The “The Revolution Will Be Corporatized” Edition

The Promised Podcast

Don Futterman, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

Listen to the extra special, special extra segment.

Radical Tail Wagging a Moderate Dog?

Polls show that Likud voters are socialist, gay and lesbian supporting, religious pluralists, who are far to the left of their leaders on most matters: How can this be?

B2LGBTQ

Hundreds of Israeli corporations rush to support LGBTQ activists after the Knesset fails to extend to gay men the right to use surrogates to bear children. Business usually avoid politics like the plague: why is this issue different?

Street Smarts

Experts find that Dizengoff is the best street in Israel. But what makes a street great? And why are we so bad at creating hip and happening streets?

Extra Segment: Kinderguardians Come to Washington: One Congressman Seriously Hurt

For our primo Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra segment, we discuss the segment of Sasha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series, Who Is America, in which he impersonates one Col. Erran Morad, an Israeli lobbying American Republican gun rights activists and congressfolk, to adopt a faux Israeli program called Kinderguardians, aiming to arm kids tots. What the hell sort of image are these American Republicans carry around of Israel, that made Baron Cohen’s ruse seem plausible?

Music

Shalom Gad Vehayahalomim

• BeTzorat Mabool
• Pesalim
• Sof HaMidbar (recorded live in TLV1 Studios)
• Sigariah be-Shekel