The "Age of Uncertainty" Edition

Noah Efron, Allison Kaplan Sommer, and Don Futterman discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Click here to listen to the extra segment.   The Age of Uncertainty What thoughts, fears, hopes, worries and other reactions does Trump's decision (and the escalation in the North) raise in us, people who are watching with worry as they open and prepare bomb-shelters up north, who very much hope never to be incinerated along with their dogs, cats and children, and who have kids in the infantry? The Long Arm of Israeli (Rabbinic) Law Is the "Rabbinic Courts Bill (Marriage and Divorce)" as risible as its critics make it seem? After all, it is meant to ameliorate the terrible suffering of thousands of women. If it can do that, doesn't it perhaps justify a little expansion of Israeli Rabbinic authority? What's a little international Rabbinic hegemony among Jews? Boots on the Ground What do we think about 'tiyul' culture? Does it partakes of, and advance, a politics that is not our own? What is to be done with the tiyul? Music Blue Pill