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
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.
The Islamization of New York’s Government
As anti-Jewish extremism surged after October 7th, New York’s leadership has increasingly aligned itself with Islamist political networks.
Rising antisemitism reveals a lot about America.
As Jew-hatred becomes increasingly rationalized and normalized, America’s moral architecture is beginning to crack.
The Palestinian Lies We Were Forced to Respect
"Anti-Zionism" — as told through the narrative of "The Nakba" — transformed a forever grievance into a moral framework that shaped much of the world's response to October 7th, Israel, and Zionism.
A medieval anti-Jewish conspiracy just became prestige journalism.
The most dangerous antisemitic propaganda is not the kind shouted from the fringes, but the kind presented with institutional authority, moral seriousness, and the tone of careful reporting.
This is what's actually happening in Iran.
Those watching the ceasefire negotiations and concluding that the conflict is winding down are misreading the situation in ways that carry real analytical consequence.
The New York Times is lying about Israel (again).
One of America’s most influential newspapers continues to launder ideology through “opinion,” amplify unverified narratives, and disguise antisemitism as journalism.
Netflix's hate speech policy excludes Jews.
When “Zionist” becomes culturally understood shorthand for something sinister, Hollywood no longer needs explicit antisemitism. The implication does the work.
Everything You Need to Know About Israel's Nuclear Deterrent
A tiny country with no strategic depth built one of the world’s most secretive and disciplined nuclear deterrents — to make “Never Again” a strategic reality.
The American Left is becoming Iran’s defense attorney.
In today's "progressive" foreign-policy imagination, Iranian aggression is contextual, Israeli deterrence is provocative, and the Jewish state is always at fault.
How Ordinary Thinking Produces Extraordinary Antisemitism
Familiar cognitive shortcuts, social reinforcement, and emotional reasoning shape distorted beliefs about Jews and Israel — without always requiring malicious intent.
Stop explaining antisemitism. Start defeating it.
Modern antisemitism is not a misunderstanding to be clarified, but a movement to be confronted, exposed, and defeated.
The Most Tragically Beautiful Book I’ve Ever Read
Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s devastating memoir about her kidnapped and murdered son, Hersh, reveals what happens when grief no longer fits inside the structures meant to contain it.
The History They Hope You Never Learn About 'From the River to the Sea'
Long before 1967, before so-called “occupation,” and before the modern Jewish state even existed, the movement behind this slogan had already made its objective clear.
For the first time in my life, I’m afraid for us Jews.
American Jews are more vulnerable in our own country today than ever in our lifetime. And it’s not just the United States. The problem is global.
The Real Reason Antisemitism Survives
What if antisemitism survives not because it makes sense, but because it protects people from confronting themselves?
5 Lessons I Learned as the IDF International Spokesperson
These past two years have taught me that the necessity for the IDF is ever-prevalent, but they have also reinforced something else.
The Lies People Tell Themselves About the Middle East
Treating the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies like ordinary political actors blinds the West to the growing threat in front of us.
This popular Jewish principle has completely lost its meaning.
Somewhere along the way, "tikkun olam" stopped being a Jewish concept and started becoming a “progressive” yard sign with Hebrew seasoning.
Something big is happening between Jews and Persians right now.
What looks like a new connection is actually the reemergence of a 2,500-year-old relationship — one now resurfacing as more Iranians begin to question the ideology that tried to erase it.
We need to talk about the unwritten rules of Jewish success in America.
Success came with an unspoken condition: Contribute everywhere, quietly. But over time, that bargain blurred Jewish identity into the background until others began rewriting our story entirely.
The Jewish Holiday That Most Jews Don’t Understand
Fire, mysticism, and survival collide in a holiday that slipped out of mainstream Jewish consciousness, especially in the diaspora.
The War Against Jewish Origins
Early antagonists of Zionism acknowledged Jewish roots in the Holy Land. Today, haters deny them outright.
The problem isn’t Israel’s wars. It’s how the West thinks about war.
Long before the 20th century, ancient Jewish texts recognized what much of the modern West still refuses to accept: Not every enemy can be reasoned with.
Antisemitism is skyrocketing, but that doesn’t mean Jews are losing.
What feels like “the world falling apart” is often the end of an illusion.
Should Jews be allowed to criticize Israel?
It’s worth asking whether criticism on its own is as meaningful as many people believe it to be.
Jew-hate is being rebranded as 'cool'.
Antisemitism, the oldest hatred, is thriving by speaking the language of modern culture.
Canada’s antisemitism strategy is being written by people who don’t recognize it.
A government effort to combat anti-Jewish hatred collapses when those shaping it platform anti-Jewish narratives, misdiagnose its sources, and ignore the forces driving it.
Prime Minister Starmer, British Jews deserve better.
Condemnation is the only thing your government has produced at the scale this moment requires.
This is what Jews really need right now.
Most people mean well, but good intentions aren’t enough. Here’s what actually makes a difference for your Jewish family members, friends, and colleagues.
The old Middle East is dying in front of us.
For Jews whose families were exiled from this region, the existence of a Persian Gulf state that defends Israel with our soldiers on its soil is something close to a miracle.
The Ethnic Cleansing No One Mentions When Talking About Israel
One cannot make the argument that Israel is "colonial" in good faith. It can only be made by deciding, in advance, that certain people — namely Jews — do not count.
The Money-Making Business of Attacking Jews
Incentives in media and politics are turning outrage about Jews into a profitable system that rewards antisemitism, turning it into a vicious cycle at scale.
Antisemitism is being disguised as moral clarity.
When leaders hold the Jewish state to standards applied to no one else, moral posturing becomes a mask for something far uglier.
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