Sally Abed, Noah Efron and Tel Aviv Review host Gilad Halpern discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon

—Noodge—

Should the government tax us into acting right?

—Pedagogies of Prejudice & Prejudices of Pedagogy—

Can you teach co-existence? Decency? Some social scientists say “no.”

—By the Grace of Heaven—

A movie about ultra-Orthodox Bnei Brak during the pandemic upends everything we thought we knew. But is it the whole picture?

—What’s the Point of All Our Yammering About Israel in English?—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, Sally, Gilad and Noah (each hosts of labor-of-love, English-language podcasts about Israeli politics and culture) talk about why we bother, which is to say, what we hope to accomplish by yammering into microphones in English about Israel. What’s the point?

All that and the jazz genius of Faraj Suleiman!