesse Singal join to reconcile their Twitter feud .

    Ross Barkan is a columnist for New York Magazine and a contributing writer to the NY Times Magazine. He's the editor in chief of The Metropolitan Review, a new books and culture review magazine, and his new novel, Glass Century, is out now.

    Jesse Singal is a former writer-at-large at New York Magazine, cohost of Blocked and Reported, and author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills.



    22 May 2025, 3:23 pm
  • 1 hour 30 minutes
    Ahmed Fouad Akhatib on Hamas, Israel and the Fight for Peace

    Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is the head of Realign For Palestine, a project of the Atlantic Council, where he is a resident senior fellow. He is a Gaza native and a political analyst who writes extensively on strategic affairs in the Middle East.


    Links to what was referenced in this episode: 

    https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/1877801096275431758

    and 

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/dec/18/jabaliya-refugee-camp-gaza-destruction-idf


    16 May 2025, 9:27 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Snopes vs. Candace Owens: Can the Brigitte Macron Story be Debunked?

    Noam Dworman, Dan Naturman and Periel Aschenbrand are joined by 

    Anna Rascouët-Paz, a French-Colombian journalist who reports for Snopes. She's also worked at WNYC for the show Radiolab, as an independent research publisher Annual Reviews and Bloomberg News. She recently produced a documentary podcast series on statelessness called Citizens of Nowhere.

    10 May 2025, 7:56 pm
  • 1 hour 32 minutes
    Have the Palestinians Ever Wanted a State? Einat Wilf on the True Obstacles to Peace

    Dr. Einat Wilf is a leading thinker on Israel, Zionism, foreign policy and education. She was a member of the Israeli Parliament from 2010 to 2013, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and Member of the influential Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

    Born and raised in Israel, Dr. Wilf served as an Intelligence Officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres and a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company.

    Dr. Wilf has a BA from Harvard, an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge and is the author of seven books that explore key issues in Israeli society.

    1 May 2025, 9:57 pm
  • 1 hour 28 minutes
    How Populism Fails: When Anti-Elite Movements Turn Against the Jews - The Atlantic's Yair Rosenberg

    Yair Rosenberg is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Deep Shtetl, about the intersection of politics, culture, and religion. Previously a senior writer at Tablet Magazine, he has also written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian, and his work has received recognition from the Religion News Association and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies.

    27 April 2025, 3:45 pm
  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    Douglas Murray WON the debate with Dave Smith and Joe Rogan - Why You May Not Have Realized It.

    A discussion of the Murray/Smith debate on the Joe Rogan show. Our call: A Murray victory that was somewhat obscured by Dave Smith's talented and agile performance.

    25 April 2025, 3:55 pm
  • 2 hours 12 minutes
    The Sam Harris Joe Rogan Dust-up, with Ami Kozak

    Taped the day before the Rogan-Murray-Smith debate, are bigots and quacks being normalized on the biggest shows in the world? And, what are the consequences?


    Ami Kozak: https://www.youtube.com/@amikozak_official

    11 April 2025, 7:48 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    Tariffs, Ukraine and Trump with Nick Gillespie

    Nick Gillespie is a libertarian, the Editor at Large of Reason Magazine and host of the podcast, Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie.

    5 April 2025, 6:56 pm
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