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Amanda Borschel-Dan

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What Matters Now to lobbyist Rachel Gur: Why Israel is so #₪@$! expensive

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish world — right now. On Sunday, Prime...

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What Matters Now to Yair Zakovitch: Using ‘Ruth’ as a blueprint for creative halacha

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish world — right now. This week, Jews all...

25.05.2023 30

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What Matters Now to historian Sara Hirschhorn: Extremism is now mainstream

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. On Thursday this week,...

19.05.2023 40

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2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy

A broken chalkstone inscribed with seven rows of mundane text sheds new light on who could read and write 2,000 years ago in ancient Jerusalem....

17.05.2023 20

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Swimmer discovers precious marble cargo from 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck

Three weeks ago while swimming a mere 200 meters off the shore of the central beach town of Beit Yanai, recreational sea swimmer Gideon Harris took a...

15.05.2023 90

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What Matters Now to ToI analyst Haviv Rettig Gur: The political perils of conflict

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. Israel stands unified...

12.05.2023 70

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What Matters Now to veteran journalist Biranit Goren: Media-made parallel universes

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. The Knesset reconvened...

05.05.2023 100

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What Matters Now to Prof. Gil Troy: ‘Identity Zionism’ to cure Diaspora’s ‘unJews’

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. National Resilience...

28.04.2023 80

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What Matters Now to past Justice head Emi Palmor: A stronger post-crisis Israel

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. This episode is being...

21.04.2023 100

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What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: Warsaw Ghetto Jews were divided, too

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. This week, like every...

14.04.2023 90

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What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — except this week. Ahead of...

05.04.2023 100

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Newly deciphered inscription gives clue to biblical Queen of Sheba’s Jerusalem visit

After stumping epigraphers for over a decade, a mysterious First Temple-era inscription uncovered at the Ophel, a stone’s throw from Jerusalem’s...

03.04.2023 100

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What Matters Now to top Canadian jurist Irwin Cotler: Drafting Israel’s constitution

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. About three months ago...

31.03.2023 100

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What Matters Now to arrested activist Shikma Bressler: Saving Israel

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. On Thursday,...

24.03.2023 100

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What Matters Now to religion and state activist Uri Regev: Averting a theocracy

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. Wednesday night on...

17.03.2023 90

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Taking advantage of this ‘moment of decisions’

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. On Wednesday, stun...

03.03.2023 80

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A year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ‘What Matters Now’ to Ksenia Svetlova

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. A year into the...

24.02.2023 100

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What Matters Now to… Prof. Suzie Navot? Guarding against a ‘Frankenstate’

Welcome to What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now. On Monday, tens of...

17.02.2023 100

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What Matters Now… to MK Simcha Rothman? ‘The people should appoint the judges’

Welcome to our second episode of What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right...

10.02.2023 90

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What Matters Now… to philosopher Micah Goodman? Preventing civil war

Welcome to our inaugural episode of What Matters Now, a new weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World —...

03.02.2023 100

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Podcast: At the Israel Museum, touring 7 new wonders of the ancient world

This week on Times Will Tell, host Amanda Borschel-Dan takes you with her to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem for a first-time viewing of seven new...

27.01.2023 90

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Podcast: ‘Antisemitism is now a form of entertainment – and that’s new’

This week on Times Will Tell we’re speaking with Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, the director of Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Contemporary...

06.01.2023 90

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Amanda Borschel-Dan

Bible scholar’s sensational Hezekiah inscription claims prompt researchers’ outcry

Accumulated disquiet over the widespread publication of sensational claims regarding ostensibly newly deciphered, once-in-a-lifetime biblical...

26.12.2022 90

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2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists

Archaeologists recently uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea, which they say is the first physical proof that Jews fled...

13.12.2022 200

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Largest study of ancient DNA shows medieval Ashkenazi Jewry was surprisingly diverse

Circa the 14th century, Ashkenazi women in Erfut, central Germany, carried a breast and ovarian cancer-indicative BRCA 1 mutation in their DNA. This...

30.11.2022 100

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