
COVID-19 and Personal Liberties
Air Date: - Season 1 - Episode 5 | Personal liberties may be the greatest victim of COVID-19, as new individual tracking devices and protocols are rushed into place to enforce social distancing. Jules Polonetsky, CEO of the Future of Privacy Forum, and Sharon Polsky, president of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, join Edwin to shine a light on this dark new threat.
COVID-19 and Campus Hate
Air Date: - Season 1 - Episode 4 | COVID-19 has been a boon to campus anti-Semitic hate mongers who demonize Israel. Jacob Baime, executive director of Israel on Campus Coalition, Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs, and Asaf Romirowsky, executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, join Edwin to probe how the BDS movement and other anti-Jewish groups have adopted tactics in the new Remote Age—and then took questions.
Yom Ha'atzmaut
Air Date: - Season 1 - Episode 3 | The observance of Yom Ha'atzmaut—Israeli Independence Day—began at sunset on April 28. Dovid Efune, editor at the Algemeiner, in New York, and Alyza Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, in Washington, DC, join Edwin in an explanation and exploration of this milestone—and then opened the floor to questions. Cantorial soloist Rachel Black lead a global singing of “Hatikva” to close the show.
COVID-19 and Faith Communities
Air Date: - Season 1 - Episode 2 | How will the COVID-19 pandemic change our world—especially in the context of worship communities? Alex Traiman, managing editor of JNS and Erick Stakelbeck, host of The Watchman join Edwin for the first of many explorations of this question — and then open the floor to questions.Show Topics: COVID-19
