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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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    Politics is the new religion, and Jews should know better.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2025 14:31


    Jewish history is littered with real-life examples of what happens when sociopolitical movements become messianic doctrines. The outcome is rarely pretty.

    My grandmother was Palestinian, but not the kind you think.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 6:55


    Back then, “Palestinian” meant Jewish. Ask anyone who lived through it.

    Fighting antisemitism is no longer useful if we don't go inward.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2025 8:19


    If we define ourselves predominantly through the fight against antisemitism, we risk reinforcing the very image they project onto us.

    They starve our people to crush the Jewish soul.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 10:04


    Our enemy is not just fighting with guns and bombs. They are experts at weaponizing emotion — guilt, shame, grief, fear, rage — and turning it against us. Let's not fall into their pernicious trap.

    How to Dismantle the Israel Genocide Lie — A Guide

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2025 12:25


    For those who courageously stand with Israel, here is a step-by-step strategy to shut down the false genocide narrative levied at the Jewish state and expose the dangerous double standards fueling it.

    This Jewish history will change how you see our future.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2025 11:46


    This one "what if" could rewrite 2,000 years of Jewish exile, suffering, and persecution. Now, the path to be taken rests on our shoulders.

    Social work has a Jewish problem.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2025 12:53


    When it comes to Jews, longtime social work ethics have become voided as an integral part of our field.

    You don't need to support Israel, but don't obsess about us either.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 13:05


    We're not asking for your loyalty, just your ability to mind your own business.

    I tried to be pro-Palestinian, but they made it impossible.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2025 9:54


    Far too many Palestinians and their "supporters" choose terror over peace and coexistence, propaganda over truth, and endless sympathy without any accountability.

    The Tragic Truth Behind Israel's War Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2025 9:59


    Israel can't both rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. It's a devastating moral dilemma, but reality always beats wishful thinking.

    The obsession with Netanyahu is hiding something far uglier.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 14:56


    How has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to be seen as the embodiment of evil? Is he really the monster that the media often portrays him to be?

    Europe's New Policy: Punish Jews, Reward Islamists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2025 12:40


    The UK wants to recognize a Palestinian state based on bizarre logic. Hamas is thrilled, of course — but what happens when we apply the British prime minister's own reasoning to the Palestinians?

    We need a new antisemitism strategy.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 8:56


    We have to stop sounding the alarm about antisemitism as a political strategy to get our neighbors to care. It's not working, and it may even be hurting us.

    Too many people still don't understand Hamas.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2025 14:39


    Hamas isn't a government. It's not a liberation or "resistance" movement. It's a gang, a mafia. Maybe that reframing will wake up more people to the reality in Gaza and other parts of the Middle East.

    Israel must end this war — by winning it.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 17:57


    Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality are not acts of ethics; they are acts of madness.

    You can't feed starving Gazans without facing this truth.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2025 9:09


    Feeding people in Gaza isn't simply a humanitarian issue. It's a power struggle, and the United Nations is not impartial. They are aiding and abetting Hamas.

    The Most Dangerous Enemy Jews Have Ever Faced

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2025 10:46


    When Jews turn on Jews, everyone loses. And yet we keep making the same ignorant mistake.

    A Palestinian state cannot be recognized into existence.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 8:32


    External parties can dream about "Palestine" until they go blue in the face, but the reality is that Palestinians have zero capability to self-govern, no less zero desire to live in peace with Israel.

    Westerners have no idea about refugee camps and humanitarian aid.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2025 13:14


    In 2018, I visited two refugee camps in Lebanon, a place where Israelis are banned and Jews aren't welcome. What I saw shattered what I thought I understood about humanitarian aid.

    Only Jews are expected to feed their sworn enemy.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 11:51


    No, Israel doesn't owe Gazans breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Would you seriously feed your neighbor who's trying to set your house ablaze and viciously murder your family?

    I moved to Israel as a banana, but then I became a cactus.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2025 10:44


    Moving here taught me to thrive with thorns.

    The Real Reasons People Care So Much About the Israel-Hamas War

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2025 12:24


    Here's the uncomfortable truth: Most of this caring is performative. It's cheap outrage, a way to feel righteous and stroke the ego without paying a price. Meanwhile, people in Israel and Gaza suffer.

    A quiet revolution is taking shape in the IDF.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 9:04


    “An army marches on its stomach.”

    Everything you've been told about Israel and Palestine is backwards.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2025 15:48


    The only real way to understand this saga is to understand its perpetual cause-and-effect nature.

    'Anti-Zionism' is a serious moral failure.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 10:33


    "Anti-Zionists" cheer for the side whose game plan for victory is sacrificing as many of their own civilians as possible.

    The New York Times is lying to you about genocide.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2025 11:45


    Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.

    The biggest threat to Israel is Jewish defeatism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 12:25


    It's bad enough when Jew-haters attack us. It's much worse when our own people do.

    Don't disgrace Israel with politics.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2025 11:41


    To define the Jewish state by its current government or any of its governments or politicians is to misunderstand what Israel is, and worse, to pollute its very essence.

    Fake empathy is fueling antisemitism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2025 14:56


    Empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”

    America's relationship with Israel is fading.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 11:26


    If current trends continue, and if voting patterns start to reflect the shifting views of the electorate, we may find ourselves in uncharted territory.

    Hamas wants more babies. Jews should too.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2025 11:26


    When jihadists talk demographics, the Jewish People ought to listen.

    The Far-Left's obsession with victimhood is making minorities less safe.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2025 9:16


    It makes no moral sense — until you recognize the real ideology at play: stay oppressed, or be villainized. Liberation is only acceptable if it never actually arrives.

    Stop judging Israel like it's 200 years old.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2025 13:52


    The State of Israel is younger than McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, JCPenney, Colgate, and your grandma's microwave. Yet the world expects it to have the wisdom of a centuries-old monastery.

    There is no shame in Jewish power, and we should use it.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 12:16


    Jews must use their power in many ways, and the most effective is to employ wildly disproportionate means to achieve deterrence.

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    This war isn't about Gaza. It's about God.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2025 27:34


    We're living through a spiritual armageddon — and most people don't see it.

    This is why Israel didn't assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 11:36


    Ali Khamenei lives today not because Israel can't kill him, but because Israel believes some lines should not be crossed, even when facing an enemy that respects none.

    The Hardest Jewish Lesson I'm Teaching My Children

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2025 7:54


    Can we develop the courage to be despised, and the strength to be beloved? That is the Jewish paradox.

    Meet the terror group on college campuses.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 19:46


    "Students for Justice in Palestine" is not about Palestinians. It's about hating Jews. It's Hamas' PR team at Western universities.

    Everything you think about Gaza is based on a lie.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2025 11:11


    Stop asking if Israel committed war crimes. Start asking who told you that.

    Shakespeare wrote modern antisemitism's playbook.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 18:21


    In “The Merchant of Venice,” the English playwright provides a description of Judeophobia before the word existed.

    Are you afraid of Israel?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 9:56


    Strong Jews scare people. They always have.

    Both Nazis and Communists hate Jews. Only one is taught in schools.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 13:08


    This is what happens when we only mourn some victims of history.

    This 115-year-old Zionist essay is more relevant than ever.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 21:41


    Instead of apologizing, Jews should remind the world: We were here before you, and we will be leaving after you. We are fine just the way we are.

    Britain has a Jewish problem.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 13:21


    Despite its reputation for tolerance, Britain has long nurtured antisemitism — from Shakespeare to the BBC, from street protests to state policy — and today it's resurfacing with alarming intensity.

    If Israel is an apartheid state, it's the strangest one on Earth.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 12:52


    What I saw during my visit to Israel destroyed this absurd lie.

    The world keeps trying to rebuild Gaza — and failing.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 12:35


    From British blueprints to billionaire fantasies, every grand vision for Gaza has collapsed under the weight of war, terror, and history.

    A missile struck this world-class institute in Israel, and the world shrugged.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 9:30


    This wasn't just an attack on Israel. It was an attack on human progress.

    I was an 'anti-Zionist' Jew once upon a time.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 11:39


    Now, I'm an Israeli citizen living in one of the country's most diverse cities, where coexistence isn't just a buzzword but a real way of life.

    Bibi's White House showdown will redefine Israel's future.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 11:59


    As one of the greatest politicians of our time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu isn't just strategizing; he's rewriting the rules of power.

    Anti-Israel social media is radicalizing Western youth.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 8:43


    Welcome to the "TikTok Intifada," delivered by the Chinese Communist Party, amplified by the Muslim Brotherhood, and coming to a smartphone near you.

    Zionism isn't the issue. Your obsession with Jews is.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 18:44


    Israel isn't judged because it's uniquely brutal. It's judged because it's uniquely Jewish.

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