Israeli sports news: The quick and the ‘red or dead’
Host Laragh Widdess tells this week’s sporting tales from Israel, including speed skating success and unruly soccer fans, and picks a ‘sportsman of the week.’
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Women in Israel: The seen and the unseen
Allison, Don, and Noah discuss the photoshopping of Angela Merkel out of a picture of the heads-of-state in Paris by an ultra-Orthodox paper.
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On earth as it is in Tel Aviv – Israel in Translation
Host Marcela Sulak reads from Aharon Shabtai’s poem ‘Our Land,’ which features a kind of ‘afterlife’ Tel Aviv.
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Of Labor glossed
We discuss the Labor Party primaries, which produced a list of candidates that is youngish, Ashkenazi-ish, female-ish, and socially-aware-ish.
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Sports news: Palestine scores first Asian Cup goal
Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball; Israel tennis; English and Spanish soccer league round-ups; Have David Blatt and LeBron James turned a corner?
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Sporting mensches: The many guises of Israel’s baseball ‘king’
Nate Fish, the national director of the Israel Association of Baseball and self-styled ‘King of Jewish Baseball,’ joins Laragh in the studio.
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Ecologically underprivileged: Environmental justice in Israel
Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.
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Parashat HaShavua: Avraham Burg on the rebellion of the Israelites
Former Speaker of the Knesset, Avraham “Avrum” Burg, offers a contemporary reading of this week’s Torah portion ‘Va’era.’
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Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood: Past and present
Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’
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Which side are you on?
We discuss a new Foreign Ministry propaganda video that says, basically, “Give us a break, you know that Israel is the good guy and Islam is the enemy.”
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