Holocaust survivor Simon Malkes has dedicated his recently published memoirs to the man who saved him, a Nazi officer called Karl Plagge.

The construction of the Israeli national narrative in the early years, bridging statehood and millennia of Jewish tradition.

The evolution of the perception of water abundance and its place in effort to build the State of Israel.

We explore how late 20th century Jewish philosophers posed a challenge to the ideas of Enlightenment.

A discussion on the forgotten history of Jewish criminality in the early 20th century.

A discussion on the parallel cultures of commemoration that emanated from the two biggest catastrophes of the Second World War.

A discussion on the construction of Israeli identity through transgressions from it, specifically the case of the “traitress” Tali Fahima.

A discussion on the role of religion in perpetuating and assuaging conflict, in the Israeli-Palestinian context and beyond.

Analyzing the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, on its 20th anniversary, through the perspective of the sociology of emotions.

How Whitman influenced future generations of Jewish-American poets in their quest to come to terms with their composite identity.