Arts & Culture

Tal Nitzán’s interior design, exterior chaos

June 10, 2015

“… I went up to the roof / one day in May / a day that spread upon the sky a sheet / the shade of mustard of an orange of an H-bomb…”

We’ve Had Enough!

June 9, 2015 00:07:56

Had enough of struggling through dull Hebrew classes and heavy textbooks? We have the antidote.

The Prince: The Emergence of Elites in Early 20th-Century Saudi Arabia

June 6, 2015 00:20:50

In our minds, Saudi Arabia, to this day, has been an ultraconservative, almost medieval society, with a clear hierarchy and a coercive leadership. But it turns out that is not exactly the case.

The Myth of the Cultural Jew

June 5, 2015 00:26:08

Prof. Roberta Ronsethal Kwall explains why even the most secular Jews have imbibed the ‘halakha,’ whether they like it or not.

This Show’s Getting More and More ‘Od’

June 2, 2015 00:10:10

How do we ask for more milk, for an encore or for another goal in a football game? You guessed it, we use “od.”

Gendered perceptions of the life of Prophet Mohammed

May 30, 2015

Professor Ruth Roded talks about her current research focusing on modern-day literary renditions, written by women, on the life of the founder of Islam.

A circle of friends – Israel in Translation

May 27, 2015

“Adva stands there looking at herself in the mirror… Today she has a special hairdo in honor of the performance, and she examines it from all angles.”