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Join host Joshua Hoffman, author of the book "The Future of Jewish," as he interviews guests about the future of Judaism, Jewish life, Jewish Peoplehood, and Israel.

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    The End of the Old Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2026 11:48


    Beyond the battlefield, a new regional order is taking shape — one that could shape a new Middle East for years to come.

    The Iran war was always about 100 miles of water.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 14:50


    Beneath the rhetoric about the Islamic Republic of Iran lies a deeper reality: control over the world's most critical energy chokepoint.

    Israel's Iron Dome Illusion

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2026 11:11


    The Iron Dome air defense system saved Israelis — and then trapped them.

    Let's assume Israel dragged the U.S. into war with Iran.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2026 13:36


    The narrative of Israeli influence obscures the strategic logic behind America's confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Liberal foreign policy failures led us to war against Iran.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2026 18:04


    Decades of wrong assumptions, combined with hesitant leadership and diplomatic overreach, produced the war we are witnessing today.

    Most Americans don't realize how much they need Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2026 21:05


    The $3.8 billion America sends to Israel annually isn't aid. It's one of the highest-return strategic investments in modern history.

    How Decades of Death Threats Backfired on the Islamic Republic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2026 15:21


    The Iranian regime and its terror proxies spent decades plotting Israel's destruction, only to find their own movements on the brink of collapse.

    Palestinianism can't survive without the Iranian regime.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2026 10:05


    For the first time in decades, the Palestinian movement may be forced to confront a question it has spent generations avoiding.

    There's a strange connection between antisemitism and failure.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 11:31


    Most Jew-haters are a bunch of losers.

    The Middle East's Politics of Denial

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2026 9:33


    In this region, surrender becomes more dangerous than war itself.

    The War No One Is Talking About

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2026 11:57


    What looks like geopolitics in the Middle East is actually a much older, deeper civilizational and religious struggle.

    The answer to antisemitism is more Judaism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 19:32


    To every Jewish parent: Now is not the time to shrink.

    Left-wing media want the Islamic dictatorship to win.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2026 14:27


    This is not reporting. It's not journalism. It's not news. It's political and ideological spin. And it's eroding the very freedoms that give these outlets the right to free press in the first place.

    Jews everywhere are missing the point about Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2026 12:20


    The Jewish state protects Jews everywhere. It deserves more than conditional support in return.

    Progressive Benefits for Everyone — Except the Jews

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2026 12:42


    The principles of progressivism, loudly invoked for everyone else, suddenly disappear the moment Jews might benefit from them.

    How the Islamic Republic Infiltrates Western Societies

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2026 13:48


    The open information systems of liberal democracies were built to protect freedom. They are now among the primary tools used to attack it.

    Israel's PR problem is completely overrated.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2026 12:55


    The Jewish state's relations in the Middle East matter far more than Western opinions and political persuasions.

    The Delusion of Being 'Anti-War'

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2026 10:43


    There is a dangerous confusion between opposing violence and refusing to confront those who initiate it.

    Day in the Life of an Israeli During War

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2026 9:10


    From the Lebanese border to the center of the country, the rhythm of sirens reveals very different wartime realities.

    Of course Israel and America are winning this war.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2026 17:44


    Strategic patience, not headlines and commentators, reveals who is actually winning — and it's definitely not the Iranian regime.

    The Strategic Catastrophe of October 7th

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2026 11:54


    The attack meant to weaken Israel is instead destroying the Iranian regime and its terror proxies that made it possible.

    The Left forgot what liberal means.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2026 14:57


    The Iran war exposes, yet again, how many modern liberal movements now defend and excuse the very illiberal ideas they are supposed to oppose.

    Don't be fooled by Iran in English.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2026 16:19


    The Islamic Republic speaks one language to the West — while aggressively pursuing genocide, oppression, and tyranny for decades.

    While Iran fires missiles, Israel moves entire hospitals underground.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2026 12:37


    Israeli doctors return from abroad by any means necessary, babies are born three floors below the ground, and a nation's medical system keeps doing God's work during war.

    They say Israel is a liability for America. History suggests otherwise.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2026 11:05


    The conversation almost always turns to a single number: The United States currently provides Israel roughly $3.8 billion annually — but the strategic relationship is far larger.

    International law is meaningless.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2026 9:02


    Law requires enforcement. Without enforcement, it is not law. It is a suggestion.

    Iran's Global War Against the Jews

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2026 12:00


    The Islamic Republic isn't just at war with Israel. It's at war with Jews and Jewish sites everywhere.

    The Iran debate says more about the West than about the war.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2026 11:09


    In Western democracies, arguments about the Islamic Republic of Iran increasingly reflect domestic culture wars more than the realities of the Iranian regime.

    Stop calling this Israel's war or America's war.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 17:48


    In 1979, Islamists in Iran started a war with the free world. After decades of appeasement and failed diplomacy, we finally decided to confront the regime — for the benefit of the entire free world.

    What Liberals and Conservatives Get Wrong About the Islamic Republic

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2026 11:26


    Both liberals and conservatives in the West tend to misread the nature of revolutionary movements.

    The Unique Ways Israelis Remember Their Fallen

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 11:17


    In a country where nearly everyone serves, remembrance is woven into daily life — something Western societies could benefit from as well.

    Israel's wartime technology is the stuff of legend.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2026 18:04


    “This may sound like science fiction, but it's real.”

    The Iraq War was a mistake. Letting Iran get nukes would be worse.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 14:36


    We already learned what happens when the international community waits too long to prevent an absurdly hostile regime from getting nuclear weapons. Just ask North Korea.

    The Beginning of the End of NATO

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2026 15:06


    As NATO stands aside cowardly, the CENTCOM–Israel partnership is proving to be a far more effective alliance.

    The West's Ultimate Misunderstanding of the Middle East

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2026 9:36


    The Middle East is not just a different geography. It has an entirely different clock.

    The Global Left's War on Israel and the United States

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 16:51


    Many on the global Left are more determined to undermine Israel and America than to confront the authoritarian regimes threatening global stability.

    The timing of Israel's attack on Iran was not a coincidence.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 9:35


    Today, the Jewish holiday of Purim, Jews across the world recall an ancient enemy from Persia, while Israel confronts a modern one in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Inside Israel's Unprecedented Assassination of the Ayatollah

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2026 19:35


    The Israelis have likely carried out more assassinations than any other country since World War II, but they have never assassinated a head of state — until now.

    Israel is helping save the West from China.

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2026 18:30


    Even as much of the West overly criticizes the Jewish state, Israel is at the frontlines of rewriting Western dominance against Chinese expansionism.

    What the Media Won't Tell You About the War Against Iran's Regime

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2026 17:27


    While mainstream media paint pictures of Israeli and American aggression, this is what's happening from Israel's perspective — and it is historic.

    Israel made the world safer today.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2026 11:57


    The world became safer and more stable when Hitler was gone. So too it will be now that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been given the same fate.

    Anti-Israel curriculum is becoming mandatory in Canadian schools.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2026 19:28


    The trainings are billed as "anti-Palestinian racism" — even though Palestinians are not a race, and the curriculum is far more anti-Israel and antisemitic than it is "pro-Palestinian."

    This Israeli woman just made history.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2026 9:12


    Elsewhere in the Middle East, women ask for permission. In Israel, they command warships.

    The Politics of the 'Good Jew'

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2026 10:30


    Court Jews didn't disappear. They just rebranded.

    The war on Zionism is becoming a war on Jewish history.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 7:24


    When the legitimacy of Israel is denied, the legitimacy of Jewish history is next.

    China is standing against the Jews — and India with us.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2026 13:50


    Two of the world's oldest civilizations are moving in opposite directions on the Jewish question, and the implications are global.

    The Word That Diaspora Jews Are Afraid to Claim

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2026 11:42


    At some point, belief demands a name. And names, in Jewish tradition, shape destiny.

    The (Obvious) Reasons Israel and America Should Eliminate Iran's Regime

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 15:02


    The case for "decapitating the government of Iran" isn't complicated. It's long overdue.

    Israel is what happens when you run out of places to go.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 11:10


    Jews have been told to "just leave" for 2,000 years, so we did — and that's why the State of Israel exists.

    Is Tucker Carlson being bribed?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2026 13:41


    American media personality Tucker Carlson thinks he's defending the United States. The Qataris thank him.

    The world no longer feels sorry for Jews. Now what?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2026 13:07


    For decades, Holocaust memory anchored Jewish legitimacy. In a post-sympathy world, Jewish education must rethink its foundations.

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