The usual suspects—Shel Freilich, Joshua London, Jeff Morgan, Ken Abramowitz, and Zalmi Unsdorfer—are back to help Edwin look back at 5784 and forward to 5785 and the fraught US elections. Join us as we welcome the new year!

In addition, Marc Zell updates us on the Americans in Israel voting effort and Clare Lopez cuts through the fog of war in the Middle East.

Americans have long thought of Canada as a haven of freedom and democracy, but the utopia to the north is gone. Is Canada descending into “post-national” intolerance, authoritarianism, and uber-control? Canadian Jews and many others are pondering emigration as Canada crumbles. Astute Canadian observers Sharon Polsky, Tom Korski, and Rob Anders join Edwin. In addition, Juda Engelmayer, Zalmi Unsdorfer, and Ken Abramowitz get us started on the tempestuous US election season.

Edwin takes on some unanswered—and still burning—questions. Almost every episode, we run out of time before we run out of questions. We save them, and these episodes give us a chance to address topics such as the Israel-Hamas War, global antisemitism, automation and AI, corporate bad behavior, privacy, China, electoral chaos, and more. Edwin also accepts new questions via the Zoom Q&A. Join us for another no-holds-barred, nothing-off-the-table session, with Talia Carner, Daniel Pipes, Sharon Polsky, and Zalmi Unsdorfer providing additional reporting.

Get ready: the Vintage Boys—Ken Abramowitz, Shel Freilich, Joshua London, Jeff Morgan, and Zalmi Unsdorfer—are back to help Edwin observe the Fourth of July. We’ll be talking serious election selection and without deflection. As well, our favorite whiskeys, wines, and other libations will be on display. BYOB, and don’t miss it.

To Love of America, Love of Israel, and Love of Fine Fluid.

The highly-opinionated Vintage Boys—Ken Abramowitz, Shel Freilich, Joshua London, Jeff Morgan, and Zalmi Unsdorfer—join Edwin for Passover 2024/5784. There will be the usual reasoned deliberations on the best whiskies and wines for the observation of Passover during wartime, plus cogent considerations of current events and history. Next year in Jerusalem!

Within a decade, wars will be the province of robots, autonomous machines, and AI, in deadly and Earth-altering battles. What's in store in this Brave Grave New World? Jonathan Ruhe, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s director of foreign policy, joins Edwin.

In addition, Zalmi Unsdorfer, chair of Likud-UK, will give us an update on London and Richard Heideman will discuss a forthcoming lawsuit arising out of the October 7 massacre.

Our outspoken wine and whiskey lovers—Vintage Boys Joshua London, Jeff Morgan, Shel Freilich, Zalmi Unsdorfer, and Ken Abramowitz—are back to help Edwin welcome in 2024 with a special War Edition. They will hold nothing back as the turbulent year 2023 concludes and the challenging year 2024 emerges, with their best bottles in hand. Raise a glass with us as we bring in the new year.

AI is already reshaping how wars are fought. Foreign policy analyst Josh Block joins Edwin for an urgent look at the military impact of AI. How bad can it get?

Rabbi Elie Abadie, Juda Engelmayer, David Suissa, and Zalmi Unsdorfer provide additional reporting.

The Great War that changed the world forever. 8 million dead, 21 million wounded, 2 million missing in action, $180 billion spent—and no one knows why. But it seeded one more world war … and possibly two. Historians Chris Lovett and Sam Edelman join Edwin, with Juda Engelmayer and Zalmi Unsdorfer providing antisemitism and Hamas War reporting.

On October 7, some 2,000 Hamas terrorists invaded Israel. Atrocities ensued against innocent civilian children, women, and men. Scores were abducted into Gaza.

Israel has promised to utterly destroy Hamas and its infrastructure with an “unprecedented response.”

Are residents of Gaza innocent civilians? Or are they complicit in Hamas’s acts of barbarity?

Foreign policy analyst Josh Block and international legal expert Avi Bell join Edwin; Rachel Ehrenfeld, Juda Engelmayer, Francisco Gil-White, Walid Phares, Sharon Polsky, and Zalmi Unsdorfer provide additional reports from around the world.