LET’S GET LIT: Elana Sztokman and the war on women
Jewish Orthodox feminist, activist, and author Elana Maryles Sztokman talks about her latest book on this week’s Let’s Get Lit.
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Jewish renewal on Sukkot
Dr. Ilan Ezrachi talks about the gathering of different streams of progressive Judaism that will meet next Sunday at the Hakhel festival.
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Fighting for Israel’s freedom
CEO Mickey Gitzin of Israel Hofsheet, or Be Free Israel, says it’s time to change the ultra-Orthodox religious establishment’s control over many issues in the Jewish state.
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Bogdan’s journey: Mending Jewish-Polish fences
Larry Loewinger tells us about a film he’s making, whose subject is a fascinating Polish man who has tried to mend fences between Jews and Poles.
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Lullabies from exile
Renowned oud musician Yair Dalal is in the TLV1 studio to talk about his new CD, ‘Lullabies from Exile,’ and tells us what he’s working on right now.
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StreetWise Hebrew on the surprising roots of ‘Kippur’
Guy Sharett talks about Moroccan-Jewish slang capara sheli (‘my sweetheart’), and the Arabic word for ‘infidel’ or ‘denial.’
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The organization tackling the suicide taboo head-on
Prof. Alan Apter of Path to Life, about the taboo subject of suicide following news that three IDF soldiers committed suicide.
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The power of the ‘piyut’
The Piyut Festival in Jerusalem, bridges the music of the Jewish and Islamic worlds. We talk about the importance of these devotional songs.
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Like angels on Yom Kippur
Rabbi Shlomo Chen talks about unity on Yom Kippur and explains why people not only fast, but also wear white.
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ILENE IN: On coinciding without colliding
Jewish and Muslim holidays can coincide without colliding. Ilene talks about the clashes that didn’t happen, despite journalists’ predictions.
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