Professor Daniel Monterescu, a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion in Haifa, discusses his recently published ethnographic study of Jaffa.

Dr. Daniel Lee of the University of Sheffield discusses the unusual case of Jews in metropolitan France and its North African colonies after the 1940 defeat by Nazi Germany.

Dr. Yael Berda of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, discusses Israeli surveillance of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.

Professor Benny Morris, one of the foremost historians of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has ventured into a new territory.

Dr. Yael Sternhell of Tel Aviv University analyzes the interplay between physical movement of populations and the redrawing of the social and political order.

Dr. Simon Parizhsky of Moscow’s Eshkolot Center busts a few myths about the “Dark Ages” of the Soviet Union and the “enlightenment” of the post-Communist era.

Dr. Karin Loevy and Dr. Yoav Mehozay discuss how states of emergency are far more prevalent than we’d like to admit, and the repercussions for democracy that this situation entails.

Professor Yehuda Shenhav of Tel Aviv University discusses how literary translations can outperform scholarship in bringing about positive social change.

Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies Robert Goldenberg at Stony Brook University discusses the Jewish rituals of the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and why a practicing Jew today will unlikely recognize any of them.

Dr. Abigail Jacobson and Dr. Moshe Naor discuss their co-authored book “Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine.”