It's Not Easy Being Green - with Ben Rhodes

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

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News, Yonit Levi, Israel, Israel Podcast, Jonathan Freedland, Middle East, Jewish, Religion & Spirituality, Jews, Society & Culture

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As world leaders come to Glasgow for COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, Yonit and Jonathan talk to former Obama Advisor Ben Rhodes. We discuss the dynamics behind the scenes and what the US and the world are missing as we tackle this challenge. In Israel, PM Bennett's coalition is starting to show some cracks, only 4 months in and ahead of a crucial budget vote. Finally, Yonit reclaims her spot at the nominating committee of Mensch of the weekSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:15.1	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:18.4	And we are unholy two Jews on the news from Keshepp podcasts.
0:22.6	Hi, Jonathan.
0:23.8	Hello, you're neat.
0:25.1	Are you looking at the calendar and carving out pumpkins and getting your tricks and treats
0:30.6	ready?
0:31.9	Not a lot of pumpkins in the Middle East, Jonathan.
0:35.3	Not that many.
0:36.5	You astonish me.
0:41.1	Yeah, I mean, it's amazing how of all of the holidays that we have sort of imported into this country, Halloween, is not really, is not
0:47.0	really one of them. And I think the reason might be that our brand of costume holiday, i.e. Purim,
0:54.0	is just such a good brand. You know what I'm
0:56.1	saying? It's such a great story. They tried to kill us. They failed. Let's get sloshed and dress up.
1:00.6	That just works. Why would you need another holiday like that? You don't need it at all. And we don't,
1:05.3	the truth is, we don't need it. And yet in the last 15 years or so, it's only been really that recent. It has completely come here,
1:12.2	as you say, a US import. In Britain, we used to have Guy Fawkesnight, remembering the day when
1:19.0	somebody tried to burn down the houses of Parliament, and people would commemorate that on November
1:23.6	5th. Oh, that's lovely. It's nice. And that's been more or less displaced.
1:28.0	I mean, you know, you used to walk around.
1:29.9	People would say penny for the guy.
1:31.2	They would make a little effigy of Guy Fawks who would then burn on November 5th.
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