Podcasting With John Metaxas

Retired U.S. Ambassador Patrick Theros discusses the Israeli High Court decision in favor of an extremist group that seeks the removal of Christians from the Old City of Jerusalem and the existential risks for the Christian community that the ruling poses. At issue in the real estate case, brought by the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, are properties that straddle the Jaffa Gate into the Old City.

New Yorkers measure their lives by blackouts. I experienced my fourth* on Saturday July 13th, anchoring live coverage of the West Side Blackout on WCBS Newsradio 880. The evening brought me back to the 1965 blackout when I was 7 growing up in Manhattan, the 1977 blackout as a college student at Columbia during the Summer of Sam and the 2003 blackout covering at CNBC from Fort Lee, NJ. My live interview on the air with N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo the next evening was picked up by the New York Post with the memorable headline “Gov hints at Gone Edison.” Cuomo told me “Con Ed does not have a franchise granted by God” and “can be replaced,” adding Con Ed should not be allowed a self-evaluation of its performance in the blackout. Click below to listen. Notes: This year's blackout happened on the 42nd anniversary of the July 13, 1977 blackout. *Arguably, this was my 5th blackout if you count the massive outage in lower Manhattan after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, which I also covered live on the air on WCBS.

•Turkey Faces April Deadline to Respond in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia •Ankara Foreign Ministry Finally Served After Rebuffing Service Three Times ◊PODCAST COLD OPEN VERBATIM: You had a trained paramilitary force attack peaceful protesters. The people who were protecting President Erdogan came across police lines and beat up our clients, hit them on the head, kicked them, got them on the ground and bloodied them. This is not only an effort to gain compensation for people who were physically and psychologically injured, but also a way to make a statement that this kind of activity, of thugs beating up demonstrators, will not be something that we can allow in our country. Click the audio player below to listen. "Podcasting with John Metaxas" speaks with attorneys Douglas Bregman and Andreas Akaras of Bregman, Berbert, Schwartz & Gilday, LLC, at their offices in Bethesda, Maryland. They have filed a civil lawsuit against the Republic of Turkey seeking damages on behalf of their clients wh

John Metaxas speaks with Paul Glastris, editor in chief of the Washington Monthly, along with two of the publication’s editors, Daniel Block and Eric Cortellessa, about their quest to elevate journalism in this stressful time. Labelling his point of view, “grumpily liberal,” Paul says the Washington Monthly, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, remains devoted to the ethos of its founder, Charles Peters — to report, uncover, explain and offer new ideas about government policy and politics in America, all while treating the reader and people with different points of view with respect. Recent stories have looked at what the editors see as an underreported but major development in society — that large numbers of Americans are not benefiting from America’s economic system. While Paul says his magazine is contributing to the broader effort by journalists to understand and in many ways fight against the nonsense and lying coming out of the White House, he is not obsessed with Trump coverage. Rather, he says, “W

John Metaxas speaks with Michael Rosenblum, the self-proclaimed "Father of Videojournalism" who has trained more than 40,000 VJs and built VJ-driven networks worldwide. In a wide-ranging talk on the history of media, Michael recounts his career, from his time living with and covering a Palestinian family in Gaza during the First Intifada to his current quest to use modern media for the common good.

Podcaster John Metaxas interviews veteran civil rights attorney Robert Herbst about his journey from growing up in a liberal Jewish household to becoming an advocate for Palestinian rights. Bob says just as “Black Lives Matter in the U.S., Palestinian lives matter in Israel/Palestine.” He says his viewpoint changed significantly after what he calls Israel’s brutal 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. He became a member of the organization Jewish Voice for Peace. He describes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank as persistent and relentless oppression, which he likens to apartheid. He says he supports the Boycott Divest Sanction movement as a non-violent means to help Israel recover its Jewish values.

BREAKING NEWS: David Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace Building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights speaks with John Metaxas on today’s latest threats by Turkish President Erdogan to invade eastern regions of Syria. The threat puts at risk U.S. forces who are maintaining bases in the region in alliance with Kurdish forces engaged in the fight against the Islamic State. Phillips calls for the U.S. to institute a no-fly zone over northern Syria to signal to Turkey that it will not tolerate efforts of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Kurds, though he says he has doubts the Trump Administration is up to the task. Phillips, who has just returned from a visit to Kurdish inhabited regions of Syria, recounts compelling stories of Kurds trying to maintain their freedoms in the face of Turkish bombardment.

Professor John Coffee of Columbia Law School speaks with WallStreetNorth's John Metaxas (Columbia Law '84)about the state of insider trading law. Professor Coffee has been asked to join a task force to develop proposals to update this area of the law. The task force is to be chaired by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (Columbia Law '93). Professor Coffee explains that insider trading law is largely judicially created and has not been addressed by Congress. Recent Circuit Court decisions have created divergences among the Circuits that have not yet been addressed by the Supreme Court. Furthermore, new issues surrounding hacking and cybersecurity have emerged. The professor says the time is ripe for this blue-ribbon panel to create some standards that can be presented to Congress and/or the SEC for future adoption. Bharara has tapped former regulators, prosecutors, judges, academics and defense lawyers to serve on the panel, including The Hon. Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ne

Award winning journalist John Metaxas speaks on "The Life of a Journalist and the Obligations of a Citizen in the Time of Trump." John touches on his time covering Trump at ABC News and CBS, the saga of Marvin Roffman, the importance of truth, his studies with Fred Friendly, the lessons he teaches his college students who ask about whether the news is fake and offers some thoughts on resistance. A lively Q&A follows. The talk was delivered at the Beacon Hebrew Alliance in Beacon, NY, on August 11, 2018, the weekend anniversary of the deadly march on Charlottesville.

Attorney John Bandler wrote Cybersecurity for the Home and Office to help lawyers and in fact anyone take charge of their cybersecurity. The book provides a solid understanding of cybercrime, privacy threats, cybersecurity and computer technology. He speaks here with WallStreetNorth's John Metaxas as part of the series Podcasting for Lawyers.

Hughes Hubbard partner George Tsougarakis tells John Metaxas the fascinating story of his firm's recovery of a 9th Century handwritten copy of the New Testament that was looted from a monastery in northern Greece by Bulgarian soldiers during World War I and went missing for 99 years. But despite the Bible's return, the case is not over.

John Metaxas interviews author Tasoula Hadjitofi about her book, The Icon Hunter, and her quest as a refugee to reclaim her nation’s stolen heritage