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Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Normalize This: Saudi Breakthrough - with Lesley Stahl

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week brought the strongest signal yet that a breakthrough in Saudi-Israeli relations is coming - with heavy hints from Benjamin Netanyahu, Mohammed bin Salman and Joe Biden. Yonit and Jonathan break it all down - and point to the man who’s likely to be the big winner.  Plus: a conversation with American TV royalty, veteran CBS News correspondent, Lesley Stahl on covering Israel, the challenge of social media and the rise of the octogenarian in US media - and politics.  And in this new year season, two very different styles of festive greeting win our chutzpah and mensch awards. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Cyber Attacks Can Be Prevented. Checkpoint, you deserve the best security.

0:10.1

A Saudi bombshell from New York that reshuffles the cards. How? We do not yet know, but we will discuss this at length.

0:18.6

And also, we have television royalty on Unholy today.

0:22.0

I'm Unlevee of Channel 12 in Tel Avina.

0:24.7

And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.

0:43.3

Unholy, two Jews on the news, a massive news week, but also just a really big week Jewishly, because this is that period when we're speaking, we're in that gap between

0:49.0

Russia Shanah, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, which is looming the big 25-hour fast day, ultra-Orthodox and Orthodox

0:57.7

listeners will say, yeah, we fast quite a few days in the year. It's only you lot who only do it

1:02.7

once a year. But no, we're in that period. I'm, you know, getting a lot of synagogue time in.

1:08.9

My attendance is not perfect year- round, but this time of year I

1:12.7

sort of clock up the air miles a bit. And, you know, it's very funny what gets you through the

1:19.0

long hours of being in the synagogue if you are not an absolute sort of conviction believer,

1:24.1

which maybe I'm not. And this year I just was reminded again of the brilliance, really,

1:32.4

of the Jonathan Sacks, Makhsor, the prayer book. You know, I don't know whether everyone

1:37.4

knows this, but there are special prayer books for each of the festivals. We're big on books,

1:40.9

Jews. And so there is a special prayer book for each one. And he a few years ago,

1:45.9

the late Jonathan Saxe, was Chief Rabbi in Britain, and who's built this very big sort of posthumous

1:50.4

online following, he wrote these rather brilliant commentaries. And so they are there at the foot

1:59.8

of the page as you're turning the pages and, you know, people are singing and various refrains come round and around again.

2:05.7

You can read his rather brilliant commentaries.

2:07.5

And it just struck me that all this stuff he left behind, many, many books, lectures, YouTube talks, which are getting huge audiences now after his death.

2:17.1

I think the monument, the legacy,

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