Year: 2014

Peace, Prosperity and Philanthropy – The Promised Podcast‏

Should the IDF rely on donations to buy soldiers basic stuff like boots and socks? Is the peace process breathing its last? Should be we outraged that CEOs make 76 times what the rest of us make?

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Why? What Happened?

The Hebrew phrase, למה מה קרה, can be literally translated as, “why, what happened.” What do we mean by this expression and how do you use it?

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Rogel Alpher with Gilad Kahana of Girafot – Journeys

Wandering the streets of Tel Aviv is part of poet and singer-songwriter Gilad Kahana’s artistic process. Kahana discusses his life changing experiences, including an LSD trip which led him to become religious for a year and losing both his parents at an early age.

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When did Jews start losing their religion?

Prof. David Biale of the Department of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis, talks about his recently published “Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought.”

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Righteous Gentiles: The exception that proves the rule

For Polish social psychologist Michal Bilewicz, the Righteous Among the Nations serve as a case study for human behavior at times of great distress – and this group also affects the way the Holocaust is studied and remembered.

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Rav Kook: Mystic in a time of revolution

Dr Yehuda Mirsky, associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University and author of the first biography of the maverick theologian and spiritual father of the settler movement to appear in English in over half a century.

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