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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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    Israel just triggered the end of Iran's rogue regime.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 26:43


    The collapse of Iran's Islamic Republic, once almost unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility. These are all of the possible outcomes.

    You don't have to like the Jews, but you should fear us.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2025 11:52


    Today, a complete Jew is rooted in tradition, but capable of self-defense; fluent in Torah, but unafraid to fight.

    This is how Israel dismantled Iran from within.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 14:13


    The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack's kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed.

    The Ancient Jewish Roots of Israel's Military Doctrine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2025 13:30


    The Talmudic advice of "rise and kill first" does not glorify violence; it acknowledges evil. It does not desire war; it seeks to prevent death in a world that has rarely cared for Jewish survival.

    Israel is saving the West from itself.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2025 11:00


    The Israelis understand Iran's jihadist regime for what it truly is, something much of the postmodern West has lost the ability to do and the courage to undertake.

    Antisemitism is a death sentence for Jew-haters.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2025 9:23


    Throughout history, powerful empires have made the same fatal mistake: believing they could erase the Jewish People. The Islamic Republic is next on a long list of Jew-haters who have vanished.

    7 Things You Need to Know About the Israel-Iran War

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 19:38


    This is not a conflict over two competing national claims. Israel wants to survive, Iran wants to conquer.

    This is what 'Never Again' looks like.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 12:16


    For decades, the West has played whack-a-mole with Iran, hoping that diplomacy, sanctions, or deals could contain the threat. But Israel lives in the real world, not in international conference rooms.

    Israel doesn't owe anyone an explanation.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2025 21:58


    Israel is not on trial. Israel was attacked. And any moral conversation begins there.

    If Holocaust-era Denmark could save its Jews, we can too.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 14:27


    Now we need to decide whose side we are on. Now we need to get over our fear and take action.

    Now they're targeting Jewish politicians.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2025 11:30


    “This is a democracy. You fight dangerous ideas at the ballot box, not with bans from foreign nations.”

    Genocide is not a meme, so stop treating it like one.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 16:07


    In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn't commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.

    8 Things You Need to Know About Judaism's Holiest Site

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2025 10:35


    The holiest site on earth for the Jewish People is not the Western Wall. It's the Temple Mount, in the heart of Jerusalem.

    A Curious Case of Selective Outrage Syndrome

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 12:04


    It's never really been about helping Palestinians; it's about blaming Jews. Let's not get it twisted.

    Diaspora Jews are in a war, and we must be combatants.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2025 10:44


    "Unfortunately, the malign forces — unmatched in human history — threaten to consume Jews once more. However, this time, we are winning. The question is, do we have the will to achieve victory?"

    Your rage isn't about Gaza. It's about Jews.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2025 14:22


    Today's "anti-Zionism" is just yesterday's antisemitism — with better PR. So much of the world always finds a new excuse to despise the Jews.

    10 Basic Misunderstandings About the Israel-Gaza War

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 19:33


    Israel doesn't oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.

    This isn't your grandmother's antisemitism. It's worse.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2025 20:23


    The moral software we use to detect antisemitism hasn't been updated in years. It no longer recognizes the new strains of Jew-hate. That's what makes it so dangerous.

    The ‘pro-Palestinian' mob made me convert to Judaism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 13:14


    I wasn't born a Jew. Rampant college antisemitism drove me to become one.

    Israel cannot win this war until it stops lying about the enemy.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 19:06


    This is not a war simply against Hamas. It is a war against "Palestine."

    The United Nations of Jew-Haters

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 16:10


    Welcome to the UN, where Israel is cast as the world's greatest villain, and its executioners get a standing ovation.

    The road to Jewish hell is paved with 'Tikkun Olam.'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 17:30


    What is it about this popularized Hebrew phrase that seems to drive people batsh*t crazy and leads us to disaster?

    Multiculturalism sounds nice — until it destroys your society.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 11:51


    As the late, great Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, a nation is held together by a covenant: a shared story, identity, and responsibility. Israel understands this; much of today's West does not.

    When Hamas cheers you on, you might be doing it wrong.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 17:16


    The truth is France, Canada, and the UK are so morally confused that Israel pays attention only as a political formality.

    Four of the Most Viral Lies About Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 14:47


    If you're going to shout slogans, at least know what you're talking about. Because peddling lies helps no one, least of all the people you claim to support.

    Jews must ask themselves why this keeps happening.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 12:09


    This isn't about Gaza. It never was.

    The Slow Death of Jewish Self-Respect

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 7:11


    Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening and continues throughout Monday, is the most important Jewish holiday that many Jews never truly celebrate.

    If you only cry for Palestinian children, you've been duped.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 11:51


    "Think of the children" is the Palestinians' favorite propaganda strategy.

    The Jewish state exists because it was never allowed to be weak.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 12:09


    Legendary writer John Steinbeck walked Israel's soil. What he saw stunned him. For better and for worse, very little has changed.

    Israel doesn't need a better image. It needs to win.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 29:35


    “Hasbara” has become a religion, a ritual we perform to prove to the world that we are “the good Jews.” But “good Jews” are not spared of murder. So stop explaining, stop apologising, stop pleading.

    My Favorite Jewish Conspiracies (And Why I'm Proud of Every One)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2025 10:37


    Apparently Jews control everything (even that random cloud that looks like the Israeli flag). Here's our user manual.

    The Progressives' Terrorism Problem

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 10:53


    After a killer's political delusions of "righteous violence" drove him to murder random Jews on the streets of America, it is clear that the disease of terrorism has metastasized from Right to Left.

    Israel's own media is a weapon for its enemies.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 11:00


    The only country in the Middle East with free press gets vilified for using it.

    Antisemitism must be studied as a serious mental illness.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 11:53


    A hatred so irrational, so obsessive, and so resistant to facts and history should no longer be treated as mere prejudice. It should be diagnosed.

    Jews aren't allowed to be angry, but we are.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2025 9:36


    The Holocaust made Jews sad. October 7th and its aftermath made us angry. Two-thousand years of suppressed Jewish rage ends now.

    'Free Palestine' is a call for terrorism, not a cry for justice.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 9:40


    The "Free Palestine" chant doesn't have to make sense. It only needs to unite all against the symbol of "evil" — the one they declared the barrier to a more "just" world: the Jew.

    Supporting Israel should not be controversial.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 12:53


    If your commitment to justice is consistent and honest, then you already know that supporting Israel isn't extreme. Pretending it's controversial is.

    When 'Never Again' becomes a slogan, Jews forget what it really means.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 11:06


    “Never again!” should stand as a warning to all Jews, not as a source of comfort.

    What Hitler saw in Évian, Hamas sees in Paris.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 11:12


    Today's war dresses itself in "progressive" language, legal briefs, and diplomatic forums — but which remains, at its core, a war against the Jews.

    The Jews have a woefully weak position on antisemitism.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2025 14:22


    Jewish identity cannot be contingent on outside approval. It must be rooted in self-respect, strength, and knowing that our values are only meaningful when paired with the power to protect them.

    If you think Israel is the problem, you don't understand Israelis.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 7:44


    Through all this chaos, death, and shock, something keeps coming up for me: the strength and moral character of the Israelis.

    Western leaders are getting Jews killed.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 13:06


    Powerful politicians across the West are "fighting" antisemitism with one hand, while feeding it with the other. Sadly, they don't seem to understand the link, and it is now costing lives.

    An Open Letter to the Capital Jewish Museum Murderer

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 9:32


    You don't seem to understand what kind of people we are.

    The Hypocritical Politics of Antisemitism in America

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 8:19


    For too many U.S. politicians, activists, and everyday citizens, antisemitism is only condemned when it is perfectly convenient. But Jews are not a political football; we are people.

    No, Israel doesn't enjoy killing children — and you should be ashamed for saying it.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2025 11:39


    Israel is not the side that made child death a war strategy. We are the ones trying to stop it, while the world ties our hands and lectures us on the perversion of “morality.”

    The real 'Nakba' was Jewish naïveté.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 15:37


    The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a comforting lie we told ourselves. We believed in a future they never wanted.

    The Biggest Cultural Divide Between Israeli Jews and Diaspora Jews

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 11:03


    Israeli Jews ask for forgiveness. Diaspora Jews ask for permission. In our post-October 7th world increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, both are necessary.

    Europe's Extreme Swing From Auschwitz to 'Allahu Akbar'

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 11:17


    The post-World War II European war on nationalism has made it a safe space for antisemitism.

    It's absurd that ultra-Orthodox Israelis should receive an IDF exemption.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2025 8:48


    According to Jewish law, yeshiva students should not be exempted en masse from military service.

    Thailand can teach Israel about nation branding.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 11:47


    If Israel wants to be known not just for the tiring Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but for its boundless creativity, it might do well to borrow a page or two from Thailand's cookbook.

    Antisemitism is actually a sign of Jewish strength.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 19:08


    When Jews look into the eyes of their haters, they may feel weak, but antisemites are really acknowledging Jewish greatness.

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