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Back to SearchThe Birth of the Cosmopolitan Jew
Prof. Sander Gilman, who teaches history at Emory University in the United States, is an extremely prolific academic with a vast spectrum of fields o…
8 years, 3 months ago
Oh Lordy: Reza Aslan on His 'God: A Human History'
Why do we believe? After writing books about the god of Islam and Jesus of Nazareth, religion scholar Reza Aslan takes on the biggest question of all…
8 years, 3 months ago
Israeli Conscientious Objectors: Torn Between Values and Struggle for Survival
Dr. Erica Weiss, Tel Aviv University anthropologist and author of "Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty", tack…
8 years, 3 months ago
Jews, Colonialism and Whiteness: The Latin American Case
Dr Martina Weisz, a research fellow at the Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, discusses the place of the Jews i…
8 years, 3 months ago
American Zion: The Old Testament in Early American Political Thought
Dr. Eran Shalev of the Department of General History at the University of Haifa, author of American Zion: The Old Testament as Political Text from th…
8 years, 3 months ago
Squaring the Circle: Islamic Theologians' Encounter with Modernity
Prof. Uriya Shavit, the head of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and of the Religious Studies Program at Tel Aviv University, discusses h…
8 years, 3 months ago
All Her Daughters: The Story of Jerusalem's Legendary Headmistress
Prof. Laura Schor, a historian at Hunter College in New York and author of The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau's School for Girls 1900-1960, d…
8 years, 3 months ago
Men, Women and Children of the World: The Impact of Globalization on the Family
Prof. Daphna Hacker, an associate professor of law and gender studies at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book Legalized Families in the Era of…
8 years, 3 months ago
Israel's Bedouin: Straddling the Line Between Tradition and Modernity
Dr. Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder, a researcher at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University, specializes in the impact of …
8 years, 3 months ago
The Only Game in Town: Navigating the Conversion Charade
Dr Michal Kravel Tovi, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Tel Aviv University, discusses her new book When the State Winks: The Per…
8 years, 4 months ago