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  • Ceasefire talk, hostage politics and Logan Roy

    A US-Iran deal appears to be taking shape — and Israel isn't in the room. As diplomatic back-channels buzz and American strikes on Iran continue under a ceasefire that apparently requires bombing to maintain, Netanyahu finds himself watching from the outside: no seat at the table, no answers on the nuclear file, no movement on proxies. Meanwhile, two hostage parents — whose sons were held in Gaza at the same time — are entering Israeli politics from opposite ends of the spectrum, a story that says more about where the country is heading than any poll. Plus: the Caroline Glick appointment, the Israel Solidarity Parade in New York, antisemitism in London's British Museum, and a Chutzpah award for a congressman whose concession speech managed to be both funny and deeply troubling.

    This week's Mensch of the Week will leave you wanting to move to Tel Aviv.

    Note: The name of the Republican congressman challenged by Dan Bilzerian in Florida is, in fact, Randy Fine.

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    47 min
  • Franklin Foer on why fatalism isn't a strategy for American Jews

    Franklin Foer is the man who declared that the golden age of American Jewry is over - or at least ending. Two years on — in the aftermath of October 7th and the Gaza war, collapsing bipartisan support for Israel, a wave of antisemitism from both left and right, and a military misadventure in Iran — he thinks he underestimated the problem.

    This week, Yonit and Jonathan sit down with Foer, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of the landmark piece that became required reading in Jewish communities across America. They discuss whether the anti-AIPAC pledge that has become a feature of Democratic primaries is classical antisemitism in new clothing; how a forgotten Jewish genius from Odessa might explain what American Jews are supposed to do now; and why Foer refuses — loudly — to bow to fatalism.

    Also: Bob Dylan's existential crisis, Abraham Joshua Heschel's ode to the Sabbath, and how soccer helps explain at least one aspect of modern Jewish life.

    Guest: Franklin Foer, staff writer, The Atlantic

    ⏱ CHAPTERS:

    [00:00] Intro — Franklin Foer joins Unholy, The golden age Jewish Americans, what it was, why it's ending

    [04:46] The Impact of October 7th on American Jews

    [11:25] The Connection Between Israel and American Jewish Identity

    [22:32] Fatalism vs. persuasion — the Cold War argument 

    [28:35] How do you persuade non-Jews that antisemitism is bad for them?

    [32:56] Top 3 Jewish Americans: Pichelis, Dylan, Heschel

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    43 min
  • Flotilla Disgrace, Election Fever and Football Joy

    This week Jonathan is in celebratory mode—and no, it's not only because it’s the festival of Shavuot, but because his beloved Arsenal finally won the Premier League, sparking a spontaneous tribal gathering of ‘marauding revellers’ in North London.

    Meanwhile, Yonit and Jonathan unpack the volatile situation with Iran, and ask where President Trump’s vague threats of a renewed strike are heading.

    Then, it's wall-to-wall condemnation for National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose grotesque 56-second video taunting Gaza flotilla detainees was a nightmare for Israel’s defenders especially.

    And Jonathan describes his visit to the Nova exhibition in London, which offers a powerful, heart-rending glimpse of the human faces of the October 7th massacre and the shocking refusal of much of the world to look directly at what happened on that day. Plus: a musical mensch for the ages.

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    ⏱ CHAPTERS:

    [00:00] Shavuot: Celebrating the Unsung Holiday 

    [09:20] Iran's Threats and Trump's Unpredictability

    [17:00] Israeli Politics: Elections and Coalition Dynamics

    [23:12] Ben-Gvir's Controversial Video: A PR Nightmare for Israel 

    [29:15] The Political Landscape in Israel

    [39:02] The Impact of the Nova Exhibition

    [45:30] Chutzpah and Mench

     

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    52 min
  • Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy On the sexual violence of October 7

    Two and a half years after October 7th, the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children has published its comprehensive report — 300 pages of meticulously corroborated evidence documenting what was done to women, men, children, and hostages on that day and in captivity since. This week, Yonit and Jonathan speak with Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, the founder and chair of the Commission, 2024 Israel Prize laureate, and expert in international law and human rights — the woman who spent more than two years immersed in 10,000 photographs and videos and 430 testimonies so the world could not look away.

    They discuss what the evidence reveals about the scale and calculated nature of the atrocities, why so many feminist organisations around the world fell silent, the new legal concept of “kinocide” that the Commission had to coin because no existing term could capture what had happened to families — and what it means that the person who stared deepest into this abyss still believes in peace.

    Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpNOrhqCJ6E

    00:00 Introduction

    00:43 The scale and scope of the evidence

    02:55 The 13 documented patterns of abuse

    06:18 What Hamas intended — terrorizing a nation for generations

    09:15 How the evidence points to deliberate strategy, not random violence

    10:50 Coining “kinocide” — when existing legal language wasn’t enough

    14:21 Destroying family bonds: the most intimate atrocities

    16:26 Gathering evidence when so much was destroyed and victims were silenced

    19:39 Institutional denial — UN Women, Judith Butler, and feminist silence

    22:30 Why colleagues looked away: antisemitism and dehumanization

    24:38 The report as legal and historical document

    27:46 The New York Times report and the question of diversion

    31:07 The personal toll — two and a half years immersed in the evidence

    34:15 Can this wound ever heal?

    35:21 After everything: still a believer in peace

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    41 min
  • Bibi's secret visit, Israeli election timetable - and a veteran mensch

    Yonit and Jonathan discuss a week brimming with unresolved questions. Did Benjamin Netanyahu really travel to the UAE during the war with Iran? Why would he leak it now, and what led the UAE to issue such a quick denial? After a trip to China, where is Donald Trump heading on Iran?

    And inside Israel, as the political drama intensified with United Torah Judaism threatening to break ranks with the coalition over the draft bill's failure, could elections be held in September? And what role could be played by a possible plea bargain for Netanyahu?

    Finally, there’s a crowded field for our mensch award this week – who will come out in front: a 100 year old international treasure or a newborn baby?

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    ⏱ CHAPTERS:

    [00:00] Intro — Netanyahu, Trump, and the week in news

    [00:43] Yonit's book in Hebrew — "Don't Feed the Lion" lands in Israel

    [05:13] Jonathan's Jewish tour of Porto — and the cross that means Jewish house

    [09:29] Netanyahu's secret UAE visit — what really happened

    [13:10] The UAE denial — implausible deniability explained

    [15:10] Iran ceasefire suspended animation — everyone preparing for the next round

    [16:01] Trump in China — could Beijing unlock the Iran deal?

    [17:20] Lebanon vs. Iran at the UN — the embryo of a new Middle East

    [20:13] Israeli elections — United Torah Judaism breaks with Netanyahu

    [22:36] Will Netanyahu even run? The plea deal question

    [24:10] Western Wall bill — criminalizing non-orthodox practice

    [27:15] Gaza: Hamas not disarming, humanitarian aid down 37%

    [33:38] Nick Kristof's NYT piece — the controversy explained

    [40:40] Chutzpah: Miki Zohar blames October 7th on Bennett-Lapid

    [43:02] Mensch: Tom Holland on antisemitism

    [44:20] Mensch: David Attenborough turns 100

    [46:48] Mensch: Abe Foxman, the last Jewish pope

    [47:30] Baby Aviv — Unholy's first baby 🎉

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    49 min
  • The Future is Peace - with Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah

    Maoz Inon lost his parents on October 7th. They were in their safe room, 200 meters from the Gaza border wall, when Hamas came. Aziz Abu Sarah lost his brother — the person who raised him — after he was tortured in an Israeli prison during the First Intifada. Two days after October 7th, Aziz wrote Maoz a letter. Maoz wrote back. That exchange became a friendship, a journey across the Holy Land, and now a New York Times bestselling book: "The Future Is Peace."

    This is not a polemic. It is not a policy paper. It is an invitation — to sit with grief that belongs to both sides, to doubt the narratives handed to you, and to imagine that the conflict will end. Because, as Maoz says, it will. The only question is when and how many more lives are lost before it does.

    Yonit and Jonathan talk with them about Hamas, religious extremism, on what peace would actually look like, on whether Israelis have any reason to trust again. 

     

    Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0nJ3q4kvVPs

    ⏱ CHAPTERS:

    [00:00] Intro — who are Aziz and Maoz?

    [00:47] Maoz: the last phone call with his parents on October 7th

    [02:57] Aziz: losing a brother who was his parent

    [04:34] The kind of people Maoz's parents were

    [08:12] Aziz reaches out — what the letter said

    [09:47] Why Aziz wanted to learn Hebrew

    [14:23] Are they the minority? How do you make peace mainstream?

    [16:36] What would peace actually look like?

    [20:18] Yonit pushes: what about Hamas, what about religion?

    [24:44] The travelogue — hospitals, holy sites, and shared grief

    [26:38] Do Israelis and Palestinians have to give up their narratives?

    [33:27] What do Aziz and Maoz still disagree on?

    [38:48] Closing — the book, the journey, the invitation

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    41 min
  • Israel Election whispers, Iran Negotiations and "Lashon Hara, Babe"

    The Iran war may be over — or it may not. In the space of a few hours this week, Washington ordered warships into the Strait of Hormuz, paused the operation, threatened to resume bombing at higher intensity, and then declared peace was near. 

    Yonit and Jonathan cut through the chaos — and ask the question the ceasefire deal still hasn't answered: what happened to Iran's nuclear stockpile? 

    Also this week: Bezalel Smotrich calls October 7th "a tactical failure" and says including Arab parties in government would be a thousand times worse. Gadi Eisenkot and former Shin Bet chief Yoram Cohen join forces. Netanyahu's plea deal murmurs get louder. The UK goes to the polls with antisemitism front and center. And the Chutzpah and Mensch awards both go to the same unlikely figure: Nick Cave, who told a hostile fan to go F himself — and blamed his wife's absence.

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    [00:00] Intro — Jewish American Heritage Month

    [06:54] Iran ceasefire chaos — what is Washington actually doing? 

    [10:14] The nuclear question the deal still hasn't answered 

    [15:21] Israeli politics: Bennett-Lapid merger recap 

    [17:43] Eisenkot + Yoram Cohen join forces 

    [21:10] Smotrich calls October 7th a "tactical failure" 

    [26:46] Netanyahu: plea deal or Saudi peace card? 

    [31:05] UK local elections — Jews as political football [37:05] Chutzpah & Mensch: Nick Cave vs. Lee from Bournemouth [41:10] Ted Turner — a different kind of media owner

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    43 min
  • Iran War: What Comes Next - with Dr Suzanne Maloney

    Forty days of war with Iran. Four weeks of an uneasy ceasefire. And one verdict that nobody in Washington wants to say out loud: the Islamic Republic came out of this stronger.

    Dr. Suzanne Maloney, Vice President of the Brookings Institution's foreign policy program and one of America's most trusted voices on Iran, joins Yonit and Jonathan as US warships attempt to escort vessels through a Strait of Hormuz that Iran still effectively controls. They get into whether the ceasefire can hold, why the nuclear threat was never really addressed, who is actually making decisions inside Tehran now that the supreme leader is gone, and what a realistic deal — if one exists — might look like.

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    42 min
  • Stabbings in London, a political marriage in Israel

    As stabbing against Jews in Golders Green rises up, again, the question of security of Jewish communities around the world,  Israel starts the countdown: 6 months to the elections. Yonit and Jonathan discuss the Golders Green knife attack and the wave of antisemitism hitting Britain since October 7th; the Bennett–Lapid merger and what it means for Israel's October elections; whether the Iran–Israel war is on pause or simply reloading; Jake Sullivan's bombshell statement on arms sales to Israel; and — in the awards — Israeli police cutting a Palestinian flag from a Jewish man's kippah, and King Charles delivering a Magna Carta reminder to Congress that Democrats jumped to their feet for. 

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    47 min
  • Howard Jacobson - Unholy Conversations

    Howard Jacobson has screamed "liar" at the BBC, lost friends over a newspaper article, and started asking his wife whether it's still safe to live in London. Now he's written a novel about all of it.

    *Howl* is the story of Ferdinand Draxler — Jewish headmaster, reluctant marcher, man on the edge — who watches the world he believed in applaud the October 7th massacre and descends into a rage that may or may not be madness. Jacobson says he borrowed quite a lot from the last two years of his life.

    In this Unholy Conversations episode, Jacobson talks with Yonit and Jonathan about the ungovernable anger behind the novel, why he chose comedy as the only honest vehicle for it, the friends who wrote accusing him of celebrating Palestinian deaths, the Manchester synagogue where he was bar mitzvahed and which was attacked on Yom Kippur, and the question he can't shake: what would we have done in Berlin in 1932?

     

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About Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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Yonit Levi of Israel's Channel 12 News and Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian are two of the most prominent journalists in the world today. They are also Jews. Each week, join what MSNBC's Rachel Maddow calls "two great, smart smart smart hosts" as they dissect and debate current events shaping Israel, Jewish life - and the wider world.

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