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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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    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.

    Non-Jews can teach us a lot about ourselves.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2025 17:55


    "Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips." — Proverbs 27:2

    The era of Social Justice Jews is over.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 7:55


    After spending decades of time and billions of dollars, October 7th showed us how much this strategy was an utter disaster.

    Is Trump selling out Israel? No, because Israel is not for sale.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 10:46


    With or without the United States as a key partner, Israel will be just fine.

    Iran isn't building a 'civilian' nuclear program.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 9:12


    It has massive gas reserves and some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The Iranian regime's "civilian" nuclear program is as much of a front as a mafia's chain of pizza parlors.

    Once again, Jews are caught in the crossfire of a media revolution.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 10:25


    A familiar pattern has re-emerged: The media revolts, the world unravels, and the Jews absorb the blow.

    These young Jews leave everything behind to defend Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 12:16


    The phenomenon of “lone soldiers” predates the modern State of Israel. Today, the country is home to an estimated 7,000 of them.

    My Palestinian best friend made me a proud Zionist.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 17:57


    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict came between us — but it was never the whole story.

    Even antisemitism has positive effects.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 9:44


    Is anything we experience today unprecedented? Should we be surprised by the obvious rise in antisemitism? Is that really new?

    This is the moment for Israel to remember what it means to be sovereign.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 9:35


    While Israeli analysts debate whether there's a rift with the United States, the real story is more complex. There's no rupture, but there is recalibration.

    October 7th shattered us, but it also awakened something beautiful.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 13:46


    The aftermath of this unprecedented massacre was an important reminder that Judaism isn't just a religion; it's a revolution of the spirit.

    It is illegal to be pro-Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 9:56


    Welcome to the year 2025, where spiritual leaders help fund terrorists and European bureaucrats hallucinate Israeli Club Meds in the rubble of Hamas bunkers.

    Progressive Judaism must interrogate progressivism.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 8:00


    Progressive Jews often insist on assessing Judaism through the lens of progressivism, but the reverse could save progressivism from itself.

    Before the Holocaust, Britain had a chance to save Europe's Jews.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 15:19


    Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there was British Guiana: a Jewish homeland in South America that never happened.

    Palestinians call it 'resistance.' It looks a lot like extortion.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 8:44


    The actual "occupation" is of facts, morals, and logic.

    What Happens When Jews Don't Fit the Conspiracy

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 10:32


    When we bother to notice Jews on the Right as well as the Left, throughout history and across the globe, then antisemitic grand theories fall apart.

    Why Antisemitism Is Spreading Faster Than Truth

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 17:26


    Various datasets explain why so many young people despise Jews — and what it says about all of us.

    The Unbreakable Link Between Zionism and Judaism

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 12:57


    Zionism without Judaism is empty, while Judaism without Zionism is crippled.

    Do I believe in God? I'm not sure. But I believe in His people.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 18:49


    I've long wrestled with my doubt in God. But especially after October 7th, I've come to believe that, even if I'm unsure about Him, I completely believe in His people.

    I was violently attacked, again. Is it time for me to leave the UK?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 10:08


    When even the great institutions of the UK are more likely to be standing against British Jews than standing alongside them, is it just time for me to pack up and leave?

    Israel's unbelievable genius is rewriting the Middle East.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 10:27


    “Iran is at its most vulnerable that it's been in 45 years.”

    Hitler was right to fear the Jews.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 10:55


    “Judaism is a living protest against the herd instinct. Ours is the dissenting voice in the conversation of humankind.”

    Fighting antisemitism has become politically incorrect.

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 10:47


    The theme that Jews are causing antisemitism by standing up against it continues.

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