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Even a radio program requires annual soul-searching

The Jay Shapiro Show 03OCT2019 - PODCAST

So much to do and so little time! Is Yom Kippur a time of bleakness and fear or rife with expectation and happiness? 'Confession' and 'intention' are the themes we explore, correlating the death of Moshe with Day of Judgement.

Pull Up a Chair 03OCT2019 - PODCAST

Howie confronts a worshipper in synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, you'll never believe what happens next!

Political Hitman 02OCT2019 - PODCAST

Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) to discuss important developments in a tumultuous do-over election. Discussions between Gantz of Blue White Alliance and PM Netanyahu of Likud right wing coalition are at a critical impasse with the possibility that Netanyahu might hand in his mandate from President Rivlin. All hinges on critical meeting on October 2nd between Gantz and Netanyahu. The Arab Joint List with 10 mandates ironically endorsed Gantz, a former IDF Chief of Staff. Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu with 8 mandates wants a national secular unity government without Netanyahu leading Likud and right wing religious parties. Liberman is trying to position himself as leader of the secular nationalists to emerge as a possible future PM. Could the do-over election result in other Likud leading political figures contesting for party leadership as rotating PM.

Diker of the JCPA thinks both the April election and September do-over have been a referendum on the character of Netanyahu. Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister faces hearings in October on corruption charges. Netanyahu has petitioned for open televised hearings on the charges.

Some pundists contend that Israel cannot afford a third election which is estimated to cost upwards of one billion shekels in lost production time and lost revenues to the Israeli economy from time off, additional electoral voting processing and security costs.

Diker is the Director of the Program to Counter Political Warfare at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). He is a former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress. He is the editor and co-author of Defeating Denormalization—Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace, (2018).

Beyond the Matrix 02OCT2019 - PODCAST

With only a few days before the start of the Days of Awe - Yomim Noarim - what thoughts and actions may ensure that the upcoming year is a good one? Playing the 'victim card' is inconsistent with Torah; Celebrating individual and communal potential while striving for meaningful repentance are some of the topics discussed on today's reflective program.

Pull Up a Chair 26SEP2019 - PODCAST

In this week's show, Jono remembers INTR friend Nathan Mond who passed away this week. May his memory be for a blessing. In this episode, your hosts discuss some recent archaeological discoveries. Ross shares a bit about copper smelting as it relates to the Kingdom of Edom and a new understanding of copper smelting in the ancient world. Your hosts also discuss a new round of cartoon drawing contests in Iran aimed at making fun of President Trump, and the new winner of Israel's Top Chef reality show and her criminal husband. This and much more in Copper, Cartoons, the Chef, and the Criminal.

Israel on My Mind 26SEP2019 - PODCAST

Israel begins another year with fantastic potential for progress materially and spiritually

The Jay Shapiro Show 26SEP2019 - PODCAST

Orly talks about the new Jewish year. Orly also takes about the democrats attempt to impeach president trump, and the Israeli election

From Jerusalem With Love 25SEP2019 - PODCAST

Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon bring back Dan Diker to discuss important developments in a tumultuous do-over election. The result is a virtual tie with the Blue White Alliance of Benny Gantz at 44 Knesset mandates versus PM Netanyahu Likud and Right-wing alliance with 55 mandates. The Arab Joint List with 10 mandates that endorsed Gantz and Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu with 8 mandates have big chips in unity government negotiations to pass the threshold of 61 mandates with Gantz and Netanyahu as rotating PMs. Liberman is trying to position himself as leader of the secular nationalists to emerge as a possible future PM.

Last minute changes make it likely that Netanyahu with his mandates may go first to try and form a possible ruling coalition. Both the April and September do-over elections Diker thinks have been a referendum on the character of Netanyahu, Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister facing hearings in October on corruption charges.

As Diker sees it the big news of the do-over election is the emergence of Israeli Arabs rejecting the corruption and “descent into a cauldron of violence” of the PLO-Fatah, Hamas and Shiite extremism of Iran. Instead they ironically opted to back a former IDF commander, Gantz, embracing Israeli Democracy. The Joint List might end up as the opposition in a Knesset with a rotating Blue White – Likud Right wing Unity government. Diker views this emergence of the Arab Joint List, less the rejectionist Balad party, the beginning of an historic shift in Israeli Arab leaders. He believes that development is bad news for the anti-Semitic International BDS movement.

Diker is the Director of the Program to Counter Political Warfare at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA). He is a former Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress. He is the editor and co-author of Defeating Denormalization—Shared Palestinian and Israeli Perspectives on a New Path to Peace, (2018).

Beyond the Matrix 25SEP2019 - PODCAST

William returns and joins Rav Yitzchak to speak about politics in both the U.S. and Israel. How are we to view the opposite sides, and what does Kabbalah teach us about finding the balance instead of the extreme.

The Science of Kabbalah 24SEP2019 - PODCAST