The Promised Podcast

Jan 30 2025 598 ep. 72 mins 3.8k
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An inside view of how Israel can warm your heart and make your blood boil. It’s a show by a journalist, a professor and an NGO professional who live in and love Israel even though it drives them crazy, and who each week discuss the latest in Israeli politics, culture, and society.

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The “Justices Supreme and Crises Constitutional” Edition

Jan 30 2025 95 mins  
Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —A New Crisis, and this Time, It’s Constitutional— What does it augur when the Justice Minister refuses to “recognize” the newly selected chief justi

The “Word” Edition

Jan 23 2025 103 mins  
Miriam Herschlag, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —You Be the Judge— Is the new “compromise” proposal for judicial reform any good, and is now the time to debates such matters? —Word— H

The “Ending this F*#!ing War” Edition

Jan 16 2025 95 mins  
Miriam Herschlag, Sara Hirshhorn and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Ending this F*#!ing War— What should we make of the hostage release and “permanent cessation of hostilities” agreement with Hamas, and why

The “Bear Missed the Train?” Edition

Jan 09 2025 85 mins  
Linda Gradstein, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Thinkin’ Blinken— What are we to make of Antony Blinken’s interview with the times, in which he said it was Hamas, not Prime Minister Netanya

The “Trauma-Rama” Edition

Jan 02 2025 81 mins  
Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Standard Deviation— An expose in the New York Times shows that on October 7th the IDF took an extraordinary decision to double the number of civilians whose liv

The “What’s Changed” Edition

Dec 26 2024 77 mins  
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron are live from the astonishing, brilliant, taste-of-the-world-to-come Limmud Festival in Birmingham, England. —What’s Changed, Here?— How we in Israel, and the lives we lead, have changed since, and because of, October 7th. —What’s Changed, Everywhere Else?— How Jews around the world, and the lives they lead, have changed since, and becaus

The “Manifest Destinies” Edition

Dec 19 2024 94 mins  
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and scholar-extraordinaire Sara Hirschhorn discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment —(Un)settling— Why do Israeli Jews who think it might be a good idea to set up Jewish towns in Gaza, think what they think? �

The “Judgement Days” Edition

Dec 12 2024 90 mins  
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Gradually, then Suddenly, then OMG— The shocking, sudden fall of strong-man ophthalmologist Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria left Jiha

The “Breaking Ranks” Edition

Dec 05 2024 89 mins  
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Boogie Unbound— Former IDF Chief of Staff and former Defense Minister Moshe “Boogie” Ya’alon’s flatly asserts that Prime Minister N

The “The Paper They’re Written On” Edition

Nov 28 2024 89 mins  
Linda Gradstein, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —For the Time Being, Anyway— The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah: It ain’t victory and it sure ain’t peace. —ICC You— Why does the world court want to put our prime minister in th