Unpacking the Freak Out over Israeli Politics
The Commentary Magazine Podcast
Commentary Magazine
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Editor, author, and columnist at the Jewish News Service and the Jerusalem Post, Ruthie Blum, joins the podcast today to explain why so many American Jews, in particular, are in a panic over the alleged threat to democracy in Israel posed by the country's new government.
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| 0:00.0 | music. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday, January 18th, 2020. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm John Budhurtz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor, |
| 0:34.5 | a Greenwald Hyade. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi, John. |
| 0:36.6 | Media commentary columnist, an American enterprise institute fellow Christine Rosen, |
| 0:41.1 | Hykristine. |
| 0:42.1 | Hi, John. |
| 0:43.1 | Associate editor and author of the rise of the new Puritans, Noah Rossmann, Hynawa. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, John. |
| 0:48.8 | And joining us today, Jerusalem Post and Jewish New Service columnist, Israeli journalist |
| 0:56.9 | of 40 years plus standing and my sister, Ruthie Bloom. |
| 1:01.7 | Hi, Ruthie. |
| 1:02.7 | Hi, John. |
| 1:04.1 | So Ruthie, we have asked you to join us today because we need some enlightenment and some |
| 1:11.8 | realism regarding the constitution, makeup and policies of the new government in Israel. |
| 1:19.2 | The new issue of commentary magazine out, which is being mailed today, maybe at some point |
| 1:28.3 | in the next couple of days and is available online at commentary.org, has two pieces about |
| 1:33.4 | the new Israeli government, one by our Jewish commentary columnist, Mirosel Evagric, |
| 1:38.4 | which is about the 13 minute stroll around the temple mount taken by new Israeli minister. |
| 1:46.1 | Is it Eta Marbengevere? |
| 1:47.7 | Yes. |
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