Year: 2014
LET’S GET LIT: A Story on Every Streetcorner
Host Ilene Prusher interviews writer David Erlich, who talks about inspiration from the mundane, his most recent story collection and his beloved Jerusalem literary cafe.
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Oy, the dissonance! – The Promised Podcast
Rubi Rivlin: the man; the contradictions. A pro-Palestinian settler leader: what gives? And the possible end of prisoner swaps? All on this episode of The Promised Podcast.
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Sex Words in Modern Hebrew
The Hebrew language lay dormant for a very long while. When it reemerged from its slumber, we Israelis found ourselves without the right words for all things relating to sex. Just how serious is this problem? Quite serious. Guy explains.
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National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek: Walking the walk and talking the talk – Journeys
The latest project of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek, a seasoned and high-flying journalist, has taken him farther than all his previous ones: to the cradle of humanity. As part of the Out of Eden trek, he intends to spend seven years walking from Ethiopia to Argentina, in the footsteps of the first humans, in an attempt to re-enact the discovery of the world.
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Borders matter; Family matters – The Tel Aviv Review
We talk to Prof. David Newman of Ben-Gurion University about why borders are becoming more important today; we discuss a special family edition of the Israel Studies Review with its editors.
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Rubi Rivlin: A man of contradictions
What should we make of the new Israeli President, who is both a ‘good guy’ and against the two-state solution?
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