This episode features the audio from a NJN webinar, originally recorded on April 7, 2026, moderated by Hadar Susskind.
Join New Jewish Narrative for a conversation with Mik Moore and Libby Lenkinski, moderated by Hadar Susskind, to explore how art and culture can shift public narratives, open space for nuance, and help create the conditions for meaningful political change. Together, they’ll explore questions like:
This episode features the audio from a NJN webinar, originally recorded on February 19, 2026, moderated by Hadar Susskind.
The Knesset is currently considering a bill that would create a death penalty for Palestinians who kill Israelis, but not for Israelis who kill Palestinians. It circumvents basic rights like due process and equal protection, and exemplifies the racist mindset that animates the current Israeli government.
This webinar provides an overview of the bill, the state of play in the battle to stop it from becoming law, and what this struggle can teach us about the fight for our values in Israel’s current political climate.
This webinar features Bentzi Sykora, the Policy Director at the Israeli think tank Zulat; Shira Ben Sasson-Furstenberg, the Israel Director of the New Israel Fund; and Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the CEO of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights.
In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by Ittay Flescher, who some of our listeners may recognize as the Education Director of Seeds of Peace Jerusalem, others might recognize as the Jerusalem Correspondent for The Jewish Independent from Australia, and a deeply insightful analyst of Israeli politics. He has been published in Haaretz, The Age, ABC Religion and Ethics, Jerusalem Post, Fathom and last year brought the publication of his first book, The Holy and the Broken: A cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be shared.
Read more of Ittay's work: https://www.ittay.au/articles
Check out Ittay's US tour dates: https://www.ittay.au/
This episode features the audio from a NJN webinar, originally recorded on February 4th, 2026, hosted by Hadar Susskind.
Maoz Inon’s parents were killed by Hamas on October 7. Aziz Abu Sarah’s brother died shortly after being beaten in an Israeli prison. But these two individuals did not turn their pain into a desire for retribution. Instead, they draw on their personal tragedies to fuel peace activism. Their partnership is a challenge to the idea that Israelis and Palestinians are destined to be adversaries.
At a moment when public conversations about Israel and Palestine feel more polarized than ever, New Jewish Narrative is bringing together two voices who refuse to give up on our shared humanity.
Preorder Aziz and Maoz’s upcoming book at thefutureispeace.com.
Check out their peacebuilding work at iinteract.org.
This episode features the audio from a NJN webinar, originally recorded on January 15th, 2026, hosted by Noam Shelef.
Hagit Ofran is Israel’s leading expert on settlements and the Israeli government’s policies in the Occupied Territories. As co-director of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch program, Hagit has spent decades documenting settlement expansion and tracking the legal and political mechanisms driving de facto annexation.
In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by Barak Sella, editor of Class of 95: A Literary Anthology on the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Class of 95 presents, for the first time in English, Israel’s poetic response to this national trauma. Originally published in Hebrew as Machzor 95, this anthology gathers diverse and powerful Israeli voices, including both renowned poets and a new generation of writers who gave words to a nation’s shock, grief, and search for meaning. This English edition brings forty of those poems to new audiences, organized according to the five stages of Jewish mourning. Together, they move readers from the stunned immediacy of November 4, 1995, through grief and reckoning, to the recognition that Rabin’s assassination is not only a personal or national trauma but a lasting chapter in Jewish history.
Learn more about Class of 95: https://www.theclassof95.com/
In this episode of PeaceCast, NJN's Maxxe Albert-Deitch is joined by author, internationally renowned human rights lawyer, and longtime activist Sari Bashi to discuss the new English translation of her book Upside-Down Love, originally published in Hebrew in 2021.
Told in alternating chapters by both Sari and Osama (a pseudonym), Upside-Down Love is a moving portrait of two ordinary people falling in love and navigating the regular pitfalls of a relationship, set against an extraordinary backdrop of the West Bank. The pair met when Sari represented Osama in petitions to Israel’s Supreme Court to allow him to pursue his education overseas. Their story offers a new lens on current events in Israel-Palestine—experiencing the conflict in their day to day lives, raising their children, and coping with constant threats to themselves, their families, and loved ones. Osama and Sari’s star-crossed romance—an intimate, vulnerable portrait of an astoundingly resilient Israeli-Palestinian relationship—has since become a beacon of hope in the aftermath of October 7, 2023. Now on its way to becoming an international sensation, Upside-Down Love speaks to the unique circumstances of this specific moment in history, while also illustrating a timeless truth: Love will triumph over bigotry and destruction.
Buy or pre-order the book (out in the US on January 20th, 2026)- https://bookshop.org/p/books/upside-down-love-sari-bashi/6b7db8d45024dc23?ean=9798228590052&next=t&