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.

Ideological signaling from European governments is making many Israeli-European alliances untenable, and it will ultimately be the continent's detriment.

A Cold War playbook for distorting reality is now visible in the way Israel is framed and understood.

This is not an easy episode to listen to. It does not, in any way, diminish Jeffrey Epstein's despicable crimes — but it does reveal how others interpret them.

A fringe of Israelis is being mistaken for a national trait — and the distortion says more about the narrative than it does about Israel.

Values tells us Judaism stands for something, but not what it obligates.

The ideology that created the Holocaust was not defeated in 1945. Nazis from across Europe evaded punishment and instead found refuge and employment in the Middle East.

Western naivety is Israel's security risk.

The world had its chance. Now Israel is taking its own.

Europe chose neutrality not out of strategy, but because segments of its own societies have made supporting the Jewish state untenable — even when doing so aligns with Europe's own interests.

For my family, who endured the Holocaust, the line between history and present-day Jew-hatred has begun to blur.

When you lose 63 percent of your entire continental population, you do not dilute that experience into something abstract.

"Any money that is going over to Israel, they seem to have an issue with it. And it ramped up after October 7th."

Where children grow up with sirens and families learn to carry on, “fine” becomes a language of resilience.

The fact that everyday Israelis have weathered yet another war with the Islamic Republic of Iran so successfully should inspire us to ask what we could achieve if we weren't held back by fear.

A routine cab ride turns into a chilling reminder that antisemitism in Europe is adapting, migrating, and speaking openly.

The allies dismantled Iran's military infrastructure, but left untouched the narrative engine designed to end wars by breaking democracies from within.

When we rush to conclusions about the "ceasefire," we become participants in narratives that may not reflect reality. We amplify certainty where there is none.

Jewish communities abroad are not waystations en route to Israel, nor auxiliaries of the Jewish state, but integral to the fullness of Jewish life.

War is the easy part. Now comes Benjamin Netanyahu's ultimate test — and it will decide his political future and legacy.

This isn't peace. It's a pressure-filled pause before what comes next.

Zohran Mamdani's mosque ties, political alliances, and public actions raise serious questions.

The only unusual thing about the Jewish state is how it's viewed, discussed, and judged.

Since October 7th, liberal instincts and comforting myths have clouded judgment about Israel and the Jewish People.

Israel's protests are back, but they're not what they say they are. The sad reality is that Israeli leftists are marching against irrelevance, not war.

Admiring Adolf Hitler isn't just a signal that you reject “the post-war Western moral order.” It's a signal that you reject the Western moral order as such.

A sociopolitical stream that once promised safety and belonging now struggles to distinguish between Jewish power and Jewish vulnerability.

Calling Israelis "strong" or "resilient" actually lets the cycle of war continue.

This week, the Jewish comedian Modi showed a level of self-respect and clarity that Jews can no longer afford to live without.

Hostage deals, repeat killers, and media spin led Israelis to a breaking point.

In 2026, being Jewish means answering questions nobody else is asked.

Facing sirens and missiles, he chose to celebrate the holiday — and taught me a lesson about courage, love, and letting go.

Between greater antisemitism in the West and the promise of Israel, a new question emerges: not where Jews should live, but how they can build the freedom to choose.

CNN helped build an anti-Israel narrative of which it now faces the consequences. When the press picks a side, it stops being journalism.

From sirens to shelters, boredom to terror — a glimpse into daily survival, small joys, and the personal lessons war leaves behind.

True support for Israel means backing the nation itself—not just the leaders we like.

Strategic deception has shaped battles across history. Don't be surprised if the U.S. and Israel are cooking something up as well.

The same company that relied on Jewish slave labor to boost profits may now rely on the Jewish state to survive.

To ask what an American–Israeli victory over Iran would “look like” is to assume that there exists a final state that can be identified, fixed, and preserved. There is no such state.

The glamorization of violence is hollowing out Western civilization from within.

The West's moral high ground is a death trap. Restraint against ruthless adversaries only cedes advantage, costs lives, and undermines long-term security.

To defend Israel is to defend the West's capacity to renew itself — because the real war is not about land. It is about whether the West still believes in its own foundations.

Allowing the Islamic Republic of Iran to endure would signal to regimes everywhere that deception, brutality, and aggression pay off — and that the free world will not finish what it starts.

President Trump's approach to Iran exposes competing factions within the Republican Party, and how the Democrats might manipulate it. The topic of U.S. support for Israel is sure to follow suit.

Terrorists exploit children, then blame their enemies — and far too many people actually believe them.

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

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

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

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

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