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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 ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel 'break the rules' in Qatar strike?
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 Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
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 legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
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 Dennis Ross: There is a deal to be made to end 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 Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
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: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
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 Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet
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 Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here
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 comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified
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: Israel may soon remake the region
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: When Israeli extremists go to war - against 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 director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
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 Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
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 David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim
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. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago
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: What did Trump mean when he said...
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 Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
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 ListenBereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'
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 The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered
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. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
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 Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
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 hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host arts and culture editor Jessica…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat
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 Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages' only beacon
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with arts and culture editor Jessica…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division
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 Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt's farcical plan for postwar 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 ListenWhat Matters Now to critic Jordan Hoffman: 5 films for Jews to follow at the Oscars
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
Welcome to a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when 'friends' disappoint
Welcome to a bonus episode of What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas's survival is Gaza's tragedy
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's wishlist for US president-elect Trump
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 David Horovitz: Freedom of the press under attack
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 comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth -- with laughs
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 Andrew Fox: Cynical use of inflated death figures from 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 ListenWhat Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Iran's solution for the Jewish state problem
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 combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: What's left of the left?
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Rising resentment as Haredi men refuse to draft
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 Rabbi Yitz Greenberg in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, we hand the mic over to Yossi…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: US elections through an Israeli prism
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 Haviv Rettig Gur: Anti-Zionists misusing Jewish rituals in protests
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: A post-October 7 women's prayer book
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host deputy editor Amanda…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host deputy editor Amanda…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World. This week, US bureau chief Jacob Magid is…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Micah Goodman: A year to the Israel-Iran war
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. This week…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The regional war has already begun
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan and senior…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. This week…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's Sophie's Choice on hostages
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. This week…
A Mandatory ListenWhat Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda…