"I still believe that our problems do not start and end with our external enemies"

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Apr 17, 2024 · 44m

The restaurants and cafes were full on Sunday morning. During the night, we’d been hunkered down while Iranian weaponry exploded in the air above our homes, we then got very little sleep, and by morning, everything was back to normal. People were out for coffee, a danish, heading off to work (though schools were still closed). Frankly, the “morning after” was almost as extraordinary as the repelling of the attack.

Today’s podcast is a conversation with one of Israel’s most courageous and admired religious figures, on a series of subjects that do not generate humor. We nonetheless begin with a…