Miriam Herschlag, Don Futterman and Noah Efron discuss two topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week.

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—Murder on the Election Express—

Who’s to blame for the loss of the center left?

—Not That Kind of a Jewish State—

Are the very religious parties that will make up half of Netanyahu’s coalition hoping to turn Israel into a Halakhic State?

—Keep Your Politics to Your… Students?—

For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion: A college president we’ve got affection for gets himself into hot water by trashing the newly elected government in a letter he sent to all the students at his school. Should academics stay silent when they think the country is going in a dangerous direction?

All that and Tula Ben Ari!

The “The Fault Lies Not in Our Star, but in Merav Michaeli?!?” Edition