Interview: How Do You Explain Antisemitism To Kids?

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@mosheh / tentwentytwo

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When antisemitism surged after the October 7th attacks — and even years before — two Jewish journalists Bianna Golodryga (CNN) and Yonit Levi (Israel’s Channel 12) found themselves searching for something that didn’t exist: a way to help their kids make sense of the hate suddenly appearing in their feeds, schools, and daily lives. So they wrote the book themselves.In this episode, Mosh talks with Bianna and Yonit about their new novel, 'Don’t Feed the Lion,' which follows a 13-year-old boy confronting antisemitism in the age of social media — and why this age group desperately needs tools adults have long overlooked. The conversation goes far beyond the book. As veteran anchors covering two continents, they unpack the global rise in antisemitic incidents, political fractures inside Israel, the shifting dynamics between the U.S., Israel, Netanyahu, and Trump, and how major news outlets — including their own — have struggled to cover antisemitism before and after October 7th. Mosheh Oinounou (⁠⁠@mosheh⁠⁠) is an Emmy and Murrow award-winning journalist. He has 20 years of experience at networks including Fox News, Bloomberg Television and CBS News, where he was the executive producer of the CBS Evening News and launched the network's 24 hour news channel. He founded the @mosheh Instagram news account in 2020 and the Mo News podcast and newsletter in 2022.

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0:00.0	I'll welcome back to a special edition of the Mo News podcast.
0:06.7	It's Mosuanunu here.
0:08.2	I have a special interview today with two journalists who have written their first ever
0:12.6	children's book focused on anti-Semitism.
0:15.2	You might know Biana Golodriga.
0:16.8	She's a longtime reporter in Anchor currently at CNN.
0:20.2	I was lucky to call her a colleague during our time at CBS News.
0:24.1	She has gotten together with Yonite Levy.
0:25.9	Unite is an Israeli journalist, an anchor of the evening newscast, one of the major even newscasts in Israel.
0:31.1	And she also happens to be the co-host of the podcast on Holi, which some of you might be familiar with.
0:36.5	Biana and Yonit are longtime friends and realizing the aftermath of October 7th, both
0:41.5	our mothers, in addition to being journalists and Jews, that there was a major lack of
0:47.5	resources when it came to dealing with anti-Semitism and educating about anti-Semitism, especially
0:53.1	among kids in the middle school
0:55.7	to junior high range. And so they have written their first book. It's called Don't Feed the Lion.
1:00.9	And in today's conversation, we'll get into that. We'll get into anti-Semitism. We'll get into
1:04.2	the state of the war, given that Yonite has been covering it as an Israeli anchor. She also happens
1:10.0	to have interviewed five American presidents.
1:11.6	So we talk about the U.S. Israel relationship, a whole variety of things, issues that impact
1:15.9	Jews globally, the U.S. Israel relationship, and then what's going on on the ground right now
1:20.2	in Israel and Gaza.
1:22.7	So I think you'll get a lot out of this conversation, regardless of your background.
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