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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Host Gilad Halpern interviews Dr. Nina Spiegel of Portland State University about a startling aspect of Zionism.
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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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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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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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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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Host Gilad Halpern asks Prof Dov Waxman why Israelis should be concerned with the troubles of the American Jewish community.
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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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We look at one of I.L.Peretz’ most famous Yiddish plays – a tragic-comic shtetl ghost love story.
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Menachem and Yehudit Vinograd are the founders and producers of Israel’s Jacob’s Ladder Folk Festival. They share their journey from Leeds, England, with Rogel Alpher.
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