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Unholy: Two Jews on the News
Yonit Levi of Israel's Channel 12 News and Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian are two of the most prominent journalists in the world today. They are also Jews. Each week, join what MSNBC's Rachel Maddow calls "two great, smart smart smart hosts" as they dissect and debate current events shaping Israel, Jewish life - and the wider world. Their blend of nuanced discussion and sparkling conversation, featuring a dazzling range of guests, is why New Yorker editor David Remnick calls himself a…
Episodes
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsJoe vs. The Volcano - with Ezra Klein
As Democrats weigh up what to do about Joe Biden, Yonit and Jonathan talk to New York Times columnist and podcaster Ezra Klein, who back in February became the…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsDial E For Elections - with Ruth Elkrief
They’ve voted in Britain, are about to vote in France and come November they’ll be voting in America - even if they’re not exactly sure who’s going to be on…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsDivided Israel, Divided America - with Van Jones
With the Supreme Court delivering a landmark ruling that could spell the end of Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, new polling shows who might take his place…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsBibi's House of Cards - with Rivka Ravitz
As rifts widen within Israel’s ruling coalition - and between Benjamin Netanyahu and both the White House and his own military, Yonit and Jonathan discuss…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsBig Fires Everywhere - with Amos Harel
The week began with a daring hostage rescue operation that brought four Israeli captives home, but the relief did not last long. Hezbollah rocket fire from the…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsNo Quiet On The Northern Front - with “Nas Daily”
With the war in Gaza now eight months old, fears turn to the possibility of an all-out confrontation in the north - against a Hezbollah force far mightier than…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael GPS - with Fareed Zakaria
In a week that saw international fury over an air strike on Rafah that led to the deaths of dozens of civilians - and which came just days after an order from…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsWanted - with Yuval Shany
With the International Criminal Court considering arrest warrants declaring Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsStrange Days Indeed
There’s a lot for Yonit and Jonathan to unpack this week, following two especially intense ceremonial days in Israel. They discuss a split-screen Independence…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsUp In Arms - with Michael Milshtein
As Joe Biden withholds a crucial arms shipment, Yonit and Jonathan discuss a new low in Israel’s relationship with its most important ally. They talk to…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsCollege Break - with Hadley Freeman, Noa Fay & Maya Ilany
In a week when the Gaza conflict seemed to be relocated to the lawns of America’s Ivy League campuses, Yonit and Jonathan talk to Columbia student Noa Fay and…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsRewind: Scott Galloway vs. the World
During the Passover break, another chance to hear one of our most forceful conversations - one that, in many ways, has only become more timely. Yonit and…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe 11th Plague - with Fania Oz-Salzberger & Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
In an episode recorded before Israel’s reported targeting of Iranian sites in the early hours of Friday morning, Yonit and Jonathan discuss the ongoing fallout…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsUrgent Update: Iran Attacks
Yonit and Jonathan talk through an unprecedented night in which Iran launched a direct attack on Israeli territory for the first time - and in which a series…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThis Jewish Life: A Conversation with Ira Glass & Etgar Keret
Israeli writer and satirist Etgar Keret and US broadcasting legend Ira Glass have been friends for two decades - but October 7 put that friendship under…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe Six Month War - With Amos Harel, Angela Buchdahl and Bianna Golodryga
The war that began on October 7 is six months old: to mark the occasion, a special episode with three unique voices. Yonit and Jonathan hear from Israel's…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsV For Veto
In a week when the US withheld its protective veto at the UN Security Council, leaving Israel isolated, Yonit and Jonathan discuss the deteriorating state of…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsSpecial Bond - with David Axelrod & Mike Murphy
Two legends of American politics – the hosts of Hacks on Tap, David Axelrod and Mike Murphy - join Yonit and Jonathan for a podcast double date as they talk…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIn The Zone - with Danny Cohen & Rachel Cockerell
In an exclusive interview, Zone of Interest executive producer Danny Cohen tells Yonit and Jonathan why he believes the film’s director Jonathan Glazer got his…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsSuccession: A Conversation With Yossi Cohen
Yossi Cohen is the former head of the Mossad, a former national security adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu - and often talked about as a future prime minister of…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsMarch To Nowhere - with David Baddiel
Five months after 7 October, and with talk of an imminent hostage deal receding thanks to deadly events on the ground in Gaza, Yonit and Jonathan take stock of…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsRewind: War Therapy
Not a brand new episode this week - instead, another chance to hear one of the most impactful episodes we’ve ever aired. Back in November, as tensions emerged…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe Day After Tomorrow - with Samer Sinijlawi & Michael Milshtein
It's become rare to hear Israelis and Palestinians in conversation with each other during these last, painful months. Yonit and Jonathan bring together Israeli…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsAsk Us Anything
As talks aimed at a release of hostages and a pause in fighting grind on, Yonit and Jonathan look at what both Israel and Hamas stand to gain - and lose - from…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe Room Where It Happens - with Zohar Palti
As hopes rise and fall of a breakthrough that would bring the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and a pause in fighting in Gaza, Yonit and Jonathan…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsNo Exit
More grim landmarks in the war between Israel and Hamas - as all eyes turn to The Hague for the first pronouncement of the International Court of Justice on…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsScott Galloway vs. the World
The war between Israel and Hamas is not fought out only through bombs and rockets - it’s also waged in the media, on campus, online, and even in the corporate…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe First 100 Days - with Michael Walzer
As the war reaches an important milestone, Israel faces a legal challenge in the International Court of Justice in the Hague: Yonit and Jonathan go into that…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsNew Year’s Retribution - with Jen Psaki
The new year began ominously, with rockets in Israel, an assassination in Beirut and talk of a widening of the war. Yonit and Jonathan discuss all that - along…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsMotherland - with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Yonit and Jonathan look back on a turbulent year - which shook Israel and the Jewish world - catch up on an eventful week, and speak with the woman who has…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsAround the War in 80 Days
Pressure on the Israeli government is mounting from within and without. As the international community debates exactly what kind of ceasefire it demands of…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsTicking Clock - with Yascha Mounk
With American pressure on Israel mounting, Yonit speaks exclusively to US national security adviser Jake Sullivan about just how long Washington will give…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe Light We Cannot See - with Ilana Dayan
Two months on from the 7 October massacre, Yonit and Jonathan assess the state of the nation with one of Israel’s sagest voices: the longtime investigative TV…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael At War Week VIII: Speak of the Devil - with Michael Milshtein
After a week of intense emotion - a rollercoaster road combining relief, joy, anxiety, and dread for the families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas - Yonit and…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael At War Week VII: Held Hostage
As the clock ticked down to an expected release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, Yonit and Jonathan sat down face to face in Tel Aviv, to discuss the…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael At War: Week VI - with Amos Harel & Dan Senor
An update on the war from the doyen of Israel’s military correspondents, Amos Harel – and, in the week of perhaps the largest pro-Israel demonstration in US…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsTikTok War - with Kara Swisher
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth week, there’s an increasing focus on a radically new front: the information war fought out on social…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsWar Therapy
The war has been a period of grief and anxiety, but also of strain and stress felt around every Jewish table, inside Israel and out. For this special episode…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael At War: Week IV - with Muli Segev & Simon Sebag Montefiore
The war intensifies with Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza, a Palestinian death toll now estimated to be above 8,000 and still no word on the 240 Israeli…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael At War: Week III - with Shimrit Meir
Three weeks into Israel's war against Hamas, Yonit and Jonathan talk to Shimrit Meir, a former adviser to Naftali Bennett, about the next steps in the conflict…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael at War Week II: Listeners’ Questions
Joe Biden becomes the first US president to visit Israel at a time of war, the world’s media blame Israel for a deadly Gaza hospital blast that, most experts…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsIsrael at War: Week I
After perhaps the hardest week in Israel’s history, Yonit and Jonathan discuss the mood inside the country, in the wider Jewish world and beyond. They talk…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsUrgent Update: Israel At War
This is an emergency episode to cover the event that’s already being described as Israel’s 9/11 - with others drawing comparisons with Pearl Harbor or the…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsWho By Fire - with Yuval Neria
An incident of ultra Orthodox Jews spitting at Christian worshippers in Jerusalem drew widespread backlash this week, both from Israeli officials and foreign…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsThe Dark Side - with John Ware
As a new documentary probes the dark side of rock star Roger Waters, Yonit and Jonathan - who, in an Unholy first, are this week both in London - talk to the…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsNormalize This: Saudi Breakthrough - with Lesley Stahl
This week brought the strongest signal yet that a breakthrough in Saudi-Israeli relations is coming - with heavy hints from Benjamin Netanyahu, Mohammed bin…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsDays of Judgement - with David Remnick
It's the Jewish New Year -- and Yonit and Jonathan are joined by New Yorker editor and longtime friend of the podcast, David Remnick, to reflect on the year…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsDeal Or No Deal - with Prof. Jacob Hanna
Yonit and Jonathan are back from the summer break - and there is A LOT to talk about. Word of a possible climbdown by Benjamin Netanyahu on the judicial…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsConversations We Love: Ira Glass
Only a week until Unholy returns to regular broadcasting - which means one more edition of Conversations We Love, a series in which we return to some of our…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsConversations We Love: Helen Mirren
It won't be long until we return to our regular broadcasting, but while we take advantage of the last days of summer break (as we hope you've been able to do…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsConversations We Love: Jonathan Freedland
We're still away on vacation mode, but that doesn't mean we can't serve up our weekly cocktail of Jews and news. That's why we've compiled a list of some of…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsConversations We Love: Ilana Dayan
Whether you choose to survive the heatwave on the beach or in the comfort of the AC, we're here to serve something refreshing! While we're on summer break…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsFrom Bibi to Barbie - with Ynon Kreiz
A Pittsburgh jury has passed a death sentence on the perpetrator of the most lethal antisemitic attack in US history: the murder of 11 Jews while at prayer at…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsFallout - with Dana Weiss
A tempestuous week in Israel, as the fallout from Monday’s first move in what critics call the “judicial coup” continues. What will Benjamin Netanyahu and his…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsSpecial Update: Israel’s Moment of Truth
Israel's judicial overhaul has cleared its first parliamentary hurdle: one key measure is now the law of the land. Where does that leave the protesters who…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsHeartbreak In Washington - with Thomas Friedman
The moment of truth has come: protesters on the streets and in the upper reaches of the Israeli military press their case against what they call Benjamin…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsSpecial Guest Star: Dame Helen Mirren
Protests on the streets, disruption at the airport: it’s crunch time in the showdown between Benjamin Netanyahu and opponents of what they call his “judicial…
Unholy: Two Jews on the News48 Hours - with Margaret Brennan
Two decades after the Battle of Jenin, this week saw a fresh – and very different – military offensive in the city, one that lasted just 48 hours and won much…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsOutside Edge
What happens in Israel rarely stays in Israel. Settler violence in the West Bank spreads, bringing a dramatic condemnation from Israel's top military brass -…
Unholy: Two Jews on the NewsTwo Jews or Not Two Jews - with Sir Nicholas Hytner
A daytime gunfight in Jenin, a deadly terror attack that left four dead and an outbreak of settler violence - this week has put the spotlight back on the West…