The View from the New Yorker - with David Remnick

Unholy: Two Jews on the News

Unholy Media

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

4.7 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For the latest edition of Unholy, Yonit and Jonathan are joined by one of America's most admired journalists, David Remnick. The editor of the New Yorker draws on a long career, including a spell in Moscow reporting on the last days of the Soviet Union, to reflect on everything from possible war in Ukraine to the state of Israeli society, from the threat of Donald Trump to Remnick's own Jewish identity...and the joys of conversation with Leonard Cohen. There's also a chutzpah award for a convicted conman, and a mensch nomination for a woman whose public persona is seemingly superficial but, who in reality, is completely different. -- Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unholypodcast/and X: https://x.com/2jewsonthenewsJoin our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150578065793142 Subscribe to our blog: https://unholypodcast.substack.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Unite Levy of Channel 12 in Tel Aviv.
0:15.2	And I'm Jonathan Friedland of The Guardian in London.
0:18.5	And we are unholy two Jews on the News from Keshet podcasts.
0:22.1	Hello, Jonathan.
0:23.4	Hello, your need.
0:24.3	How are you doing right now?
0:26.2	I don't know.
0:26.7	I don't know how much you can talk about how you're doing.
0:28.8	Like, you have this feeling.
0:29.8	Like, the world is on the brink of World War III.
0:31.4	And we're like, oh, so how are you?
0:33.5	Yes, exactly.
0:34.3	I don't know. Can you do small talk in this sort of tense situation?
0:38.2	It's very difficult.
0:39.0	And also by the time people hear this, who knows, Russians may have invaded Ukraine.
0:44.5	It could happen.
0:45.5	I thought your answer to that question was going to be that you are excited because I'm
0:49.6	quite excited by our very special guest on the podcast.
0:54.2	Yes. It took us, what, a year to bring him on?
0:58.5	And, yes.
0:59.9	It did.
1:01.0	It took us a year, but he has been a devoted listener to our podcast, which is why
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