Welcome to the Times of Israel's Friday Focus. I'm your host, Deputy Editor Amanda Borschell Dan, here with our diplomatic correspondent, Laser Barman.

Laser, thank you, as always, for joining me in our Jerusalem office.

It's great to be here, but not only am I the diplomatic correspondent.

You have many, many different hats, but you are also, I think we call it Christian Affairs

correspondent?

Christian affairs, that is correct.

Okay, so we are definitely talking about Christian affairs this week when among pomp and

circumstance at the Vatican, the Catholic Church marked 60 years to the Nostra Atate, which is a document

that, among other things, attempts to redefine the 2,000-year-old relationship between the Catholic

Church and the Jewish people. So we are going to dive into its everlasting significance, especially as the Israel-Vatican relationship is currently fraught during this two-year war.

So all of this and more when we're back.

So much of what we read about Israel right now is politics and military news.

Ceasfires, hostages, deals, negotiations.

But what's harder to capture is the emotional reality in Israel.

What does it feel like to live through this moment?

On unpacking Israeli history, host Noam Weissman sits down with Times of Israel new media editor and writer Sarah Tuttle Singer,

whose unfiltered, deeply human voice shows Israel in all its compassion, frustration, and hope.

In a conversation that takes a step away from the history and the headlines,

Sarah reflects on what it feels like to be Israeli right now.

Listen to unpacking Israeli history, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Amanda Borssel, Don here with our diplomatic and Christian affairs correspondent, Laser Barman.

Laser, let's first begin by talking about what is this actual document, the Nostra Atate.

And, I mean, just start with defining what does it mean, Nostra Atate.

...