We discuss the extraordinary character of Annie Landau, and try to trace the origins of the special relationship between Israel and America.
Read More: The story of Jerusalem’s legendary headmistress – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern discusses Israel’s Bedouin community, and asks, “Who owns the media in Israel.”
Read More: Israel’s Bedouin and the line between tradition and modernity – The Tel Aviv Review
Dr. Jonathan Rubin discusses Crusader encounters with local societies; and Dr. Danna Piroyansky talks about the Israelization of the town of Ramle.
Read More: What did the Crusaders ever learn from us? – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Dr. Ephraim Chamiel about the emergence of modern orthodoxy, and Dr. Sonja Narunsky-Laden about Israel-Palestine discourse in South Africa.
Read More: Middle-of-the-road Judaism: The emergence of Modern Orthodoxy – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Anita Shapira about her recent biography of Ben-Gurion, and to Yigal Schwarz about Hebrew literature and Israeli identity.
Read More: Portrait of the father of a nation – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern discusses Jewish-Arab common identity in Mandate Palestine, and the Holocaust as a litmus test of the Israeli media.
Read More: Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern discusses the Palestinian student movement over the years, and environmental justice in Israel.
Read More: Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern hears the story of Jewish refugees during the War of Independence, and the canonization process of the texts that make up the Bible.
Read More: How the Bible became holy – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern explores how WWI radically changed Jews’ attitudes towards warfare; and the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academia.
Read More: You’re in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military – The Tel Aviv Review
Host Gilad Halpern explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and the chief theme in the memoirs of Holocaust survivors: Betrayal.
Read More: Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews – The Tel Aviv Review