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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

People of the Pod

Medical staff cheer an Israeli air force aerobatic team flying over Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on Israel's 72nd Independence Day, April 29, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 1, 2020, 12:41 pm
LISTEN: As Israel turns 72 amid coronavirus, Germany outlaws Hezbollah
Episode #32: Refusenik and former MK Natan Sharansky talks freedom * AJC’s David Harris on Hezbollah’s political wing * Former UK student head Hannah Rose on new Labour leadership
By ToI Staff
Benny Gantz, Blue and White leader, attends a party meeting in Tel Aviv, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 24, 2020, 11:02 am
LISTEN: Analyst says Gantz has left long-term impact on Israeli faith in leaders
Episode #31: Globes political and diplomatic correspondent Tal Schneider on coalition deal * AJC Director of Muslim-Jewish Relations Ari Gordon on Arabic video series, ‘An al-Yahud
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin, center, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz shake hands at the memorial ceremony for the late president Shimon Peres at the Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 3, 2020, 9:56 am
LISTEN: NYT Jerusalem chief vents about the bumpy road to new Israeli government
Episode #30: A month after the Israeli elections, there’s still no coalition. David Halbfinger explains why * Jewish thinkers’ thoughts on this special Passover
By ToI Staff
Magen David Adom staff wear protective clothing at a drive-through site to collect samples for coronavirus testing in Tel Aviv, March 20, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 20, 2020, 3:21 pm
LISTEN: Experts speak on Israel’s response to coronavirus in virtual panel talk
Episode #28: Doctors Daniel Landsberg and Kira Radinsky give update on Holy Land virus efforts * Don’t waste time, says Creatively Quarantined duo Joyce Franco and Stephanie Graber
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference about the coronavirus at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on March 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 13, 2020, 2:37 pm
LISTEN: Quarantine in Israel — drastic? Or just what the doctors ordered
Episode #27: International relations expert Dr. Yonatan Freeman talks coronavirus preparedness * Ross Kriel, president of the Jewish Community of the Emirates, gets personal
By ToI Staff
This combination of pictures created on March 02, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks at his primary night election event in Columbia, South Carolina.(JIM WATSON and RINGO CHIU / AFP)
March 6, 2020, 3:22 pm
LISTEN: A tale of two elections as US, Israel have some serious choices to make
Episode #26: JTA’s Ron Kampeas talks about Bernie Sanders boycotting AIPAC * Jewish state votes again, to no avail?
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Turkish demonstrator holding a banner with a Nazi swastika and Star of David in Istanbul, January 2, 2009. (Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images)
February 28, 2020, 2:33 pm
LISTEN: Filmmaker on documenting four mutations of ‘viral’ anti-Semitism
Episode #25: In the US, France, Britain and Hungary, Jew-hatred rears its head * TOI senior analyst tells what Sabras want out of Monday’s unprecedented 3rd elections in a year
By ToI Staff
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., flanked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, launches the black-Jewish caucus at the annual American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington DC, on June 3, 2019. (AJC via JTA)
February 21, 2020, 3:05 pm
LISTEN: Founders of the Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations talk race and equality
Episode #24: US congressional reps get down to brass tacks on race relations * What’s up with Israel’s 3rd election on March 2? * Israel’s bid for more international students
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Anne Frank in a photograph at her grammar school in Amsterdam, and a similar image in 'Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,' published in English in 2018 (courtesy: Anne Frank Fonds)
February 14, 2020, 2:48 pm
LISTEN: Has the story of Anne Frank been forgotten? US college students answer
Episode #23: Hitting the quad to see if university-age millennials recognize the Holocaust poster child * Eliseo Neuman on the secret meeting between Netanyahu and Sudan’s leader
By ToI Staff
Assassin Yigal Amir, as portrayed by Yehuda Nahari Halev, torches a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the film 'Incitement.' (Courtesy of PMKBNC/via JTA)
February 7, 2020, 4:21 pm
LISTEN: The director of ‘Incitement’ on his new film about Rabin assassination
Episode #22: Yaron Zilberman defends his portrayal of the Israeli PM’s killer * Orthodox Jewish comedian Ashley Blaker discusses his new show ‘Goy Friendly,’ now playing in NYC
By ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020, in Washington. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/AFP)
January 31, 2020, 3:12 pm
LISTEN: Former MK says Trump’s controversial peace plan unites Israelis
Episode #21: Does peace stand a chance? * An historic interfaith tour of Auschwitz may be breakthrough in Jewish-Muslim relations * The only novel written in Auschwitz
By ToI Staff
People hold a sign reading, 'Woking the Labour Party.' (via AJC)
January 17, 2020, 3:49 pm
LISTEN: Why Israelis may be arrested for the ‘war crime’ of settlement building
Episode #19: Anti-Semitism still plagues UK Labour Party * What does the ICC war crimes investigation mean for Israel? * African-American pastor reaches to Jews across racial lines
By ToI Staff
Screen shot of People of the Pod podcast. (Courtesy)
January 10, 2020, 4:47 pm
LISTEN: US and Iran on brink of war? NY Jews wage own battle with anti-Semitism
Episode #18: Top Mideast analysts on Trump’s decision to take out Soleimani * NYC anti-hate crime chief on epidemic of violence * Hit the streets to hear New Yorkers’ Jewish pride
By ToI Staff
Members of the Jewish community gather outside the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, in New York on December 29, 2019, after a machete attack that took place the night before inside the rabbi's home during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. (Kena Betancur/AFP)
January 3, 2020, 6:57 pm
LISTEN: Community insider on why deadly attacks on US ultra-Orthodox keep coming
Episode# 17: Jewish Insider’s Jacob Kornbluh on how local governments can better fight anti-Semitism * Documentarian Max Lewkowicz pinpoints where hit show ‘Fiddler’ gets its magic
By Yaakov Schwartz
Anti-Trump protesters greet lawmakers as the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives debates impeachment charges against US President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
December 22, 2019, 3:51 am
LISTEN: How far will anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on Trump’s impeachment go?
Episode #16: ToI’s Eric Cortellessa on rumors that Jews are trying to oust the president * ACJ’s David Levy talks post-shooting NJ * ToI’s Jacob Magid explains ICC Israel inquiry
By Yaakov Schwartz
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