Elohim
Elohim means God in Hebrew. Why does it have a plural suffix at the end? Is it really plural in Modern Hebrew? How do we use elohim in Israeli slang, and what did we borrow from Arabic?
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Rogel Alpher with illustrator Michel Kichka – Journeys
Illustrator Michel Kichka’s autobiographical comic book explores the condition of the children of Holocaust survivors.
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Menachem Begin: Israel’s most ‘Jewish’ leader
Dr Daniel Gordis, author of “Menachem Begin: The Battle for Israel’s Soul,” explains why Israel’s sixth prime minister was the country’s most “Jewish” leader.
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Alfred Dreyfus, the man behind the affair
A new exhibition at Beit Hatefutsot – the Museum of the Jewish People – explores the private life of the most unintentionally famous Jew of modern times.
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The Andalusian poet who turned complaining into an art form – Israel in Translation
Moshe Ben-Ezra wasn’t only a Jew and a poet – he was also the commander of the Granada police.
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The Evil Eye
The Hebrew word עין means eye. How do we say it in plural? What is עין הרע? And how do we say ‘The apple of my eye’ in Hebrew?
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Rogel Alpher with Mizrahi muckraker Sami Shalom Chetrit – Journeys
Born in Morocco, raised in Israel and based in New York, the culture critic and public intellectual has many unconventional views about the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of Israel in its current form.
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Ciao, Jews: Mussolini’s race laws under scrutiny
Prof. Michael Livingstone of the School of Law at Rutgers University, author of the forthcoming The Fascists and the Jews of Italy: Mussolini’s Race Laws 1938-1943, talks about this often overlooked episode in modern European history, and dwells on his unique perspective as a legal scholar.
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The first Zionist monkey
Elia Etkin of the School of History at the Tel Aviv University talks about her research of the history of the now-defunct Tel Aviv zoo between 1938-1958, amid a changing political, social and cultural climate.
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Soviet Jews: A social movement where none existed
Prof. Yaacov Ro’i, author of “The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union,” discusses the specific features of the movement and what distinguished it from other dissident movements in the Communist bloc.
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