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A Mandatory Listen
The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and the Jewish people
Episodes
A Mandatory ListenSamah Salaime: The 'Arab vote' is an offer of trust. Why are Jews rejecting it?
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenSir Simon Schama: A howl against rising global antisemitism
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenYossi Klein Halevi: Spiritually coping with this Israeli election
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenNechumi Yaffe: An insider's dire prognosis for the Haredi world - and its cure
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenBret Stephens: Israel regained deterrence. The US lost it
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenMicah Goodman: The one issue that unites America's radical left and right
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenHaviv Rettig Gur: Is the IDF justified in picking off Hamas terrorists?
Welcome to "A Mandatory Listen," a new weekly podcast in which The Times of Israel deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan asks the big questions facing Israel and…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas is to blame for October 7 and Gaza's ‘collateral damage’
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenYohanan Plesner: 3 existential issues facing Israel’s voters
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenJonathan Greenblatt: Surging antisemitism brings ADL to a moment of reckoning
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenYossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive - and dangerous
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenRichard Priem: The ‘age of security’ has ended for US Jews
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenDan Ben-David: Israel is on the brink of a spiral of collapse
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenShlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz: Nothing is black and white in Israel's religious societies
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas still holds two million hostages
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenHaviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenDr. Deborah Gilboa: The neuroscience of resilience
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenMichael Solomonov and Steve Cook: The Israeli food we serve tells our story
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenEtgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenNaftali Bennett: This existential moment
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, we hear from former prime minister…
A Mandatory ListenTehilla Shwartz Altshuler: How AI is poisoning the information well
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenMatti Friedman: As Israel plays king of the castle in Lebanon, what's its endgame?
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenDara Horn: The answer to the Jewish question
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenYishai Ishi Ron: Ex-commando writes novels about trauma and recovery
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenMichael Wegier: British Jews aren't living in fear, but they're certainly anxious
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, founding editor David Horovitz…
A Mandatory ListenCochav Elkayam-Levy: Hamas weaponized rape and humiliation on Oct. 7
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, host deputy editor Amanda…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Israel has re-embraced Hamas rule in Gaza
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenHaviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians' fumbles
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenRachel Goldberg-Polin: Mother of murdered hostage Hersh 'parcels out her pain' in book
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenShahar Cohen: 'My life' comic laughs about 'managing the war' with Nescafe in hand
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAngela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas triggered the Iran war. Now it may outlast the Islamic Republic
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenMatti Friedman: Israel's forever wars in Lebanon
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenBret Stephens: America and Israel are engaged in a common fight for civilization
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenEinat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenMicah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenMeyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee's film 'Butcher's Stain' reveals life post-Oct. 7
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: NGO admits Hamas controls Gaza's hospitals. Why now?
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenAlice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenYonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenHaviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenPodcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenStand-up comedian Liz Glazer: 'Israel is the reason I exist'
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenAdeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life's complexities
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenADL's James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenDr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenAhmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas iron grip restores order, but Gazans aim to throw off shackles
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Living with trauma and mourning
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host Jessica Steinberg speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan…