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 incriminating reserve soldiers, and (2) the rising swell of Jewish spirituality and religion after October 7th and whether it is something to celebrate or fear (or both).

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: My therapist is a Zionist. What do I do?

Plus, the 30 year anniversary of the week after Rabin’s assassination, philanthropists building hospitals, and Miriam’s day in the Shuk. And new religious pop music sweeping the charts.

Noah talks about the big questions about Israel’s future with historian, journalist, public intellectual and podcaster Marc Shulman.

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 when they say that he steered us through the war just how he said he would, and managed to achieve things that matter.

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: This week we celebrated Yom ha-Oleh, the National Day of the Immigrant. Miriam and Noah talk about the ups and downs of making a life here, after growing up there.

Plus, the life (and death) of the last living Nokem, or avenger, a tiny group that set out after the war to kill ex-Nazis in great numbers. And Miriam’s mother-in-laws pow-wow with the President on her 90th birthday. And some remarkable new music.

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, who for ten years was Human Rights Watch's only senior employee in Israel, to talk about bias in the Human-Rights-Industrial-Complex.

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: The government decides to rebrand the wretched conflict of the past two years as “The War of Resurrection” which, despite its Christological resonances, has got some people here seeing double. What’s in a name?, we will ask. After all, that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. Or so they say, anyway.

Plus, life after the holidays and matters Witkovian!

We waited and we waited and now they are here.

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 changed, personally, and as a society.

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: John Oliver thinks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a corrupt, warlike, evil scumbag. What do we make of that?

Plus, music from the memorial ceremony in the park, by some of our best!

For this Yom Kippur, we return to stuff that gave us solace and understanding in the past.