David Grossman’s “Falling Out of Time”
“The boy is dead. I recognize these words as holding truth. He is dead, he is dead. But his death, his death is not dead.”
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen!
Listen up! Today’s episode teaches you how to do something very useful on the Israeli streets.
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Dear mom, I fought for a Jewish state today
How the letters written by ordinary soldiers during Israel’s War of Independence give a glimpse into attitudes towards the emerging Jewish State.
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Poet Agi Mishol on “Holocaust, Remembrance, Independence”
“How we flew – / Not from Gadera to Rehovot or up the Castel / en route to Jerusalem, like in those dreams, but / outside of the stratosphere…”
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Congratulations! “Mazal Tov” and More
Today’s episode is all about “mazal tov” – how do we congratulate our friends and family in Hebrew?
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Poems of Holocaust Remembrance
In honor of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel – listen to the poetry of Paul Celan.
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Highly Charged: Settling Money Matters in Hebrew
One of the first things we learn to say in a foreign language is “how much does it cost?” But what about “owing,” “charging,” and the rest of it?
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“Gods Change, Prayers are Here to Stay”
Today’s Passover-themed podcast is taken from Robert Alter’s new edition, “The Poems of Yehuda Amichai.”
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One man and his cello
Amit Peled plays the cello that belonged to his hero, the legendary Pablo Casals (1876-1973), a cello created by a Venetian luthier around 1733.
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Use Your Imagination
The Hebrew verb “domé” means “resemble,” but its relatives branch out to mean so much more.
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