HeyJaredThe Jewish Journey: The People, The Land, The Evidence
Using the power of AI to comb through dozens of texts, sources, and the Old Testament, this podcast begins with the story of Abraham. It progresses story by story through the impressively long and complex history of the Jewish nation.
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The Alliance That Only One Side Understands (opens the original)
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In 1979 the Iranian left helped bring down the Shah. Tudeh, Iran's communist party, went further — publicly backing the parliamentary candidacy of Sadeq Khalkhali, the cleric who ran the revolutionary courts and became known as the hanging judge. Four years later Tudeh's leadership was on television confessing to treason. Its most important intellectual died in prison; 163 of his colleagues were killed. Nobody had broken a promise. Nobody had promised. The Islamist side had published its positio
Two Hatreds, One Target: Why Antisemitism Comes From Both Directions (opens the original)
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In 2025, the two main drivers of antisemitism in America both fell sharply — and violent assaults hit a record high. The data behaves that way because it isn't one phenomenon. It's two. The usual explanation is horseshoe theory: the far left and far right curve around until they touch. But test it against what each side actually demands. The right demands removal — leave, you don't belong here. The left demands dissolution — assimilate, universalize, stop being a distinct people. Those aren't th
Reasonable Doubt (Part 3 of 3): The Proof Nobody Talks About (opens the original)
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In history, in law, and in ordinary life, a large body of consistent witnesses is treated as strong evidence. Nobody demands video footage before accepting the Roman Senate existed. That standard is uncontroversial and applied everywhere — with one exception. Every major revelatory religion traces back to one person: Muhammad alone with Gabriel, the Buddha's solitary enlightenment, Joseph Smith's private encounter. Judaism's founding claim is structurally different — an entire population, who th
Reasonable Doubt (Part 2 of 3): The Evolutionary Holes (opens the original)
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For over a century, biology textbooks taught that the appendix was useless evolutionary junk. Surgeons removed healthy tissue on the strength of that claim. It was wrong — and the anomaly that should have caught it, the fact that every human on Earth has one, was explained away instead of examined. This episode looks at what the evidence for common descent actually establishes versus how completely settled it's presented as being: a fossil record that preserves scaffolding but not machinery, the
Reasonable Doubt (Part 1 of 3): The 95% We've Never Seen (opens the original)
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The standard model of the universe holds that roughly 95% of everything out there is made of substances no one has ever directly observed. Its central measurement — how fast the universe is expanding — sits in what cosmologists themselves call a crisis, one that better telescopes have made worse, not better. And the leading candidate for a "theory of everything" requires seven dimensions nobody has detected and predicts particles that fifty years of searching haven't found. None of this means sc
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