Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.The Cambridge Dictionary defines "optimism" as "the quality of being full of hope

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What is antisemitism, really?

11 days ago 32m 49s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.Last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene -- a Georgia Republican who has been critic

What Matters Now to two Jewish student leaders at Columbia: 'Intifada' on campus

18 days ago 29m 26s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.Police cleared 30 to 40 people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall on

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is it wise for US to blacklist IDF unit?

25 days ago 38m 29s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.This week, we speak with The Times of Israel's senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur abo

What Matters Now to Mideast analyst Avi Issacharoff: Iran can have nukes in 6 months

Apr 18th, 2024 33m 44s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.In a post-October 7 Israeli reality, is any new security threat outside the realm

What Matters Now to David Horovitz: The conflicts of war coverage

Apr 11th, 2024 44m 53s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.Speaking in our Jerusalem office, The Times of Israel editor David Horovitz offers

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: This is a war of independence for Israelis and Gazans

Apr 4th, 2024 45m 14s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring one key issue currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, hosted by deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan.In six months of war, Israel has systematically broken down Hamas’s battalions in

What Matters Now to mourning mother Hannah Wacholder Katsman: Personal & national grief

Mar 28th, 2024 36m 18s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.Days after his 32nd birthday, on Saturday, October 7, Hayim Katsman was killed by terrorists from Gaza in his neighbor’s

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is Netanyahu an obstacle to victory?

Mar 21st, 2024 31m 31s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.In his US Senate floor speech last week, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer called for new Israeli elections as the wa

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas starves Gazans as a war tactic

Mar 14th, 2024 28m 39s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.On Tuesday, aid for 25,000 people reached Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip for the first time in weeks, according to

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Campus antisemitism makes new Zionists

Mar 7th, 2024 35m 50s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.ToI's senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur recently gave a series of lectures at North American college campuses. At some,

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Haredim have to defend Israel, too

Feb 29th, 2024 32m 26s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.This year, in what is reportedly a record-high number, some 66,000 young men from the ultra-Orthodox community receive

What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Russia's new position on the global 'Risk' board

Feb 22nd, 2024 30m 54s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.Two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the conflict is giving all appearances of turning into a "forever war." But in

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: UNRWA's problem isn't the terrorists in its ranks

Feb 15th, 2024 31m 42s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.The Israel Defense Forces revealed this week that beneath the Gaza Strip headquarters of the United Nations Relief and

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Clashing visions of victory

Feb 8th, 2024 35m 34s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he told visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that I

What Matters Now to author Shlomo Brody: Jewish ethics and the Israel-Hamas War

Feb 1st, 2024 32m 9s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.Israel often prides itself on being the most moral army in the world. Whether you subscribe to that or not, there is a

What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: 5 big questions about the war

Jan 26th, 2024 57m

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.This week we're bringing excerpts from a Behind the Headlines video interview with author and journalist Yossi Klein H

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What Israelis think about the suffering in Gaza

Jan 18th, 2024 41m 5s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, over 24,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel declared wa

What Matters Now to Mishy Harman: 3 'postcards' from wartime Israel

Jan 11th, 2024 1h 3m

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.This week on What Matters Now, we're again handing the mic to Mishy Harman, the co-founder of The Times of Israel’s po

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How the court just redefined its own powers

Jan 4th, 2024 36m 42s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.This week the Supreme Court delivered a long-awaited decision on whether or not it would repeal the one piece of judic

What Matters Now to US Jewish leader William Daroff: Where are our allies?

Dec 28th, 2023 37m 23s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.Within days of the murderous October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel, William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents o

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Wartime polls & unexpected conclusions

Dec 21st, 2023 48m 18s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.The past several weeks have seen the publication of a slew of high-profile opinion surveys on the war with Hamas. They

What Matters Now to Prof. Amichai Cohen: Is the IDF acting legally in Gaza?

Dec 14th, 2023 56m 55s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.Is the IDF acting legally and ethically in Gaza? We at The Times of Israel recently held an hour-long webinar on this

What Matters Now to Israel Story’s Mishy Harman: ‘A person is a person is a person’

Dec 7th, 2023 1h 7m

What Matters Now to Saul Singer: Refounding Israel the day after the war

Nov 30th, 2023 26m 45s

Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploration into one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World — right now.For Israelis, there is before October 7 and after. So the idea of a book called “The Genius of Israel: The Surprising