Join TLV1 on Monday, November 11 at 5pm (Jerusalem time), for a special LIVE broadcast from the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual summit. Tune in for the biggest names in the Jewish world today, who will share their views on the future of the Jewish people, Israel-diaspora relations, outreach and tzedakah and…
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Alex Epstein started writing as a young kid, in an attempt to imagine exciting alternatives to his life. The result of this life-long endeavor is his varied oeuvre, consisting of fantastical short stories. Famous for his so-called micro-fiction – ‘one-line stories’ – Alex’s work has been translated into English, Russian, Greek. In 2003,…
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Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss the dramatic exoneration of MK Avigdor Lieberman of charges of “breach of trust” on the part of a three judge panel, a verdict that brought to a swift end a languorously slow (17 year) investigation and trial; the IDFs decision to buy boots from American factories, which…
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Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss The Palestinian prisoner release and whether it helps or hinders the peace process Education Minister Shay Piron’s decision to start teaching first-graders about the Holocaust and carry on right through high school: Should we teach Treblinka to tots?. The gang also chats with Knesset Member Dov Khenin about what’s…
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In Hebrew, צוהריים means noon and אחר הצוהריים means afternoon. But the actual afternoon hours, the ones we Israelis think of as afternoon, may be completely different than your own. So what do we mean when we say, “call me in the afternoon”? Guy explains
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Allison, Don, Eilon and Noah discuss: this week’s local elections, why fewer and fewer folks come out to vote in them, and what we’re voting about when we bother to vote at all, and our changing attitudes towards citizens who opt out, moving to Berlin or Brooklyn, and how the shifts reflect a…
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People say that Israelis can come across as rude. Are we simply too direct? Contrary to popular belief, there are ways to be courteous in modern Hebrew.
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Born an only child in Sarajevo, Marina Toshich was influenced by the culturally diverse music scene found in the streets of her Bosnian capital. Throughout her life, Marina experimented with cultural activities ranging from plastic art, piano, horseback riding, and swimming at the 1985 Maccabiah Games in Israel. After the Gulf War in…
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Compost, Computers & Competitors – The Promised Podcast
Allison, Eilon, Don and Noah discuss the evaporation (or evisceration) of environmental parties in the last elections – where have all the flower-lovers gone?, the yawning digital divide in Israel, whether this google-gap ought to concern us the primaries in the Labor Party, and why the once beloved Shelly Yacimovich is now embattled….
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