JU:Israel Teachers Lounge
JU:Israel The Teachers Lounge brings you into our conversation. With analysis of big events, headlines and issues, Alan, Mike and their team zoom out for big picture. Join us to stay in the loop. Don’t feel disconnected from Israel. We've got your back.
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- http://juisrael.jerusalemu.org/podcasts
- Description
- JU:Israel The Teachers Lounge brings you into our conversation. With analysis of big events, headlines and issues, Alan, Mike and their team zoom out for big picture. Join us to stay in the loop. Don’t feel disconnected from Israel. We've got your back.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-12 21:59
- last episode published
- 2024-04-12 07:24
- publication frequency
- 6.14 days
- Contributors
- Alan Goldman& Michael Unterberg
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 459
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| 2024-04-12 | 406 Can Hamas be Contained? Until October 6th, the shared Israeli conception was that Hamas could be contained in the Gaza strip. Sure, the IDF would occasionally have to knock out their rocket launchers. But overall, that is something we could live wi... |
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| 2024-04-05 | 405 American AbstentionThe routine is that if Israel doesn’t approve of a United Nation Security Council resolution, the United States vetoes it. But in March, America abstained on UNSC resolution 2728. Israeli leaders (and many Israelis) were furious.... |
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| 2024-03-31 | 404 - How will this war be seen by history?Israel has fought Hamas in Gaza over and over again. There was Operation Cast Lead in 2008, Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012, and Operation Protective Edge in 2014 just to name a few. Thousands of rockets h... |
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| 2024-03-22 | 403 Should Freeing Hostages Be the Priority?The Gaza war has challenged Israel with countless moral dilemmas. One of the most painful relates to the efforts to free the hostages. Inevitably, missions to destroy Hamas will put the lives of Israeli hosta... |
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| 2024-03-15 | 402 When can we critique the government? “Don’t swap horses in the middle of the stream” - associated with Abraham Lincoln’s re-election campaign. Israelis, and Zionists worldwide, consistently complain about whatever government is in power. But in t... |
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| 2024-03-08 | 401 - Proportionality and International Humanitarian Law (IHL)After defining proportionality (enjoy the audio clip from the West Wing) there is so much to debate about the ethical conduct of the current war. While it is difficult for citizens to debate... |
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| 2024-01-05 | 308 Framing the Conflict Post October 7Israelis and Zionists all had to have some understanding of the conflict with Palestinian Arabs. This was as true before October 7th as afterwards. In what ways do we need to reframe those understandings after the... |
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| 2023-12-29 | Israel Citizens Filling the Breach When Government FailsThis is an era when citizens around the world don’t have a tremendous amount of trust in government. Israelis and Jews around the world are still shaken by the intelligence and operational failure... |
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| 2023-12-22 | Are Shoah Analogies Appropriate?We are all living with the trauma of the post October 7th world. It is often referred to as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. But do comparisons to the Shoah help us contextualize and understand the world w... |
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| 2023-12-15 | Who should be hired to do the labor in Israel?Evidence has been uncovered that Arab laborers from the Gaza strip provided Hamas with intel on the Israeli towns where they worked. In the wake of this shocking news, Israelis are debating who to hire for ... |
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