Jonny Gould's Jewish State
609 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsJonny Gould is the go-to interviewer for presidents and politicians, artists and ambassadors, military commanders, rabbis and rock stars - and even Mossad agents.
This is Jonny’s podcast of record and diplomacy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
Conversations for everyone with his guest’s most essential thoughts and perspectives.
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96: 🇦🇪 Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Loay Alshareef, “Jews and Muslims destined to come together”
November 23, 2022 17:44 - 44 minutesWhat do you know about the United Arab Emirates? Want to know more of Israel’s newest and perhaps most important partner in peace? I’ve just returned from my first ever trip to an Arab nation. I went to the capital, Abu Dhabi, to the Global Media Congress, a highly impressive showcase of regional media - with exhibitors from further afield including the Philippines, Russia, Azerbaijan - and Israel. It’s a place where East meets West. My guest today is typical of the spirit of big hearte...
96: Jonny in Abu Dhabi: Loay Alshareef, “Jews and Muslims destined to come together”
November 23, 2022 17:44 - 47 minutesWhat do you know about the United Arab Emirates? Want to know more of Israel’s newest and perhaps most important partner in peace? I’ve just returned from my first ever trip to an Arab nation. I went to the capital, Abu Dhabi, to the Global Media Congress, a highly impressive showcase of regional media - with exhibitors from further afield including the Philippines, Russia, Azerbaijan - and Israel. It’s a place where East meets West. My guest today is typical of the spirit of big heartedness....
95: 🇮🇱 Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Jerusalem, Israeli law and order, Abraham Accords, Qatar and me
November 11, 2022 15:56 - 38 minutesSupport Jonny with a coffee here Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem with an ambitious eye on the future. Her flying visit to the UK gave us a chance to chat on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State for the second time. Another year to go in office in Jerusalem, but will she stand for another term? There’s a Likud government to be a part of - and given her unique background, what about becoming an ambassador? She has strong diplomatic skills with her experience In Jerusalem in dealing with...
95: Fleur Hassan-Nahoum: Jerusalem, Israeli law and order, Abraham Accords, Qatar and me
November 11, 2022 15:56 - 40 minutesSupport Jonny with a coffee here Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem with an ambitious eye on the future. Her flying visit to the UK gave us a chance to chat on Jonny Gould’s Jewish State for the second time. Another year to go in office in Jerusalem, but will she stand for another term? There’s a Likud government to be a part of - and given her unique background, what about becoming an ambassador? She has strong diplomatic skills with her experience In Jerusalem in dealing with ...
94: "I moved around Iran’s elites, I met with the Ayatollah. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: "I moved in Iranian society, met the Ayatollah and Raisi. I'm a Zionist” Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: "I moved in Iran society, met the Ayatollah and Raisi. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: Catherine Perez-Shakdam: "I was part of Iran society, met the Ayatollah and Raisi. I'm Jewish"
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While in Tehran, married with kids, she mixed in the theocracy’s higher echelons, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. Are you ready? She’s Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - and so got up close to the regime and she says it’s...
94: "I moved among Iran’s elites, I met with the Ayatollah. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: "I moved in Iran’s elites, the Ayatollah agreed to meet me. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: "I moved in Iran society, the Ayatollah agreed to meet me. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She’s also lived in France, Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says it’s a deeply pol...
94: "I met the Ayatollah when I lived in Iran. He asked me to write his memoirs. I'm Jewish". Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hourYou’ve never heard a story like this! Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She was born and raised in France and also lived in Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She says i...
94: ✡️ "I moved around Iran’s elites, I met with the Ayatollah. I'm Jewish”. Catherine Perez-Shakdam
October 26, 2022 13:55 - 1 hourYou’ve never heard a story like this. Catherine Perez-Shakdam lives in the UK. She was born and raised in France and also lived in Yemen and Iran. While living in Tehran and married with kids, she mixed in the regime classes, socialising, even going on pilgrimages to Iraq. Nothing unusual about that, you say. But Catherine is Jewish, of French Sephardi background. As an outsider in plain sight, Catherine never revealed her Jewishness - obviously - so got up close to the leadership. She say...
93: 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute and Iran protests: Edy Cohen’s verdict
October 09, 2022 11:29 - 42 minutesThe decades old Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute is making headlines again with the planned Israeli start-up for drilling for offshore gas in Karish in the Mediterranean. But escalating rhetoric from Iranian-sponsored Shiite terror group Hezbollah threatens war. Their leader Hassan Nasrallah claims some of Karish sits north of Lebanon’s border line. Western Europe needs Mediterranean gas since Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany and their like need to extricate themselves from Putin’s ...
93: Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute and Iran protests: Edy Cohen’s verdict
October 09, 2022 11:29 - 45 minutesThe decades old Israel-Lebanon maritime border dispute is making headlines again with the planned Israeli start-up for drilling for offshore gas in Karish in the Mediterranean. But escalating rhetoric from Iranian-sponsored Shiite terror group Hezbollah threatens war. Their leader Hassan Nasrallah claims some of Karish sits north of Lebanon’s border line. Western Europe needs Mediterranean gas since Russia invaded Ukraine. Germany and their like need to extricate themselves from Putin’s wea...
92: Jason Greenblatt: In the Path of Abraham, will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace?
September 21, 2022 15:37 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBI’m very pleased to welcome back Jason Greenblatt to our podcast for a second time. In our last instalment, Jason had just left Washington DC after co-writing President Trump’s Peace to Prosperity Plan for Palestinians and Israelis, which led to the historic Abraham Accords. Now he’s back with us to discuss his book, “In the Path of Abraham, How Donald Trump Made Peace in the Middle East - and How to Stop Joe Biden from Unmaking It”. Throughout our two interviews, Jason’s instinct for t...
92: Jason Greenblatt: In the Path of Abraham. Will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace?
September 21, 2022 15:37 - 54 minutes - 50 MBJason Greenblatt joins us for a second time as he looks on at how the Abraham Accords has matured since those historic signings in 2020. In our last instalment, Jason had just left Washington DC after co-writing President Trump’s "Peace to Prosperity Plan for Palestinians and Israelis" with Jared Kushner and US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. It was a breakthrough document which helped seal the first four Abraham Accords agreements. Now he’s here to discuss his book, “In the Path of ...
92: 🇺🇸 Jason Greenblatt: will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace? In the Path of Abraham
September 21, 2022 15:37 - 55 minutesJason Greenblatt joins us for a second time as he looks on at how the Abraham Accords has matured since those historic signings in 2020. In our last instalment, Jason had just left Washington DC after co-writing President Trump’s "Peace to Prosperity Plan for Palestinians and Israelis" with Jared Kushner and US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. It was a breakthrough document which helped seal the first four Abraham Accords agreements. Now he’s here to discuss his book, “In the Path of Ab...
92: Jason Greenblatt: will Biden unmake Trump’s Middle East peace? In the Path of Abraham
September 21, 2022 15:37 - 58 minutesJason Greenblatt joins us for a second time as he looks on at how the Abraham Accords has matured since those historic signings in 2020. In our last instalment, Jason had just left Washington DC after co-writing President Trump’s "Peace to Prosperity Plan for Palestinians and Israelis" with Jared Kushner and US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman. It was a breakthrough document which helped seal the first four Abraham Accords agreements. Now he’s here to discuss his book, “In the Path of Abr...
91: Queen Elizabeth ii: A British Jewish tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold
September 12, 2022 19:54 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBThe Elizabethan Age draws to a close. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Thursday 8th September 2022 after 70 years on the throne. Her loss is indescribable and her passing has sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of grief from across the world. But what did she mean to her Jewish subjects? Will the nation’s temperature change? Is the end of the Elizabethan age a symbol of the end of the post World War...
91: Queen Elizabeth II: A British Jewish tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold
September 12, 2022 19:54 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBThe Elizabethan Age draws to a close. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Thursday 8th September 2022 after 70 years on the throne. Her loss is indescribable and her passing has sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of grief from across the world. But what did she mean to her Jewish subjects? Will the nation’s temperature change? Is the end of the Elizabethan age a symbol of the end of the post World War...
91: 👑 Queen Elizabeth II: Jewish community pays tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold
September 12, 2022 19:54 - 36 minutesThe Elizabethan Age draws to a close. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Thursday 8th September 2022 after 70 years on the throne. Her loss is indescribable and her passing has sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of grief from across the world. But what did she mean to her Jewish subjects? Will the nation’s temperature change? Is the end of the Elizabethan age a symbol of the end of the post World War II ...
91: Queen Elizabeth II: Jewish community pays tribute to Her Majesty and what the future may hold
September 12, 2022 19:54 - 40 minutesThe Elizabethan Age draws to a close. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest serving monarch passed away peacefully at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire on Thursday 8th September 2022 after 70 years on the throne. Her loss is indescribable and her passing has sparked the most extraordinary outpouring of grief from across the world. But what did she mean to her Jewish subjects? Will the nation’s temperature change? Is the end of the Elizabethan age a symbol of the end of the post World War II se...
90: Hillel Neuer: “The Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt want MORE Israel, not less Israel”
September 02, 2022 17:54 - 1 hour - 60 MBHillel Neuer is so often the lone voice talking truth to power at a United Nations seemingly on interminable mission creep. Western countries are loosening their resolve in countering dictatorships. And worse still, power groups inside the UN Human Rights Council are trying to silence him. Hillel is Executive Director of UN Watch, the human rights NGO based at the UN in Geneva. Since 2009, he’s headed the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, a renowned international gatheri...
90: Hillel Neuer: “The Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt want MORE, not less Israel”
September 02, 2022 17:54 - 1 hourHillel Neuer is so often the lone voice talking truth to power at a United Nations seemingly on interminable mission creep. Western countries are loosening their resolve in countering dictatorships. And worse still, power groups inside the UN Human Rights Council are trying to silence him. Hillel is Executive Director of UN Watch, the human rights NGO based at the UN in Geneva. Since 2009, he’s headed the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, a renowned international gathering ...
90: 🇺🇳 Hillel Neuer: “The Saudis, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt want MORE, not less Israel”
September 02, 2022 17:54 - 1 hourHillel Neuer is so often the lone voice talking truth to power at a United Nations seemingly on interminable mission creep. Western countries are loosening their resolve in countering dictatorships. And worse still, power groups inside the UN Human Rights Council are trying to silence him. Hillel is Executive Director of UN Watch, the human rights NGO based at the UN in Geneva. Since 2009, he’s headed the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, a renowned international gatherin...
89: ✍️ Julie Burchill: "Without Jewish people, we'd all be sitting in caves grunting"
August 05, 2022 06:15 - 1 hourShe’s one of Britain’s most successful and irreverent writers. I met Julie Burchill at one of her favourite places on the Sussex coast - in Hove, actually, her home town for the last 27 years. Julie started her glittering career at the NME in 1976, aged 17 and left when after just two years as she thought that people in their twenties who still wrote about music were ‘sad old men'. Since then she’s had number one best-selling novels, won an Emmy and been condemned in the House of Commons. Now...
89: Julie Burchill: "Without Jewish people, we'd all be sitting in caves grunting"
August 05, 2022 06:15 - 1 hourShe’s one of Britain’s most successful and irreverent writers. I met Julie Burchill at one of her favourite places on the Sussex coast - in Hove, actually, her home town for the last 27 years. Julie started her glittering career at the NME in 1976, aged 17 and left when after just two years as she thought that people in their twenties who still wrote about music were ‘sad old men'. Since then she’s had number one best-selling novels, won an Emmy and been condemned in the House of Commons. ...
88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, the life Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew who escaped Auschwitz
July 14, 2022 06:41 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBOnly four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before. He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holo...
88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The first Jew to escape Auschwitz
July 14, 2022 06:41 - 1 hour - 78.4 MBOnly four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before. He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holo...
88: 📚 Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The teenage Jew who escaped Auschwitz
July 14, 2022 06:41 - 1 hourOnly four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before. He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holocau...
88: Jonathan Freedland: The Escape Artist, Rudolf Vrba. The teenage Jew who escaped Auschwitz
July 14, 2022 06:41 - 1 hourOnly four Jewish prisoners ever escaped the vicious SS guards, their ferocious dogs, rows of tall electrified fences and men on watchtowers wielding automatic weapons of Auschwitz-Birkenau. But Walter Rosenberg, just 19-years-old used knowledge, cunning and patience to do what no Jew had done before. He and Alfred Wetzler, in his early twenties, escaped from Auschwitz. But Walter, later to become Rudolf Vrba, hasn't been legendized like others who emerged from what became known as the Holocau...
87: 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Kharkiv's Jews humanitarian crisis: Rabbi Mendel Moskowitz
June 29, 2022 19:13 - 22 minutesOur guest today is a Rabbi raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine from the age of 6 months, it’s pretty much all he’s known. Rabbi Mendel Moskovitz moved there as a baby with his parents, Moishe and Miriam as his family served as Chabad emissaries to rebuild Jewish life in Kharkiv, following the fall of Communism. Graduating as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia, Rabbi Moskovitz returned home with his wife, Chani. There he raised three children, and served as a Rabbi to Ukrainian youth for 7 years, until...
87: Ukraine: Kharkiv's Jews humanitarian crisis: Rabbi Mendel Moscowitz
June 29, 2022 19:13 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBOur guest today is a Rabbi raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine from the age of 6 months, it’s pretty much all he’s known. Rabbi Mendel Moskovitz moved there with his parents as a baby as his family serve as Chabad emissaries to rebuild Jewish life in Kharkiv, following the fall of Communism. Graduating as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia, Rabbi Moskovitz returned home with his wife, Chani. There he raised three children, and served as a Rabbi to Ukrainian youth for 7 years, until war changed everyth...
87: Ukraine: Kharkiv's Jews humanitarian crisis: Rabbi Mendel Moskowitz
June 29, 2022 19:13 - 24 minutesOur guest today is a Rabbi raised in Kharkiv, Ukraine from the age of 6 months, it’s pretty much all he’s known. Rabbi Mendel Moskovitz moved there as a baby with his parents, Moishe and Miriam as his family served as Chabad emissaries to rebuild Jewish life in Kharkiv, following the fall of Communism. Graduating as a rabbi in Sydney, Australia, Rabbi Moskovitz returned home with his wife, Chani. There he raised three children, and served as a Rabbi to Ukrainian youth for 7 years, until war c...
86: Douglas Murray: The War On The West: how to prevail in the age of unreason
June 13, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourOur guest today is Douglas Murray, best-selling author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - and now The War On The West, how to prevail in the age of unreason. All the narratives and assumptions which underpin our understanding of the western societies we grew up in are under attack - from within. Much of it is being fought through the prism of race. Douglas examines how Western civilisation and its achievements...
86: 📚 Douglas Murray: The War On The West: how to prevail in the age of unreason
June 13, 2022 18:00 - 1 hourOur guest today is Douglas Murray, best-selling author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity and Islam and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity - and now The War On The West, how to prevail in the age of unreason. All the narratives and assumptions which underpin our understanding of the western societies we grew up in are under attack - from within. Much of it is being fought through the prism of race. Douglas examines how Western civilisation and its achievemen...
85: Ambassador Ron Dermer and Ed Husain: The first steps on the road to the Abraham Accords
May 25, 2022 23:20 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBAmbassador Ron Dermer and Ed Husain addressed a live audience for StandWithUs UK, which I hosted in Central London. These two friends were instrumental in creating the pathway which led eventually to the Abraham Accords. This was no ordinary occasion and I won’t forget posing the questions, just as those in attendance will remember being there. We talk about Israel’s relationships with Russia, the Jews in Ukraine even Russian coordination in Syria over Israel’s security issues. Then th...
85: 🇮🇱 Ron Dermer and Ed Husain: The first steps on the road to the Abraham Accords
May 25, 2022 23:20 - 1 hourAmbassador Ron Dermer and Ed Husain addressed a live audience for StandWithUs UK, which I hosted in Central London. These two friends were instrumental in creating the pathway which led eventually to the Abraham Accords. This was no ordinary occasion and I won’t forget posing the questions, just as those in attendance will remember being there. We talk about Israel’s relationships with Russia, the Jews in Ukraine even Russian coordination in Syria over Israel’s security issues. Then th...
85: Ron Dermer and Ed Husain: The first steps on the road to the Abraham Accords
May 25, 2022 23:20 - 1 hourAmbassador Ron Dermer and Ed Husain addressed a live audience for StandWithUs UK, which I hosted in Central London. These two friends were instrumental in creating the pathway which led eventually to the Abraham Accords. This was no ordinary occasion and I won’t forget posing the questions, just as those in attendance will remember being there. We talk about Israel’s relationships with Russia, the Jews in Ukraine even Russian coordination in Syria over Israel’s security issues. Then there’s I...
84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the State Department, an American story.
May 15, 2022 09:36 - 1 hour - 55 MBLen Khodorkovsky is an American story. The same story repeated through generations of Jewish history. This one comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union bound for the USA. The poignancy of this is, of course, there’ll be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine as we speak - destination unknown - just heading west. Len served at the US State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Pub...
84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story.
May 15, 2022 09:36 - 1 hour - 55 MBLen Khodorkovsky is an American story. The same one repeated throughout generations of Jewish history. And his comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union for the USA. Because by 2017, Len took an oath of office in the US State Department. “That’s quite a trajectory”, he says with understatement. The poignancy is there’s bound to be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine (and even Russia) as we lis...
84: 🇺🇸 Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story.
May 15, 2022 09:36 - 1 hourLen Khodorkovsky is an American story. The same one repeated throughout generations of Jewish history. And his comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union for the USA. Because by 2017, Len took an oath of office in the US State Department. “That’s quite a trajectory”, he says with understatement. The poignancy is there’s bound to be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine (and even Russia) as we lis...
84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story
May 15, 2022 09:36 - 1 hourLen Khodorkovsky is an American story. The same one repeated throughout generations of Jewish history. And his comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union for the USA. Because by 2017, Len took an oath of office in the US State Department. “That’s quite a trajectory”, he says with considerable understatement. The poignancy is there’s bound to be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine (and even Russia) as...
83: 🏛️ National Jewish Assembly: Anglo Jewry's new leadership organization
May 12, 2022 11:20 - 16 minutesThe National Jewish Assembly's held its inaugural reception for brand new members and interested parties at London's Jewish Museum in Camden Town. CEO James Marlow and Chairman and founder Gary Mond were joined by members of the new advisory board to outline their plans and directions. So why has this all come about? What’s wrong with Anglo-Jewish leadership which they think needs to be addressed? Is it just a column of disaffected right wingers as certain media have insinuated? I caught...
83: National Jewish Assembly: Anglo Jewry's new communal leadership group
May 12, 2022 11:20 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBThe National Jewish Assembly held its inaugural reception for brand new members and interested people at the London Jewish Museum in Camden Town. CEO James Marlow and Chairman and founder Gary Mond were joined by members of the new advisory board to outline their plans and directions. What are its three pillars? What’s wrong with Anglo-Jewish leadership which they think they need to address? Is it just a column of disaffected right wingers as certain media have insinuated? I caught up wit...
83: National Jewish Assembly: Anglo Jewry's new leadership organization
May 12, 2022 11:20 - 19 minutesThe National Jewish Assembly's held its inaugural reception for brand new members and interested parties at London's Jewish Museum in Camden Town. CEO James Marlow and Chairman and founder Gary Mond were joined by members of the new advisory board to outline their plans and directions. So why has this all come about? What’s wrong with Anglo-Jewish leadership which they think needs to be addressed? Is it just a column of disaffected right wingers as certain media have insinuated? I caught up w...
82: Israel Bonds, Invest in Israel: Arnon Perlman's life in public service
May 04, 2022 13:33 - 27 minutesOur guest today is Israel Bonds executive director of sales and operations in Europe and Latin America, Arnon Perlman. It’s never been easier or more accessible to invest in the State of Israel. This episode explains how (and you can follow the link to do so). www.online.israelbondsintl.com Arnon’s led a life of public service in Israel. Before joining Israel Bonds, he served as prime minister Ariel Sharon’s head of communications for four years, on duty and on call at every waking (and sleep...
82: 🇮🇱 Israel Bonds, Invest in Israel: Arnon Perlman's life in public service
May 04, 2022 07:11 - 25 minutesOur guest today is Israel Bonds executive director of sales and operations in Europe and Latin America, Arnon Perlman. It’s never been easier or more accessible to invest in the State of Israel. This episode explains how (and you can follow the link below to do so). Arnon’s led a life of public service in Israel. Before joining Israel Bonds, he served as prime minister Ariel Sharon’s head of communications for four years, on duty and on call at every waking (and sleeping hour) and he pays...
81: 📽️ Finding Abraham: Malcolm Green's Abraham Accords-inspired tour through Israel
April 27, 2022 14:48 - 1 hourMalcolm Green, filmmaker, innovator and storyteller who targets new audiences with new medium. “Finding Abraham” is his movie on how the most important diplomatic breakthrough of our age is filtering down to ground level across the Middle East. It follows a trip through Israel with the “Leaders of Tomorrow, a group from Israel, Bahrain, the UAE, Egypt and Morocco recording their reaction to what they see - and to each other. Our conversation is twice as long as the movie because we delve...