Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIsraeli and Palestinian Literature as Critique
Dr. Kfir Cohen Lustig, Academic Director of the Globalization and Sovereignty Cluster at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses his book Makers …
6 years, 4 months ago
More Jewish, Less Democratic?
Rabbi Hara Person, the Chief Executive of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, is the publisher of the new book Deepening the Dialogue: America…
6 years, 4 months ago
Existential Frets: The Rise and Fall of Jean-Paul Sartre in the Arab World
Dr Yoav Di Capua, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Arab intellectual history, discusses his new book No Exi…
6 years, 4 months ago
Reading Farsi in Tel Aviv
Behind the political bogeyman of modern Iran lie centuries of Persian poetry and literature. Orly Noy, journalist and political activist, translates …
6 years, 5 months ago
Why Can't America Embrace Palestine?
Khaled Elgindy, formerly at the Brookings Institute and currently Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Palestine and Palestinian-Israeli Affa…
6 years, 5 months ago
Populism for the Popular Audience
Scholars and co-authors Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Cas Mudde provide a comprehensive look at the elusive phenomenon of populism for the general …
6 years, 5 months ago
The Israeli Economy: A Report Card
Prof. Karnit Flug, former Governor of the Bank of Israel and currently Vice President for Research at the Israel Democracy Institute, analyzes the st…
6 years, 5 months ago
Zionism Explained to My Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevy, American-Israeli writer and public intellectual, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, discusses his best-s…
6 years, 5 months ago
How to Deal With the Oldest Hatred
Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger, a Reform rabbi at the West London Synagogue and a member of the House of Lords, as well as a member of several philan…
6 years, 6 months ago
In His Image
Dr Tomer Persico, a religions scholar, currently Shalom Hartman Institute Bay Area Scholar in Residence and the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of…
6 years, 6 months ago