#66 - Col. (Res.) Dr. Eran Lerman
Join us LIVE for a special episode of Jewanced with Col. (Res.) Dr. Eran Lerman for a unique deep dive into the geopolitical context of the October 7th War, its progress, impact, and possible outcomes both near- and long-term.
Colonel (Res.) Dr. Eran Lerman is a lecturer in the Shalem College Departments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Strategy, Diplomacy, and Security and in the Tel Aviv University Department of Political Science. He is also the Vice President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and, since 2021, the editor-in-chief of Jerusalem Strategic Tribune.
A historian by training and the former deputy for foreign policy and international affairs at Israel’s National Security Council, Lerman has also served as director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel/Middle East Office and in senior positions at the Israel Defense Forces’ Directorate of Military Intelligence.
He holds a PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and a mid-career MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. A third-generation “Sabra,” he is married to Annelies, the father of three, and the proud grandfather of four.
#65 - Swords of Iron, Day 19: The PR Battle
Join Dan and Benny for a special LIVE episode of Jewanced.
We’ll cover updates on the war as well as discuss Israel’s PR battle with special guests Joanna Landau, founder and president of Vibe Israel, and Haisam Hassanein, a fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies specializing in Israel’s relations with Arab states and Muslim countries.
Jewanced LIVE - Swords of Iron - The Simchat Torah War
Join Dan, Benny, and special guests for the return of Jewanced as we present a special live podcast covering Swords of Iron - The Simchat Torah War.
#63 Shlomo Fischer
Dr. Shlomo Fischer is a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, teaches sociology in the School of Education at Hebrew University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute.
Along with his extensive academic research, he was the founder and Executive Director of Yesodot – Center for Torah and Democracy which works to advance education for democracy in the State-Religious school sector in Israel. He was also one of the founders and is on the Board of the International Summer School for Religion and Public Life which is based in Boston, Mass.
His research interests include religious groups, class and politics in Israel and the sociology of the Jewish People in the Diaspora.
Jewanced #62 - Rawan Osman
Rawan Osman was born in Damascus and raised in Lebanon. After high school, Osman moved back to Syria and in 2011, during the beginning of the unrest, left for France. In 2018, Osman moved to Strasbourg and started working on her first book, The Israelis, Friends or Foes. Osman is a contributor to Fikra Forum.
Jewanced #61 - Joel Haber, Food Blogger, Culinary Explorer & Guide
Listener’s beware, this episode of the show is virtually guaranteed to leave you super hungry. NJ native and former screenwriter Joel Haber made aliya to Israel in 2009. Looking to leave his former profession behind in the Old Country, Joe did what anyone would do and became a licensed tour guide and soon found himself escorting travelers from all over the world discover and uncover the wonder and beauty that is the Land and People of Israel. Joel also grew up in a modern orthodox home with a mother who was a great home cook, and a cosmopolitan one, and through her kitchen ate many traditional foods of his Ashkenazi Jewish background as well as dishes from other segments of Jewish culture. Developing a diverse palate, Joel’s taste buds found their perfect habitat when he got to Israel and he quickly was able to enjoy the super diverse variety that is today’s modern Israeli culinary scene (think everything from picked herring and kugel to malawach, khachapuri, kuba & gondi). Combining his passion for tours with his love of food, Joel is renowned for his incredible, one of a kind tasting tours of Jerusalem’s iconic Machane Yehuda market and giving lectures on what our classic Jewish dishes say about our culture. He is the author of the popular Jewish food blog, “The Taste of Jewish Culture” and author of the book “Chulnt: How an Unassuming Sabbath Stew Traveled the World, Changed its Look, and Came to Embody the Jewish Experience.”
#60 Jewanced LIVE with Dr. David Gurevich, Archaeologist of Jerusalem and the 2nd Temple Period
Dr. David Gurevich is an archaeologist who studies Jerusalem and the Second Temple Period. His doctoral dissertation focused on the large water pools of Jerusalem, and established the link between the Jewish pilgrimage to the Temple and the water management of the city. In 2014-2015, he was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship and became a post-doctoral scholar in Harvard University. In 2019, he published his co-edited volume Exploring the Holy Land that explores the story of the 19th-century British Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), the scientific society that sent the first archaeologists to the region. Dr. Gurevich spent many months working on their archives in London. He also studies the First Jewish-Roman Revolt, a topic of his chapter in the Sefer Yerushalayim volume of Yad Ben Zvi. Dr. Gurevich is a Member of the Archaeological Council of Israel.
Dr. Gurevich also conducts research on antisemitism in the Orthodox Church. He established the academic program Ambassadors Online in the University of Haifa which trained students to become unofficial diplomats of Israel. In 2017-2018, he worked in the Jerusalem Municipality as officer-in-charge on the relations of the City and Christian Institutions. He is frequently invited to speak on Israel matters on various fora worldwide, and also works as a tour guide who guides enhanced excursions on historical themes and geopolitics.
#59 Daniel Rakov, Expert on Russian Policy in the Middle East
Daniel Rakov is an expert on Russian policy in the Middle East and great-power competition in the region. He had served in the IDF for more than 20 years, mainly in the Israeli Defense Intelligence (Aman). In 2019-2021 he was a research fellow at the Russian Studies Program in the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
Jewanced LIVE with Len Khodorkovsky, the State Department's Secret Weapon
Len Khodorkovsky served at the State Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Public Affairs. He was also a Senior Advisor to the US Special Representative for Iran and the Chief Marketing Officer of America’s economic diplomacy.
He was also the Trump State Department’s secret weapon, the guy who helped the President of the United States tweet some of his most famous (or infamous?) memes!
Prior to joining government, Len was an advertising executive for more than two decades, where he helped Fortune 100 companies develop global ad campaigns and grow their brands.
He is now the Chief Marketing Officer of the Technology Trust Network, an organization working to secure freedom through widespread adoption of trusted technologies.
Jewanced #57 - Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Sr. VP - Foundation for Defense of Democracies
How do China, Hezbollah, int’l NGO’s, Iran, Palestinian politics, Gaza, Israel, Jihadism, and illicit financial networks connect?
Listen to today’s episode with Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, terrorism finance analyst and Senior VP of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies to find out!
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#55 Shakked Beery, the 'Wandering Jewess'
You've missed us. We know! The fan mail asking "where did the Jewanced guys go?!" has literally overwhelmed us. So no worries, we're back tonight in what promises to be a fun and insightful episode as usual. Joining us live in the Rehovot Studio at 8:45 pm (Israel Time) is the one and only "Wandering Jewess", tour guide, author and speaker Shakked Beery.
A native 10th generation Israeli, Shakked is a also third-generation tour guide. When covid-19 hit, she decided to move to a farm so she could write and publish "Secret Israel: The Israel Most Visitors Miss". Shakked earned her MA in Israel Studies from Haifa University, and received a special certification from Oxford University, specializing in Critical Anti-Semitism and the Delegitimization of Israel. She speaks about these issues all over the world when she isn't guiding tours in Israel.
Meet Anat Sultan-Dadon, Israel's Consul General to the US Southeast
Everything you want to know about how Israel and its star diplomats further relationships with national and local political, economic, cultural, and academic organizations and leaders to promote a strong, secure, and vibrant future.
In her current role in Atlanta, Anat Sultan-Dadon promotes bilateral relations between Israel and seven states covered by the Consulate General of Israel to the Southeast: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Jewanced #52 Dr. David Manheim & Dr. Rami Shanani
Join us tonight for a special Jewanced, as we discuss, once more, the Covid pandemic and national, international and public response. We are excited to bring back Dr. David Manheim, a researcher and expert on public policy, especially dealing with pandemics and national preparedness. David is Jewanced's first ever return guest. He originally joined us for Jewanced #6 in August of 2020 for a fascinating conversation on pandemics, effective altruism and more. (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xYOjf4KtwXFQLjWKKUdlA).
David returns to the show to reflect on Israel and the international community's handling of the pandemic over a year after it changed our lives, as many are vaccinated, and as we begin to confront new mutations and variants.
We are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Rami Shanani, an Israeli physician with decades of experience as a practitioner of public health on the communal and national level. Rami is also a major (reserves) in the IDF, where he commands a medical team, and is involved with national preparedness for pandemics and other medical emergencies.
Jewanced LIVE! - Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum
Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum is co-founder of the Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, a joint project of the HaMidrasha Educational Center for Israeli Judaism and the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is also the founder of Kehilat Zion in Jerusalem. Her work spans and links tradition and innovation, working toward Jewish spiritual and ethical renaissance. She devotes much of her energy to the renewal of community life in Israel and the struggle for human rights. In 2010 she was named by the Forward as one of the five most influential female religious leaders in Israel for her work promoting pluralism and Jewish freedom.
Jewanced #50 - Jonathan Elkhoury
Jonathan Elkhoury is an Israeli-Lebanese Christian speaker, public diplomacy adviser, commentator and advocate for Israel who founded the ‘Minorities Project’ for Reservists on Duty in which Israeli minorities present their own perspective about life in Israel and their part for its success today.
He is the son of a former South Lebanon Army (SLA) officer who fled to Israel in 2001 after his father was forced to leave Lebanon after Israel's 2000 withdrawal.
Listen to our fascinating interview with him, TODAY.
Jewanced #48 - Seth J. Frantzman
…So Much Trouble in the World…
It isn’t just one of the greatest Bob Marley songs, it’s the truth. We live in a wild place during a crazy time. But, it helps to remember that ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’…things have by and large been ‘burning since the world’s been turning.’ Only now, we have the added benefit of social media, a decentralized media landscape, echo chambers, clickbait, hardcore polarization, the 8-second attention span, Q, Wokeism, endless conflicts abound (especially in the Middle East) and it just seems like the thing’s starting to spin out of control – so much so that it’s kind of hard to make sense of it all.
Our next guest on the show, Seth Frantzman, gets up each and every day and tries to do just that – to make sense of the chaos and explain it to the world with proper context, nuance, and care – all with the perfect modicum of outrage, sensibility, and perspective.
Seth J. Frantzman is a Middle East affairs analyst based in Jerusalem. He is the author of After ISIS: America, Israel and the Struggle for the Middle East and 'Drone Wars: Pioneers, Artificial Intelligence, Killing Machines and the Battle for the Future, and executive director of the Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis. He runs the Israel Gulf Report, which follows developments between Israel and the Gulf countries, and has reported extensively from and conducted research in Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and the UAE. A former lecturer at Al-Quds University on US foreign policy, he has a PhD from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he writes on Middle East Affairs for The Jerusalem Post and contributes to Defense News and other publications and media.
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Jewanced with Col. (Res). Reuven Ben-Shalom
So, there’s a cease-fire…now what’s next?!
Friends - tonight at 9:30 PM Israel time, 2:30 pm ET US, Jewanced hosts a special live episode with IDF military affairs expert Col. (Res) Reuven Ben-Shalom to discuss the aftermath of Operation Guardian of the Walls (שומר החומות), the cease-fire, and how do we move forward. Expect nuance, analysis, insightful discussion, and no hyperbole. This will be open to questions. If you want to know "why didn’t Israel finish Hamas or stop the rocket fire" or things of that nature - you can feel free to ask.
Reuven is a cross-cultural strategist and columnist. He served for 25 years in the Israel Defense Force as a helicopter pilot and in various international relations positions.
As a reservist, Reuven commands the IDF International Cooperation Division’s Operations Center during times of contingency. He also teaches cross-cultural communication at the Israel Defense College and the IDF School of Military Diplomacy.
He holds a B.Sc. in industrial engineering and management and M.Sc. in business administration from Ben Gurion University.
Reuven is an associate at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
Jewanced #46 - Dr. Steven Popper, Ph.D
Decisionmaking for the future depends on anticipating change. And anticipating change is becoming increasingly difficult. How does a person make good decisions in the face of mounting uncertainty? What if that person is a CEO, legislator, prime minister, military general, or even the President?
Our next guest on the show, Dr. Steven Popper, Ph.D. is a Senior Economist at the RAND Corporation who is an expert in, among many things, the science of decision making under deep uncertainty.
As associate director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute FFRDC, Popper provided analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other Executive Branch agencies.
His current work is on decision making under deep uncertainty, science and technology policy, multi-stakeholder strategic decision processes, foresight and future studies, and security planning. He coauthored the flagship study of the RAND Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003), which provides a methodological framework for decision making under deep uncertainty that has been applied to an expanding set of policy issues as Robust Decision Making (RDM). His research also focuses on regional economic development and international economics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and OECD, and is a Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI).
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Jewanced Presents: Israel Under Attack
Dan Feferman and Benny Scholder host a special Jewanced to discuss the past day's and weeks' events with nuance, analysis, insightful discussion and no hyperbole. This will be open to questions. If you want to know "why don't we just bomb Gaza" or things of that nature - you can feel free to ask.
Jewanced #45 - Ariella Steinreich
Ariella Steinreich is a senior vice president at Steinreich Communications overseeing the firm’s global corporate / issues practice and its Middle East division. She brings over a decade of experience at major public relations firms where she created and implemented global corporate communications programs for leading companies and organizations.
Her experience includes strategic media counseling, media training, communications strategy development, social media strategy, crisis communications/ issues management, financial communications, community relations, and corporate social responsibility.
Prior to joining the firm, she was a senior associate at Burson-Marsteller where she handled global media relations for several of the agency’s key clients. In 2014, she was named a finalist for PR Week’s Young Professional of the Year.
