Waiting
2/25/202643 min
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How do you go about daily life — bar mitzvahs, trips, work — when every two hours the news cycle shifts, every Israeli with a cousin in the Air Force has a take, and even seasoned analysts can't say what comes next?
In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi take us inside the strange collective experience of Israeli life: suspended in waiting, saturated with rumors, and bracing for a military confrontation that could reshape the entire Middle East — before anything has happened yet.
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First 90 secondsDonniel Hartman· Host0:00
[gentle music] Hi, friends. At the Shalom Hartman Institute, we believe that Jewish life thrives when we engage courageously and honestly with the moral and spiritual challenges of our time. For me, the work of building a Judaism that is intellectually vibrant, ethically serious, and infused with hope is not just a professional calling. It is a commitment to our shared future. Each summer, our Community Leadership Program, CLP, turns Jerusalem into a Beit Midrash of ideas and a laboratory of leadership. Learners and leaders from across the Jewish world come together to study, to question, to argue, and ultimately to imagine a more meaningful and more responsible Jewish future. This year, I invite you to join me from July 1st to July 7th to explore the ideas and values that can anchor us in this complicated moment. You'll learn with me and with my extraordinary colleagues and with a community bound together by curiosity, purpose, and possibility. Space is limited. Visit shalomhartman.org/clp to reserve your spot. Hope to see you there.
Elana Stein Hain· Soundbite1:09
[bright music] You are listening to an Ark Media podcast.
Yossi Klein Halevi· Host1:18
This notion of Israelis hoping it will happen, there's something heroic about that, because we're going to get hit. We're the front