Host Gilad Halpern talks to Prof. Ofer Shiff about Abba Hillel Silver’s brand of Zionism; and to Naama Nagar about the 2011 global social protest movements.

Host Gilad Halpern talks to Prof. Menachem Hofnung about his project on Israel’s treatment of Arab informants over the years; and to the makers of the film ‘Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah.’

We talk to Prof. David Newman of Ben-Gurion University about why borders are becoming more important today; we discuss a special family edition of the Israel Studies Review with its editors.

Dr Moshe Cohen-Gil talks about his new book “The Israelis who Wished to Cure the World,” which tells the story of the pioneers of alternative medicine in Israel.

Prof. Yael Darr of the Program in Research of Child and Youth Culture at Tel Aviv University’s School of Cultural Studies and author of “Nation Building and the Hebrew Literary Canon for Children,” discusses the not-so-dogmatic indoctrination of Hebrew-speaking children in the 1930s-1950s.

In the early years of statehood, Israeli culture was teeming with references to Africa. Israel’s fascination with the black continent derived from particular cultural, political and social contexts that are analyzed in a new book.