Arts & Culture

Parashat HaShavua: Avraham Burg on the rebellion of the Israelites

January 16, 2015

Former Speaker of the Knesset, Avraham “Avrum” Burg, offers a contemporary reading of this week’s Torah portion ‘Va’era.’

Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood: Past and present

January 16, 2015

Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’

“Blessed be He who made me woman” – Israel in Translation

January 14, 2015

Host Marcela Sulak looks at the poetry of Shin Shifra, which is steeped in Orthodox religious practice but also portrays a feminine and feminist focus.

An Hommage to Paris

January 13, 2015 00:08:37

This week, we dedicate the show to Paris and France, as a tribute to our Parisians friends who are going through a difficult phase.

How the Bible became holy

January 10, 2015

Michael Satlow sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that brought the Bible to the special status it holds today.

In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too

January 9, 2015

Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.

The Choice Is Yours

January 6, 2015 0:06:50

Everyone in Israel is talking about March 17. Any idea what’s happening on that date?

Promoting coexistence through the environment… and vice versa – Journeys

January 5, 2015

Originally from California and now based in Israel, Rabbi Yonatan Neril is the Founding Director of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development.

You’re in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military

January 3, 2015

Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how WWI changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare.

Holocaust research: From academia to the public realm

January 2, 2015

Holocaust historian Prof. Deborah Dwork discusses the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academic environment.