Rabbi Yishai returns home to the Holy Land and is joined by Rav Mike Feuer to hash out Israel's relationships with empires - especially today's Western-American tilt. Is Israel meant to compete with Rome, or is meant to buttress the current paradigm?

Aharon Ariel Lavi is a serial social entrepreneur, a professional community organizer, an economist and historian of ideas. He joined Eve on a One Israel Fund webinar to discuss the social and economic aspects of the Shmita year. In his new book Lavi traces the conceptual and spiritual foundations of Shmita. The 7 year Sabbatical cycle seeks to create as a mechanism to enable and encourage personal and social growth based on free enterprise and trial and error. New perspectives on an ancient mitzva.

From Kabul to Gaza, and all places in-between, whenever the West displays weakness, the Jihad swoops in. On this week's Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, Josh discusses the fall of Kabul to the Taliban, and how that new reality mirrors the Hamas takeover of Gaza when Israel pulled out in 2005. With Hamas threatening more violence if their cash demands are not met, Josh says the only way to deal with Jihdist terror groups is through strength.

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Here is part five of the live series on Survival Zionism. This episode returns to the US to look at the impact of these fateful years on American Jewry.

Talking Israel in the heart of the Diaspora: Somewhere on the Upper East Side, Rabbi Yishai connects with Rabbi Yehuda Hakohen of the Vision Movement to discuss the purpose of Jewish power in our generation, teaching Hebrew universality to young Progressives, and the commemoration of Rabbi Kook's legacy as seen from Babylon/Rome/New York City.

Rabbi Yedidya Sinclair is about to publish a book on the Sabbatical year and the teachings of Rav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook on this important Biblical commandment. Do his emergency dispensations from a century ago still apply in an era of abundant produce and Israeli sovereignty? Were we exiled because we failed to comply and is that a danger still today ?

Listen to the first in a series of podcasts on the beautiful ideas behind this incredibly difficult but literally ground breaking dictate and mitzva.

Coming our way in a month when we usher in 5782.

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From Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, to the bombing of an Israeli-managed cargo ship, to meeting with the heads of terror organizations, Iran has been extremely busy this week exporting its brand of aggression in the Middle East. In regard to Hezbollah launching around 20 rockets into northern Israel, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said that such action will not be tolerated. Time will tell if Israel is heading towards a possible war on several fronts. This story plus all the latest news from Israel on this week's Israel Uncensored, with Josh Hasten.

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From the road, Yishai talks about meeting Chickasaw Indians and thinking about the importance of maintaining nationalism and tribal culture. Then, in the Torah portion of Re'eh, the big Mitzvah of finding and fighting for God's place - and making sure others don't desecrate it.

Israeli media outlets reported this week that Qatar and the Palestinian Authority have reached an agreement which would allow for Qatari funds to reach Gaza. The money is supposed to go towards the needy in the Hamas-run enclave in addition to Hamas' "administration officials." On today's edition of Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten, Josh says that no doubt some of that funding will be used by Hamas to further their terror agenda against the Jewish State.

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Historian turned journalist Seth Frantzman has just published a very well researched book on drones and their military applications called 'Drone Wars'. He speaks with Eve Harow about this fascinating new field of warfare and what the future holds as it develops further. They also discussed the field of journalism and the lack of balance in what global stories get coverage. His personal experience of discovering the evidence of the ISIS genocide of the Yazidi tribe led to his previous book on the terror group (misnamed ‘insurgents’) and some of the horrors they perpetrated. Seth is recognized by his readers and fellow correspondents for excellent writing and a lack of political correctness in his desire for honest reporting. This is an interesting interview and his books enlightening, albeit not comforting. It’s a tough world and we rarely learn what’s going on in an in depth way.