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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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    To understand Israel, remember the Jews of the Arab world.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2025 12:01


    You can't talk about Palestinian refugees without talking about Jewish ones.

    For some reason, 'the Jews' make societies go mad.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 10:45


    While Sudan burns and Muslims in the UK make up a disproportionate amount of its crime, the world obsesses about a tiny Jewish state.

    Jews cannot afford to be naïve about the hatred that never died.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2025 10:17


    When I see antisemitism rise again, I don't call it “a surge.” I call it history repeating and recycling itself.

    The world is more Jewish than we realized.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 11:10


    DNA testing is revealing that as many as 152 million additional people have Jewish roots. If more people knew they were part-Jewish, would they still hate Jews?

    While Jews criticize Israel, Israel looks after Jews everywhere.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 15:10


    Israel is the collective insurance policy of the Jewish People, and the only one we have ever had. This is not just a heartwarming sentiment; it's a Mossad mandate.

    The war is over, but I don't feel relief.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2025 8:18


    This isn't peace. It's exhaustion, grief, and the fragile miracle of still being here.

    Diversity is overrated. Yeah, I said it.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2025 8:42


    The truth is: Diversity is not what makes a society great.

    Israelis are not cartoons. We're real people.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 8:35


    Myopia now colors how the world sees Israelis — this inability to imagine that other people, living elsewhere, are just as complex as you are.

    How to Steal the Meaning of Genocide: A Guide

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2025 23:46


    Wear down a word, turn it inside out, and let institutions give the corpse a certificate of authenticity. Then, you can accuse anyone of anything, and the accusation itself becomes its own proof.

    Hard Pills to Swallow If You're a Jew

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2025 12:41


    But hard pills are often medicine. They cure us of illusions that make us weak. They teach us to depend not on others' mercy but on our own strength, unity, and faith.

    Ceasefires don't end wars. Disarmament does.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 12:03


    Lasting peace will never come from pauses in violence, but from the courage to eliminate those who perpetuate it.

    'God is my psychologist.'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2025 10:02


    After October 7th, many secular Israelis are embracing religion again, but not in the ways you might expect.

    The Lie About 'Palestine' That Keeps the Middle East at War

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 7:26


    The world keeps pretending that a “Palestinian state” still needs to be created. It ignores the one that already exists. That illusion has destroyed more lives than any war.

    Israel won the war. Now what?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2025 15:47


    The Jews must rebuild. Here's how.

    Reform Judaism isn't Jewish. It's an entirely different religion.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 13:13


    For two centuries, we've been told that Conservative, Reform, and Orthodox are “denominations” of the same faith — but what if they're not?

    Academia is trying to rewrite Jewish history.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2025 11:56


    Meanwhile, highly qualified Jewish faculty are either run out of academia or their lives are made intolerable the moment they dare teach the truth about Zionism and antisemitism.

    They don't hate Israel. They hate losing.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2025 14:16


    "Anti-Zionists" aren't really protesting Israel. They're protesting being part of a losing cause — and protesting makes them feel like noble losers.

    The Gaza genocide narrative won't age well.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2025 9:12


    The Left says Gaza changed everything. History says otherwise.

    Diaspora Jews learned to be helpless — and that must end.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2025 12:32


    Two millennia of powerlessness still shapes the Jewish mind. But Diaspora Jews have power, and it's time to use it.

    If you want to see the future of the West, look at Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2025 16:33


    Israelis still believe in something. Westerners ought to, too.

    The people trying to save the world are the ones destroying it.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2025 15:55


    The louder the calls for "justice" become, the more injustice they create.

    Europe is losing its religion, and its Jews.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 14:42


    As cathedrals turn into nightclubs and faith gives way to nihilism, Europe's moral collapse is driving out the very people who once embodied its conscience.

    Peace in the Middle East begins with ending Palestinianism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2025 8:29


    U.S. President Donald Trump's Peace Plan declares: Jewish sovereignty is not the problem. It's the precedent.

    If you think you know the Torah, listen to this.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 16:09


    As we celebrate Simchat Torah , which marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, how much do you really know about these ancient Jewish texts?

    The real war has just begun.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2025 11:28


    For Israel and for the Jewish People, this is only the intermission.

    For Jews, it's time to celebrate — and then strategize.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2025 13:46


    The illusions are gone. We are living in a time that demands intellectual fortitude, moral clarity, political intelligence, creative genius, and spiritual stamina.

    Returning the Israeli hostages is not nearly enough.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2025 12:55


    Returning the Israeli hostages without destroying Hamas is like treating cancer with painkillers.

    A Salute to the Men and Women Who Keep Israel Alive

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2025 13:50


    In the IDF, we see the Jewish story itself — because, when Israelis fight, they fight for life.

    A defining moment in Israeli-Arab relations is upon us.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2025 17:25


    The real history between Israelis and Arabs isn't about land or religion, but about pride, culture, and a civilization struggling to face its own reflection in the Jewish state.

    The Antisemitic Thing About Antisemitic Things

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 10:00


    The hatred never dies. It just updates its software.

    Programmed to Hate Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2025 12:51


    It's not activism. It's a 100-year propaganda war. The Nazis invented the "genocide" lie about Jews, and the Left revived it.

    This ceasefire is proof that we need new strategies.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2025 12:38


    What comes next will define and redefine the Jewish People.

    If Hitler had TikTok, the Nazis might have won.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 12:46


    Today, social media can invert reality. It's not "a terror group hides behind civilians" but "Israel slaughters children." Hamas has perfected it, and the world swallows it whole.

    We are all October 8th Jews now.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2025 11:57


    October 8, 2023 was when the world changed for Jews, and when Jews began to change for the world.

    What Jews Do Best

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2025 7:25


    Even when everything breaks, the Jewish People build again. That is the lesson of October 7th, just like it is throughout the Jews' extensive history.

    The Jews have a right to win.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 13:09


    Survival is no longer enough. After centuries of virulent antisemitism which still haunts us to this very day, Jewish strength, unity, and faith must become our victory. No permission required.

    The Historical Secrets for Israeli-Palestinian Peace

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2025 13:30


    "Eternal peace" requires a paradigm shift, not a press conference.

    Israel was sold victory, and got surrender.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2025 16:28


    U.S. President Donald Trump, with the help of Hamas' backers, is turning the Jewish state's surrender into his "Peace Prize."

    The Global War Against the Jews

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 11:18


    The lesson of history is unambiguous: Those who love dead Jews will never defend living ones. Only Jews can do that. And we must.

    Islamism kills Jews. The West pretends not to notice.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 12:46


    Jews are murdered in the UK, just like they were on October 7th, and far too many people still won't say why.

    They're lying to us about the Gaza flotillas.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 10:43


    The truth is far darker than most headlines admit.

    'Pro-Palestinians' are angry that Palestinians want a ceasefire.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 8:39


    The contrast between the emerging consensus among the “pro-Palestine” crowd and the cries of actual Palestinians in Gaza could hardly be starker.

    Yom Kippur attack exposes link between antisemitism and national decline.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 12:45


    The UK, Canada, and Australia were once the world's most tolerant multicultural societies. Now they are hotbeds of antisemitism. It spells major decline not just for their Jews, but for these entire nations.

    The Day of Atonement is also the Day of Contradictions.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 10:00


    We are told to forgive, but what if forgiveness makes things worse?

    5 Things You Didn't Know About Yom Kippur

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 13:13


    Most people know it as a solemn day of self-denial and synagogue services, but there's so much more to this holy day.

    This is how the golden age of Diaspora Jewry ends.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 16:21


    Judged in the context of Jewish history, it is more likely than not if something isn't done. And what needs to be done is to smash the Red-Green Alliance.

    'Free speech' is a free pass for antisemitism.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 13:46


    Freedom of speech was meant to protect dissent, not destroy democracies.

    A real Middle East peace plan starts with security for Israel.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 17:52


    After October 7th, security isn't hardline. It's baseline.

    Trump's peace plan for Gaza will fail miserably.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 12:46


    Much of the West still clings to the fantasy that Islamists can be coaxed into moderation. But Islamists only see such gestures as weakness to be exploited.

    Everyone thinks they know what Zionism means. Shockingly few do.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 13:50


    To oppose Zionism is to say that everyone deserves sovereignty except the Jews. That is not edgy activism; it is antisemitism.

    Jews should retreat, before they force us out.

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2025 10:38


    Retreating on our own terms transforms weakness into sovereignty, dignity, and renewal — before history repeats itself again.

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