Podcast Episodes

Political Science: Early Israeli-German Scientific Exchanges

This episode originally aired on Dec. 5th, 2014.

Bismarck famously said that "politics is not an exact science" - but what if exact sciences were det…

8 years, 5 months ago

To Have and Have Not: Aspirations, Fulfilled and Unfulfilled

Mika Almog, journalist, screenwriter and author, discusses her new collection of short stories, Anticipation (ציפייה), compiling poignantly unremarka…

8 years, 5 months ago

Actually Existing Populism: Anti-Immigration Rhetoric and the Assault on Liberal Democracy

Sasha Polakow-Suransky, deputy editor of Foreign Policy magazine, discusses his new book Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigra…

8 years, 5 months ago

Putting the Criticism Back into Bible Criticism

Little to nothing has changed since the 19th century in the way ancient Jewish scriptures are analyzed and understood. Prof. Hindy Najman, professor …

8 years, 6 months ago

Have a Heart: The Dolphinarium Bombing and a Heart Transplant

No one can forget the horrifying terror attack of 2001 when a suicide bomber killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls, at a Tel Aviv nightclub. But few…

8 years, 6 months ago

Greed or Need? Corruption in a Time of Corruption

Defining corruption may be complicated, but people know it when they see it. Is there such a thing as a culture of corruption, or do people in some c…

8 years, 6 months ago

Justice, Justice He Pursued - In the Hague

Sir Geoffrey Nice prosecuted one of the world's most notorious war criminals - Slobodan Milosevic, who escaped justice by dying before his verdict. I…

8 years, 6 months ago

A London Jewish Working Class Hero and His Twin Walk into a Sanatorium...

And from that moment on, Linda Grant sets her cast of unlikely characters free - as much as possible in a TB clinic in 1950s London. The Dark Circle …

8 years, 6 months ago

Live in London: Ian Black on One Hundred Years of Conflict

Ian Black, former Middle East editor of The Guardian newspaper, joins us live to discuss his new book Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palest…

8 years, 6 months ago

Single-Mindedness: Towards a New Understanding of Singlehood

Dr Kinneret Lahad, a senior lecturer in the Women and Gender Studies program at Tel Aviv University, discusses her book A Table for One: Re-Schedulin…

8 years, 6 months ago