The Sarai Podcast is hosted by Sarai Idan. Sarai is an Iraqi-American activist, television host, musician, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Universe Iraq 2017 and represented Iraq at the Miss Universe 2017 pageant. Join Sarai for informative conversations with some of today's most prestigious people.
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Gene Simmons on to talk about her amazing work. Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz) is an Israeli-American musician. Also known by his stage persona the Demon, he is the bassist and co-lead singer of KISS.
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7 Apr 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Hallel Silverman
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Hallel Silverman on to talk about her amazing work. Hallel is an American-born, Israeli-raised digital activist located in Tel Aviv. With nearly a decade in Israel advocacy, Hallel has created and executed content for dozens of major organizations, and has been a leading voice online for progressive Zionism. She is an associate at the Tel Aviv Institute.
30 Mar 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Fleur Hassan-Nahoum
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Fleur Hassan-Nahoum on to talk about her amazing work. Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is an Israeli politician and policymaker. She currently serves as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in charge of foreign relations, international economic development and tourism. She is also the co-founder of the UAE - Israel Business Council.
22 Mar 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Pastor Dumisani Washington
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Pastor Dumisani Washington on to talk about his amazing activism. Pastor Washington is the Director of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI), a social media and library resource of Israel advocacy tools for diverse audiences. He also served as the National Diversity Outreach Coordinator for the 3 million-member Christians United for Israel (CUFI). CUFI’s diversity outreach includes African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American outreach coordinators. His latest book is entitled “Zionism & the Black Church: Why Standing with Israel Will be a Defining Issue for Christians of Color in the 21st Century.”
16 Mar 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Rep. Alma Hernandez
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Rep. Alma Hernandez on to talk about her amazing activism. Alma is an Arizona politician serving as a Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives for the 20th district. Hernandez was elected in 2018. She was the youngest woman elected to the Arizona House of Representatives. She is a Mexican-American Jew who uses her platform to advocate for Jewish rights and Israel.
2 Mar 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Adar Gandelsman
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Adar Gandelsman on to talk about her amazing activism. Adar is an Israeli model and beauty pageant titleholder. In 2017, she receiving the title of Miss Universe Israel, and competed at the Miss Universe pageant. That's where she and I took our famous selfie.
16 Feb 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Emily Schrader
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Emily Schrader on to talk about her amazing activism. Emily is a journalist, lecturer, and award winning content creator. As an American-Israeli, her work focuses on sharing real stories from the Middle East, as well as fighting various forms of bigotry in the region.
8 Feb 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest David Draiman
Welcome back to the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest David Draiman on to talk about his amazing career. David is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Disturbed since 1996. In 2006, he was ranked at No. 42 on the Hit Parader list of "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". David was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn and describes himself as strong supporter of Israel and the Jewish people. In 2019, he described Pink Floyd member Roger Waters and other activists seeking to boycott Israel for human rights abuses as "Nazi comrades."
31 Jan 2023
Sarai Talk Show with Special Guest Hillel Neuer
Welcome to my first episode on the Sarai Talk Show. This week I have special guest Hillel Neuer on to talk about the amazing work he is doing in the United Nations. Hillel is a Canadian-born international lawyer, writer, and the Executive Director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group based in Geneva, Switzerland. He was selected as one of the "top 100 most influential Jewish people in the world" by the Israeli newspaper Maariv, and by the Algemeiner Journal in 2017. He is an outspoken defender of Israel and critic of the UN's human rights councils' actions. Recently, he ran a successful campaign to expel the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Women’s Rights Commission.
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