Gilad Halpern

Academic boycotts of Israel – why all the fuss?

A discussion with Zvi Ziegler, Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the Technion and Chairman of the Israeli inter-university forum to combat academic boycotts.

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Why hawks become doves: The Shimon Peres case study

A discussion of the leftward shift of Israel’s political establishment over the decades, with Shimon Peres as its standard-bearer.

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When Israel’s “demographic time bomb” started ticking

Nimrod Lin, a doctoral fellow in history at the University of Toronto, tracks back the emergence of the demographic discourse in Zionism.

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Edifying Zionism: Richard Kaufman, a pioneering architect

Kaufmann was hired in 1920 as the chief planner of the Zionist community. He single-handedly shaped the landscape of modern Israel.

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ISIS: The old-new face of radical Islam

A discussion with Dr. Ori Goldberg, a scholar of political Islam and lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, analyzes the Islamic State group.

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Welcome to Slovakia’s ‘Jewish Pompeii’

After the fall of Communism, photographer Yuri Dojc returned to his native Slovakia to document the country’s Jewish community.

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Left out: The rise of the Israeli right

A discussion with Colin Shindler, professor emeritus of Israel Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

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