Israel Radio Podcast with Yishai Fleisher

August 3, 2015. Ethan Bearman, syndicated US radio host, interviews Yishai on Israeli history and politics — and the Iranian nuclear threat. Bearman, author of “Liars & Whores: How Big Government and Big Businesses Are Working to Save Their Assets,...Download Audio

July 30, 2015. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, spiritual leader of Temple B’nai Yeshurun in New Jersey, joins Yishai Fleisher to talk about fighting back. A Jewish organization attempting to treat homosexuals seeking to shed their same-sex attraction was found guilty by...Download Audio

July 30, 2015. Rabbi Mike Feuer, educational director of Beit Midrash Sulam Yaakov, joins Yishai to discuss ‘Va’etchanan,’ this week’s Torah portion. Yishai reflects on an extremely difficult experience he had yesterday — enduring verbal abuse and humiliation, as he...Download Audio

July 29, 2015. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz tells Yishai about his efforts to expose the ridiculous, illogical core of the anti-Israel movement. With a mixture of defiance and farce, Horowitz goes undercover to confront Hamas terrorists and BDS advocates about their...Download Audio

July 29, 2015. Randol Schoenberg, renowned attorney and president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, discusses explosive issues with Yishai. Schoenberg, the prestigious Jewish lawyer recently portrayed in the popular movie, “Woman in Gold,” and Yishai discuss the...Download Audio

Part 2 of July 28, 2015. JCCWatch’s Richard Allen and ZOA’s Jeff Daube tell Yishai that stopping the Iran deal rests on the shoulders of Senator Chuck Schumer. Allen, New York businessman and founder of JCCWatch.org, and Daube, Israel Director...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 28, 2015. Baruch Widen, interfaith dialoguer and Arabist, joins Yishai to discuss the pro-Israel trend taking hold among the capital’s Arab population. The community is applying for Israeli citizenship in unprecedented numbers. Baruch and Yishai consider...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 27, 2015. Rabbi Mottle Wolfe joins Yishai to discuss the contours of the religious-secular divide in the Jewish state. The two show hosts talk about the phenomenon of the very secular Tel Aviv being a mere...Download Audio

Part 2 of July 27, 2015. Assistant Professor of astrophysics at Technion Hagai Perets joins Yishai to discuss the remarkable findings of the New Horizons spacecraft. Space researchers have been eagerly awaiting the returning spacecraft’s nine and half years of...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 23, 2015. Rabbi Shimshon HaKohen Nadel, author, educator and musician, joins Yishai to discuss the power of the 9th of Av. While it is the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, marking the destruction of both...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 23, 2015. Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Yishai to deconstruct the unique structure of the fifth book of the Torah, Devarim, or Deuteronomy. Jews around the world are about to begin the weekly reading of the Book...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 22, 2015. Conservative minister of the Canadian Parliament Peter Kent tells Yishai why his country will not agree to lift Iranian sanctions. Kent, chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defense, explains that,...Download Audio

Part 2 of July 22, 2015. Arabist Baruch Widen tells Yishai about the nights he spent touring Jerusalem’s Muslim Quarter during Ramadan. As an interfaith dialoguer, Widen finds beauty within Sufism and admires the mystical reading of Islam. Presented live...Download Audio

Part 2 of July 20, 2015. Rabbi Natan Slifkin, also known as the ‘Zoo Rabbi,’ explains the Torah’s view on dinosaurs to Yishai. Rabbi Slifkin, director of the Biblical Museum of Natural History and author of the Torah Enclyopedia of...Download Audio

Part 1 of July 20, 2015. Josh Reinstein, director of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, joins Yishai to discuss global pro-Israel legislation. Reinstein, a founder of the Israel Allies Foundation — which has a network of pro-Israel caucuses around the...Download Audio