What Matters Now

News

A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.

Episodes

Yohanan Plesner: 3 existential issues facing Israel’s voters

Jonathan Greenblatt: Surging antisemitism brings ADL to a moment of reckoning

Yossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive - and dangerous

Richard Priem: The ‘age of security’ has ended for US Jews

Dan Ben-David: Israel is on the brink of a spiral of collapse

Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz: Nothing is black and white in Israel's religious societies

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas still holds two million hostages

Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?

Dr. Deborah Gilboa: The neuroscience of resilience

Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook: The Israeli food we cook tells our story

Etgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story

Naftali Bennett: This existential moment

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler: How AI is poisoning the information well

Matti Friedman: As Israel plays king of the castle in Lebanon, what's its endgame?

Dara Horn: The answer to the Jewish question

Yishai Ishi Ron: Ex-commando writes novels about trauma and recovery

Michael Wegier: British Jews aren't living in fear, but they're certainly anxious

Cochav Elkayam-Levy: Hamas weaponized rape and humiliation on Oct. 7

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Israel has re-embraced Hamas rule in Gaza

Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians' fumbles