Pizza Bagels - with Mike Pesca

This week on Ask A Jew, the girls sit down with their colleague at the top of the podcasting charts

Mike Pesca

, who just returned from his first ever reporting trip to Israel. We discuss the war with Hamas, growing up Italian and Jewish, and attempt to answer some of the nation’s most divisive questions like - does ketchup belong on a bagel? Should the voting age be raised to 45? And what kind of Jews wear hats?

Mike Pesca is host of "The Gist" the longest running daily news podcast in history, consistently ranked in Apple's Top 20 Daily News charts.  During his 10 years as a correspondent for NPR, Mike has guest hosted All Things Considered and the news quiz Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.  His work has been featured on This American Life,  Radiolab, and Planet Money. He has frequently appeared on MSNBC, CNN, and The PBS Newshour, and written for The Washington Post, The Guardian, GQ, Slate, and Baseball Prospectus.

You really should watch Mike’s Israel debrief, it’s a great overview of the country at war:

• More Mike Pesca  - https://www.mikepesca.com/

• Follow him on Susbtack and Twitter too

• Upon Further Review - The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History - https://www.mikepesca.com/publications

In case you missed it, our holy half Chaya Leah was on The Unspeakable with

Meghan Daum

this week talking about *her* recent trip to Israel (we may have a theme). It was good, even though Yael wasn’t there.

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