The "There Will Be Blood" Edition

Allison Kaplan Sommer, Miriam Herschlag and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Hear the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment on Patreon   —The Torch Has Been Passed— Yair Lapid, once a weight-lifting, party-going, celebrity hunk, is sworn in as Israel's 14th Prime Minister. What a long strange trip it's been. —There Will Be Blood— Why is menstruation trending in Israel? —Dealing With Jewish Thugs— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: Haredi thugs break up a Bat Mitzvah and two Bar Mitzvah's at the Wall in the most awful way. How do we cope with a thing like that? All this and Amir Lev!