The Promised Podcast

By TLV1 Studios

Religion & Spirituality Judaism

What's The Promised Podcast about?

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 “Oy and Thou” Edition

03.23.2023

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and very special guest Mijal Bitton 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 ...

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03.23.2023 The “Oy and Thou” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and very special guest Mijal Bitton 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 ...
03.16.2023 The “You and What Army?” Edition 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 —Insubordi-Nation— There’s a growing number ...
03.09.2023 The “A Conflict That Contains Lifetimes of Conflicts” Edition In this very special episode, recorded on a “National Day of Resistance Against Dictatorship,” Noah tries your patience trying to figure out what the hell this conflict is about.
03.02.2023 The “In Flames” Edition 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 —In Flames— We just witnessed ...
02.27.2023 The “History Will Judge Us” Edition In this first-in-all-of-human-history, cross-over edition of TLV1’s Tel Aviv Review and TLV1’s The Promised Podcast, we discuss the open letter of more than 160 renowned historians of Jews, Judaism and/or Israel (“Israel on the Edge of an Abyss”), which opens, ...
02.23.2023 The “Uncivil Disobedience?” Edition Miriam Herschlag 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 —Uncivil Disobedience?— Strikes, blocking roads, doxing, ...
02.16.2023 The “Presidential Importunity” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sally Abed 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 —Presidential Importunity— President ...
02.09.2023 The “Reform School” Edition 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 —The Invisible Hand ...
02.02.2023 The “Demonstrating Faith” Edition 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 —When Cannons Roar— There were ...
01.26.2023 The “All You Protest Kids” Edition 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 Tale of Four Cities— ...
01.19.2023 The “When Life Gives You Demons…” Edition Miriam Herschlag 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 —Estoppel Anagrams to “Lost Peeps”— The ...
01.12.2023 The “What Is Up? What Is Down?” Edition Noah Efron and prodigal son Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida 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 —Courting Disaster?— The “Judicial ...
01.05.2023 The “The Falcon & the Falconer” Edition 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 —This Time Feels Different— When historians ...
12.29.2022 The “Getting the Book of Books on the Books” Edition 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 —The Paper It’s ...
12.22.2022 The “Through Sally’s Eyes” Edition Ever since the elections produced what the elections produced, including a new Minister in charge of the police who used to have hanging on his wall, as a tribute, a picture of a man who murdered 29 Palestinian worshippers in ...
12.15.2022 The “Separation Contemplation” Edition 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 —The Other Two-State ...
12.08.2022 The “Salt & Pfeffer” Edition Noah Efron and Times of Israel Ops & Blogs impresario Miriam Herschlag 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 ...
12.01.2022 The “Can’t Spell ‘Minister Ben Gvir’ Without ‘Bite Me’” Edition Noah Efron and journalist-extraordinaire Linda Gradstein 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 —Can’t Spell “Minister Ben Gvir” ...
11.24.2022 “The Man in the Room Where It Happened” Edition Noah Efron and Professor, Environmental Activist and outgoing Member of Knesset Alon Tal 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 ...
11.17.2022 The “Slippery Slopes” Edition Don Futterman, Noah Efron and journalist-extraordinaire Linda Gradstein 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 —Yes, Virginia, There ...
11.10.2022 The “The Fault Lies Not in Our Star, but in Merav Michaeli?!?” Edition Miriam Herschlag, 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 Earth’s Promise שבועת האדמה ...
11.03.2022 The “As the Dust Settles” Edition As the very last votes are still being counted, Miriam, Don and Noah try to make sense of the election results that will bring Benjamin Netanyahu back to the Prime Minister’s office, and what they say about the heart and ...
10.27.2022 The “Casting Ballots” Edition Sally Abed, 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 —It Just Doesn’t Matter?— ...
10.20.2022 The “The Stakes” Edition 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 —The Stakes— Just ...
10.13.2022 The “Ad Hominem, Ad Absurdum, Ad Victorium & Ad Nauseum” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Ad Hominem, Ad ...
10.06.2022 The “Grammy Hall Knew the Score” Edition 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 —Yair in Dag Hammarskjöld Square— ...
09.29.2022 The “Memories and Blessings” Edition In this very special, carbon-neutral episode, we look back on people who lately left us, leaving a huge mark on our lives and world. In Memoriam Clips Architect Danny Karavan Activist Miriam Levenger Rabbi Bent Melchior Lyricist, poet and writer ...
09.22.2022 The “Blessings and Curses” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. —Cutting to the Core— Benjamin Netanyahu promises ultra-Orthodox politicians, in exchange ...
09.15.2022 The “Debating Candidates” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —What Gantz Wantz— ...
09.08.2022 The “Israel – A Father’s Story” Edition In this very-special episode from Limmud Oz in Melbourne, Australia, Noah puzzles out – What? – why he and Susan uprooted their family tree from rich American soil, replanting it in the alluvium of Israel, and how that’s worked out ...
09.01.2022 The “This City We Love So Well!” Edition In this 100% reused-reduced-recycled episode, Noah bloviates about Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the city we love so well! The Pussycat Club Coffee Lab Tal Tenne Czaczkes Tel Aviv’s City Council Debates Things that Matter Bartleby in Tel Aviv The Boteach Sex Store ...
08.25.2022 The “Primary Directive” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Gilad Halpern and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Back to the ...
08.18.2022 The “Primaries & Calumnies” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —In Labor— After ...
08.11.2022 The “This Is Not Lite Summer Fare” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Sally Abed 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 —My War & ...
08.04.2022 The “Songs of Experience” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and star journalist Linda Gradstein discuss three 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 —Smells ...
07.28.2022 The “Stuck in the Middle With Who?” Edition 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 —One Man’s Extremist— ...
07.21.2022 The “Where Would We Be Without Camil Fuchs?” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Ben-Gvir, Bistu Schein?— ...
07.14.2022 The “Let’s Get Together & Feel Alright!” Edition Miriam Herschlag, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Biden’ Time— What is ...
07.07.2022 The “There Will Be Blood” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag 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 —The Torch Has ...
06.30.2022 The “People” Edition Sally, Miriam, Ohad, Don and Noah tell stories of people who made and make our lives worth living. Plus, duets and collaborations by singers we love. (If the stories sound familiar, it is because, as renowned folklorist Joseph Campbell said, ...
06.23.2022 The “Going to the Polls!/Not Going to the Poles!” Edition 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 —Going to the ...
06.16.2022 The “Illin’?” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and prodigal son Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida 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 —Dead ...
06.09.2022 The “Normativities & Their Discontents” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron and prodigal son Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida discuss three 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 —Temporary ...
06.02.2022 The “Jerusalems” Edition On the week of a tense Jerusalem Day, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron talk about the capital city and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment ...
05.26.2022 The “Thank You for Your Service” Edition On Don’s birthday and the day before Miriam’s, Don Futterman, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special ...
05.19.2022 The “Future of the Past” Edition Miriam Herschlag, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Nakba— Nakba Day memorializes ...
05.12.2022 The “Alon Again, Naturally” Edition Allison Kaplan Sommer, Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon —Shireen Abu ...
05.04.2022 The “A Sovereign Jewish State after 2,000 Years, and All I Got was this Lousy Podcast” Edition Allison, Don, Ohad, Amit, Linda, Jeremy & Noah talk about what Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, means to them, on the eve of Israel’s 74th. All that and old Songs of Independence, made new again!
04.28.2022 The “Now and Then” Edition Sally Abed, Allison Kaplan Sommer and Noah Efron discuss three 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 —Violence Season— Is ...
04.21.2022 The “Heroism of the Milker” Edition In this very-special episode, Noah tells the story of a kibbutz that surrendered to the Egyptian army in 1948, and the wounds that have never really healed.

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