Tel Aviv Review

The heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948

November 7, 2014

Lia Tarachansky, director of the film On the Side of the Road that tackles the way the Nakba is perceived in Israeli society today.

Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage

November 1, 2014

Dr. Shaul Sapir is a geography professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of several books.

Why do Jews play a “ridiculously disproportionate” role in the sciences?

October 31, 2014

Dr. Noah Efron gives us his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?

A Muslim and democratic state: Lessons from Indonesia

October 25, 2014

Dr. Giora Eliraz of Hebrew University discusses the exchange between the Islamic center and periphery on democracy and religion.

How Israel Abolished Trafficking in Women

October 24, 2014

Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe of the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College tells us about her most recent study on women trafficking.

Israelis as well as Palestinians: The evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs

October 18, 2014

Dr. Itamar Radai of Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center takes us through the complex and evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs.

Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People

October 17, 2014

Dr. Shalom Salomon Wald tells host Gilad Halpern what the Jewish Civilization can learn from others’ mistakes.

How Shlomo Sand stopped being a Jew

October 11, 2014

Prof. Shlomo Sand, who just retired from his position at Tel Aviv University, is probably best known for his bestselling book ‘The Invention of the Jewish People.’

Under women’s wings: The architecture of the women’s section in Israeli synagogues

October 10, 2014

Adva Naama Baram tells host Gilad Halpern about her new architectural photography exhibition on the Israeli ‘ezrat nashim.’

Darwinism vs. Creationism: Not just for Christians

October 4, 2014

Bar-Ilan University’s Dr. Rachel Pear explains Jewish Orthodox attitudes to Darwinism to host Gilad Halpern.