Think Twice with Jonathan Tobin (f.k.a. Top Story)

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Andy Rechtshaffen
 Aug 5, 2021
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The Internet and mainstream media are inundated with misinformation and superficial hot takes. That’s why you’re not getting the full story. Take another look with JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin as he takes deep dives into the most critical stories and controversies impacting the Jewish world with insightful commentary and fascinating interviews. If you want to understand the bigger picture and the context of the issues that really matter, this show is for you.

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Episode Date
Ep. 150: Pushing Back Against Kamala-Mania w/Daniel Greenfield
Aug 08, 2024
Ep. 149: Biden and Harris DIMINISH Israel and ELEVATE Iran
Aug 01, 2024
Ep. 148: Elections 2024: What elites are MISSING about the working class
Jul 25, 2024
Ep. 147: UNPRECEDENTED: Are Trump and His Opposition Unique?
Jul 18, 2024
Ep. 146: Melanie Phillips: Britain Chooses Labour - Will the West Choose Survival?
Jul 11, 2024
Ep. 145: PragerU CEO: Woke Education Leads to Attacks on Jews
Jun 27, 2024
Ep. 144: Think Twice Premiere Episode - Eric Cohen: Is there a future for Jews in America?
Jun 20, 2024
Ep. 143: Military Historian: We Are Marching Down the Path to Allow the Next Hitler to Flourish
Jun 06, 2024
Ep. 142: Richard Goldberg: US Needs a Complete Reset With ‘Immoral’ UN
May 30, 2024
Ep. 141: Seth Mandel: Antisemitism Is Baked Into DEI Ideology
May 23, 2024
Ep. 140: William Jacobson: Defund leftist academia that promotes hatred for Jews
May 16, 2024
Ep. 139: LibsofTikTok founder: ‘I am afraid for my personal safety’
May 08, 2024
Ep. 138: Hugh Hewitt: With Biden failing, Israel must lead the West
Apr 18, 2024
Ep. 137: Mike Huckabee: Israel-Hamas war: A Conflict Between Good and Evil
Apr 11, 2024
Ep. 136: Statistics Professor: How Hamas lies about Gaza casualties
Apr 04, 2024
Ep. 135: Dumisani Washington: Candace Owens Normalizes Antisemitism
Mar 28, 2024
Ep. 134: Ari Fleischer: There’s only one pro-Israel party left in America
Mar 21, 2024
Ep. 133: Sheila Nazarian: Jewish Students Aren't Safe on Campus
Mar 14, 2024
Ep. 133: Elliott Abrams: Biden's Push for Two-State Solution Rewards Terrorism
Mar 07, 2024
Top Story Daily: Can American colleges be rescued from woke antisemitism?
Mar 04, 2024
Ep. 131: David Harsanyi: Anyone Who Wants A - Ceasefire Now Is Pro-Hamas
Feb 29, 2024
Ep. 130: Shoshana Bryen: Biden's Two-Faced Approach to Hamas is Hurting Israel
Feb 22, 2024
Ep. 129: Preeminent Holocaust Scholar: October 7th Is a Turning Point in American Antisemitism
Feb 08, 2024
Ep. 128: Charles Jacobs & Ben Poser: Why the World Cares About Gaza and Not About Africa
Feb 01, 2024
Ep. 127: Phyllis Chesler: With Israel and Hamas, Feminists Have Abandoned Moral Principles
Jan 25, 2024
Ep. 126: Stella Escobedo: Mainstream Media Thinks Israeli and Jewish Lives Don't Matter
Jan 18, 2024
Ep. 125: Woke Antisemitism a K-12 School Problem As Well as One at Colleges
Jan 11, 2024
Ep. 124: Jeffrey Gurock: Do Jews Still Have a Place in American Society?
Dec 27, 2023
Ep. 121: IDF Spokesperson: Hamas are cowards that pretend they have an ideology
Dec 20, 2023
Ep. 121: Batya Ungar-Sargon: Our National Media Has Become the Mouthpiece For Terrorists
Dec 05, 2023
Ep. 120: Alan Dershowitz: Anti-Israel Protestors on Campus are like Hitler Youth
Nov 29, 2023
Ep. 119: Ben Weingarten: Jew hatred is the glue that holds together the leftist-Islamic alliance
Nov 22, 2023
Top Story Daily: How dangerous are the anti-Israel conservatives?
Nov 19, 2023
Ep. 118: Dan Senor: The world isn't outraged when Jews are slaughtered
Nov 16, 2023
Ep. 117: Prime Minister's Spokesperson: We Are in a Life or Death Fight for the State of Israel
Nov 09, 2023
Ep. 116: Eugene Kontorovich: War Crimes in Gaza? How everyone is getting international law wrong
Nov 02, 2023
Ep. 114: Melanie Phillips: The Murderous Consequences of Western Diplomacy
Oct 25, 2023
Ep. 114: Uri Kaufman: Make No mistake, Israel will Destroy Hamas
Oct 19, 2023
Episode 113: Hezbollah Expert: U.S. appeasement of Iran led to the mass slaughter of Jews
Oct 12, 2023
Ep. 111: Amb. David Friedman: If the Price of Peace is Negating Our Heritage, It’s NOT Worth It |
Sep 21, 2023
Ep. 110: Harvey Klehr: What "Oppenheimer" got wrong and the Origins of the Left's "anti-racism"
Sep 14, 2023
Ep. 109: Michael Flynn Unfiltered: 'America is at grave risk'
Sep 07, 2023
Ep. 108: Rick Richman: How Zionism and Americanism created a free, democratic Israel
Aug 31, 2023
Ep. 107: Michael Oren: Israel must face its identity crisis to survive
Aug 24, 2023
Episode 106: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik & Why We Need True Jewish Leaders Now More than Ever
Aug 17, 2023
Ep. 105: Iddo Netanyahu: The Israeli Left is Initiating a Military Coup
Aug 10, 2023
Ep. 104: Kim Strassel & The Failure of the Biden Presidency
Aug 03, 2023
Ep. 103: Richard Landes: A biased press is legitimizing blood libels against Jews
Jul 27, 2023
Ep. 102: Alyana Meisel: American Jews should diffuse the fire, not intervene
Jul 20, 2023
Ep. 101: William Jacobson and Why the ADL just defends discrimination against Asians?
Jul 06, 2023
Ep. 100: Farley Weiss and Len Grunstein: The Jews are the Indigenous People of Israel
Jun 22, 2023
Ep. 99: The Failure and Cowardice of Jewish Leadership w/ Charles Jacobs & Avi Goldwasser
Jun 15, 2023
Ep. 98: Liel Leibovitz: Israeli Judicial Reform is an Existential Crisis
Jun 08, 2023
Ep. 97: Heather Mac Donald: The Black Lives Matter movement is a complete, utter fraud
Jun 01, 2023
Ep. 96: How the left weaponizes loneliness
May 24, 2023
Episode 95: Biden's weakness has driven Iran & Saudi Arabia to China
May 18, 2023
Episode 94: Melanie Phillips: The Great Fight for the West in an Age of Unreason
May 14, 2023
Ep. 93: Norm Coleman & The Right/Left Divide on Israel
May 04, 2023
In Israel & America, the battle for liberty against the state | Top Story
Apr 27, 2023
Ep. 91: Spencer Klavan: Wokeness is a Pagan Religion
Apr 20, 2023
Ep. 90: Moshe Koppel: Despite setbacks, Israeli Judicial reform is inevitable
Mar 30, 2023
Top Story Daily: Trump’s blaming Soros for his legal woes is not a Jewish issue
Mar 23, 2023
Ep. 89: Ruthie Blum: This is the Israeli Culture War
Mar 23, 2023
Ep. 88: Joel Pollak & the Willful Blindness to Antisemitism from the Left
Mar 16, 2023
Ep. 87: Eric Cohen: Jewish values can save Western civilization
Mar 09, 2023
Ep. 86: Oren Kessler: The 'Tragic Template' of Palestinian Arab Terror
Mar 02, 2023
Ep. 85: Karol Markowicz & Bethany Mandel: Start fighting the woke indoctrination of children
Feb 23, 2023
Ep. 84: David Bernstein: It’s time to separate government from race
Feb 16, 2023
Ep. 83: Tom Gross: ‘The Anti-Bibi hysteria is not working’
Feb 09, 2023
Ep. 82: Daniel Pipes: Violence is not the biggest threat to Israel
Feb 02, 2023
Ep. 81: Bernie Marcus: 'Jews who give money to Harvard are dumb'
Jan 26, 2023
Ep. 80: Jerome Marcus: A 'democratic revolution' against a court with unlimited power? |
Jan 19, 2023
Ep. 79: Gil Troy: The sky isn’t falling on Israeli democracy
Jan 12, 2023
Ep. 77: Malcolm Hoenlein: ‘I’m tired of memorials to dead Jews’
Jan 05, 2023
Ep. 77: Fiamma Nirenstein: United Nations is a factory producing antisemitism
Dec 29, 2022
Ep. 76: Abe Greenwald: Trump is the only person who could re-elect Biden
Dec 22, 2022
Ep. 75: Josh Hammer: Do American Jews think Putin is Hitler?
Dec 15, 2022
Ep. 74: Tevi Troy: States that didn’t have lockdowns did better against Covid
Dec 08, 2022
Top Story Daily: Liberal Jewish groups have a problem with the First Amendment
Dec 08, 2022
Ep. 73: Thane Rosenbaum: Liberal Jewish groups are more interested in gender-neutral bathrooms than in Israel
Dec 01, 2022
Ep. 72 Michael Walsh: The ‘Great Reset’ wants you to own nothing and be happy about it
Nov 23, 2022
Ep. 71: Ruthie Blum: Can Netanyahu stop Biden from strengthening a tottering Iranian regime?
Nov 17, 2022
Ep. 70: MIDTERM ELECTIONS: Would Jews prefer Trump or DeSantis in 2024?
Nov 10, 2022
Ep. 69: Israeli Election Analysis with Ruthie Blum
Nov 03, 2022
Ep. 68: Ari Fleischer: How the Internet broke journalism
Oct 27, 2022
Ep. 67: Why anti-Semitism is coming back into fashion
Oct 20, 2022
Ep. 66: Behnam Ben Taleblu: You cannot stand with Iran’s women while seeking a deal with Tehran
Oct 06, 2022
Ep. 65: Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt: Is it okay for a rabbi to be anti-Israel?
Sep 22, 2022
Ep. 64: William Jacobson: ADL is mired in leftist ideology
Sep 15, 2022
Ep. 63: Aryeh Lightstone: If Iran gets the bomb, it's America's fault
Sep 08, 2022
Ep. 62: David Harsanyi: Liberal Jewish groups are the same as the Democratic party
Sep 01, 2022
Ep. 61: Nathan Lewin: Is abortion more important to Jews than Judaism or Israel?
Aug 25, 2022
Ep. 60: Matt Continetti: 'The biggest threat to American support for Israel comes from the Left'
Aug 18, 2022
Ep. 59: Walter Russell Mead: Believing Jews control everything is a moral, intellectual deficiency
Aug 11, 2022
Ep. 58: Batya Ungar-Sargon: 'The New York Times lied and they knew they were lying'
Aug 04, 2022
Ep. 57: Jason Greenblatt: ‘Donald Trump was a breath of fresh air to the Arabs’
Jul 28, 2022
Ep. 56: Rabbi Cary Kozberg: Reform movement hijacks faith for political progressive agenda
Jul 21, 2022
Ep. 55: David Friedman: 'My version of Biden's Mideast speech'
Jul 14, 2022
Ep. 54: Lori Lowenthal Marcus: Ethnic studies courses are marinating students in antisemitism
Jun 30, 2022
Ep. 53: Yoram Hazony: 'Woke neo-Marxism won’t stop until it destroys everything'
Jun 23, 2022
Ep. 52: Amy Wax: 'Affirmative action is a club for enforcing woke orthodoxy'
Jun 16, 2022
Ep. 51: Lana Melman & How the BDS Movement is a Permission Slip for Anti-Semitism
Jun 09, 2022
Ep. 50: Asaf Romirowsky: How American Universities are Turning into Radical Madrassas
Jun 02, 2022
Ep. 49: Maurice Hirsch: There is no real difference between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas
May 26, 2022
Ep. 48: Ben Domenech: Mass shootings are a problem of evil, not politics
May 19, 2022
Ep. 47: Danny Danon & How an Anti-semitic UN Can’t Be Wished Away
May 12, 2022
Ep. 46: John Podhoretz & Vindicated neo-Conservatism; American weakness and Ukraine, Iran crises
May 05, 2022
Ep. 45: Karen Lehrman Bloch & the ILLIBERAL WOKENESS Waging War on Free Speech and the Jews
Apr 28, 2022
Ep. 44: Chaim Silberstein & Media’s Role in the Spread of Fake News and ‘Disinformation’
Apr 14, 2022
Ep. 43: Ruthie Blum: Orbán vs. Putin: Time for liberal Jews to rethink their position?
Apr 07, 2022
Ep. 42: Ben Weingarten: Can Israel and its allies overcome Biden’s betrayal?
Mar 31, 2022
Ep. 41: Melanie Phillips: Will the West sympathize with Israel the way they do with Ukraine?
Mar 27, 2022
Ep. 40: Josh Hammer: The new axis of evil: Russia, Iran and China
Mar 20, 2022
Ep. 39: Karol Markowicz: How long will Americans continue to care about Ukraine?
Mar 10, 2022
Ep. 38: Jonathan Tobin and Eli Lake: Russia will attack Ukraine because ‘Biden is weak’
Feb 24, 2022
Ep. 37: Caroline Glick: ’Biden’s Foreign Policy is Juvenile’
Feb 17, 2022
Ep. 36: Why are the Jews not protesting the ’genocide’ Olympics?
Feb 10, 2022
Ep. 35: Barry Shrage: ’Anti-racism and CRT don’t represent the Jewish vision of a better world’
Feb 03, 2022
Ep. 34: Doron Spielman: ’No One is as Indigenous on the Planet as the Jews are to Jerusalem’
Feb 01, 2022
Ep. 33: Alan Dershowitz: ’Jewish Leadership is Beneath Contempt in Regards to Fairness’
Jan 25, 2022
Ep. 32: FULL EPISODE: Doug Feith and Tobin’s Take
Jan 20, 2022
Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: January 6th Commemoration
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: US Envoy to Combat anti-Semitism
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: Sheldon Adelson
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 32: TOBIN’S TAKE: Harry Potter and Anti-Semitism
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 32: Doug Feith : ’Afghanistan sent signal of bad thinking, weakness and irresolution’
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 31: Yossi Klein Halevi: ’Anti-Zionism is a Greater Threat to American Jewry than to Israel’
Jan 11, 2022
Ep. 30: Eugene Kontorovich : The International Community Never Cared about the Arabs
Jan 04, 2022
Ep. 29: Andrew Roberts: ‘We Are Far From Out of the Woods With Anti-Semitism In Britain‘
Dec 21, 2021
Ep. 28: William Jacobson: Boycotted for Publishing the Truth
Dec 14, 2021
Ep. 27: Jonathan Schanzer: US Media Coverage on Israel is ‘insane‘
Dec 07, 2021
Ep. 26: Daniel Asia: Wokeness will ‘destroy the arts as we know it‘
Nov 30, 2021
Ep. 25: Cliff May: The Collapse of Journalism
Nov 23, 2021
Ep. 24: Elana Fishbein: Fight for Education is a ‘War on Forces Trying to Transform Society‘
Nov 16, 2021
Ep. 23: Kenneth Marcus: ‘Diversity programs have made it worse for Jewish kids on campus‘
Nov 09, 2021
Ep. 22: Gerald Steinberg: ‘There is no Palestinian Civil Society‘
Nov 02, 2021
Ep. 21: Dara Horn: ‘People Love Dead Jews‘
Oct 21, 2021
Ep. 20: Bethany Mandel: Anti-Semitism is the Last Hatred Allowed in Polite Society
Oct 14, 2021
Ep. 19: Michael Doran: ‘Biden doesn‘t like the Abraham Accords‘
Oct 05, 2021
Ep. 18: Michael Pregent: Afghanistan ‘ended US credibility in the Middle East‘
Sep 14, 2021
Ep. 17: Anne Bayefsky: Apartheid Label Could Succeed in Destroying Israel
Sep 02, 2021
Ep. 16: Ruth Wisse: The Jews are facing 'the most uneven fight ever in human history'
Aug 24, 2021
Ep. 15: Michael Oren: Afghanistan 'will embolden Islamic extremists'
Aug 18, 2021
Ep. 14: Elan Carr: Defining Jews as white and privileged is anti-Semitism
Aug 11, 2021
Ep. 13: Naomi Schaefer Riley on CRT, 'The Klan couldn't have done a better job at messaging'
Aug 04, 2021
Ep 12: Seth Mandel: 'The ADL had ‘one job.’ It isn’t doing it.'
Jul 28, 2021
Ep. 11: Liel Leibovitz 'I Do Not Believe in Equity'
Jul 21, 2021
Ep. 10: Gil Troy: Organizations ‘Launching Full-Scale War on American Jewish Identity’
Jul 14, 2021
Ep. 9: Elliott Abrams: 'No basis for moving forward with two-state solution'
Jul 07, 2021
Ep. 8: The growing political divide over Israel
Jun 30, 2021
Episode 7: What Iran and the Palestinians Really Want
Jun 24, 2021
Episode 6: Israel's New Government
Jun 16, 2021
Episode 5: What’s behind the surge in Anti-Semitism?
Jun 09, 2021
Episode 4: The End of the Netanyahu era?
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 3: Smearing Israel and the Legitimization of Anti-Semitism
May 26, 2021
Episode 2: The Truth about Jerusalem
May 13, 2021
Episode 1: Iran and John Kerry
May 05, 2021