Podcast Episodes

Unlock the Mysteries of the Arab World

Shibley Telhami is the master of survey research in the Middle East. His book The World Through Arab Eyes walks through the complexities of character…

7 years, 5 months ago

Foul Language: The Politicization of Arabic Teaching in Israeli Schools

Dr. Yonatan Mendel, the director of the Center for Jewish-Arab relations at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, is author of the recently published …

7 years, 5 months ago

Modern-Ultra-Orthodox: Israel's Haredi Community at a Crossroads

Dr Gilad Malach, head of the ultra-Orthodox research program at the Israel Democracy Institute, discusses the findings of the 2018 statistical report…

7 years, 6 months ago

Body Politics: Bioethics and Medical Sociology, Revisited

Dr Hagai Boas, head of the Science, Technology and Civilization Program at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses his co-edited volume Bioethics…

7 years, 6 months ago

OMG - Israeli Film Finds Religion

Israeli film scholar Dan Chyutin observes that Israeli film once reflected secular Israeli society, and religion appeared mainly as stage dressing. B…

7 years, 6 months ago

Democracy in Crisis? Israeli Survey Respondents Agree to Disagree

Israel's 2018 Democracy Index, an annual survey of the health of Israeli democracy, shows off the deepest contradictions in Israeli life.

Tamar Herma…

7 years, 6 months ago

Level-Headed Men Seldom Make History

Derek Penslar, Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, discusses his forthcoming book, Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader, an addition …

7 years, 6 months ago

The Holocaust Averted: Counterfactual History of US Jews

Jeffrey S. Gurock, professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, delves into the realm of counterfactual history in his recently published The H…

7 years, 7 months ago

Set up to Fail: Genealogy of Unachieved Palestinian Statehood

Dr. Seth Anziska, a lecturer in Jewish-Muslim relations at University College, London and a visiting fellow at the US/Middle East Project, discusses …

7 years, 7 months ago

Palestinian Refugees: The Third Rail of the Conflict

Former Member of Knesset Einat Wilf discusses her book War of Return, arguing that the conflict will never end until the world recognizes that Palest…

7 years, 7 months ago