{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Touro Talks","title":"The Power of a Story — and Why Israel Is Struggling to Tell Its Story Today","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6b3413ba\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3019,"description":"Can a story change history? Award-winning author and journalist Matti Friedman joins Touro University President Dr. Alan Kadish to discuss his new book Out of the Sky: Heroism and Rebirth in Nazi Europe and the power of storytelling in shaping Jewish history, Zionism, and Israel. Friedman recounts the remarkable 1944 mission of 32 young Jews who escaped Nazi Europe for British Mandate Palestine and then volunteered to parachute back behind enemy lines, including poet Hannah Senesh, who became one of Israel’s most enduring heroes. Though the mission failed militarily, Friedman argues its true success was narrative: it helped forge a new Jewish story of courage and agency that inspired the building of a state. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WKkt9m1735TH8AmfUsX3a4NbaFnuZGYJxE2iS6vCaBU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZjc0/ODA4YTRhMWIyOGNm/YzY5NWUxYTMxMjZm/OTViMC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}