Arts & Culture

Talking About Talking

February 10, 2015 0:08:28

Lots of Hebrew learners find it hard to discern between ‘speak,’ ‘talk,’ and ‘tell’ when they talk with their Israeli friends

Hebrew literature and the origins of Israeli malaise

February 7, 2015

Yigal Schwarz, professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, discusses his latest book, ‘The Zionist Paradox.’

Songs of Sderot – Israel in Translation

February 4, 2015 00:10:30

Born in Sderot, the ‘bomb shelter capital of the world,’ to parents of Moroccan origin, Shimon Adaf has written five novels and three collections of poetry.

What’s Your ‘Matsav’?

February 3, 2015 00:06:28

‘Matsav’ means situation, state, or condition, but it can be used in lots of different idioms; Guy Sharett takes us through them all.

Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence

January 30, 2015

Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor, discusses his recent book ‘Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jersualem, Jaffa and Hebron.’

StreetWise Hebrew: The 5 most popular episodes

January 29, 2015

We’ve put together the 5 most popular episodes of StreetWise Hebrew with Guy Sharett. Did your favorite episode make the list?

Standing in line for bread – Israel in Translation

January 28, 2015

Host Marcela Sulak takes us on an unusual trip to the bakery with Sharron Hass’ short story ‘The Thief.’

Fine-Tune Your Hebrew With “Be’Etsem”

January 27, 2015 0:06:21

‘Be’etsem,’ which means ‘actually,’ is comprised of preposition ‘be’ -בְּ plus the word ‘etsem,’ which is an object, essence, or gist… but also a bone

On earth as it is in Tel Aviv – Israel in Translation

January 21, 2015

Host Marcela Sulak reads from Aharon Shabtai’s poem ‘Our Land,’ which features a kind of ‘afterlife’ Tel Aviv.

Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel

January 17, 2015

Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.