The Promised Podcast

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Peace, Prosperity and Philanthropy Apr 17, 2014

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Don, Eilon, and Noah discuss:

the growing trend in the army to rely on donations by well-wishers for basic supplies like boots and sockswhy the peace process seems to be gasping its last gaspwhether or not it should bug us that the average CEO in Israel makes 76 times what the average rest-of-us make

Music: All Songs by The Hazelnuts (האחיות לוז)

Single Ladies (with a tip of the hat to Beyonce)

Crazy People

Shout Sister Should

Letting in Song

We Need the Bread, Man! Apr 10, 2014

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Don, Noah, and Miriam Herschlag (Ops & Blogs editor of the Times of Israel) discuss:

a new report finding that almost a million Israelis go to bed hungrywhether Israeli leaders ain’t what they used to be, and whywhether or not stores in Jewish neighborhoods should sell leavened bread on Passover.

Music: All Songs by “(Amit Erez and) The Secret Sea”AfterlifeNot About UsSlow Burning LightKilling Light

Trading Places, Taking Bribes & Playing with Knives Apr 03, 2014

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Allison, Don and Noah discuss (1) whether Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s proposal to exchange blocs of population is sincere or mere smartassery, (2) How do we solve a problem like corruption? (With apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein), and (3) Why Israeli parents let their kids play with fire and rusty nails, and take candy from strangers? All this, and the music of Vitarti on the week of their valedictory concert!

Music: All Songs by Vitarti, in honor of their final concert this week (http://vitarti.bandcamp.com)

בעתיד, אנשים לא בהווהמאז שעשיתי אסיד אני לא מבחין בין אמא לאבאטיפשה אחתאני דתי אבל בגלל שאני הומו אני מרגיש רגשות אשם אז גזמתי לעצמי את הפין

Power & Money Mar 27, 2014

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Show Summary – Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) whether there is (as journalist Yossi

Klein Halevi recently wrote) a slowly surfacing, stealthful, steadily swelling, and subtly subversive

moderate Center in Israeli politics, (2) why so many ex-pols are becoming rich through influence

peddling, and what can be done about it, and (3) whether a proposed new law that would ban free

daily newspaper is a blow for democracy, or one against it. All that and the heartbreaking new

album by Israel’s most important hip-hop artist, Sha’anan Streett.

music: AugustNovemberJanuaryJulyAll Songs by Shaanan Streett from Tova: A Good Project

Strange Bedfellows Mar 20, 2014

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Don, Eilon and Noah discuss (1) Whether, now that the head of the ultraorthodox Shas party has endorsed Labor Party leader Yitzhak Herzog for Prime Minister, the time has come for the Labor Party to pal up to the haredim, (2) Why Evangelical support for Israel is waning, and whether we should lose sleep over it, and (3) How our own political views have changed over the years. Plus music from the red-hot, up-and-coming all-woman rock band, Hazeevot!

Peace, Love & Understanding Mar 13, 2014

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Former Ambassador Michael Oren’s “Plan B” for unilateral withdrawal – what could go wrong?!?Why MK Adi Kol is being crucified on Facebook for declaring undying love for her party chief, Yair LapidWhy “Good Deeds Day” inspires and nauseates in equal measure.Plus the first annual listener Purim Quiz !

Playlist: All songs by Danny Sanderson & Friends (Danny Sanderson, Kavah Baht-Israel, Eleshevah Baht-Israel, Ziv Harpaz, Kfir Ben-Laish, Gilad Ben-Laish, Amit Harel, Shai Wetzer)

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Baby it’s you

Who do you love

Rescue Me

They can't handle the truth! Mar 06, 2014

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Allison, Eilon and Noah (Or, Travoltafied, Alexis Keezy, Erin Stonz and Niall Edbrards) discuss:

Outsourcing our political activism to entrepreneurs and captains of Industry, who claim that they anyway know best what’s best for the country;

Whether it is time to stick a fork in AIPAC, and if it is, what then?; and

Does our Judaism need professional coordinators, as the Ministry for Religious Affairs sets up a “Jewish Identity Administration,” which is hiring neighborhood “Judaism Coordinators” to beef up our flagging identities?

Playlist: All songs by Labrador Laboratories (In honor of the release this week of their new album, Lonely Tribes).

All Night in the RainI’m a ThiefDirty BootsLonely Tribes

Screw You, Screw Them and Screw Us! Feb 27, 2014

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Allison, Don and Noah discuss:

Whether PM Netanyahu ought to leave his opponents in the Likud behind and start a new party, à la Arik Sharon;

A Knesset committee’s vote to force Haredim into the army (well, maybe); and

Whether keeping foreign produce off local shelves is screwing the poor or helping farmers.

Playlist: Music by a crazy-hip female punk foursome, “Not on Tour”I Wanna Be Like You!All This TimeThis is RevealingThe Question Came Up

Press, Profs & Passports Feb 20, 2014

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Allison, Don and Noah discuss:

Whether the Israeli press is hobbled or hackneyed

The roles academics and intellectuals play in Israeli politics, and

The ambivalent comforts of holding two passports

Playlist: A tribute to Israeli tributes to the Beatles, in honor of the 50th the Ed Sullivan Show.

When I’m 64 - Jericho Jones

I Will - Hipushiot Ha-Kfar

Dear Prudence - Adam Ben Ezra

Tamid - Gidi Gov and Shlomo Yidov

Ayatollah Strangelove Feb 13, 2014

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Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss:

Settlers who say they’ll stay put, even if Israel withdraws and they find themselves in Palestine;

Whether “medical tourism” is a way to stave off the collapse of Israel's medical system; and

How the hell we’re supposed to feel while watching video from Iran showing drones laying waste to Tel Aviv.

All this, and music from “Kids from Nowhere”! (http://kidsfromnowhere.com)

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BiscuitsAll the Things We DoBaby DollFavorite Time of Year

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