Ask Haviv Anything
"Ask Haviv Anything" is a podcast about history, a podcast you, dear listener, will help to shape and direct, focusing not just on what I want to talk about but on what you want to learn and discuss. Nothing is off limits. We're going to talk about big and painful things, and also beautiful and fascinating things, wars and identities and painful history. And also more light-hearted things. Humor matters, especially when facing tough subjects. Join me on this journey. A podcast by Haviv Rettig Gur
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Episodes (152)
147: Are the allegations in NAZA true?
Sep 15, 2026
146: Israel's political system worked. Then we tried to fix it. With Dr. Shany Mor
Sep 14, 2026
145: Waking up from our rage-filled slumber
Sep 10, 2026
144: Inside the fight to change Haredi politics, with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer
Sep 7, 2026
143: How to win the Israeli election
Sep 3, 2026
142: Can Gaza ever move on from Hamas? With Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Aug 30, 2026
141: Why Western ideas crash and burn in the Middle East, with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Aug 24, 2026
140: Van Jones returns - The hard questions of Black-Jewish relations
Aug 20, 2026
139: Dara Horn’s final solution to the Jewish question
Aug 19, 2026
138: Why antisemitism works, with Prof. Ruth Wisse
Aug 12, 2026
137: What does Qatar want?
Aug 5, 2026
136: Why not two states from the start?
Aug 2, 2026
135: Why don’t Israelis trust the UN?
Jul 29, 2026
134: Was Gaza still occupied after 2005?
Jul 26, 2026
133: Mamdani and America’s new left, with Reihan Salam
Jul 20, 2026
132: What is happening now in Gaza? With Dr. Shira Efron
Jul 17, 2026
131: Why Christians are disappearing from the Middle East, with Amb. George Deek
Jul 14, 2026
130: Here's to the next 250 years
Jul 10, 2026
129: Iran is closer to freedom than you think, with Armin Navabi
Jul 8, 2026
128: Iran, Gaza and the new American right, with Sohrab Ahmari
Jul 3, 2026
127: Does Islam hate Jews? With Prof. Meir Litvak
Jun 30, 2026
126: Will your kid's best friend be a robot? With Dr. Micah Goodman
Jun 25, 2026
125: Did Netanyahu misread Trump? With Ross Douthat
Jun 21, 2026
124: Vance, Iran and the fight inside Trumpworld, with Matt Continetti
Jun 17, 2026
123: Batya Ungar-Sargon on why the left turned on the Jews
Jun 14, 2026
122: When will the war with Iran end?
Jun 8, 2026
121: Who blinks first? The battle for Hormuz, with Rich Goldberg
Jun 7, 2026
120: Sam Harris on tribalism, religion, and what actually saves us
Jun 1, 2026
119: Canada’s Jewish reckoning, with Prof. Gil Troy
May 30, 2026
118: Is Israel a settler-colonial state? A historian’s honest answer, with Alex Yakobson
May 25, 2026
117: The Palestinian insider who thinks Hamas is losing, with Samer Sinijlawi
May 20, 2026
116: Simon Sebag Montefiore on the History — and Future — of British Jews
May 17, 2026
115: Is Nicholas Kristof right?
May 12, 2026
114: Why don’t we talk about Egypt?
May 11, 2026
113: Will dumping Israel backfire on the Democrats? A conversation with Hussein Mansour
May 7, 2026
112: Why the world Is obsessed with Zionism, with Alana Newhouse
May 3, 2026
111: How Somaliland and Israel became fast friends, with Amb. Mohamed Hagi
Apr 29, 2026
110: Van Jones on what broke the Black-Jewish alliance
Apr 26, 2026
109: The crisis no one is talking about in Canada, with Dr. Casey Babb
Apr 23, 2026
108: How personal grief built a nation
Apr 20, 2026
107: What does Ezra Klein get wrong?
Apr 16, 2026
106: After October 7, can Israeli politics be rebuilt? A conversation with Dr. Einat Wilf
Apr 15, 2026
105: Why don’t we talk about Jordan?
Apr 11, 2026
104: The Iran war isn’t over
Apr 8, 2026
103: Why is the two state solution so difficult to achieve?
Apr 3, 2026
102: Freedom under missile fire, the Passover story, with Rabbi David Stav
Mar 28, 2026
101: Will Trump finish the job in Iran? With Prof. Dan Schueftan
Mar 25, 2026
100: They escaped Europe — then parachuted back in, with Matti Friedman
Mar 22, 2026
Episode 99: Are we winning?
Mar 18, 2026
Episode 98: What Israel’s founding fathers knew about terrorism, with Dr. Bruce Hoffman
Mar 15, 2026