ART IN TROUBLED TIMES: Art & Twist
Do we need art in troubled times? Ron Laufer, manager of the ‘Art and Twist’ gallery and auction house, tells host Ilene Prusher we do.
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Ruth the Moabite: Judaism’s most famous convert – Israel in Translation
Jews read the Book of Ruth during the holiday of Shavuot. Host Marcela Sulak reads Linda Zisquit’s lively translation of the first chapter.
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How to Talk ‘Ceasefire’ in Hebrew
Everyone’s talking about הפסקת אש, ceasefire. Let’s get to know the word הפסקה (break) and other words in its family which come from the root פסק
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Dr. Lionel Bobot brings some ‘je ne sais quoi’ to Israel’s tourism industry – Journeys
Host Rogel Alpher meets Dr. Lionel Bobot, who made Aliyah from France with his family three years ago, and has since thrown himself into developing the Israeli tourism industry.
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The cost of ‘normalizing’ war
The “cultural ambience” in the wake of the Six Day War, which blurred the boundaries between war and peace, was the main cause for the trauma of the Yom Kippur War.
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The hymnal poet-paver of the roads of Israel – Israel in Translation
Called ‘Lashonsky’ for his comic wit, linguistic innovations and irrepressible puns, every child in Israel knows Avraham Shlonsky’s version of the German Rumpelstiltskin fairytale: Utzli Gutzli.
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What’s the First Hebrew Word You Learned?
Shalom means ‘peace,’ ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ – it’s one of the most popular words in Hebrew, and the first one everybody learns
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Solar Zionism: Meet Israel’s leading green pioneer – Journeys
Named by CNN as one of the top six “Green Pioneers” worldwide, entrepreneur, financier and activist Yosef Abramowitz is co-founder of Israel’s leading solar power enterprises.
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Silencing the ‘Yemenite Babies Affair’
Host Gilad Halpern interviews Dr Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber of Suffolk University about Israeli media bias in the obscure ‘Yemenite babies affair.’
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The Jewish revival and the renaissance of the ‘Orient’
The research of Hebrew University’s Dr. Hanan Harif has focused on Zionist intellectuals, who regarded the Jewish revival in the Land of Israel as part of the renaissance of the so-called ‘Orient.’
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