Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Road to Forgiveness: How Societies Cope with Collective Trauma
How do societies recover from major violence and terrible injustice? How do they cope with collective trauma, perpetrators, guilt, and is there a roa…
7 years, 11 months ago
On the Media: Public Broadcasting, Regulation and Press Freedom in Israel
Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democratic Values and Institutions, the head of the Media Reform Program and the O…
7 years, 11 months ago
My Kingdom for a Constitution
Yedidia Stern is worried about disturbing the balance of a Jewish and democratic state, as the nation-state law threatens to do. He believes that Isr…
7 years, 11 months ago
Business and Human Rights: A Contradiction in Terms?
Can we reconcile between business development and safeguarding human rights? David Bilchitz, professor of law at the University of Johannesburg, prop…
7 years, 11 months ago
Live from the 2018 AIS Conference: The 'Berkeley School' Approach to Hebrew Literature
On this plenary session at the 2018 annual conference of the Association for Israel Studies, recorded at the University of California at Berkeley, Te…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Survival of the Sentient: The Evolution of the Soul
Prof. Eva Jablonka, a philosopher of science at Tel Aviv University, discusses her forthcoming book The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul. Can we estab…
7 years, 11 months ago
Quo Vadis, IDF?
The role of the IDF in Israeli life cannot be overstated, past and present. But the country, and the army, are changing. So are the missions Israel u…
8 years ago
Babel in Zion: The Inculcation of Hebrew in Pre-State Israel
Dr. Liora Halperin, assistant professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, author of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationali…
8 years ago
Bibi: The King is Alive, Long Live the King
Benjamin Netanyahu's endurance as Prime Minister is matched only by his mystique: what lies behind his grip on Israeli society? How did he climb to t…
8 years ago
Never Again? East German and Radical Left West German Attitudes to Israel
Jeffrey Herf, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Maryland, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the attitude of East Germany and …
8 years ago