LET’S GET LIT: The poetry of observation
Joanna Chen, a poet and essayist, talks about the journalistic qualities that have helped grow her writing in a poetic direction.
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This Jewish Year in the News
GILAD HALPERN of ‘So Much To Say’ talks about Operation Protective Edge, Ehud Olmert’s sentencing, Avigdor Lieberman’s acquittal, and death of Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef.
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Innovation nation: Stories from the DLD Innovation Festival: Agustin Cordon
At Tel Aviv’s 5th Cities Summit, part of the DLD Innovation Festival, Spain’s Agustin Cordon, CEO of Fira Barcelona, shares his thoughts about what Tel Aviv is doing right.
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STORY OF THE WEEK: Musicians not politicians
Omer Mor, of “The City” (Ha’Ir Hazot) hip-hop opera, recounts the wave of protests from the BDS movement at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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PERSON OF THE WEEK: Noemi Schlosser’s Tractor Factory
Host Ilene Prusher talks to Noemi Schlosser, a writer, producer, actor, and the artistic director of Salomee Speelt, a Belgian mixed-media theater company.
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The Love and Treasure of Ayelet Waldman
Writer Ayelet Waldman reads from her new novel “Love and Treasure” and talks about the challenge of writing a novel free of “Holocaust kitsch.”
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LET’S GET LIT: Building bridges
In her debut novel ‘Ishmael’s Oranges,’ author Claire Hajaj talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in both literary and personal terms.
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ILENE IN: On Turkish tassology
Turkey has been reluctant to join the fight against the Islamic State, but is now coming round.
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