Dr. Neta Lipman, deputy director of the Israeli Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, talks about environmental justice.

Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at Haifa University talks about his new book ‘Students and Resistance in Palestine: Books, Guns and Politics.’

Michael Satlow sheds some light on the selection and canonization processes over the centuries that brought the Bible to the special status it holds today.

Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky tells the story of the tens of thousands of Israeli Jews who became refugees during the War of Independence.

Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and military history, explains how WWI changed the attitude of Jews towards warfare.

Holocaust historian Prof. Deborah Dwork discusses the production of knowledge about the Holocaust in an academic environment.

We discuss the main themes that feature in memoirs written by Holocaust survivors – chief among them, a narrative of betrayal.

We explore why so few Jews in the West acknowledge their good fortune, and how their attitudes change as the memory of the Holocaust wanes.

Host Gilad Halpern tries to find out why, 250 years into the age of secularism, religion still plays a crucial role in the lives of people everywhere.