Future of Jewish
Future of Jewish is a podcast dedicated to helping listeners better understand Judaism, Israel, and the Jewish world. The show aims to provide insightful discussions and perspectives on topics related to Jewish culture, religion, and current events. In addition to the podcast, the creators also run a digital publication at www.futureofjewish.com.
Episodes
The Jewish world is changing. Our organizations and institutions are not.
Jews still want Judaism, but many of us no longer want the institutions and organizations offering it — and that distinction will determine the Jewish future.
I wrote this before anyone understood October 7th.
The unedited journal entries I wrote as the attacks were still unfolding — before the dead had been counted, before the hostages were known, and before history found its narrative.
O Palestine!
Canada's recognition of "Palestine" came with conditions — that were never enforced. In the Palestinians' war against the Jews, they are never given their own agency. Only Israel is expected to abide.
The Jewish relationship with the world will never be the same.
We thought October 7th would expose Hamas. Instead, it exposed so much of our world.
Israel is now New York's favorite political litmus test.
What began as a foreign policy debate has become an increasingly powerful marker of identity, status, and belonging in America's most Jewish city.
The Israel–Lebanon Saga Nobody Actually Understands
Lebanon is the country that stopped being a country — and Israelis are forced to live with the increasingly adverse effects.
The Questions People Only Ask Jews
Nowadays, Jewish identity so often triggers lines of questioning that no other identity seems to require.
Israel never wanted peace? Here's the actual truth.
The historical record tells a far more nuanced story than many are willing to admit.
'Next year in Jerusalem' needs an update.
Jewish sovereignty is no longer a dream. The challenge now is learning how to live as a sovereign people — in Israel and across the diaspora.
Britain's Jewish doctors are under attack.
Death threats, institutional indifference, and the growing exodus of Jewish doctors from Britain reveal a crisis that the UK's medical establishment refuses to confront.
What is Zionism? The answer changes everything.
Zionism isn’t about denying anyone else’s rights. It’s about affirming our own.
0.2% of the world. 100% of the obsession.
Almost everyone has an opinion about Jews. Almost nobody knows why. What is it about the Jews?
Inside America's Most Successful Antisemitic Political Machine
This growing network shares a board seat, a donor list, a vocabulary engine, and a single goal: to make opposition to Jewish statehood the defining litmus test of the modern-day Democratic Party.
The guarantee that failed Israel is back.
In 1957, Israel surrendered hard-won gains for promises that dissolved when tested. The emerging order with the Islamic Republic of Iran bears an unsettling resemblance.
JD Vance is repeating Obama's Middle East mistakes.
Opposing war with Iran is understandable. Treating the Islamic Republic as a pillar of regional stability is not.
If Israel was a mistake, then what about Lebanon?
As "anti-Zionists" question the legitimacy of the Jewish state, they ignore a far more compelling case study in artificial borders, sectarian division, and national failure.
Everything they say about U.S. aid to Israel is wrong.
The American public deserves a true picture of this relationship, not an agenda dressed up as policy analysis to serve someone’s political interests.
Meet Netanyahu's most dangerous rival.
Gadi Eisenkot is everything Benjamin Netanyahu is not.
How Dictators Are Defeating Democracies
Democracy's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness.
The Jewish state is too powerful for the world’s liking.
The U.S.-Iran deal reveals an uncomfortable truth: The world is far more comfortable with a vulnerable Israel than a victorious one.
America owes Israel a thank-you, not a lecture.
After helping the U.S. cripple Iran, Israel is being asked to accept an agreement that could leave it more vulnerable than before.
I am leaving Britain and moving to Israel.
I no longer want to spend my life negotiating my place in a country that keeps asking Jews to justify theirs.
The most important Jewish victory happened after we lost.
Many people look at the U.S.–Iran deal and see an Israeli defeat. Jewish history tells a different story: The long game often belongs to those who lose the moment but win the future.
I escaped Hezbollah — and found the truth about Israel.
I came from inside the machine that produces hatred of Israel, and I am telling anyone who will listen: The machine is a lie.
The Real Reason Israel Doesn't Go to the World Cup
It’s not about failing to qualify. It’s about how dirty politics changed the route itself.
Israel keeps winning wars. So why are we losing?
The Arab world stopped trying to defeat Israel on the battlefield decades ago. Jews are only now realizing where the real war moved.
Israel exposed the war inside Trump's White House.
Three factions claim to define "America First." Israel exposed the fault lines between them — and showed which vision is winning.
Israel's Answer to the Iran Deal
A disappointing agreement with Iran is unlikely to change the way Israelis think, fight, or prepare for what comes next.
The Iran war ended exactly where it began.
Regime change never came. Hormuz became the center of gravity. This ceasefire is not a victory — it is an exit strategy.
The most successful antisemitic ideas are the ones some Jews believe.
Enduring forms of antisemitism are not always imposed from the outside. Sometimes they are absorbed, repeated, and defended by Jews themselves.
The Iranian regime is broken, so we should finish the job.
Why are we negotiating with anyone who mistakes the Trump Administration for the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama?
The Most Important Jewish Idea I've Heard Since October 7th
This is, at its root, the most Jewish intuition I know, and our tradition hid it inside one of its strangest and most beautiful images.
Western leaders failed — and they're trying to sell us victory.
We were told the last Iran deal solved the problem. Now we're being asked to believe it again.
Destroying Iran's nuclear facilities isn't enough.
If the Iranian regime keeps the uranium, nothing else matters.
Israel survived before America's support. It will survive after it too.
For decades, we've been told Israel depends on America. History tells a very different story.
The Ultra-Orthodox Debate That Jews Can No Longer Avoid
Ultra-Orthodox Jews have preserved Judaism, but who will preserve the Jewish homeland?
Jew-hate made hippies give up on peace.
The movement that once preached "give peace a chance" now finds itself excusing terrorism, boycotting Israel, and turning against the world's only Jewish state.
I'm converting to Orthodox Judaism. My friends thought I lost my mind.
I searched religion and philosophy for 20 years. Then I found Orthodox Judaism.
The New Reality That American Jews Must Be Ready For
The Left increasingly rejects Israel. The Right is moving on. Now what?
Netanyahu was absolutely right to defy Trump.
The relationship between Israel and the U.S. works because it is an alliance between sovereigns. The moment one begins dictating fundamental security decisions, the relationship becomes distorted.
The Biggest Lie About Iran
The Islamic Republic didn't spend 45 years preparing for peace. It spent 45 years preparing for permanent revolution, war, and bloodshed.
This assumption about Israelis makes no sense.
Most Israelis don't want war. They simply refuse to surrender to people who openly promise more of it.
Why the War Against Iran Suddenly Stopped
Everyone wanted Iran weakened. Nobody wanted what came next.
Ancient Jews knew what modern science eventually understood.
The rabbis of the Talmud were already exploring how interconnected systems, hidden variables, and cascading consequences shape reality.
The Jewish Identity Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
The crisis facing Jews today is not only antisemitism but self-expression. After decades of translating Judaism into Western pop culture, many do not know how to explain Judaism on its own terms.
Not everyone who is Jewish is a Jew.
The central question of Jewish life is not whether Judaism affirms each of our beliefs, but whether we accept the obligations that come with inheriting it.
The World's Obsession With Blaming Israel for Everything
The fixation on the Jewish state has become a distraction from the far more consequential challenges reshaping societies from within.
Canada continues to slap its Jews in the face.
This week we hosted Canada's Prime Minister in our Toronto synagogue. He spoke to every Canadian — except us Jews.
Dear Ronald Lauder, we have your billion-dollar Jewish idea.
A billion dollars can build another institution — or it can build the largest network of Jewish and Israeli creators, storytellers, and influencers the world has ever seen.
Anti-Zionism is the new costume party.
The keffiyeh is the accessory, social media is the location, and moral licensing is what keeps the party going.
J Street is not being honest about Israel.
It's perfectly acceptable to have different opinions, but it's a whole other thing to distort, mislead, and accuse Israel of complete falsehoods.
The West still doesn't understand why October 7th happened.
Too many Westerners won't quit believing the fantasy that peace creates security. Israelis know it's the other way around.
So many synagogues are losing modern Jews. Here's the fix.
The problem isn't Judaism. It's a community model that no longer matches how many Jews live.
The Left is imploding because of its anti-Israel obsession.
From antisemitic politicians to grocery-store boycotts, the Left's fixation on the Jewish state is driving away voters, dividing its coalition, and turning "activism" into self-sabotage.
The Gaza debate is dominated by people who don’t understand it.
The headlines say Israel controls 70 percent of Gaza. The reality on the ground is far more complicated — and understanding it changes the entire conversation.
Israelis are extraordinary people in an ordinary land.
What makes Israel extraordinary is not the land itself, but the people who are always prepared to defend it.
The new Canada is unsafe for Jews.
I have spent the last two and a half years watching the country my grandparents chose unmake itself.
The Jews' Real Superpower
Jewish humor may be the most successful survival strategy in human history.
Antisemitism now wears a Black Lives Matter shirt.
Jew-hatred among Black people and Black organizations has surged since October 7th — and it needs to be called out.
The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
He voluntarily walked into hell, survived it, and became too dangerous for history to remember.
The Israeli Left learned nothing from October 7th.
October 7th exposed the dangers of illusion, yet much of Israel’s Left still clings to a wildly outdated worldview.
The Most Dangerous Lie That New York Jews Tell Themselves
Jewish history is filled with prosperous communities that convinced themselves success meant safety — right before discovering it did not.
The internet has turned Israel into the world’s favorite conspiracy theory.
We are living through the largest propaganda environment in human history — and no country on earth is more relentlessly mythologised, demonised, and misrepresented online than the Jewish state.
The Biggest Difference Between Islam and Every Other Major Religion
Islam is the only major religion on earth that tries to govern people who never chose it.
The Loyalty Test Hidden Inside Conversations About Israel
Jews are uniquely expected to distance ourselves from our homeland before being accepted in "progressive" society.
The age of Jewish dependence is ending.
And that's a good thing — a very good thing.
Too many Jewish institutions have failed this moment.
Many Jewish organizations were designed for an era when social acceptance felt permanent. That era is over.
'I was an anti-Zionist. Then I actually started researching.'
This is one man’s journey from parroting anti-Israel slogans to confronting propaganda, groupthink, and the uncomfortable power of facts.
They still refuse to mourn the victims of October 7th.
Even after overwhelming evidence of Palestinian sexual atrocities of October 7th, much of the world still treats Jewish suffering as negotiable, deniable, or politically inconvenient.
The Return of the Zionist
The surge in antisemitism is forcing the surge in something else too: integral reminders about Jewish survival, identity, and nationhood.
7 Things Jews Should Stop Saying
These are the slogans, assumptions, and talking points that no longer serve Jews in a post-October 7th world — and what should replace them.
The Day the Jews Agreed to Become Jews
Today marks the start of the holiday that transformed freedom into purpose — and created the foundations of Jewish civilization.
The Fast-Changing Future for Jews in the West
As the old integrationist dream weakens, many Western Jews will increasingly need to rediscover the strength of family, community, and peoplehood — cornerstones of the Sephardic Jewish experience.
Iran’s greatest weapon is already starting to break.
Contrary to what many Western pundits want us to believe, the Strait of Hormuz is not Iran’s forever weapon. The Iranian regime can threaten Hormuz, but it cannot stop the future.
The Question Jews Were Never Supposed to Ask
For centuries, Jews have been told to justify themselves in exchange for belonging. But what if the real problem was the assumption that Jews must always stand trial in the first place?
5 Things Jew-Haters Can Learn from Jews
The tragedy is that many Jew-haters would rather invent fantasies about Jewish success than adopt the habits, values, attitudes, and behaviors that helped Jews endure history in the first place.
Supporting Israel now means supporting Israelis everywhere.
The mounting pressure on Israelis has moved far beyond the Jewish state's borders.
The 'progressive' Left needs Israel to be evil.
From Mossad sharks to “rape dogs,” conspiracy theories about Israelis are migrating from the Middle East into mainstream Western discourse.
Eurovision just exposed the truth about Israel and Europe.
What happened on Saturday in Vienna is one of the most revealing political events in Europe this year.
France's Jews are leaving en masse — again.
The largest Jewish community in Europe is shrinking as antisemitism, Islamist violence, and institutional denial drive thousands to question whether modern-day France is safe for Jews.
