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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117 episodes
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
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What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
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What Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'
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What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Life after trauma and mourning
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What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures
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What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief
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What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of 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 Borsc...
What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borsc...
What 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 Borsc...
What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
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What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
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What 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 Borsc...
What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
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What Matters Now to Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet
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What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here
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What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified
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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel
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What Matters Now to director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
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What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim
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What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago
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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said...
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What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
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Bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'
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What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered
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What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
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What Matters Now to Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
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