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The Jerusalem U's Teachers Lounge is a weekly Israeli news update with veteran Gap Year teachers Mike Unterberg and Alan Goldman, taking you behind the headlines and to let you know what's r...
426 Constitutional Crisis Is Israel headed into a Constitutional Crisis? What is happening and what are the stakes? How does this relate to...
425 Rabbi Meir Kahana Lately, the controversial Jewish leader Rabbi Meir Kahana has been “discussed” on social media. Who was he? Why was he...
424 What is Wrong with Peter Beinart? It took a while for Peter Beinart to come out with his book blaming Israel for the post October 7th wo...
424 Trump Statement on Gaza What just happened? During the Netanyahu visit to The White House President Trump announced the residents of Gaz...
423 Trump What did the first Trump administration mean for Israel and the region? And what might his second term mean for the future? Calev...
422 The Hostage Deal What is the actual content of the deal? What is the pro and con debate? How are most Israelis processing these events?...
421 The Fall of Assad and the New Syria What is going on in Syria? How did it happen? Who are the major players in these events? What does i...
Managing Mental Health in Difficult Times Being under stress isn’t a new condition for Jews. But with decades of Israeli power and relative...
A Visit to the Gaza Border This past June, Liel took Alan, Matt, Calev and Mike to the sites that were devastated by the October 7th invasio...
Is Israel Handling its Problems? Everyone agrees that Israel is beset with problems. Some of them can be managed, and many of them must be s...
Are We in the 1920s or 1930s? It is always interesting and helpful to learn from history. And so it's very natural to look to our recent pas...
Mass Protests We live in an era when mass protests are just a normal part of weekly life in Israel. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Do...
Campus: Fight or Flight? Young Jews prepare to return to campuses in the near future. Was last year a preview of what this year will be like...
414 Hostages in the Media This is a painful topic. How should images of the hostages be handled by the media? What is informative and what i...
413 Lebanon This episode discusses the military threat posed by Hezbollah in the North of Israel. We discuss the ongoing tensions, evacuatio...
412 ICC and Consequences What is the ICC? How is it different from the ICJ? What are the consequences of Israel being tried in the ICC? Is t...
411 Iranian Intentions When Iran directly attacked Israel in April they made history. Their proxies have been attacking Israel for years, bu...
410 Complicated current politics In this episode, we delve into the turbulent landscape of Israeli politics following the recent departure o...
409 Is Judicial Reform Dead? It feels like a million years ago that Israel was debating the government plan for judicial reforms. In the tra...
408 Is it Time for Elections? “... It [is] not best to swap horses when crossing streams”, said Abraham Lincoln when running for reelection...
407 National Security and Arab Israelis In the context of the Gaza war, many Jewish Israelis argue that their fellow citizens of Arab ethnic...
406 Can Hamas be Contained? Until October 6th, the shared Israeli conception was that Hamas could be contained in the Gaza strip. Sure, the...
405 American Abstention The routine is that if Israel doesn’t approve of a United Nation Security Council resolution, the United States veto...
404 - How will this war be seen by history? Israel has fought Hamas in Gaza over and over again . There was Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Ope...
403 Should Freeing Hostages Be the Priority? The Gaza war has challenged Israel with countless moral dilemmas. One of the most painful relat...
402 When can we critique the government? “Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream” - associated with Abraham Lincoln’s re-election cam...
401 - Proportionality and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) After defining proportionality (enjoy the audio clip from the West Wing) ther...
308 Framing the Conflict Post October 7 Israelis and Zionists all had to have some understanding of the conflict with Palestinian Arabs. Thi...
Israel Citizens Filling the Breach When Government Fails This is an era when citizens around the world don’t have a tremendous amount of tru...
Are Shoah Analogies Appropriate? We are all living with the trauma of the post October 7th world. It is often referred to as the worst massa...
Who should be hired to do the labor in Israel? Evidence has been uncovered that Arab laborers from the Gaza strip provided Hamas with intel...
Should Israel Fight Hezbollah? While most of our attention is on the war in Gaza, there has been constant combat on our northern border. Wil...
What will happen after the war? When the dust settles, what will Gaza look like? What would be success for Israelis? What could make a bette...
What will winning the war look like? This episode was recorded before the deal to recover hostages was announced. Has Israel set realistic g...
How did we get here? In this gripping podcast episode, Calev, Alan, and Matt delve into the intricate factors that led to the October 7 mass...
Special: Israel at War - Episode 3 Crisis on Campus In this third special current event episode, Calev, Liel and Mike, discuss what is happe...
Special: Israel at War - Episode 2 What happens next? In this second of two special current event episodes, Mike, Alan, Mordechai and Jordan...
Special Israel at War - Episode 1 Where are we now? In this first of two special current event episodes, Calev, Liel and Matt discuss where...
Are there boundaries to Jewish caricatures? We didn’t even know that Ben was recording. But he was! He recorded our discussion of a politica...
Should Israel Do More to Support Ukraine? Israel faces a complex dilemma when it comes to supporting Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. On...
Haredi Draft The debate over drafting the Haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, has been a contentious issue in the country...
Can Israel Have a Constitution? Israel’s Declaration of Independence calls for a “Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constit...
Apartheid Type the word “ apartheid ” into a google search bar and the second search that pops up is “apartheid Israel”. We’ve all heard the...
Is There a Future for the Jewish Diaspora ? Jews have been living outside of the land of Israel for thousands of years. It is a historical t...
Herzl vs. Ahad Ha’am There is an old saying that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” We deeply believe that knowing the h...
Does Israel Need America? Everyone knows that Israel and America have a strong relationship. As allies their economic, political, military,...
Note: This is the beginning of season 9, which is season 2 of our new debate format! We decided to get this episode published in a timely fa...
We are excited to announce the upcoming second season of our new debate format! This episode was recorded and edited by the amazing Ben Wall...
How Should Diaspora Jews Express their Ideas About Israeli Politics? Note: This is the end of the season and our podcast will be on a brief...
Should Israeli Reserve Soldiers Refuse to Serve as Protests? The protests against Judicial Reform have continued on a smaller scale over the...