Rogel Alpher with right-wing ideologue Yisrael Medad – Journeys
Right-wing journalist and blogger Yisrael Medad refuses to recognize the Palestinians as a national collective — but that, he says, doesn’t exclude the prospect of dialogue.
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Rogel Alpher with illustrator Michel Kichka – Journeys
Illustrator Michel Kichka’s autobiographical comic book explores the condition of the children of Holocaust survivors.
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Rogel Alpher with Mizrahi muckraker Sami Shalom Chetrit – Journeys
Born in Morocco, raised in Israel and based in New York, the culture critic and public intellectual has many unconventional views about the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of Israel in its current form.
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Where Sovietology, feminism and peace activism meet – Journeys
As a CIA intelligence analyst in the 1960s, Sovietologist Galia Golan predicted the Prague Spring. She later moved to Israel and became a successful academic and activist.
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Rogel Alpher with entrepreneur & financier Tal Keinan – Journeys
Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories just doesn’t make financial sense, says entrepreneur and financier Tal Keinan.
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Modern-Day Pioneer James Grant-Rosenhead
UK-born James Grant-Rosenhead was on his way to become a middle-class lawyer, when a few trips to Israel turned him into a socialist activist and the co-founder of the world’s largest urban kibbutz.
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Rogel Alpher with ‘plastic cartoonist’ Hanoch Piven – Journeys
It took Uruguay-born Hanoch Piven a while, and a few trips abroad, to realize that Israel is his true home, despite his initial – and protracted – feeling of alienation.
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Rogel Alpher with the Holocaust survivors’ ambassador Colette Avital – Journeys
Romanian-born Colette Avital reached many summits – and many capitals – during her long career as a diplomat, but over the past few years she has dedicated herself to the plight of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel.
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Rogel Alpher with actress Sara von Schwarze – Journeys
Born in Germany to Catholic parents whose 1960s rebellion was converting to Judaism and moving to Israel, the famed theater actress now explores her split identity in her semi-autobiographical Between Two Worlds, an Israeli-German co-production.
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Rogel Alpher with Aya Golan – Journeys
One random encounter with an Israeli tourist on the streets of Bishkek was the first of many coincidences that led the way to Aya’s new life, in a new place with a new love.
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