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What Matters Now — 112 episodes
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 serve 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
Rachel Goldberg-Polin: Mother of murdered hostage Hersh 'parcels out her pain' in book
Aron Heller: 1.5 million-strong Jewish band of brothers
Shahar Cohen: 'My life' comic laughs about 'managing the war' with Nescafe in hand
Angela Buchdahl: This Passover, have faith in the story of the Exodus
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas triggered the Iran war. Now it may outlast the Islamic Republic
Matti Friedman: Israel's forever wars in Lebanon
Bret Stephens: America and Israel are engaged in a common fight for civilization
Einat Wilf: Fall of Iran an opportunity to uproot 'Palestinianism'
Micah Goodman: How Israel and the US may prevent World War III
Meyer Levinson-Blount: Oscar nominee's film 'Butcher's Stain' reveals life post-Oct. 7
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: NGO admits Hamas controls Gaza's hospitals. Why now?
Alice Miller: CEO of Israeli disaster org on aiding Gazans post-Oct. 7
Yonit Levi and Jonathan Freedland: Two Jews on the news discuss all that is Unholy
Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas is holding Gazans hostage
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Inside the technocratic council set to rule Gaza
Podcaster Mitch Ginsburg: Escape from Tehran, an untold 1979 Israeli caper
Stand-up comedian Liz Glazer: 'Israel is the reason I exist'
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Five likely scenarios for Gaza in 2026
Adeena Sussman: Latke frying helps cooks cope with life's complexities
ADL's James Pasch: Taking on the Axis of Evil through lawfare
Dr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas iron grip restores order, but Gazans aim to throw off shackles
What Matters Now to Prof. Asher Cohen: Academic boycott of Israel is 'catastrophic'
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The case for pardoning Netanyahu
What Matters Now to Jordan Hoffman: The new Hollywood buddy film, 'Nuremberg'
What Matters Now to Eli Sharabi: Living with trauma and mourning
What Matters Now to Orna and Ronen Neutra: Their son is still in Gaza
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: End of Gaza war heralds a tectonic shift in Israel
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's next front is its own fractures
What Matters Now to Rachel Goldberg-Polin: A deep hope for repair and relief
What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Struggling to make moral sense of the Gaza war
What Matters Now to Daniel Gordis: The lonely man of Zionism
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Did Israel 'break the rules' in Qatar strike?
What Matters Now to Deborah Conway & Tamar Paluch: Australia is rife with antisemitism
What Matters Now to legal expert Menachem Rosensaft: Israel is not committing genocide
What Matters Now to Dennis Ross: There is a deal to be made to end the Gaza war
What Matters Now to Prof. Dan Turner: Treating our enemies humanely makes us human
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Temple Mount prayer is a call to settle Gaza
What Matters Now to Daniel Taub: Still mourning, Israel is not ripe to talk peace - yet
What Matters Now to Dan Ben-David: Israel's moment of truth is here
What Matters Now to comic Guri Alfi: Israelis and American Jews must remain unified
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: Israel may soon remake the region
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: When Israeli extremists go to war - against Israel
What Matters Now to director Daniel Syrkin: How 'Tehran' season 4 reflects Israel-Iran war
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War
What Matters Now to Rabbi Noa Sattath: Global LGBTQ+ support for Hamas
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Shedding light on war when the facts are dim
What Matters Now to Prof. Elie Podeh: When the IDF disengaged from Gaza, 20 years ago
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What did Trump mean when he said...
What Matters Now to Eurovision mega-fan Tal Dahan: Politics, protests and camp in Basel
Bereaved mother Elana Kaminka: End the Gaza 'forever war'
What Matters Now to The Times of Israel: That all Oct. 7 fallen are remembered
What Matters Now to Prof. Manuela Consonni: How women resisted the Nazis
What Matters Now to Israel Story's Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
What Matters Now to hostage mom Idit Ohel: Let our captives go!
What Matters Now to author Dara Horn: Why Jews are the eternal scapegoat
What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages' only beacon
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Egypt's farcical plan for postwar Gaza
What Matters Now to critic Jordan Hoffman: 5 films for Jews to follow at the Oscars
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel handing Gaza back to Hamas?
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Trump's Gaza plan is a warning
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Death penalty for terrorists?
What Matters Now to Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan: What to do when 'friends' disappoint
What Matters Now to Adir Miller and mom Marianne: Getting the last laugh after the Holocaust
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Hamas's survival is Gaza's tragedy
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's wishlist for US president-elect Trump
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Freedom of the press under attack
What Matters Now to comedian Yochay Sponder: Post-Oct. 7 truth -- with laughs
What Matters Now to Andrew Fox: Cynical use of inflated death figures from Gaza
What Matters Now to Ksenia Svetlova: Women are the canary in the Mideast coal mine
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Iran's solution for the Jewish state problem
What Matters Now to combat medic Tuvia Book: Reserve duty for over a year
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: What's left of the left?
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Rising resentment as Haredi men refuse to draft
What Matters Now to Rabbi Yitz Greenberg in conversation with Yossi Klein Halevi
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: US elections through an Israeli prism
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Anti-Zionists misusing Jewish rituals in protests
What Matters Now: A post-October 7 women's prayer book
What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front
What Matters Now to Joshua Leifer: The fall of US Jewry and how it can rise again
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: A year to the Israel-Iran war
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The regional war has already begun
What Matters Now to Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove: What binds US Jews to Israel post-Oct. 7
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel's Sophie's Choice on hostages
What Matters Now to Bret Stephens: Where North American universities went wrong
What Matters Now to Dr. Aron Troen: Dispelling claims of intentional famine in Gaza
What Matters Now to Yossi Klein Halevi: Will Israeli society survive this war?
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: How to relax in your bomb shelter
What Matters Now to Prof. Gerald Steinberg: Hypocrisy of human rights groups on Israel
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: At the Olympics, Israel is a 'pariah state.' Who cares?
What Matters Now to economist Eugene Kandel: How to change Israel's trajectory
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Israel’s poignant, powerful protest culture
What Matters Now to Rachel Gur: Lowering the cost of living for the little guy
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The rebellion from within Likud
What Matters Now to Prof. Jan Grabowski: Appropriation of Holocaust terms in Gaza war
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The weakness of international law
What Matters Now to archaeologist Jodi Magness: Ever-changing, eternal Jerusalem