The Tel Aviv Review

The price of collaboration: Israel’s Arab informants

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Menachem Hofnung of Hebrew University about his ground-breaking study on Israel’s treatment of Arab informants.

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The cost of ‘normalizing’ war

The “cultural ambience” in the wake of the Six Day War, which blurred the boundaries between war and peace, was the main cause for the trauma of the Yom Kippur War.

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Silencing the ‘Yemenite Babies Affair’

Host Gilad Halpern interviews Dr Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber of Suffolk University about Israeli media bias in the obscure ‘Yemenite babies affair.’

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The Jewish revival and the renaissance of the ‘Orient’

The research of Hebrew University’s Dr. Hanan Harif has focused on Zionist intellectuals, who regarded the Jewish revival in the Land of Israel as part of the renaissance of the so-called ‘Orient.’

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The Golden Age of the Shtetl

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, professor of Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, posits that Medieval Spain wasn’t the only ‘Golden Age’ in Jewish history.

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American Jewry: A community divided beyond repair?

Host Gilad Halpern asks Prof Dov Waxman why Israelis should be concerned with the troubles of the American Jewish community.

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Reconciling ‘Jewishness’ and ‘Arabness’: A rainbow of Jewish thought in the Middle East

Host Gilad Halpern talks to Dr Moshe Behar about at the radically different positions of Jewish intellectuals in Arab countries at the turn of the century.

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