AI developers—who admit they don't understand how their creations work—have already disregarded most precautions that would make the process and products safer. Many legislators are ill-equipped to craft effective regulations—or even to understand the risks and requirements.

Privacy expert Sharon Polsky joins Edwin for an up-to-date, sobering look.

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.

The usual suspects—Shel Freilich, Joshua London, Ken Abramowitz, Jeff Morgan, and Zalmi Unsdorfer—are back to help Edwin look back at 5783 and forward to 5784. They’ll be advocating for their favorite libations while exploring current events and ancient history. Join us as we welcome the new year!

War Against the Weak: American Eugenics from Long Island to Auschwitz. Edwin Black brings the history and the documents showing the development of eugenics in America and Germany.
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Jewish people across the world have long wondered when and where the next Kishinev, Kristallnacht, or Farhud would occur. The answer (as we correctly speculated during our June 2023 Farhud Remembrance show) was Israel. It happened on October 7, 2023, as Israelis were wrapping up their Sukkot celebrations. Some 2,000 Hamas fighters attacked, killing and raping innocent civilians, kidnapping grandmothers and children, and live-streaming their barbarous acts. Violent pro-Palestinian—and outright pro-Hamas—demonstrations have erupted everywhere, from campuses to streets. Jews across America are beginning to ask the unthinkable question and ponder the unthinkable prospect: can it happen again—this time in America?

Holocaust education leader Yossie Hollander, eminent civil rights attorney Nathan Lewin, and crusading Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin join Edwin for part three of the discussion that nobody ever wanted to have (part one; part two), with special reports by Alan Dershowitz and Juda Engelmayer.

The show is on hiatus for Labor Day. Edwin, Carol, and Team Black join you in wishing a fond farewell to summer; we’ll be back on September 7 with another round of Edwin answering unanswered questions.

While we’re away, please revisit “The Arab Slave Trade,” S3 E27.

Spyware in apps and hardware, dark money in politics, policing stations on our territory, intellectual property theft as standard operating policy, subtle—and not so subtle—military threats.

A proclaimed goal to dominate the world by 2035.

What’s happening and how soon? Hudson Institute foreign policy fellow Josh Block joins Edwin.

Before we get to the main topic, Avi Bell updates us on the Israeli judicial reform process.

Join Edwin, JNS Bureau Chief Alex Traiman, Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin, international jurist Avi Bell, and Mideast scholar Harold Rhode for insider insights into Israel—live from the presidential suite of the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem.

We're on hiatus for Thanksgiving. Edwin, Carol, and Team Black wish everyone blessings and abundance on this day set aside for giving thanks.

We'll be back on November 30 with our annual observation of Yom HaGirush. While we're away, please contemplate last year's observation.