Two Nice Jewish Boys
Episodes
#159 - The Amazing Life of Walter Bingham (Walter Bingham)
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
(We apologise for the technical issues you might hear during the recording) Today’s guest is no less than extraordinary. There is no way we can do j...
#158 - The Land of Milk, Honey and Startups (Max Marine)
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Israel has certainly earned the nickname “StartUp Nation”. We have the largest number of startups per capita in the entire world. The population o...
#157 - 2NJB Monthly Recap: Elections and New Year Resolutions
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eytan and Naor discuss the podcast's 3rd anniversary, election results, and much more!
#156 – Breaking the Silence CEO (Avner Gvaryahu)
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It is an ideal of most societies to support and respect those who defend it - namely, the police and the military. That is why when someone speaks out...
#155 - Playing With Your Food (Ruthie Rousso)
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Think about your favorite food. Whatever it is, it’s probably safe to say, you think it’s tasty. Unless you’re some sort of foodie masochist. Bu...
#154 - Liberman: Evading Indictments and Taking Down Governments (Simona Weinglass)
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Aesop, the great greek storyteller, once said “We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Israel, just like any coun...
#153 - Israel and Iran: How Will This End? (Dan Schueftan)
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011 Civil War broke out in Syria. Many people had high hopes for the uprising and for the Arab spring in general. Perhaps this would end of the lo...
#152 - The Asian American Female Reform Rabbi Who Sang for Obama (Angela Buchdahl)
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history, Christianity and Islam have battled it out, each vying to be the dominant religion on our planet. Jews, on the other hand, have do...
#151 - Reporting From The Most Dangerous Places on Earth (Itai Anghel)
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re looking for a stable, financially secure, safe career, one profession you definitely want to stay as far away as you can from is journalis...
#150 - Mall Carts: An Underground Fraudulent Israeli Industry in the US (Tal Badichi)
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Most Israelis are drafted to the IDF when they turn 18. For many of them, the years in the military involve extreme stress, frustration, and sometimes...
#149 - The TLV Street Food Scene (Ruthie Edelstein)
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody knows the old joke about Jewish holidays. Basically, all Jewish holidays boil down to: They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat. Fo...
#148 - Is the Israeli Justice System Unjust? (Talia Einhorn)
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Talia Einhorn’s career wasn’t a walk in the park. As an accomplished law professor, she wrote countless articles and studies on important topics r...
#147 -The NFL Player Who Converted to Judaism And Made Aliyah (Yosef Murray)
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here are some things that don’t go together. Caviar and Cheetos. Dostoevsky and Six Flags. Jews and the NFL. But just like there’s probably someon...
#146 - An Israeli Journalist in the Heart of Syria (Efrat Lachter)
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Civil war. Child soldiers. Sex slaves. Underground torture chambers. And an army of women rebels. This probably sounds like the stuff of a dystopian s...
#145 - Battling Antisemitism on US Campuses (Ofir Dayan)
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s say you’re an adrenaline junkie, there’s tons of extreme activities that will get your heart pounding to whatever level your heart desires...
#144 - Are UK Jews In Danger? (Tuvia Tenenbom)
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When you think about Anti-Semitism, you probably think about the Middle East, North Africa, maybe Eastern Europe or Germany, but you don’t usually t...
#143 - Jewish Pride: Changing Sexes and Keeping Kosher (Yiscah Smith)
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We all have the power to choose. Free will is a tenet of most religions and philosophies. But there are some things in life, that no matter how you lo...
#142 - The Queer of Many Genders (Shirley Charlie Kleinman)
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This Friday the streets of Tel Aviv are going to be bustling with probably over a quarter of a million people. Why? One word says it all. Pride. Whi...
#141 - Six Time World Champion in Samba (Alyssa Chriqui)
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People have been dancing more or less since the dawn of mankind. Some people were born with the dancing gene. Others are so clumsy that they avoid th...
#140 - The Real Indiana Jones and Israel's Buried Treasures (Jim Barfield)
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are undoubtedly two of the 20th century’s best and most influential directors and screenwriters. Rarely did these ...
#139 - The Neo-Nazi Who Converted to Judaism (Yonatan Langer)
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’re joined on the podcast by Yonatan Langer. But Yonatan’s name wasn’t always Yonatan. It used to be Lutz. And Lutz used to be an ardent...
Michael Solomonv of 'Zahav', Best US Restaurant 2019 (Rerun)
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Israeli cuisine has been on the rise, becoming extremely popular throughout Europe and the United States. This has many people asking...
#138 - Iddo Netanyahu: Playwright, Doctor, Warrior
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every doctor needs a baker to bake his bread. Every baker enjoys the occasional movie. When the filmmaker's car breaks down, he visits the mechanic, a...
#137 - The 'Freier' Behind 'The Daily Freier'
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every culture has a hierarchy. And there’s usually an extra special place reserved for people at the very bottom of the ladder. In Japan it might be...
#136 - Should There Be Jews?
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Jews, both in Israel and in other parts of the world, we tend to go about our day-to-day lives worrying about the regular issues of our existence, ...
#135 - Eytan and Naor Spill the Beans - Cross-episode with the Angry Falafel Podcast
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joining Daniel Roth, host of the Angry Falafel Podcast today are Eytan Weinstein and Naor Meningher, creators of the Two Nice Jewish Boys podcast - a ...
#134 - 24 Hours to Israeli Elections
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The day after tomorrow, Tuesday the 9th of April, all of Israel will have the day off. Elections are upon us. About 4 million of us will be hitting th...
#133 -The Israeli Who Became One of the Biggest Gay Porn Stars in the World
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Porn. It’s one of those things we just don’t like to talk about. But by all estimates, at least half of us watch it on a regular basis. For the mo...
#132 - What Does God Want From Yehuda Glick?
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves, therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty. For he wounds, but he binds up, he shatters, but ...
#131 - The One State Solution
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here on the Two Nice Jewish Boys podcast, we’ve recorded episodes with authors, we’ve done an episode about the discovery of THC, we did one about...
#130 – The 24-Year-Old TLV Girl Who Bakes Michelin Star Desserts
13 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We all have aspirations in life. Some of these goals we might achieve through hard work, taking risks and making tough sacrifices. Others we might str...
#129 - The Right Wing Israeli Arab that Fights for Gay Rights
06 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being an Arab living in Israel brings about many dilemmas, internal conflicts and possibly a very serious identity crisis. While some Israeli Arabs pr...
#128 - Master Chef of Israeli Food
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, Israeli cuisine has been on the rise, becoming extremely popular throughout Europe and the United States. This has many people asking...
#127 - Israel's Social Media Ambassador
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being Pro-Israeli is hard enough, doing it on social media is a whole other story. It's more than an uphill battle, it's more than bearing the brunt o...
#126 - The Grandson of a Nazi who Volunteers with Holocaust Survivors in Israel
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Israel and Germany’s relationship has known ups and downs over the years. When Israel was established, in 1948, it upheld a policy of enforcing a co...
#125 - The Hungarian TV Megastar Who Bought a 100 Year Old Jewish Newspaper
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Just a couple of weeks ago we commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the entire western world mourned for the 6 million souls t...
#124 - IDF Humanitarian Attache Fighting BDS
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks ago we received this email: "Would you be interested to hear about how to survive aliyah, make it through the IDF as a Lt. Col., have the ...
#123 - MLK Day Special: Prof. Ephraim Issac, Peacemaker
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Most American or European high school students know about the American Civil War, the Holocaust or even the French Revolution. Most don't know about t...
#122 - Dr. Michael Oren: 4 Years in Government
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Israel is headed to elections. On April 9th, Israelis will be called to the ballot box to support their political party. Bibi, the incumbent prime min...
Episode 121 - Cartoons for Autism
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It happens one day: you meet someone special. You fall in love, move in together. Support each other. You get married, until death do you apart. You t...
Episode 120 - Palestinian Exodus: Facts and Myths
01 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Breakdown of the Palestinian Refugee Problem in 20 seconds: The year is 1947 and the UN announces its Partition Plan for Palestine, also known as reso...
Episode 119 - Daphni Leef: Leading Israel's Biggest Protest
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
September 3, 2011. Close to half a million people hit the streets in Israel, 300 thousand of them in Tel Aviv, wielding their megaphones and posters, ...
Episode 118 - Middle East Break Down Vol. II
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This morning the sun rose. Birds were chirping and the middle east was still turbulent. Yes, even when Israel is not making headlines on CNN, things ...
Episode 117 - Fighting Over Kafka
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
”Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning”. This perfectly cra...
Episode 116 - The Real Batman
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s do a little thought experiment. Imagine you’re going to your local supermarket. When you leave your house, or your apartment building, do yo...
Episode 115 - The Liberal That Battles BDS on Campuses
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The battle against BDS is a sort of David vs Goliath style fight. On one side you have the BDS supporters, heavily funded by foreign governments and N...
Cross Episode with Rosner's Domain: In the Aftermath of Pittsburgh
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Two Nice Jewish Boys discuss the aftermath of the Pittsburgh attack, Israeli and Diaspora Jewish relations, and much more in this cross over episode w...
Episode 114 - Sufism: An Islam of Peace and Love
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Like it or not, the 21st century is the century of Islam. This 1,400 year old religion has around 1.5 billions believers, and its philosophy and moral...
Episode 113 - The Dark Side of Innovation
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hi-tech and innovation have brought many good things to the world. Social media connected us to one another and in doing so gave power to the citizens...
Episode 112 - From Soccer Fields to Concert Halls
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Elisha Abas was a talented kid. The great-Grandson of the legendary Russian pianist Alexander Skriavin, Elisha’s talent was noticeable as early as a...
Episode 111 - The Jewish Messiah Who Converted to Islam
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You've heard it before: the fact that the Jewish religion has survived in exile for more than 2000 years is nothing less than a miracle. And really, i...
Episode 110 - Can We Really Solve the Conflict?
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
An opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a bit like superman boxers - everybody’s got one. And it seems that nowadays no matter where yo...
Episode 109 - Lost In Lebanon: 18 Nameless Years
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Operation Peace for Galilee. The Lebanon War. The First Lebanon War. The 1982 Lebanon War. It’s got a lot of names. The first full blown war the IDF...
Episode 108 - Don't Worry Be Happy
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet is a double edged sword - on one hand, it connects people, it entertains, it informs, educates and inspires. But it’s also time consumi...
Episode 107 - TLV: Building a Bauhaus City
17 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Walking down the streets of Tel Aviv, it’s practically impossible to ignore the humble, yet still extraordinary architecture of this seaside city. R...
Episode 106 - Writing an Amazon #1 Bestseller
10 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Americans love reading. And often, more than 140 characters. While here in Israel the number of book readers is at a constant decline - the US book in...
Episode 105 - Living in the Shadows of ISIS
03 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
4 years ago, under the sweltering heat of Nineveh in the kurdish region of Northern Iraq, the small city of Sinjar came under attack by ISIS forces. T...
Episode 104 - Back in the USSR
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990’s the Iron Curtain finally came down, making it possible for approximately 1 million Russian Speaking Jews to flee and immigrate to Isra...
Episode 103 - A Thousand Words in Focus
20 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s world every one of us is a pseudo-photographer. The ubiquity of advanced photography devices has turned us into compulsive picture snappe...
Episode 102 - Bannon's Canons and the Nation-State Bill
13 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Behind every great man stands a great political strategist. As far as political earthquakes go, Donald Trump’s victory in November 2016 was at least...
Episode 101 - Science is a Myth
06 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Science and Religion. The ultimate standoff. It’s hard to imagine two more dichotomous extremes, right? Well, maybe not. Maybe these age old rivals ...
Episode 100 - Hawaiian Jewish Beauty Queen Takes on Israel
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What makes someone a Jew? Some might say: I’m a Jew because I believe in Judaism, and I feel Jewish. But to many, including most Orthodox and conser...
Episode 99 - Spotlight Israel
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Never underestimate the task of a journalist. In the maelstrom of political commentary which seems to pull every news outlet into its powerful grip, i...
Episode 98 – Beautiful That Way
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Reading through a list of Achinoam Nini’s performances, you can’t help but be taken aback by the sheer magnitude of her career. Carnegie Hall, Oly...
Episode 97 - Genius By Design
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Humans yearn for beauty from the moment they are born. And though nature has the ability to supply us with pretty impressive amounts of it, we decide,...
Episode 96 - Privacy: What's the Big Deal
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Undoubtedly, over the past several weeks, you’ve received countless emails from services ranging from Spotify to that restaurant in Ashburn, Virgini...
Episode 95 - The First Zionist Heroine
24 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every nation needs a mythical hero, a key figure in its history that against all odds, rebelled and fought the malicious powers that be in order to pr...
Episode 94 - Bibi: The Man Behind the Myth
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Few figures in Israeli politics, or in global politics for that matter, arouse such extreme levels of both antagonism and diehard support as the man t...
Episode 93 – The Wonder Woman of Cyber Space
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When we hear about cyber attacks, systems getting hacked and ransomware, we usually imagine a bunch of masked hoodlums in a dark basement, probably on...
Episode 92 - Taking Israel to the Moon
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yariv Bash had a simple idea: taking Israel to the moon, for the first time. To pursue his new dream he quit a luxurious job in the prime ministers of...
Episode 91 - Settlers: Let's Break Some Myths
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Settlers. They are mentioned endlessly in international media, often described as religious fanatics. They are also very present in the Israeli media,...
Episode 90 - In the Name of My Son
21 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing in Robi Damelin’s life could have prepared her for that day. Not growing up in South Africa under Apartheid. Not her immigration to Israel i...
Episode 89 - Professor Cannabis
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Close to 60 years ago, in the early 1960s, Marijuana AKA Cannabis wasn’t exactly the friendly substance it is today. In pretty much every developed ...
Episode 88 - Innovation Nation: Inventor of the Thumb Drive
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time there were cave walls. Our ancestors sketched hunting scenes and traced their hands on them. Thousands of years later, we humans, in ...
Episode 87 - Mossad: Kill or be Killed
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A little over a week ago, in the early morning of April 21st, Fadi Al-Batsh was walking down a road in Gombak, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. H...
Episode 85 - Jerusalem: A Tale of Many Cities
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jerusalem. A powerful city. So powerful that we recall it when we take the oath of matrimony, on every holiday and with it we seal our national anthem...
Episode 84 - Haredi Horror Stories
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What do you know about the world of ultra-orthodox Jews? Probably more or less as much as we, secular Israelis, know. Much of the ultra-orthodox commu...
Episode 83 - Big in Tel Aviv
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Immigrating to Israel is not easy. Alongside mastering Hebrew, finding a Job and making friends, one of the biggest challenges is simply to integrate,...
Episode 82 - Crashing on the Hudson
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was a cold January afternoon in New York City when Adir Freilich boarded US Airways flight 1549 to Charlotte, North Carolina. He was on his way to ...
Episode 81 - Staring in the Eyes of Evil
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was a Saturday afternoon in mid December in 2010 when Kay Wilson and Kristine Luken decided to go for a hike in the Mata forest, near Beit Shemesh,...
Episode 80 - What Makes Us Curious?
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What were the qualities that pushed mankind forward throughout history? Deduction was an important element in our ability to understand the world arou...
Episode 79 - The Lost Brother
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Usually a Skype call begins with a clamor of several similar, almost identical, questions: “Can you hear me?”, “Can you hear me now?”. But not...
Episode 78 - The Wilf Doctrine
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“You promised a dove.” Those words were written by the Israeli poet, Shmuel Hasfari, in his song “Winter ‘73”. Some interpreted them as a so...
Episode 77 - Can Climate Cause War?
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For almost seven years a gruesome civil war has been tearing Syria apart. With half a million dead, 5 million refugees and 7 million citizens who were...
Episode 76 - Uri Geller: Spoon Bender and Spy
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“There is no spoon.” Remember that line from the "The Matrix"? Neo walks into the Oracle’s house to discover a monk-child sitting cross-legged o...
Episode 75 - 5 Years in a Cuban Prison: The Story of Alan Gross
05 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 2016 something truly bizarre happened in the United States embassy in Havana, Cuba. According to reports, 22 embassy staffers were suff...
Episode 74 - Calling BS on BDS
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Soda water or still water? The big question. Here in Israel, we love our soda water. Maybe we relate to the pressure that builds up from those little ...
Episode 73 - Obama Friend or Foe: a Recap with MK Dr. Michael Oren
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Unshakable and unbreakable”. Those two words were used by the Obama administration to describe the special, intimate relationship between Israel ...
Episode 72 - #metoo and the Power to Forgive
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On October 5, 2017, only a few months ago, a report published in The New York Times shook the foundations at the epicenter of America’s film and tel...
Episode 71 - What the Hell is Going on in Poland?
08 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I (Naor) just came back from a ten day trip in Poland. What I saw there perplexed me. On one hand, Poland is going through massive political changes i...
Episode 70 - Etgar Keret and the Art of the Short Story
01 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Size matters. Or so, at least, we’ve been told from the moment we were born: the tallest guy gets the glory on the basketball courts at school; The ...
Episode 69 - Haaretz Chief Editor Talks Journalism
25 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Freedom of speech or freedom of the press has been a key ingredient of healthy democracies since, well, since healthy democracies have been around. Bu...
Episode 68 - Viral in the Valley
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you have kids, you probably know that television is dead, or at least, dying. Nowadays young adults and kids alike spend the vast majority of their...
Episode 67 - Middle East Break Down
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle East isn’t the friendliest neighborhood to grow up in, especially for Israel. With the cold peace it shares with both Egypt and Jordan t...
Episode 66 - Behind Bars in Iraq
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone loves a good adventure. Whether you're into climbing the highest mountains, bungee jumping from the highest bridges, or in my case - going to...
NEW PODCAST - The Melting Podcast: Passport Control
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We have a new podcast about aliyah and what it's like to become an Israeli, called The Melting Podcast. Here's the first episode! On this episode, we...
Episode 65 - Behind the Scenes of Binary Options
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last decade, in Israel, Binary Options has become a term that carries with it a heavy stigma of fraud and theft and is generally associated w...
Episode 64 - The Man who Discovers Planets
13 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For thousands of years astronomers have been looking up to the sky, trying to understand what the hell's going on up there. In the last 50 years techn...
Episode 63 - Candies from Heaven: Tales of a Jerusalem Boy
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jews have been longing for Jerusalem for two thousand years. But in the 19th century only a few were courageous enough, some might say crazy enough, t...
Episode 62 - When the World Fell Apart: 100 Years to WWI
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2014 the world has been commemorating 100 years for the Great War, World War I. 16.5 Million people lost their lives in that war, and its result...