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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Israelis Need to Watch 'The Godfather'

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

That's the advice of podcast guest Liel Leibovitz, zooming in from Tel Aviv to discuss the Columbia hearings before the House yesterday and how the anti-Semitism revealed there has unmistakable echoes of past horrors—and threatens future horrors. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hope for the best.

0:09.0

Expect the worst.

0:11.0

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

0:14.0

A-a-furs.

0:15.0

No way of knowing which way it's going.

0:19.0

Hope for the best expect the worst.

0:22.0

Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast.

0:27.0

Today is Thursday, April 18, 2024.

0:29.8

I am John Podhoritz, the editor of Commentary Commentary Magazine with me, as always, executive editor,

0:34.7

Abe Greenwald. Hi, Abe.

0:36.3

Hi, Abe.

0:37.3

Senior editor Seth Mandel, hi Seth.

0:39.8

Hi, John.

0:41.0

And joining us from Tel Aviv, tablet editor at large, co-host of the

0:46.0

unorthodox podcast and author most recently of how the Talmud could change your life

0:50.3

commentary contributor Leel Leibovitz. Hi Leel

0:54.2

Shalom John Shalom Abe Shalom set

0:57.2

So Leah we are gonna have to turn to you to give us your report on the ground from Tel Aviv on everything that every Israeli is thinking on every

1:05.5

matter and do it with you know with the authority that only comes from having flown in on a plane

1:12.3

and seen your family.

1:14.2

But of course, we all do that.

1:15.8

It's the tradition to say,

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