PERSON OF THE WEEK: Noemi Schlosser’s Tractor Factory
Host Ilene Prusher talks to Noemi Schlosser, a writer, producer, actor, and the artistic director of Salomee Speelt, a Belgian mixed-media theater company.
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MUSIC TO OUR EARS: Talkin’ bout a revolution
Nadav Appel, a lecturer at Bar Ilan University and a culture critic for Haaretz, talks about music during revolution.
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LET’S GET LIT: A trip to Judy Labensohn’s Writing Gym
Essayist and creative non-fiction writer Judy Labensohn reads from her story, “Follow Me: A Mother’s Day in the Israeli Army.”
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Is Bibi too strong to make peace?
Allison, Don and Noah discuss whether a weaker Netanyahu would be more willing to make compromises and take on the settler movement.
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Getting to the ‘core’ of the Holocaust – Journeys
Host Rogel Alpher speaks to Prof. Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.
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The ‘one-and-a-half state’ solution
Allison, Don and Noah discuss whether a Jewish and a Palestinian state could both exist within the same territorial borders.
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The ‘one-and-a-half state’ solution – The Promised Podcast
Allison, Don and Noah discuss whether Bibi is too strong to make peace; whether women are relegated to the sidelines in times of war; and whether a Jewish and a Palestinian state could both exist within the same borders.
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Sholem Aleichem: ‘The Jewish Mark Twain’ – Israel in Translation
When Mark Twain heard of the writer called ‘the Jewish Mark Twain,’ he replied, “Please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem.”
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Carlo Strenger on the Israeli Homo Globalis – Journeys
Dr. Carlo Strenger is an existential psychoanalyst, philosopher and political commentator. He joins Rogel Alpher in the studio to explain some of his theses, including the complexity of the modern Jewish identity.
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When war and peace are held hostage to machismo
Allison, Don and Noah discuss to what extent Israel’s notions of peace, security and war are ‘male’ in character.
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