What Matters Now
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What Matters Now
A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.
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Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook: The Israeli food we cook 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...
Etgar 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...
Naftali 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...
Tehilla 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 speaki...
Matti 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 speaki...
Dara 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 Borsc...
Yishai 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...
Michael 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...
Cochav 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 Ama...
Ahmed 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 Borsc...
Haviv 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 speaki...
Rachel 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...
Aron 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 Borsc...
Shahar 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...
Angela 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...
Ahmed 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 Borsc...
Matti 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 speaki...
Bret 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 speaki...
Einat 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 speaki...
Micah 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 speaki...
Meyer 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...
Ahmed 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 Borsc...
Alice 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 speaki...
Yonit 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...
Haviv 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 speaki...
Ahmed 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 Borsc...
Podcaster 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 Borsc...
Stand-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 Borsc...
Ahmed 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 Borsc...
Adeena 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...
ADL'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 speaki...
Dr. 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 speaki...
Ahmed 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 speaki...
What 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 speaki...
What 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 speaki...
What 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 speaki...
What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Life after 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...
What 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...
What 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 speaki...
What 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 speaki...