


Recent Episodes
Detente? Christian-Jewish Relations in the Postwar Era
Dr Karma Ben-Johanan discusses her new book “Jacob's Younger Brother: Christian-Jewish relations after Vatican II” and explains what were the implications of the Vatican's new approach to Judaism, announced in the 1960s, across the Catholic world and among Jewish theologians
What Do Israeli Haredim Really Care About?
Dr Nechumi Yaffe discusses her research on ultra-Orthodox "capabilities" - a tool used by social scientists to measure the well-being and opportunities afforded to people - as well as the relationship between a Haredi lifestyle and higher education
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About the Hosts

Gilad Halpern
Gilad is a journalist, broadcaster and media historian. He is also a founding co-editor of the Tel Aviv Review of Books magazine, an English-language online quarterly, and an Idit Fellow at the University of Haifa, researching the history of the Jewish press in Mandatory Palestine. Previously he was Managing Editor for Ynetnews and Assignments Editor for Haaretz English Edition. His work appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Time Out magazine, the Jewish Quarterly and the Jewish Chronicle.

Dr. Yael Berda
Dr. Yael Berda is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University, and a fellow at Middle East initiative at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She received her PhD from Princeton University; her MA from Tel Aviv University, and her LLB from Hebrew University faculty of Law. Previously a practicing Human Rights lawyer, representing clients in Military, District and Supreme courts in Israel, her most recent books are Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the West Bank and Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergencies in the Former British Empire.
Meet Jerusalem’s Top Catholic Monk
Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel, the head of Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey, in conversation about Christian life in Israel, the nature of interfaith dialogue, the role of religion in diplomacy and conflict resolution, and more