Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFraught Friends: Israel and the EU, Past and Present
Israel and the European Union were both founded following World War II – Israel would protect the Jews and the EU would inoculate the continent from …
6 years, 2 months ago
Cherchez Les Femmes
Dr Rachel Mesch, professor of French and English at Yeshiva University, discusses her new book Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Cen…
6 years, 2 months ago
The Crypto-Jews of the Mid-Atlantic
Ronnie Perelis, Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies and the director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs, discusses h…
6 years, 2 months ago
Returning to the Scene of the Crime
Why are young Israeli Jews, three generations after the Holocaust, moving to Germany in droves? Who are they, how do they explain their choices, and …
6 years, 2 months ago
If You Build It: Jewish Architecture Throughout the Centuries
Yeshiva University professors Jess Olson, Ronnie Perelis and Steven Fine, contributors to the edited book Jewish Religious Architecture: From Biblica…
6 years, 3 months ago
Well-Behaved Orthodox Journalists Seldom Make History
Orthodox journalists Sivan Rahav-Meir and Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt discuss the media, religion and gender in a panel discussion held at Yeshiva Uni…
6 years, 3 months ago
Judaism for Dummies?
Jess Olson, Associate Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, discusses his book Jewish Culture: A Quick Immersion. Is the title not a con…
6 years, 3 months ago
I'll Have What She's Having
Adeena Sussman's new Israeli cookbook Sababa took the food world by storm, and everyone else. With prose as effortless as her recipes look, she tells…
6 years, 3 months ago
Death of the Children, Flight of the Birds
Acclaimed novelist Colum McCann's newest novel confronts pain so deep, it can only be dismantled and reassembled as images. His new novel, Apeirogon,…
6 years, 3 months ago
My Neighbor, My Kapo
Between 1950-1972, dozens of former Jewish kapos stood trial in Israel, yet their story is almost entirely unknown. Prof. Dan Porat, a historian at t…
6 years, 4 months ago