Dr. Lee Perlman discusses his new book, โBut Abu Ibrahim, We’re Family!โ, exploring several theater productions, all with a joint Jewish-Arab component, as a potential backdrop for peace building.
Dr. Rachel Harris discusses her new book, โWarriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinemaโ. How do the evolving representations of women relate to broader changes in Israeli society and culture?
Sarah Aaronsohn was a young Jewish woman who during the First World War operated a pro-British spy ring under the nose of the Ottoman authorities in Palestine. Her tumultuous life, tragic death, and considerable contribution to the Allied war effort are revisited in a new book.
How do our linguistic priorities characterize the way we perceive the world, and how do they reinforce cultural norms? Eviatar Zerubavel, professor of sociology at Rutgers University, explains.
Prof. Erica Chenoweth, a scholar of international relations, says that there has been a dramatic increase in the number of non-violent protests in the world. She knows because she counts them, rigorously; she also counts when they work and why.
Dr. Dror Yinon reviews a series of lectures on Existentialism that recently took place at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He lays out the fundamentals of this philosophical tradition and analyzes its ongoing relevance in the age of populism and post-truth.
Dr. Keith Kahn-Harris, a British sociologist and commentator, discusses his new book โDenial: The Unspeakable Truth.โ It attempts to analyze the emergence and growing prevalence of denialism – a quasi-nihilist reflex that subsumed healthy skepticism and fact-based debate.
How do societies recover from major violence and terrible injustice? How do they cope with collective trauma, perpetrators, guilt, and is there a road to forgiveness? Professor Ruti Teitel discusses her scholarly work on transitional justice.
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, head of the Media Reform Program and the Open Government Program at the Israel Democracy Institute, joins us to discuss media policy in Israel and the way government interference may infringe on the country’s relatively robust freedom of the press.
Yedidia Stern is worried about disturbing the balance of a Jewish and democratic state, as the nation-state law threatens to do. He believes that Israel must be a Jewish state, but without a legal anchor for equality, society is in trouble.
The @HebrewU makes all students take a course on โentrepreneurship & innovation,โ so they'll find their way in a gig-economy in a high-tech nation. Is the notion of learning-for-its-own-sake dying before our eyes? https://t.co/zM10YkTreU
The IDF plans to draft some for eight years, others for one year, others not at all: Is it finally really time to stick a fork in the notion of a โPeopleโs Armyโ? https://t.co/qTgVucGQCc
25 years ago this week, Yitzhak Rabin, Yassir Arafat & Bill Clinton gathered on the White House Lawn and made us believe that maybe a century of Palestinian-Jewish enmity was ending. What do we make of that unfulfilled hope? https://t.co/8dd8zbHlr9
