Professor of philosophy and outgoing director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Gabriel Motzkin discusses the link between scientific and religious production.

Tel Aviv Professor and University chair of the School of Social and Policy Studies Itai Sened discusses obstacles to Israeli leadership in the field of renewable energy.

Princeton University Professor of English Ester Schor discusses the dream of universal language and Esperanto, one of the most ambitious social experiments of modern history.

Professor Naomi Chazan of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute’s Center for the Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere (WIPS) discusses Israel’s most comprehensive database of gender inequality in the country.

Dr. Boaz Cohen of Western Galilee College analyzes the treatment of child Holocaust survivors and how it could inform refugee relief agencies working today.

University of Amsterdam professor Dr. Erella Grassiani discusses the link between spacial aspects of Israel’s control of the West Bank and moral consequences among Israeli soldiers.

Professor Wm. Roger Louis of University of Texas at Austin discusses repercussions of the Sykes-Picot agreement and the Balfour Declaration on the Middle East to this day.

Dr. Orit Rozen of Tel Aviv University analyzes government sponsored immigration and day-to-day integration practices that have formed the Israeli melting pot.

Professor Uri Ram of Ben-Gurion University discusses oft-forgotten and sidelined elements of the celebrated Jewish theologian Martin Buber’s thinking.