The Promised Podcast
1) The “Keeva & Us” Edition
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Noah Efron, and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Looking for the ...Show More
2) The “Keeping the Peace?” Edition
Allison and Noah talk about (1) the spike in thuggish thuggery of young Jewish thugs, throwing rocks, beating with sticks, setting fires, sparking fear among Palestinians on the West Bank, and also Je...Show More
3) The “All the iPhones in the Sea” Edition
Miriam Herschlag, Noah Efron and managing editor at eJewishPhilanthropy Judah Ari Gross talk about (1) the storm of protest and worry over the discovery that the army’s chief attorney leaked a video i...Show More
4) The “The Big Picture” Edition
Noah talks about the big questions about Israel’s future with historian, journalist, public intellectual and podcaster Marc Shulman.
5) In Memoriam: Omer Neutra (Recorded Dec. 5th, 2024)
6) The “So Maybe He Did Know What He Was Doing?” Edition
Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron talk about (1) the on-again-off-again fragility of the ceasefire, visiting death on both sides, and (2) whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu’s admirers have a point ...Show More
7) The “To Arrive Where We Started” Edition
Allison and Noah talk about what the hell they make of the neither-fish-nor-foul liminal state we find ourselves in now and what the hell the future holds for us. Then they are joined by Danielle Haas...Show More
8) The “Home!” Edition
We waited and we waited and now they are here.
9) The “Two Years & Twenty Points” Edition
Linda Gradstein and Noah Efron talk about (1) US President Donald Trump’s “Twenty Point Plan,” to bring home the hostages and end the war, and (2) On the second Yahrzeit of October 7, how we have chan...Show More
10) The “Atonement, Judgement, Compassion, Forgiveness, Pardon, and Repentance” Edition
For this Yom Kippur, we return to stuff that gave us solace and understanding in the past.