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Think Twice with Jonathan Tobin

The Internet and mainstream media are inundated with misinformation and superficial hot takes. That’s why you’re not getting the full story. Take another look with JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin as he takes deep dives into the most critical stories and controversies impacting the Jewish world with insightful commentary and fascinating interviews. If you want to understand the bigger picture and the context of the issues that really matter, this show is for you.Thanks for listening to Jonathan Tobin's podcast. If you appreciated today’s discussion and want to dive deeper into the issues shaping Israel and the Jewish...

Ep. 114: Uri Kaufman: Make No mistake, Israel will Destroy Hamas

54 mins; October 19, 2023

Episode 113: Hezbollah Expert: U.S. appeasement of Iran led to the mass slaughter of Jews

69 hours 16 mins; October 12, 2023

Ep. 111: Amb. David Friedman: If the Price of Peace is Negating Our Heritage, It’s NOT Worth It |

51 mins; September 21, 2023

Ep. 110: Harvey Klehr: What "Oppenheimer" got wrong and the Origins of the Left's "anti-racism"

70 hours 10 mins; September 14, 2023

Ep. 109: Michael Flynn Unfiltered: 'America is at grave risk'

71 hours 6 mins; September 07, 2023

Ep. 108: Rick Richman: How Zionism and Americanism created a free, democratic Israel

66 hours 9 mins; August 31, 2023

Ep. 107: Michael Oren: Israel must face its identity crisis to survive

66 hours 45 mins; August 24, 2023

Episode 106: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik & Why We Need True Jewish Leaders Now More than Ever

77 hours 1 min; August 17, 2023

Ep. 105: Iddo Netanyahu: The Israeli Left is Initiating a Military Coup

63 hours 7 mins; August 10, 2023

Ep. 104: Kim Strassel & The Failure of the Biden Presidency

68 hours 5 mins; August 03, 2023

Ep. 103: Richard Landes: A biased press is legitimizing blood libels against Jews

40 mins; July 27, 2023

Ep. 102: Alyana Meisel: American Jews should diffuse the fire, not intervene

51 mins; July 20, 2023

Ep. 101: William Jacobson and Why the ADL just defends discrimination against Asians?

60 hours 56 mins; July 06, 2023

Ep. 100: Farley Weiss and Len Grunstein: The Jews are the Indigenous People of Israel

64 hours 54 mins; June 22, 2023

Ep. 99: The Failure and Cowardice of Jewish Leadership w/ Charles Jacobs & Avi Goldwasser

67 hours 9 mins; June 15, 2023

Ep. 98: Liel Leibovitz: Israeli Judicial Reform is an Existential Crisis

59 mins; June 08, 2023

Ep. 97: Heather Mac Donald: The Black Lives Matter movement is a complete, utter fraud

65 hours 40 mins; June 01, 2023

Ep. 96: How the left weaponizes loneliness

63 hours 29 mins; May 24, 2023

Episode 95: Biden's weakness has driven Iran & Saudi Arabia to China

67 hours 27 mins; May 18, 2023

Episode 94: Melanie Phillips: The Great Fight for the West in an Age of Unreason

73 hours 26 mins; May 14, 2023

Ep. 93: Norm Coleman & The Right/Left Divide on Israel

66 hours 32 mins; May 04, 2023

In Israel & America, the battle for liberty against the state | Top Story

73 hours 1 min; April 27, 2023

Ep. 91: Spencer Klavan: Wokeness is a Pagan Religion

63 hours 55 mins; April 20, 2023

Ep. 90: Moshe Koppel: Despite setbacks, Israeli Judicial reform is inevitable

57 mins; March 30, 2023

Top Story Daily: Trump’s blaming Soros for his legal woes is not a Jewish issue

9 mins; March 23, 2023

Ep. 89: Ruthie Blum: This is the Israeli Culture War

62 hours 15 mins; March 23, 2023

Ep. 88: Joel Pollak & the Willful Blindness to Antisemitism from the Left

68 hours 50 mins; March 16, 2023

Ep. 87: Eric Cohen: Jewish values can save Western civilization

64 hours 31 mins; March 09, 2023

Ep. 86: Oren Kessler: The 'Tragic Template' of Palestinian Arab Terror

66 hours 42 mins; March 02, 2023

Ep. 85: Karol Markowicz & Bethany Mandel: Start fighting the woke indoctrination of children

64 hours 17 mins; February 23, 2023

Ep. 84: David Bernstein: It’s time to separate government from race

63 hours 20 mins; February 16, 2023

Ep. 83: Tom Gross: ‘The Anti-Bibi hysteria is not working’

64 hours 27 mins; February 09, 2023

Ep. 82: Daniel Pipes: Violence is not the biggest threat to Israel

54 mins; February 02, 2023

Ep. 81: Bernie Marcus: 'Jews who give money to Harvard are dumb'

58 mins; January 26, 2023

Ep. 80: Jerome Marcus: A 'democratic revolution' against a court with unlimited power? |

64 hours 26 mins; January 19, 2023

Ep. 79: Gil Troy: The sky isn’t falling on Israeli democracy

52 mins; January 12, 2023

Ep. 77: Malcolm Hoenlein: ‘I’m tired of memorials to dead Jews’

69 hours 42 mins; January 05, 2023

Ep. 77: Fiamma Nirenstein: United Nations is a factory producing antisemitism

64 hours 50 mins; December 29, 2022

Ep. 76: Abe Greenwald: Trump is the only person who could re-elect Biden

57 mins; December 22, 2022

Ep. 75: Josh Hammer: Do American Jews think Putin is Hitler?

62 hours 34 mins; December 15, 2022

Ep. 74: Tevi Troy: States that didn’t have lockdowns did better against Covid

62 hours 23 mins; December 08, 2022

Top Story Daily: Liberal Jewish groups have a problem with the First Amendment

9 mins; December 08, 2022

Ep. 73: Thane Rosenbaum: Liberal Jewish groups are more interested in gender-neutral bathrooms than in Israel

75 hours 40 mins; December 01, 2022

Ep. 72 Michael Walsh: The ‘Great Reset’ wants you to own nothing and be happy about it

66 hours 18 mins; November 23, 2022

Ep. 71: Ruthie Blum: Can Netanyahu stop Biden from strengthening a tottering Iranian regime?

64 hours 41 mins; November 17, 2022

Ep. 70: MIDTERM ELECTIONS: Would Jews prefer Trump or DeSantis in 2024?

65 hours 45 mins; November 10, 2022

Ep. 69: Israeli Election Analysis with Ruthie Blum

59 mins; November 03, 2022

Ep. 68: Ari Fleischer: How the Internet broke journalism

53 mins; October 27, 2022

Ep. 67: Why anti-Semitism is coming back into fashion

61 hours 9 mins; October 20, 2022

Ep. 66: Behnam Ben Taleblu: You cannot stand with Iran’s women while seeking a deal with Tehran

64 hours 7 mins; October 06, 2022

Ep. 65: Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt: Is it okay for a rabbi to be anti-Israel?

59 mins; September 22, 2022

Ep. 64: William Jacobson: ADL is mired in leftist ideology

54 mins; September 15, 2022

Ep. 63: Aryeh Lightstone: If Iran gets the bomb, it's America's fault

61 hours 46 mins; September 08, 2022

Ep. 62: David Harsanyi: Liberal Jewish groups are the same as the Democratic party

62 hours 8 mins; September 01, 2022

Ep. 61: Nathan Lewin: Is abortion more important to Jews than Judaism or Israel?

38 mins; August 25, 2022

Ep. 60: Matt Continetti: 'The biggest threat to American support for Israel comes from the Left'

61 hours 14 mins; August 18, 2022

Ep. 59: Walter Russell Mead: Believing Jews control everything is a moral, intellectual deficiency

68 hours 5 mins; August 11, 2022

Ep. 58: Batya Ungar-Sargon: 'The New York Times lied and they knew they were lying'

65 hours 23 mins; August 04, 2022

Ep. 57: Jason Greenblatt: ‘Donald Trump was a breath of fresh air to the Arabs’

60 hours 5 mins; July 28, 2022

Ep. 56: Rabbi Cary Kozberg: Reform movement hijacks faith for political progressive agenda

50 mins; July 21, 2022

Ep. 55: David Friedman: 'My version of Biden's Mideast speech'

58 mins; July 14, 2022

Ep. 54: Lori Lowenthal Marcus: Ethnic studies courses are marinating students in antisemitism

64 hours 56 mins; June 30, 2022

Ep. 53: Yoram Hazony: 'Woke neo-Marxism won’t stop until it destroys everything'

73 hours 41 mins; June 23, 2022

Ep. 52: Amy Wax: 'Affirmative action is a club for enforcing woke orthodoxy'

67 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2022

Ep. 51: Lana Melman & How the BDS Movement is a Permission Slip for Anti-Semitism

32 mins; June 09, 2022

Ep. 50: Asaf Romirowsky: How American Universities are Turning into Radical Madrassas

62 hours 52 mins; June 02, 2022

Ep. 49: Maurice Hirsch: There is no real difference between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas

67 hours 35 mins; May 26, 2022

Ep. 48: Ben Domenech: Mass shootings are a problem of evil, not politics

64 hours 57 mins; May 19, 2022

Ep. 47: Danny Danon & How an Anti-semitic UN Can’t Be Wished Away

56 mins; May 12, 2022

Ep. 46: John Podhoretz & Vindicated neo-Conservatism; American weakness and Ukraine, Iran crises

69 hours 32 mins; May 05, 2022

Ep. 45: Karen Lehrman Bloch & the ILLIBERAL WOKENESS Waging War on Free Speech and the Jews

63 hours 47 mins; April 28, 2022

Ep. 44: Chaim Silberstein & Media’s Role in the Spread of Fake News and ‘Disinformation’

56 mins; April 14, 2022

Ep. 43: Ruthie Blum: Orbán vs. Putin: Time for liberal Jews to rethink their position?

56 mins; April 07, 2022

Ep. 42: Ben Weingarten: Can Israel and its allies overcome Biden’s betrayal?

67 hours 10 mins; March 31, 2022

Ep. 41: Melanie Phillips: Will the West sympathize with Israel the way they do with Ukraine?

69 hours 52 mins; March 27, 2022

Ep. 40: Josh Hammer: The new axis of evil: Russia, Iran and China

62 hours 43 mins; March 20, 2022

Ep. 39: Karol Markowicz: How long will Americans continue to care about Ukraine?

61 hours 1 min; March 10, 2022

Ep. 38: Jonathan Tobin and Eli Lake: Russia will attack Ukraine because ‘Biden is weak’

57 mins; February 24, 2022

Ep. 37: Caroline Glick: ’Biden’s Foreign Policy is Juvenile’

71 hours 8 mins; February 17, 2022

Ep. 36: Why are the Jews not protesting the ’genocide’ Olympics?

54 mins; February 10, 2022

Ep. 35: Barry Shrage: ’Anti-racism and CRT don’t represent the Jewish vision of a better world’

64 hours 35 mins; February 03, 2022

Ep. 34: Doron Spielman: ’No One is as Indigenous on the Planet as the Jews are to Jerusalem’

56 mins; February 01, 2022

Ep. 33: Alan Dershowitz: ’Jewish Leadership is Beneath Contempt in Regards to Fairness’

57 mins; January 25, 2022

Ep. 32: FULL EPISODE: Doug Feith and Tobin’s Take

53 mins; January 20, 2022

Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: US Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism

5 mins; January 18, 2022

Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: Harry Potter and Anti-Semitism

7 mins; January 18, 2022

Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: Sheldon Adelson

5 mins; January 18, 2022

Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: January 6th Commemoration

6 mins; January 18, 2022

Ep. 32: Doug Feith : ’Afghanistan sent signal of bad thinking, weakness and irresolution’

29 mins; January 18, 2022

Ep. 31: Yossi Klein Halevi: ’Anti-Zionism is a Greater Threat to American Jewry than to Israel’

60 hours 48 mins; January 11, 2022

Ep. 30: Eugene Kontorovich : The International Community Never Cared about the Arabs

50 mins; January 04, 2022

Ep. 29: Andrew Roberts: ‘We Are Far From Out of the Woods With Anti-Semitism In Britain‘

45 mins; December 21, 2021

Ep. 28: William Jacobson: Boycotted for Publishing the Truth

58 mins; December 14, 2021

Ep. 27: Jonathan Schanzer: US Media Coverage on Israel is ‘insane‘

51 mins; December 07, 2021

Ep. 26: Daniel Asia: Wokeness will ‘destroy the arts as we know it‘

62 hours 17 mins; November 30, 2021

Ep. 25: Cliff May: The Collapse of Journalism

58 mins; November 23, 2021

Ep. 24: Elana Fishbein: Fight for Education is a ‘War on Forces Trying to Transform Society‘

59 mins; November 16, 2021

Ep. 23: Kenneth Marcus: ‘Diversity programs have made it worse for Jewish kids on campus‘

44 mins; November 09, 2021

Ep. 22: Gerald Steinberg: ‘There is no Palestinian Civil Society‘

55 mins; November 02, 2021

Ep. 21: Dara Horn: ‘People Love Dead Jews‘

56 mins; October 21, 2021

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