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What do Van Halen, the Yankees, Judaism, Israel, Fatherhood, and Goodfellas have to do with each other? Everything. Find out how at the Amen Corner with Steven Cook and Brad Rothschild.

September 27, 2020

Amen Corner Season 5, Episode 3

This week’s episode can be summed up in two words: we’re f*cked. Brad and Ateven discuss the latest developments in Trump’s war on American democracy and they also take a look at the recent controversy with Member of Congress Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and the legacy of the late prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. You […]

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September 20, 2020

Amen Corner Season 5, Episode 2

This week, instead of celebrating a joyous new year, Brad and Steven talk about the death on Friday evening of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the impact that it will have on US politics and the upcoming elections. 2020 strikes again. You can listen to The Amen Corner in lots of ways. On iTunes, Spotify, […]

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September 13, 2020

Amen Corner Season 5, Episode 1

Brad and Steven are back! It’s time for Season Five of the Amen Corner. The virus has miraculously disappeared just like Trump said it would and the guys are looking forward to a spirited campaign season. Don’t let any of their dire predictions get you down, remember, all is well! You can listen to The […]

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Brad Rothschild and Steven Cook

Brad Rothschild is a documentary film director and producer. He produced Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald and directed African Exodus about Israel’s African refugees and Tree Man, about the people who come to New York City to sell Christmas trees every holiday season, all of which were feature length. He is currently directing a film about Tamar Manasseh, a community activist in Chicago. His short films cover subjects as: the wrongfully incarcerated, the women leading Montana’s Resistance movement and a group of Israelis and Palestinians who find mutual understanding in their grief. He was formerly a Speechwriter and Director of Communications for the Mission of Israel to the United Nations.

Steven A. Cook is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s gold medal in 2012; and Ruling But Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey. Cook is a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine. He has also published widely in international affairs journals, opinion magazines, and newspapers, and he is a frequent commentator on radio and television.

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