About this episode
Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida and Noah Efron discuss three topics of incomparable importance and end with an anecdote about something in Israel that made them smile this week. Listen to the Extra-Special, Special Extra Segment —Elections, Infections & Abjections— Is the collapse of Israel's government a good thing, in a They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Sort of way? —Vaccination Lamentation— Why are so many of Israel's anti-vaxxers leftists? New Jewess Is Gal Gadot the "New Jewess"? —"Urban Freedom"— For our most unreasonably generous Patreon supporters, in our extra-special, special extra discussion, we discuss a new survey of "Urban Freedom" by the separation-of-church-and-state-advocacy group Yisrael Hofshit, about which Allison wrote in Haaretz. Kama Vardi, in celebration of her new album, Moonticket!