the tel aviv review – full show

Middle-of-the-road Judaism: The emergence of Modern Orthodoxy – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Dr. Ephraim Chamiel about the emergence of modern orthodoxy, and Dr. Sonja Narunsky-Laden about Israel-Palestine discourse in South Africa.

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Portrait of the father of a nation – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Anita Shapira about her recent biography of Ben-Gurion, and to Yigal Schwarz about Hebrew literature and Israeli identity.

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Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern discusses Jewish-Arab common identity in Mandate Palestine, and the Holocaust as a litmus test of the Israeli media.

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How the Bible became holy – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern hears the story of Jewish refugees during the War of Independence, and the canonization process of the texts that make up the Bible.

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You’re in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern explores how WWI radically changed Jews’ attitudes towards warfare; and the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academia.

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Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and the chief theme in the memoirs of Holocaust survivors: Betrayal.

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Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern discusses exchanges between Israeli and German scientists before the normalizing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

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Why the Internet didn’t kill the TV star – The Tel Aviv Review

Host Gilad Halpern talks to Jerome Bourdon about the evolution of the peoplemeter, and to Prof. Sharon Megdal about water resource management in arid areas.

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Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews – The Tel Aviv Review

Gilad Halpern talks to Prof. Marian Turski about why some Polish Jews stayed after WWII, and to Ruthie Pliskin about the role of emotions in the conflict.

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