The Promised Podcast

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Love this astronaut.

@noahjefron @joshualeifer @DissentMag Although I worry. Anyway, I don't need to waste any more of your time. I apologize if I seemed condescending. It reflects my limited talents as a writer, but not what I think about the INN people, who I think are the best of us - committed, morally alive, open-hearted, inspiring

@joshualeifer @DissentMag Yes. Yes. The question is, for me, Is the connection between those two things -- the successes of the whole project of a Jewish state and the miseries that it causes -- now unbreakable. I don't think it is.

מילים כדורבנות.

Don't get me started about that Efron guy. More like sophomorical humor, with egoism and emotional childishness. But everyone's entitled to their own opinion. That's why there's chocolate and vanilla!

@Normie_Democrat @noahjefron It wasn't personal. In fact, one of Huldai's aides at the time said he admired Efron. It's just that Huldai hates opposition (& he's a bit of a bully, also to friends). He does all he can to make them miserable. Today, the city council coalition has 31 members, the opposition 0.

@Normie_Democrat @noahjefron Here's a vid of Efron's final City Council speech, with Huldai hovering. With or without Hebrew, you'll probably get the body language. After this, the mayor turned to Efron's kids, age 14 & 10, & said, "Your father's not a bad man, just stupid and naive." vimeo.com/25465020

גברים, גברים ועוד פאקינג גברים. זה הרגע לכחול-לבן להפנים שיש נשים בעולם #a153037340" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">elections.walla.co.il/blog/3313161#a…

Who would have thought you could write something nuanced about AIPAC. @markhorowitz is a national treasure. nyti.ms/2FsVBS1

The American Jewish community is overwhelmingly pro-Israel and anti-Occupation, just like every Democratic 2020 hopeful. It's something neither the far left nor the right wants you to believe is possible. It is. Jewish & Palestinian self-determination are not a zero sum game.

@hosen2israel , גם חוסן חברתי זה ביטחון

Just to check. The slogan just announced for Benny Gans' Knesset campaign, "Yisrael lifnei ha-Kol," if you translate that to English, you get something like "Israel First," and if you translated it to German, you get something like "Israel über alles," yes?

Examples of overpraising @noahjefron:(1) His personal hygiene is above reproach, (2) He does not sound like a pubescent Ira Glass, (3) He is capable of uttering a sentence without swearing, (4) His IQ very likely reaches into 3 digits, (5) He is handsomer than certain gargoyles.

ואם אנחנו בשוונג של יציאה מהארון אז למועצה אצביע "עם" כי אני אוהבת ומאמינה באור סיונוב וכי יש שם אנשים מצויינים ואכפתיים שלא דופקים חשבון לאף אחד

@EmilieMoatti אור סיונוב היא עתידה של הפוליטיקה הישראלית

Here is what’s Jewish about a Jewish state blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-is-whats-…

@AnnaBehrmann @israelstory @JewishChron Thanks for the kind word, Anna - It made our week! And it's great to be in the company of these other fab shows!

Listening in: my podcast recommendations from Israel, feat @israelstory @PromisedPodcast, plus beautiful one where the host reads out extracts from works of literature, Israel in Translation thejc.com/culture/featur… via @jewishchron

@Brahmski @michaelchabon @bungarsargon @Gilad_Halpern @VladDavidzon @marksjo1 @jonathan_spyer @sfrantzman @noahjefron @abesilbe Yes, I think you're exactly right. Which is why the sort of borderless, John-Lennon-ish universalism is incompatible, I think, not just with Zionism but with Judaism in any of its many traditional forms. Of course, Chabon is saying, let's neologize Judaism, & give it new meaning.

@PromisedPodcast @michaelchabon @bungarsargon @Gilad_Halpern @VladDavidzon @marksjo1 @jonathan_spyer @sfrantzman @noahjefron @abesilbe (3) Also, isn't Judaism all about separation, to begin with? From kashrut to circumcision to monotheism itself, etc., etc.? I hear that in French postmodern "theory" the Jew even came to stand for the whole notion of "ontological difference" or some such something or other. No?

I’m going have to “separate” from you here @michaelchabon. Your talk was cliche-ridden garbage, I’m sorry to have to say. Literary-wise as well as morally, lehitraot! @bungarsargon @Gilad_Halpern @VladDavidzon @marksjo1 @jonathan_spyer @sfrantzman @noahjefron @abesilbe twitter.com/rachaelbl/stat…