‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’: Non-committal Hebrew
Guy Sharett takes us through how to say in Hebrew those non-committal phrases we all rely on from time to time
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From the Caribbean to the Middle East: The soulful grooves of Hillary Sargeant – Journeys
Host Rogel Alpher meets Trinidad-born singer Hillary Sargeant, who moved to Israel in the mid-80s. She explains how she became the soulful and diverse artist she is today.
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Alon Oleartchik, a hallmark of modern Israeli music – Journeys
Alon Oleartchik is one of Israel’s best-known musicians, boasting a career spanning several decades as a singer, composer, producer and bass player. He joins Rogel Alpher in the studio for a journey down memory lane.
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Corporeal Zionism: The reinvention of the Jewish physique
Host Gilad Halpern interviews Dr. Nina Spiegel of Portland State University about a startling aspect of Zionism.
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The Golden Age of the Shtetl
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, posits that Medieval Spain wasn’t the only ‘Golden Age’ in Jewish history.
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‘A story of heroes and villains, of sorrow and glory’ – Israel in Translation
Manger Street is a ‘crook’ of a street in North Tel Aviv – perfect for our Yiddish-speaking prankster Itzik Manger, author of ‘The Songs of the Megillah.’
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Tottenham ‘Yid’ David Newman on politics, academia and Jewish London of yore – Journeys
Prof. Newman tells Rogel Alpher what it was like growing up in London, supporting ‘Spurs,’ founding the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University, and being labelled ‘anti-Israeli.’
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Going, Going, Gone
Guy Sharett shows us how to make the most of the word ‘holech’ – ‘to go’ in Hebrew, and so much more
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American Jewry: A community divided beyond repair?
Host Gilad Halpern asks Prof Dov Waxman why Israelis should be concerned with the troubles of the American Jewish community.
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Reconciling ‘Jewishness’ and ‘Arabness’: A rainbow of Jewish thought in the Middle East
Host Gilad Halpern talks to Dr Moshe Behar about at the radically different positions of Jewish intellectuals in Arab countries at the turn of the century.
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