Jonny Gould's Jewish State
The first in this space as others followed. Chronicling Jewish life with Jonny Gould's Apple Podcast category number one hit show, projecting a positive image of Jewish values and Israel through conversations with great people. Jonny is the go-to interviewer for presidents and politicians, artists and ambassadors, sports and celebs, rabbis and rockstars - the military and even Mossad. Subscribe to The Podcast of Record now. Find more of Jonny at http://linktr.ee/Gould and http://x.com/jonnygould
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Menachem Begin remains one of the least understood giants of the twentieth century.
A freedom fighter, a terrorist, a liberator of Jewish people, his own and subsequent generations, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a champion of Jewish dignity after the Holocaust, and Israel’s sixth Prime Minister,
Begin transformed the country’s politics forever. He brought...
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Our Young Podcaster of the Year series is presented in partnership with Dangoor Education.
This is now the fourth year of the competition, and each year I’m
reminded of one of the most valuable resources we have – the next generation.
I visit schools to meet young people with curiosity, enthusiasm,
and a willingness to ask the questions that adults sometimes...
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June 12, 2026 • 18 mins
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My guests today are Michael and Lisa Marlowe, the parents of Jake Marlowe, who was murdered at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023.
Playing it back brings tears to my eyes as a parent.
Jake was a 26-year-old British-Israeli musician and security guard. Known to many as the bassist for the hardcore ...
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Our guest today is Almog Meir Jan — one of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the October 7 attacks.
Almog was taken from where he hid in woods near the Nova Music Festival, where hundreds of young people were either murdered or abducted.
For months, his mother Orit campaigned tirelessly ar...
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May 19, 2026 • 28 mins
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With thanks to the Anglo-Israel Association and ELNET UK, it was a pleasure to hear Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Jonathan Conricus. A former international spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces, where he served for 24 years as a combat commander, military diplomat and strategic communications officer, Conricus is now a...
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May 13, 2026 • 18 mins
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Before we start today’s episode, a quick note: our guest, Tomer Zadik from Tel Aviv and an Israeli Navy veteran, was just 23 when his life changed forever. He survived the horrific attack at the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023 — a day meant for music and celebration that instead became a tragedy, claiming more than 270 lives and injuring thousands.
Tome...
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I had the incredible honor of sitting down with Sagi Muki—Olympic medalist, 2019 World Champion Judoka, two-time European Champion, and part of Israel’s bronze-winning team at the Tokyo Olympics. But this conversation went beyond medals.
How he overcame a career-threatening back injury just before the Rio Olympics… how he stayed motivated at the ...
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April 29, 2026 • 55 mins
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It’s year four of our Schools Podcaster of the Year Award, presented by Dangoor Education — a project close to my heart because it’s about encouraging the next generation to think seriously about journalism, storytelling, and the power of asking the right questions.
Today’s young people are growing up in a world saturated by TikTokers, YouTubers, in...
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March 25, 2026 • 52 mins
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Born to a family who lived in a one-bedroom basement apartment in Soviet Ukraine, denied opportunity because he was Jewish, and starting out at the bottom of a steel mill, Eduard Shyfrin went on to build a vast business empire — but that’s only part of his story.
In this episode, he takes us from Soviet hardship and discrimination to music, memory, r...
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The October 7th War aka the 47 year long Iran Israel War is reaching a head. The head of the snake is being cut off.
This is a collage of soundbites, news conferences and parliamentary statements which tell the story of how this decisive leg of the war started in the early hours of Saturday morning, the 28th February 2026.
It also underscores the ideological schis...
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February 25, 2026 • 62 mins
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In this conversation, we meet Rawan Osman - a woman of Syrian and Lebanese heritage who grew up in a world where the "Jew" was the ultimate, untouchable enemy.
Rawan’s worldview shattered during an everyday trip to a grocery store in
Strasbourg. What started as a visceral panic attack at the sight of Hebrew turned into a life-altering ...
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Parents, if you're about to send your child to university, how are you preparing them for it?
Western campuses aren't all what they used to be.
In this powerful conversation, I meet the brilliant Izabella Tabarovsky — a leading scholar on Soviet antisemitism and anti-Zionism, and author of Be a Refusenik: A Jew...
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January 15, 2026 • 20 mins
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What you’ll hear now in this short interview is a headline masterclass in defining and tackling antisemitism.
If only I had longer, but our guest filled the room with shorthand wisdom of the deepest kind when we met during an antisemitism conference in Vienna where I was presented with a plethora of brilliant and courag...
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January 5, 2026 • 21 mins
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And so it’s happened. There’s now a piece of Palestine on British soil.
In Galena Road, a back street of Hammersmith.
An interesting name for a Palestinian address. It’s a Sephardi Jewish surname for one.
And archaeologists discovered a prehistoric trench under the modern office building on which this embass...
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December 24, 2025 • 27 mins
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The world moves on fast.
The headline ticker keeps rolling, attention shifts, and even the most brutal moments are softened by the relentless pace of the news cycle.
But for those left to mourn — and for Jewish communities across the global diaspora — the shock of Bondi has not faded.
It’s hardened i...
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December 15, 2025 • 29 mins
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As westerners, as Jews, as supporters of Israel, we should know more about the Kabyle people, the largest of North Africa’s indigenous Amazigh groups, part of the Berber people.
On December 14th 2025, Kabylia declared independence from Algeria.
With their own language, culture, and a centuries-long tradition of autonomy, the Kabyle have maintained a dist...
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November 23, 2025 • 50 mins
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Today we explore the legacy of Joe Lieberman and the documentary movie Centered about his life. He remains to this day the only orthodox Jew to stand for vice president of the United States, on the ticket with fellow Democrat Al Gore, losing by the narrowest and most controversial of margins to George W. Bush.
And how he may have stood again as a Republican candi...
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November 13, 2025 • 29 mins
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The BBC's top brass have lost their jobs over the institutionalised bias of their news coverage. But their news output which made them so famous and trusted around the world has let the rest of the corporation down for a very long time.
Director-General Tim Davie and CEO of News, Deborah Turness resigned over a series of scandals exposed by a memo written ...
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October 23, 2025 • 38 mins
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A chunk of my background, both personal and professional, has been washed away.
I didn’t think football was supposed to hurt like this.
Banning a mere thousand or less Israeli football fans from Villa Park for a Europa League tie is a cause for deep sorrow.
But not just for me, an Aston Villa fan through my Holocaust-surviving grandfather who ...
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October 3, 2025 • 18 mins
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The anger we feel as British Jews has reached a head as we mourn the two congregants from Heaton Park, who were killed on Yom Kippur inside the synagogue.
This episode also includes the regrettable appearance of David Lammy, the deputy prime minister in front of a furious community in north Manchester.
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