Show overview
What Matters Now has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 131 episodes. That works out to roughly 85 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 33 min and 45 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 44 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Times of Israel Podcasts.
Episodes
131
Running
2024–2026 · 2y
Median length
38 min
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
A weekly exploration of one key issue shaping Israel and the Jewish World right now.
Latest Episodes
View all 131 episodesSamah Salaime: The 'Arab vote' is an offer of trust. Why are Jews rejecting it?
Nov 5, 20261h 14m
Sir Simon Schama: A howl against rising global antisemitism
Oct 26, 202634 min
Yossi Klein Halevi: Spiritually coping with this Israeli election
Oct 20, 20261h 7m
Nechumi Yaffe: An insider's dire prognosis for the Haredi world - and its cure
Oct 13, 202640 min
Bret Stephens: Israel regained deterrence. The US lost it
Oct 6, 202646 min
Micah Goodman: The one issue that unites America's radical left and right
Sep 30, 202645 min
Haviv Rettig Gur: Is the IDF justified in picking off Hamas terrorists?
Sep 23, 202658 min
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas is to blame for October 7 and Gaza's ‘collateral damage’
Sep 17, 202655 min
Yohanan Plesner: 3 existential issues facing Israel’s voters
Sep 10, 202644 min
Jonathan Greenblatt: Surging antisemitism brings ADL to a moment of reckoning
Sep 3, 202645 min
Yossi Klein Halevi: Why Jewish extremism is so seductive - and dangerous
Aug 19, 202657 min
Richard Priem: The ‘age of security’ has ended for US Jews
Aug 12, 202643 min
Dan Ben-David: Israel is on the brink of a spiral of collapse
Aug 5, 202651 min
Shlomit Ravitsky Tur-Paz: Nothing is black and white in Israel's religious societies
Jul 29, 202645 min
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib: Hamas still holds two million hostages
Jul 22, 202649 min
Haviv Rettig Gur: Why is Israel still the first campaign stop for wannabe US presidents?
Jul 14, 202647 min
Dr. Deborah Gilboa: The neuroscience of resilience
Jul 10, 202634 min
Michael Solomonov and Steve Cook: The Israeli food we serve tells our story
Jul 1, 202649 min
Etgar Keret: Celebrated author feels the world is losing its story
Jun 24, 202622 min
Naftali Bennett: This existential moment
Jun 17, 202648 min
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