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What Matters Now — 103 episodes

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

2

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

3

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

4

Haviv Rettig Gur: Political footballs and politicians' fumbles

5

Rachel Goldberg-Polin: Mother of murdered hostage Hersh 'parcels out her pain' in book

6

Aron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers

7

Shahar Cohen: 'My life' comic laughs about 'managing the war' with Nescafe in hand

8

Angela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus

9

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas triggered the Iran war. Now it may outlast the Islamic Republic

10

Matti Friedman: Israel's forever wars in Lebanon

11

Bret Stephens: America and Israel are engaged in a common fight for civilization

12

Einat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'

13

Micah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III

14

Meyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee's film 'Butcher's Stain' reveals life post-Oct. 7

15

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: NGO admits Hamas controls Gaza's hospitals. Why now?

16

Alice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7

17

Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy

18

Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage

19

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza

20

Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper

21

Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: 'Israel is the reason I exist'

22

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026

23

Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life's complexities

24

ADL's James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare

25

Dr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation

26

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas iron grip restores order, but Gazans aim to throw off shackles

27

What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'

28

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu

29

What Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'

30

What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Living with trauma and mourning

31

What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza

32

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel

33

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures

34

What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief

35

What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war

36

What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism

37

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel 'break the rules' in Qatar strike?

38

What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism

39

What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide

40

What Matters Now to Dennis Ross: There is a deal to be made to end the Gaza war

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What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza

43

What Matters Now to Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet

44

What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here

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What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified

46

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region

47

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel

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What Matters Now to director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war

49

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War

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What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim

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What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago

53

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said...

54

What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel

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Bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'

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What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered

57

What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis

58

What Matters Now to Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt

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What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!

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What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat

61

What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages' only beacon

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division

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What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas

64

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt's farcical plan for postwar Gaza

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What Matters Now to critic Jordan Hoffman: 5 films for Jews to follow at the Oscars

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning

68

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?

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What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when 'friends' disappoint

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What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust

71

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas's survival is Gaza's tragedy

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's wishlist for US president-elect Trump

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What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Freedom of the press under attack

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What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth -- with laughs

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What Matters Now to Andrew Fox: Cynical use of inflated death figures from Gaza

76

What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine

77

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Iran's solution for the Jewish state problem

78

What Matters Now to combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year

79

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What's left of the left?

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Rising resentment as Haredi men refuse to draft

81

What Matters Now to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: US elections through an Israeli prism

83

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Anti-Zionists misusing Jewish rituals in protests

84

What Matters Now: A post-October 7 women's prayer book

85

What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front

86

What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again

87

What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: A year to the Israel-Iran war

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The regional war has already begun

89

What Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's Sophie's Choice on hostages

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What Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong

92

What Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza

93

What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Will Israeli society survive this war?

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What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How to relax in your bomb shelter

95

What Matters Now to Prof. Gerald Steinberg: Hypocrisy of human rights groups on Israel

96

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: At the Olympics, Israel is a 'pariah state.' Who cares?

97

What Matters Now to economist Eugene Kandel: How to change Israel's trajectory

98

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s poignant, powerful protest culture

99

What Matters Now to Rachel Gur: Lowering the cost of living for the little guy

100

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The rebellion from within Likud

101

What Matters Now to Prof. Jan Grabowski: Appropriation of Holocaust terms in Gaza war

102

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The weakness of international law

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What Matters Now to archaeologist Jodi Magness: Ever-changing, eternal Jerusalem