Ask Haviv Anything
"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects.Join me on this journey.A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur
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Episodes (150)
145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber
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144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
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143: How to win the Israeli election
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142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
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141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Monte...
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140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations
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139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question
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138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse
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137: What does Qatar want?
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136: Why not two states from the start?
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135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN?
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134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?
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133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam
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132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron
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131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek
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130: Here's to the next 250 years
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129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi
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128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari
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127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak
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126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman
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125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat
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124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti
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123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews
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122: When will the war with Iran end?
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121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg
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120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us
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119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy
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118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex...
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117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi
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116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews
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115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?
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114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?
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113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein...
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112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse
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111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi
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110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance
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109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb
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108: How personal grief built a nation
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107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?
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106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. E...
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105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan?
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104: The Iran war isn’t over
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103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve?
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102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav
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101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan
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100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman
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Episode 99: Are we winning?
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Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce...
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Episode 97: Can America and Israel finish the job? A conversation with John Spen...
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Episode 96: The first war Israel fought in English, with Yaakov Katz
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