Podcasts about zionists

Hagar Kotef, Professor of Political Theory at SOAS, University of London, discusses her book The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine, analyzing the concept of “home” as both a physical endeavor and an object of attachment, against the backdrop of the Zionist settlement and the dispossession of Palestinians that it entailed

The religious Zionist demographic makes up about 10% of the Israeli population, yet it has emerged as one of the most influential segments of society, both within the government and in the country at large. This demographic is undergoing significant change, from being primarily focused on issues of security, territory and settlement, to being at the forefront of the government's judicial revolution. Donniel Hartman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Elana Stein Hain dive into the complexities of the religious Zionist community's evolution and its relationship to Netanyahu's governing coalition. Elana Stein Hain new book, Circumventing the Law, is available for pre-order: https://www.pennpress.org/9781512824407/circumventing-the-law/ Netta Barak-Corren's English paper on the Judicial Reform: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_r-5u_lT6TIc27SjireMrlNux1roM72C/view

For access to the full Sus Psychedelics, Inc. series and other premium episodes, subscribe to the Al-Wara' Frequency at patreon.com/subliminaljihad. PHASE FOUR: THE CLINICAL FINISH LINE Dr. Roland Griffiths and the Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Study, using psychedelics to lower the fear response and confront death, the incredibly revealing 1979 “A Conversation on LSD” reunion video featuring Tim Leary, Humphrey Osmond, Oscar Janiger, Al Hubbard, Willis Harmon, Myron Stolaroff, and Laura Huxley, talking about Allen “indefatigable Zionist for drugs” Ginsberg, the necessity of “shaking things up” a bit, “The Search for the Manchurian Candidate” by John Marks… The Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Crockers, Michael Pollan's “How To Change Your Mind” turning on the soccer moms, Leary's writings on Egg Intelligence and the Termite Queen Gaia Religion of the future, influencing the influencers… The Temple of the People in Halcyon, CA, Master Hilarion and the Theosophical roots of Silicon Valley, Steiner's warnings about Ahrimanic transhumanism, the Halcyon-raised Varian Brothers and Lytton Industries, moving into klystron & microwave tube production for the Pentagon, the rise of semiconductor manufacturing in the Valley, the evolutionary element known as Timothy Leary imagining himself as the reincarnation of G.I. Gurdjieff and Aleister Crowley… Leo Zeff biographer/LSD pioneer Myron Stolaroff's substantial engineering career in Silicon Valley, getting mentored by Fred Terman at Stanford, Lewis Terman's psychedelic protege Betty Eisner, the International Foundation for Advanced Study, the revolutionary Ampex Model 300 tape recorder that took Hollywood by storm, Bing Crosby, the staggeringly innovative output of Ampex alumni including Atari, Pixar, Dreamworks, Apple, Dolby Surround Sound, Larry Ellison and the CIA-contracted Project Oracle, sus microdosing advocate Jim Fadiman's work at IFAS, SRI-ARC, and Esalen, taking shrooms with dirtbag groomer Ram Dass in Paris, Fadiman's gifted child cousin William James Siddis, the “not upsetting, but kind of opening” nudist romps at the Esalen baths, mycologist heir Alan Rockefeller, Col. James Ketchum's work at the Edgewood Arsenal and Haight Ashbury Free Clinic… The ayahuasca murder/lynching saga of Sebastian Woodruff, the LSD/ketamine-fueled, con artist guru-assisted death of Malibu eye surgeon Mark Sarwusch, and a brief look at shaman to the stars Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, who says ketamine is an evolutionary technology that will help us make contact with alien intelligences.

Israel celebrated its 75th birthday in the midst of one of the biggest crises of democracy that the country has ever experienced and one of the most energetic protest movements in its history. In this episode, recorded live at the Marlene Meyerson JCC in Manhattan on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Yehuda Kurtzer is joined by Knesset member Merav Michaeli, the head of the Israeli Labor Party. They engage in a conversation about the current moment in Israel, the ethics of political compromise, and the past and future of the Israeli left. Can liberals reclaim the language and narratives of Zionist thought and history that have been co-opted by the far right? What is the role of American Jews in bringing about an Israel we can be proud of? And is there something in the air in Israel these recent weeks that might hint toward an affirmative vision for Israeli liberal democracy?

This series is sponsored by Unpacking Israeli History.This week, we are sponsored by the Inaugural Global Jewish Fertility Support Summit, organized by the nonprofit I Was Supposed To Have A Baby. Taking place on Sunday, May 7th, via Zoom, this summit will include some of the most prominent voices from 15 major fertility organizations worldwide. Whether you're on a fertility journey, a professional, clergy, or lay leader in the space, or if you want to know how to be more sensitive to your friends and family, this summit is for you! Learn more and register for FREE at iwassupposedtohaveababy.org.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Bezalel Naor—author, translator, and expert on Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook—about Rav Kook's relationship to the Land of Israel.Rabbi Naor helps us see the bigger picture of the Zionist project by exploring the spiritual dimensions of Zionism as demonstrated in Rav Kook's thought. In this episode we discuss:How did Rav Kook's love for the Land of Israel begin?Where should one begin when learning the works of Rav Kook?What is the relationship between the nefesh, ruach, and neshama?Tune in to hear a conversation about how the Land of Israel went from an abstract concept in the Jewish imagination to a concrete part of our lived reality.Interview begins at 11:04.Bezalel Naor is a teacher, translator, and author of many books on Rav Kook and Jewish mysticism. His works include Orot (Maggid, 2015); When God Becomes History: Historical Essays of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook (Kodesh, 2016); The Koren Rav Kook Siddur (2017); and Navigating Worlds: Collected Essays (Kodesh, 2021), among other books.References:Navigating Worlds: Collected Essays (2006-2020) by Bezalel NaorOrot by Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook, translated by Bezalel NaorTowards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904 by Yehudah MirskyRav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution by Yehudah MirskyRosh Milin: Kabbalistic Insights into the Hebrew Alphabet by Rav KookJerusalem TalmudIgorot HaRaiyah, The Collected Letters of Rav Kook Volume Three by Rav KookGuide for the Perplexed by MaimonidesWhen God Becomes History: Historical Essays of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook edited by Bezalel NaorThe Legends of Rabbah Bar Bar Hannah with the Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook translated by by Bezalel NaorNine and a Half Mystics: The Kabbala Today by Herbert WeinerThe Souls of the World of Chaos by Rav Kook, translated by Bezalel NaorShemonah Kevatzim by Rav Kook

Should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount? Or will it inflame Muslim sensitivities? Learn the history of this debate from the Six Day War in 1967 when General Moshe Dayan argued with Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the issue, to the fire started by Australian tourist Denis Michael Rohan, the shooting by Allan Goodman, through the 1980s up until the riots in 1990. Plus learn more about Zionist philosopher Shabtai Ben-Dov, radical activist Yehuda Etzion, Gershon Salomon and the Temple Mount Faithful. What Muslims call the Haram al-Sharif and Al Aqsa Mosque and what Jews call the Har HaBayit and Beit HaMikdash have ramifications for today's conflict.

Shabbat Learning with Rabbinic Intern Ben Sigal at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, April 29, 2023. (Youtube/Zoom) Special Guest: Ben Sigal.

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf announced Wednesday that he will advance legislation to make Zionism a “guiding and crucial value” in government decision-making. But what exactly is Zionism? In this week of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen and Independence Day, we invited Prof. Gil Troy to The Times of Israel's Jerusalem office to discuss the nationalist movement's ever-shifting role in the Jewish world. Among his other scholarly pursuits, the American historian has written several books on Zionism, including 2018's "The Zionist Ideas; Visions for the Jewish Homeland — Then, Now, Tomorrow," and is currently re-releasing early Zionist thinkers' works. During our conversation, Troy speaks about "coming out of the closet" as a Zionist after many years on faculty at McGill University in Montreal. We speak about the changing definitions of Zionism, past, present and future, including the increasing lack of Zionism and pro-Israel support among Diaspora Jews. In a Zionist emotional roller coaster of a week, we ask Gil Troy, What Matters Now. What Matters Now podcasts are available for download on iTunes, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Stitcher, PlayerFM or wherever you get your podcasts. IMAGE: McGill University History Prof. Gil Troy in The Times of Israel's office, April 25, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount? Or will it inflame Muslim sensitivities? Learn the history of this debate from the Six Day War in 1967 when General Moshe Dayan argued with Rabbi Shlomo Goren on the issue, to the fire started by Australian tourist Denis Michael Rohan, the shooting by Allan Goodman, through the 1980s up until the riots in 1990. Plus learn more about Zionist philosopher Shabtai Ben-Dov, radical activist Yehuda Etzion, Gershon Salomon and the Temple Mount Faithful. What Muslims call the Haram al-Sharif and Al Aqsa Mosque and what Jews call the Har HaBayit and Beit HaMikdash have ramifications for today's conflict.

In response to growing Jewish immigration, land purchases, and economic expansion, the Arabs of Palestine engaged in mounting violence in 1920-21, 1929, and 1936-1939. In each case, Great Britain responded by retreating from its promise to facilitate a Jewish national home. In the first two cases, Zionist counter-pressure, led by Chaim Weizmann, succeeded in getting Britain to return to its commitments, but in 1939 Britain, seeking to appease the Arabs on the eve of World War Two, issued a White Paper effectively reneging on the Balfour Declaration. The Yishuv, the Jewish community of Palestine, buttressed by waves of immigration driven by escalating anti-Semitism in Europe, used these two decades of British rule to establish the foundations of a Jewish state. This episode describes the escalating Arab violence, the evolution of British appeasement, and the efforts of the Jews to reverse the British retreat and to build economic, social, and political institutions that could serve as the nucleus for their state. Supplemental Materials:  "The Mufti of Jerusalem's Legacy" by Sean Durns.  "From Africa to China, How Israel Helps Quench the Developing World's Thirst" by Seth Siegel. 

Though crucial elements of a nationalist revival were in place before Theodor Herzl decided in 1895 to devote his life to creating a Jewish state, there is little doubt that without this singular figure such a state would not have been established. In this episode, Dr. Polisar focuses on how Herzl founded the Zionist movement; he served simultaneously as the man of ideas who developed the vision and plans for a Jewish state, as the institution-builder who created an international movement capable of acting effectively during and after his lifetime, and as the chief diplomat who paved the way for the decision of the world's leading powers, a decade and a half after his death, to establish a Jewish home in Palestine. Supplemental Materials: "The Mystery of Theodor Herzl" by Rick Richman.  "Theodor Herzl: The Birth of Political Zionism"—an online course taught by Daniel Polisar. 

World War Two, fought from 1939 to 1945, brought about a changed geopolitical reality in the world as a whole and in Palestine, which radically changed the interests of the British, the Zionist movement and the Yishuv, and the Arabs of Palestine. As a result of these factors, coupled with decisions made by the leadership of each of these three actors, the British decided to hand over the Palestine Mandate to the newly formed United Nations. Despite the forces working within the UN to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state, three sets of decision-makers—Stalin in the Soviet Union, the members of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, and President Harry Truman of the United States—came out in favor of partitioning Palestine and creating a Jewish state in just over half its territory, and they paved the way for the UN Partition Resolution of November 1947. In this episode, Dr. Polisar analyzes the changes brought about by World War Two and the decisions made by the key actors within Palestine and outside of it that, collectively, made it possible for the UN to carry out a policy that revived the prospects for establishing a Jewish state only eight years after the British had seemed to dash those hopes permanently. Supplemental Materials:  "Who Saved Israel in 1947?" by Martin Kramer. 

Shortly after the General Assembly voted on November 29, 1947, to establish Jewish and Arab states in Palestine, Chaim Weizmann declared that states are not given to peoples on a silver platter—and that the Jews would have to fight to establish theirs. Indeed, the Yishuv, backed by the Zionist movement, fought a War of Independence beginning the day after the UN decision, when the Arabs of Palestine responded with anger and violence. The war did not end until early 1949. In this episode, Dr. Polisar breaks down the two phases of the conflict—the “civil war” pitting the Arabs of Palestine against the Yishuv from November 1947 to May 1948; and the war against the five Arab countries that invaded Palestine in May 1948 with the aim of preventing the birth of the Jewish state. In addition to examining the causes and consequences of Israel's victory, Dr. Polisar also covers the Isrel's Declaration of Independence, read aloud by David Ben-Gurion on May 14, 1948 just hours before the British Mandate formally ended. Supplemental Materials:  A series of essays by Martin Kramer on Israel's Declaration of Independence.  "Podcast: Neil Rogachevsky and Dov Zigler on the Political Philosophy of Israel's Declaration of Independence." The full text of Israel's Declaration of Independence in English. 

Despite the present view that Israel is a divided society, Professor of history and Zionist thinker Gil Troy says that we are actually a very united country with a thriving sense of mission. KAN English's Arieh O'Sullivan interviewed Prof. Troy, author of the book Theodore Herzl: The Zionist Idea, for our Independence Day show. (photo: Hadas Parush/flash90)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How should we respond to a non-Zionist Gen Z-er? Responding to a young person's rejection of Zionism, Rabbi Cosgrove engages with the question in all its complexity.   For more Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, follow @Elliot_Cosgrove on Instagram and Facebook.   Want to stay connected with PAS? Follow us @ParkAvenueSyn on all platforms, and check out www.pasyn.org for all our virtual and in-person offerings. 

This is an interview with a very unusual and fascinating person. He is an Orthodox Rabbi who lives in one of the  “settlements” on the West Bank and who strongly believes that this land belongs to the Jewish people.  However, he also believes that this land belongs to the Palestinians. A passionate Zionist who is accepts their claim to our land...

Can the current societal tensions tearing Israeli society apart help inspire a much needed conversation about the future of the country? Yehuda HaKohen is joined by [neo-?]Zionist political researcher Samuel Hyde to discuss the protests against judicial reform, the future status of the West Bank, the need for a national postcolonial conversation and rival visions for Israeli society as the state prepares to celebrate 75 years.

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn't concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel's past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze'ev Jabotinksy's bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion.... Mentioned in this episode: Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."  Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."  Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.  Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt. "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")  Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.  Leon Feuchtwanger "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.") Yitzhak La'or "you ever want a poem to become real" Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn't concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel's past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze'ev Jabotinksy's bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion.... Mentioned in this episode: Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."  Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."  Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.  Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt. "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")  Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.  Leon Feuchtwanger "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.") Yitzhak La'or "you ever want a poem to become real" Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/israel-studies

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn't concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel's past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze'ev Jabotinksy's bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion.... Mentioned in this episode: Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."  Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."  Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.  Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt. "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")  Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.  Leon Feuchtwanger "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.") Yitzhak La'or "you ever want a poem to become real" Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Joseph Cohen, the founder of the Israel Advocacy Movement, addresses the meteoric rise of antisemitism and antizionism around the world. Zionism is a concept that means different things to different people, and unfortunately, it often gets a bad rap, particularly on campuses and in the media these days. He helps us understand why this is the case and the different interpretations of Zionism. Joseph clears up many misconceptions about the Israel-Palestine conflict, such as the Palestinians being descendants of the ancient Philistines, or that Israelis were Jewish European colonialists, or that Israel is an Apartheid state committing genocide. At the same time, he's very hopeful about a harmonious future between Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Israel and throughout the Middle East. Joseph broke down the differences and similarities between left-wing and right-wing antisemitism, as well as the latest phenomenon of Kanye, Kyrie, and Black Hebrew Israelites denying our identity as Jews. These groups tend to pick on the Ashkenazim as "Khazar imposters" and use other misleading tactics to win over uneducated people on social media. We discussed the stance of many Haredi Jews who believe that the land of Israel should only be governed by the Jews when God delivers it in a supernatural way, such as the Third Temple descending from the heavens. They rely on the Aggadic "3 Oaths" as support for their claim, so we challenge their position using Torah arguments. Joseph, being a religious Zionist, shares his experiences debating Muslims, Jihadists, and Neo-Nazis and makes the case that doing so is a fruitful endeavor. Join us as we dive into these important and complex topics in an explosive interview you don't want to miss. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/judaismdemystified/support

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn't concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel's past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze'ev Jabotinksy's bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion.... Mentioned in this episode: Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."  Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."  Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.  Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt. "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")  Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.  Leon Feuchtwanger "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.") Yitzhak La'or "you ever want a poem to become real" Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Eugene Sheppard joins his Brandeis colleague John Plotz to speak with Joshua Cohen about The Netanyahus. Is the 2021 novel a Pulitzer-winning bravura story of the world's worst job interview? Or is it a searing indictment of ethno-nationalist Zionism--and the strange act of pretense whereby American Jewish writers and thinkers in postwar America pretended that Israel and its more extreme ethno-nationalist strains didn't concern them? Cohen dramatizes the return of that repressed by imagining the family of Benzion Netanyahu (actual medieval Spanish historian and father of Israel's past and present Prime Minister Bibi) landing itself on a would-be assimilated American Jewish family ripped straight from the pages of a Philip Roth or Bernard Malamud novel. With John and Eugene, Joshua dissects the legacy of earlier American Jewish writers like Cynthia Ozick, and offers finer details of how Ze'ev Jabotinksy's bellicose views would ultimately take hold in Israel, wisecracking his way to a literally jaw-dropping conclusion.... Mentioned in this episode: Zionist and ethnonationalist Ze'ev Jabotinksy (1880-1940): "We must eliminate the Diaspora or the Diaspora will eliminate us."  Novalis (the German Romantic writer Georg Von Hardenberg) says somewhere "Every book must contain its counter-book."  Slavoj Zizek makes the case that everything is political including the choice not to have a politics.  Joshua wants readers to think about why celebrated postwar American fiction by Jewish authors like Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth (starting from his 1959 Goodbye Columbus) largely ignores both the Holocaust and Israel until the 1970s or 1980s. Joshua invokes Harold Bloom's 1973 Anxiety of Influence to explain his relationship to them. He is less interested in Hannah Arendt. "Shoah Religion" is the way in which the Holocaust came to not only function as a key element in post-war American Jewish identification but also to legitimate the state of Israel (cf Abba Eban's famous quip "There's no business like Shoah business")  Yekke: a German-Jew in Israel or American characterized by an ethos of industrial self-restraint and German culture, satirized in Israeli culture as a man who wears a three piece suit in the middle of summer heat.  Leon Feuchtwanger "There's hope but not for us" Joshua (subtly) quotes a line of Kafka's that Walter Benjamin (in "Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death‟ from Illuminations) apparently lifted from Max Brod ("Oh Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.") Yitzhak La'or "you ever want a poem to become real" Netanyahu tells the story of the snowy drive to Ithaca (again) in an interview with Barry Weiss. Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

This series is sponsored by Unpacking Israeli History.In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to Noam Weissman, executive vice president of OpenDor Media, about Israel education.In a world in which Israel is a key component of Jewish identity, young people often are given a sanitized, doctrinaire understanding of the Jewish state, rather than getting to build on an authentic experience of connection. Dr. Weissman helps us try to correct this by unpacking some recent Jewish history. In this episode we discuss:How should we provide Israel education in the contemporary world?How can we further uplift and inspire our enduring connection with the Land of Israel?What is the difference between education and indoctrination?Tune in to hear a conversation about the Jewish people, the Jewish land, and the Jewish state.Interview begins at 18:03.Dr. Noam Weissman is the Senior Vice President of OpenDor Media. Noam is also the Founder and Director of LaHaV. Noam previously served as Principal of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles. Noam earned a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Southern California, with a focus on curriculum design. His dissertation, entitled “Approaching Israel Education,” argues for a new vision in learning about the modern State of Israel, focusing on Zionist identity development, narrative formation, and the ability to have a mature and loving relationship with Israel without sacrificing empathy.References:Seinfeld“Could Judaism Survive Israel?” by Gary EpsteinJewish History UnpackedGenesis 12:1OpenDor MediaThe Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity by Micah GoodmanSide by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-PalestineIsrael: A History by Anita ShapiraIsrael: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel GordisIsrael: A History by Martin GilbertThe Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership by Yehuda AvnerBonus References from Unpacking Israeli History:AltalenaMunich MassacreKishinevWar of IndependenceYom Kippur WarEntebbeDeir YassinSix-Day War UN Resolution 3379Black PanthersRabin's Assassination

Jonathan Graubart, professor of political science at San Diego State University, discusses his book Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and Other Pariahs, offering a contemporary re-evaluation of early 20th-century thought on Jewish sovereignty and statehood. This episode is part of a series co-sponsored by UCLA's Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, and co-hosted by its director, Prof. Dov Waxman

The Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem encompasses several key sites central to Islam, including the Dome of the Rock, the third holiest site for Muslims, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have ascended to heaven, where he spoke to God. The compound sits on the Temple Mount, where the ancient Hebrew temple once stood. Today we have a conversation with our Palestine news team about the events surrounding Al Aqsa during Ramadan this year. As readers of our site and listeners to this podcast are surely aware, the Israeli government carried out several raids of the Al Aqsa compound in the last few weeks, leaving one Palestinian dead and hundreds injured and arrested. The Zionist propaganda machine has been working overtime to paint Palestinians as poor caretakers of these sacred spaces, claiming that children playing soccer, or the very presence of fireworks prove that they don't deserve to be there in the first place. Yumna Patel, our Palestine News Director, leads the discussion with Mariam Barghouti in the West Bank, Tareq Hajjaj in Gaza, and myself. - - - - - Support our work Help us continue our critical independent coverage of events in Palestine, Israel, and related U.S. politics. Donate today at https://mondoweiss.net/donate Articles and Links mentioned in the show Israel attacks Al-Aqsa two nights in a row, beating worshipers at holy site, Mariam Barghouti Palestinians fear war is near as Israel attacks Gaza during Ramadan yet again, Tareq Hajjaj These are the settler groups seeking to take over the Aqsa Mosque compound, Jeff Wright Subscribe to our free email newsletters. Share this podcast Share The Mondoweiss Podcast with your followers on Twitter. Click here to post a tweet! If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Podchaser and leave us a review and follow the show! Follow The Mondoweiss Podcast wherever you listen Amazon Apple Podcasts Audible Deezer Gaana Google Podcasts Overcast Player.fm RadioPublic Spotify Stitcher TuneIn YouTube Our RSS feed We want your feedback! Email us Leave us an audio message at SparkPipe More from Mondoweiss Subscribe to our free email newsletters: Daily Headlines Weekly Briefing The Shift tracks U.S. politics Palestine Letter West Bank Dispatch Follow us on social media Facebook Mastodon Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn

Hour 1 * Guest: Chris Carlson – Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * Sam Pulls An April Fools' Prank! * Praying For All Our Brothers And Sisters In The South! * “…my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge” – Other Words of Warning from the Prophet Isaiah. * “lost tribes” of Israel! * Cynthia McKinney found out the hard way that if you don't “sign the pledge” to Israel, you will become a one-term congressman. This is because, as James Edwards would say, of Jewish power and influence in the United States. * There are five main problems with depending on Israel as an ally. * The leaders of the Zionist state of Israel hate Christianity and seek to eradicate it from the face of the earth. Why, then, would they want to be our allies? They don't, they want us to be their ally, until we are destroyed through population replacement, civil war, and eventual nuclear holocaust. * Trusting in allies is completely unnecessary if we are righteous nation defending our sovereign territory, and not going around murdering innocent men women and children. * Trusting in the arm of flesh offends God. * We Discuss: The Main Themes of the First 14 Chapters of Isaiah. * Political & Religious Leaders Shall Betray the People. * Alliances Shall Come to Naught. Hour 2 * Idol Worship Shall Abound. * The Evils of Child Sacrifice. * Always Consequences! * Those Who Sought / Seak Satanic Immunity are Disappointed. * We are Surrounded by Demons. * Where do you think Satan and his angels are now? * Israel will be Restored. * After a Brief Respite, The Trump Show Makes Its Return! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loving-liberty/support

Our new series - a deep dive into Megillat Ha'Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence - continues with one of the most important early leaders of the religious Zionist movement, Zorach WarhaftigStay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and by signing up for our newsletter at israelstory.org/newsletter/. For more, head to our site or The Times of Israel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our continuing "Synagogue of Satan" series, we look at the evidence that Monsanto was a Zionist controlled entity that brought harm & death upon the world and its citizens. While it was sold to Bayer in 2018, most of the same products created by this monolithic entity still wreaks havoc on society today. Email: thefacthunter@mail.comWebsite: thefacthunter.comShow notes: Rothschilds: https://concisepolitics.com/2017/09/27/pictorial-proof-of-rothschilds-running-american-government/The Joker & Trump: https://nypost.com/2023/03/23/joker-sequel-with-explosions-slated-to-be-filmed-outside-trump-grand-jury-courthouse/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBqrx25JHchttps://www.thepeoplehistory.com/april4th.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZeoyfW2-1wBrother Nathaneal: https://youtu.be/b77F65TjIh0Bayer-Monsanto: A “Marriage Made in Hell”?https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/bayer-monsanto/

Derek Penslar, professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his forthcoming book Zionism: An Emotional State, an interdisciplinary attempt to study the history of Jewish nationalism through a history of emotions lens. Join us on Patreon and help support the show

Dr. Sai Englert explains why democracy has never existed in Israel and what the current uproar really involves. He recently published an article in The Middle East Eye “Israeli crisis: This is not about democracy, it's about liberal Zionist supremacy.” https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-crisis-not-about-democracy-liberal-zionist-supremacy

* Guest: Chris Carlson - Without God, we can never win, With God, we can never lose, The Battle for Freedom is the Lord's, but we need to be engaged in the fight! * Sam Pulls An April Fools' Prank! * Praying For All Our Brothers And Sisters In The South! * “…my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge” - Other Words of Warning from the Prophet Isaiah. * “lost tribes” of Israel! * Cynthia McKinney found out the hard way that if you don't “sign the pledge” to Israel, you will become a one-term congressman. This is because, as James Edwards would say, of Jewish power and influence in the United States. * There are five main problems with depending on Israel as an ally. * The leaders of the Zionist state of Israel hate Christianity and seek to eradicate it from the face of the earth. Why, then, would they want to be our allies? They don't, they want us to be their ally, until we are destroyed through population replacement, civil war, and eventual nuclear holocaust. * Trusting in allies is completely unnecessary if we are righteous nation defending our sovereign territory, and not going around murdering innocent men women and children. * Trusting in the arm of flesh offends God. * We Discuss: The Main Themes of the First 14 Chapters of Isaiah. * Political & Religious Leaders Shall Betray the People. * Alliances Shall Come to Naught.

In this long overdue Ask Me Anything edition of Unregistered, I answer questions from Patrons of the show about the politics of self interest, the perennial appeal of Ayn Rand, Christian ethics in left-wing politics, why conservatives don't like women's freedom, the problems with evolutionary psychology, the reactionary essentialism of the trans movement, Norman Finkelstein's multiple apostasies, the Zionist creation of the Holocaust, and the value of Critical Race Theory. Get your tickets now to the biggest intellectual and cultural event of the year: https://www.icarusfest.com/tickets-YEHYZ Go to https://www.magicmind.co/unregistered and get 40% off your MAGIC MIND subscription for the next 10 days with my code UNREGISTERED20 Become a PATRON OF UNREGISTERED at www.patreon.com and get: Access to Unregistered Live, the weekly live Zoom meeting with Thad and patrons of Unregistered Bonus episodes featuring interviews with Curtis Yarvin, Ben Burgis, Michael Malice, Cody Wilson, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Hotep Jesus, and Buck Johnson BECOME A MEMBER OF THE UNREGISTERED ACADEMY at https://www.unregisteredacademy.com/ for courses you won't find in college: The Bible with Thaddeus Russell Plato's Republic with Thaddeus Russell Aristotle's Politics with Thaddeus Russell The New Deal with Thaddeus Russell American Slavery with Thaddeus Russell and Adam Rothman The Cold War with Thaddeus Russell History of NATO with Scott Ritter and James Carden Malcolm X with Thaddeus Russell The Religious Right with Neil Young and Gio Pennacchietti World War II: The Great Blowback with Thaddeus Russell The JFK Assassination with Larry Hancock History of the CIA with Thaddeus Russell Reading The Unabomber Manifesto

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/israel-studies

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been a staple of both Jewish and American political culture. In We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (Basic Books, 2022), Eric Alterman traces this debate from its nineteenth-century origins. Following Israel's 1948–1949 War of Independence (called the “nakba” or “catastrophe” by Palestinians), few Americans, including few Jews, paid much attention to Israel or the challenges it faced. Following the 1967 Six-Day War, however, almost overnight support for Israel became the primary component of American Jews' collective identity. Over time, Jewish organizations joined forces with conservative Christians and neoconservative pundits and politicos to wage a tenacious fight to define Israel's image in the US media, popular culture, Congress, and college campuses. We Are Not One reveals how our consensus on Israel and Palestine emerged and why, today, it is fracturing. Eric Alterman is a CUNY distinguished professor of English at Brooklyn College. Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press, 2020). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

Dr. Rachel Fish is a celebrated academic with 20 years of experience in Israeli history, Zionist thought, and Middle Eastern Studies. She is the Founding Executive Director of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism and previously served as Senior Advisor and Resident Scholar of Jewish/Israel Philanthropy at the Paul E. Singer Foundation in New York City.   Dr. Fish also served as the Executive Director for the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University and held the Rohr Visiting Professorship at Harvard University, where she lectured on modern Israel and received the Derek Bok Certificate of Teaching Excellence. She is co-editor, with Ilan Troen, of the book Essential Israel: Essays for the Twenty-First Century.

In this edition of his Search for Meaning podcast, Stephen Wise Temple Senior Rabbi Yoshi Zweiback hosts Rabbi Josh Weinberg for a discussion about the current situation in Israel.Rabbi Weinberg serves as the Vice President for Israel and Reform Zionism for the Union for Reform Judaism. On Wednesday, March 29, Rabbi Weinberg gave a Zoom briefing (co-sponsored by Wise) on the state of Israeli democracy. Rabbi Yoshi and Rabbi Weinberg met at the URJ headquarters in Manhattan this week to speak about the evolving crisis gripping the country.In recent weeks, thousands of Israelis have turned out in protest as their government's current ruling coalition—the most right-wing in Israel's history—pushed forward on its agenda of judicial reform. The proposed reforms would significantly curtail the Israeli Supreme Court's power of judicial review, effectively removing checks and balances vital to a functioning democracy and endangering the rights of women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, Arabs, non-Ultra Orthodox Jews, and others.Though the proposed reforms were tabled, they will likely re-emerge after the Knesset's Passover recess, re-igniting tensions both in Israel and among Diaspora Jewry."Here, I think people are genuinely, genuinely afraid, and deeply concerned that Israel will no longer be a democracy," Rabbi Weinberg says.Having gone through the Israeli rabbinic program, coming from a family of rabbis, and having lived in Israel, Rabbi Weinberg brings a unique perspective as the two discuss American Jewish identity, secularism, pluralism, levels of observance, social justice, the history of Israeli Judaism, tensions between the Reform Movement and Orthodox Jews, and how all of those factor into the current state of affairs in Israel.The fascinating discussion winds its way through the parallels between the Reform Movement and the Zionist movement, comparisons between the protests in Israel and the Arab Spring, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's own legal troubles, and political science.

Today's daf is sponsored by Avi Mimun in honor of his wife Joy on their 19th year anniversary. "Joy, your love for Torah learning is a source of inspiration and blessing for me and the kids. I’m so proud of your accomplishments and wish you to be able to complete the entire Shas. I’m lucky to be married to the most amazing woman in the world! Love you very much!"  Today's daf is sponsored by Julie Mendelsohn in honor of her son Raphael who is drafting into the army tomorrow. "May Hashem bless you and keep you, and may you return home safely along with all חיילי צבא הגנה לישראל. It was amazing to see you finish the Shas mishnayot last month. The next daf yomi cycle, you’re going to join me and finish the whole Talmud b’ezrat Hashem (and b’li neder)!" Today's daf is sponsored by Mitzi and David Geffen in loving memory of Mitzi's mother, Ruth Toll Lock, Rut bat Miriam and Avraham z"l on her 37th yahrzeit. "She was a loving mother, mother-in-law, and wife; and a devoted Zionist and wonderful educator in Harrisburg, PA. All of her 4 children made Aliyah and her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren all live in Israel!"  If there is a doubt about whether one came in physical contact with an impurity that is floating in water, even in a private domain where one is generally strict about impurity that is in doubt, we are lenient. There is a debate about whether this only applies to water attached to the ground or even to water in a vessel. From where is this law derived and from where does each opinion find proof in the verses? Rami bar Hama asks a slew of questions regarding an impure item floating on top of something else that is floating - it is considered on solid ground (and one who was in doubt if they came in contact with it would be impure) or would it be considered floating (and would be pure). His questions remain unanswered. Rav Hamnuna limits the case in our Mishna where tumat tehom applies to one who is impure, to a case where they did not complete yet their purification process, but if they did, even if they were still waiting for the sunset to fully complete the process, they would not be considered to have the presumptive status of impurity. Abaye questions the issue about waiting for sunset as he thinks one would still be considered to have the presumptive status of impurity. Although, the Gemara points out that Abaye himself changed his mind on this issue and proves it from his comments on an entirely different situation regarding the sacrifices a woman brings after childbirth. 

Today's daf is sponsored by Avi Mimun in honor of his wife Joy on their 19th year anniversary. "Joy, your love for Torah learning is a source of inspiration and blessing for me and the kids. I’m so proud of your accomplishments and wish you to be able to complete the entire Shas. I’m lucky to be married to the most amazing woman in the world! Love you very much!"  Today's daf is sponsored by Julie Mendelsohn in honor of her son Raphael who is drafting into the army tomorrow. "May Hashem bless you and keep you, and may you return home safely along with all חיילי צבא הגנה לישראל. It was amazing to see you finish the Shas mishnayot last month. The next daf yomi cycle, you’re going to join me and finish the whole Talmud b’ezrat Hashem (and b’li neder)!" Today's daf is sponsored by Mitzi and David Geffen in loving memory of Mitzi's mother, Ruth Toll Lock, Rut bat Miriam and Avraham z"l on her 37th yahrzeit. "She was a loving mother, mother-in-law, and wife; and a devoted Zionist and wonderful educator in Harrisburg, PA. All of her 4 children made Aliyah and her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren all live in Israel!"  If there is a doubt about whether one came in physical contact with an impurity that is floating in water, even in a private domain where one is generally strict about impurity that is in doubt, we are lenient. There is a debate about whether this only applies to water attached to the ground or even to water in a vessel. From where is this law derived and from where does each opinion find proof in the verses? Rami bar Hama asks a slew of questions regarding an impure item floating on top of something else that is floating - it is considered on solid ground (and one who was in doubt if they came in contact with it would be impure) or would it be considered floating (and would be pure). His questions remain unanswered. Rav Hamnuna limits the case in our Mishna where tumat tehom applies to one who is impure, to a case where they did not complete yet their purification process, but if they did, even if they were still waiting for the sunset to fully complete the process, they would not be considered to have the presumptive status of impurity. Abaye questions the issue about waiting for sunset as he thinks one would still be considered to have the presumptive status of impurity. Although, the Gemara points out that Abaye himself changed his mind on this issue and proves it from his comments on an entirely different situation regarding the sacrifices a woman brings after childbirth. 

We are extremely passionate about the Historicist approach to prophecy because the Futurist view has negatively impacted the interpretation of prophecy in the evangelical church. We were disappointed to learn in Bible College that the Futurist approach is centered around the Jewish people and the 1948 Zionist state of Israel, missing the mark on both points. The Historicist approach, on the other hand, glorifies Jesus Christ, particularly in the Book of Daniel, chapter 9. Over the next few sessions, we will explore the six prophetic determinations found in Daniel 9:24, which have been known for 42 years. The Futurist interpretation was not considered for over 15 centuries, only gaining traction in the 16th century due to the scheming of the Jesuits. The Jesuits are highly intelligent but deceived and demonic in their works of darkness. The Futurist approach infiltrated Protestant theology, leading to a decline in the study of prophecy and an increase in fanciful speculation. The six prophetic determinations in Daniel 9:24 all point to Jesus Christ as the Messiah. The Futurist interpretation cannot account for these determinations, leading to confusion and misinterpretation. The Futurist approach falsely attributes these determinations to a hypothetical Antichrist who will supposedly come out of the United Nations or another world organization. The Historicist approach, by contrast, upholds these six determinations as messianic prophecies fulfilled by Jesus Christ. These determinations include finishing transgression, making an end of sins, making reconciliation for iniquity, bringing in everlasting righteousness, sealing up the vision and prophecy, and anointing the Most Holy. The Scriptures confirm that Jesus fulfilled each of these determinations, setting Him apart as the only promised begotten Son of God. The Futurist interpretation fails to properly apply these determinations to any other prophetic interpretation, resulting in a skewed understanding of prophecy. The Historicist approach, on the other hand, exalts Jesus Christ and points to Him as the fulfillment of these prophecies. It is our passion to share this truth and encourage further study of the Historicist approach to biblical prophecy, in the hope that it will exalt Jesus Christ and strengthen the faith of believers.

Shabbat Sermon with guest speaker Dr. Yizhar Hess of the World Zionist Organization at Temple Beth Am, Los Angeles, March 25, 2023. Dr. Hess is introduced by Rabbi-Cantor Hillary Chorny. (Youtube) Special Guest: Dr. Yizhar Hess.

Alternative history expert, Conspiracy Realist, writer and data analyst, Brandon Kroll beams in to discuss the power and influence of the Vatican to shape world events, the true story of the Civil War, and the influence secret societies have had throughout history on episode 99 of the Far Out with Faust podcast.We're diving into “what really happened” — on a massive scale — in this episode with writer and researcher Brandon Kroll. Faust and Brandon are tackling some seriously major periods in history:-What role did Mary Magdalene really play in the life of Jesus, and why is the truth concealed?-Why was the Vatican involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?-Why don't the history books reveal the real story of John Wilkes Booth?-What hidden dynamics, including the elites, the Church and England, led to the Civil War?-Are the conspiracy theories about Lincoln being a tyrant true?-Why are the Jesuits such a dominating (and often disdained) force in the Catholic church?-How did the Rothschilds come to power?-How did secret societies, including the Freemasons, the Illuminati, the Zionists and Satanists evolve?-What was the relationship between American industrialists like Henry Ford and the Third Reich, including IG Farben and Hitler himself?-How are the Freemasons and the Zionists related, and where does the Talmud fit in?-How did the IRS form?Connect with BrandonInstagram: https://instagram.com/brandonlkroll_krollology_1010:00 - Brandon Kroll Podcast1:25 - Introducing Brandon Kroll2:55 - Brandon's alternative educational background5:56 - Brandon's unique political and religious belief systems8:47 - Demonization of Mary Magdalene and female presence in religion12:17 - Civil War, slavery & why Rome is involved in the assassination of Lincoln17:42 - How elitists leaned towards the south25:29 - Conspiracies of Lincoln being a tyrant or racist28:50 - The force behind heavy assassinations 33:56 - Connecting the dots with the Catholic Church39:45 - Rome, the Vatican & Lincoln's death49:59 - Jesuits and those against the Catholic Church53:55 - How the Rothschild came into power59:41 - The classified clubs of Illuminati, Zionism, Satanism & more1:02:47 - WW2 talk: secrets with Hitler & Henry Ford1:06:04 - Correlating the Rothschilds, Zionists & the Illuminati1:09:25 - Hacking into freemasonry, zionism and what the talmud and communion really means1:17:17 - The forming of the IRS and the deeper reason why Germans became Nazis#Podcast #SecretSociety #Vatican #AlternateHistory #FarOutWithFaust