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In this episode, Donniel and Yossi offer a thoughtful reflection on the uncertain future of Diaspora Jewry at this moment. I found myself returning to this conversion, wrestling with the difficult questions it raised. I leave the rest to Yossi and Donniel, and please don’t forget to subscribe to For Heaven’s Sake.
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Witamy w podcaście „What Matters Now”, cotygodniowym podcaście omawiającym kluczowe kwestie kształtujące Izrael i świat żydowski. Prowadząca, zastępca redaktora naczelnego Amandy Borschel-Dan, rozmawia z Yossim Kleinem Halevim.
W tym kontekście zagłębiamy się w niedawno opublikowany esej Kleina Haleviego pt. „Nasz sezon rozliczeń: moralne rozdroże Izraela w Strefie Gazy”, który, jak sam stwierdził, był najtrudniejszym tekstem, jaki kiedykolwiek napisał – i tym, który spotkał się z największym odzewem.
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As we head into the Jewish season of self-reckoning, many of us are struggling to make moral sense of this new era that began on October 7.
To be an ambivalent Jew today is not to be uncertain so much as torn between conflicting certainties. We know Israel’s war against Iran and its proxies is unavoidable. We know any nation in our place would have reacted to Hamas’s mass atrocities as we did. We know we face an enemy willing to commit any crime and that the IDF is fighting under conditions that would test the moral limits of any army. We know the young Israelis who have fought for months, many for nearly two years, are among the most heroic and self-sacrificing this country has produced. We know Israel is subject to a relentless campaign of lies, half-truths, distortions and convenient omissions. We know the outrageous accusation of genocide against Israel only diverts the world’s focus from radical Islamism, the truly genocidal side in this conflict.
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Power is not the answer to all problems. But neither is restraint. If you have the power to prevent the world’s biggest exporter of terrorism from developing nuclear immunity yet fail to use it, then disarm, embrace pacifism, and prepare to suffer the consequences.
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We talk about the current war and what it reveals—about Israeli society, leadership, and the nation’s soul. We explore how the shadow of the Holocaust continues to shape Yossi’s view of the Jewish state, and the impossible tensions between survival and conscience.
We also touch on Yossi’s long-standing meditation practice, and how it helps him stay spiritually elevated and emotionally grounded through heartbreak and chaos.
This is a conversation about moral clarity and humility. About fear, grief, memory—and the quiet practices that help us stay human.
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While there is an obvious overlap between antisemitism and other forms of hatred against the “other,” Jew-hatred is unique. No other antipathy to any group has such deep historical roots, beginning in pagan Egypt and the Hellenistic world, where the Jewish refusal to acknowledge the divinity of kings was regarded as intolerable arrogance and monotheism as an affront to the “religious pluralism” of the gods. No other hatred is so adaptable to seemingly any ideology and circumstance.
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Israel's hostage dilemma:
Here's the full text of my piece in the Globe and Mail:
The ceasefire deal provides little relief for a bitter and divided Israel
Yossi Klein Halevi
Special to The Globe and Mail
Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbour.
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Piotr Cywiński: ... prędzej czy później dochodzi do haseł jawnie antysemickich, które w tej chwili próbuje się ubierać w nowomowę, ale to jest często dyskurs, który bardzo szybko ewoluuje w kierunkach zaskakująco historycznych. On psuje całość dyskursu publicznego i potrafi bardzo utrudnić działania edukacyjne. Na razie w Polsce to jest stosunkowo w niewielkim stopniu obecne. Ale już na przykład na uniwersytetach amerykańskich powszechne. Wróciłem niedawno stamtąd i to, co się tam dzieje w tej kwestii, w zasadzie już jest nie do ogarnięcia.
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October 7 shattered Israelis' faith that the state would protect them and shook American Jewry's sense of full social acceptance – but there is a way forward
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When the immediacy of the horrors of October 7 begins to fade, the trauma that will linger in the Israeli psyche is the shattering of two core assumptions about our country.
The first was the belief that we know how to defend ourselves and project deterrence in a hostile region. But on October 7, the weakest of our enemies delivered the most devastating blow in our history, sending a message of unprecedented vulnerability to our enemies.
