Year: 2014

Letters to a young cadet contemplating conscientious objection – The Promised Podcast‏

A 17-year-old asks if he should refuse IDF service in the territories and we try to answer. Also, should the center parties propping up Netanyahu cut it out? And are Israeli taxi drivers toast?

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‘A story of heroes and villains, of sorrow and glory’ – Israel in Translation

Manger Street is a ‘crook’ of a street in North Tel Aviv – perfect for our Yiddish-speaking prankster Itzik Manger, author of ‘The Songs of the Megillah.’

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Tottenham ‘Yid’ David Newman on politics, academia and Jewish London of yore – Journeys

Prof. Newman tells Rogel Alpher what it was like growing up in London, supporting ‘Spurs,’ founding the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, and being labelled ‘anti-Israeli.’

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Going, Going, Gone

Guy Sharett shows us how to make the most of the word ‘holech’ – ‘to go’ in Hebrew, and so much more

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American Jewry: A community divided beyond repair?

Host Gilad Halpern asks Prof Dov Waxman why Israelis should be concerned with the troubles of the American Jewish community.

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A ‘Salute to Olim’ in Jtown!

Host Alex Stein interviews Deena Levenstein about the upcoming ‘Salute to Olim’ festival in Jerusalem.

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Reconciling ‘Jewishness’ and ‘Arabness’: A rainbow of Jewish thought in the Middle East

Host Gilad Halpern talks to Dr Moshe Behar about at the radically different positions of Jewish intellectuals in Arab countries at the turn of the century.

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