Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Middle East: Guide to the Perplexed
The giddy hopes of the Arab uprisings in 2011 have given way to resurgent authoritarian leadership in some states, while others are bleeding to death…
9 years ago
Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen's Breakaway From Radical Hasidism
Shulem Deen was raised in an ultra-orthodox sect, the Skverers, considered too extreme even for other Hasidic Jews. He grew up speaking Yiddish in th…
9 years ago
No Occupation Without Annexation: Israel and the West Bank, 50 Years On
Dr. Omar Dajani, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Global Center for Business and Development at the University of the Pacific in California, a…
9 years ago
Because It's There: Shifting Discourses in the 'Temple Mount Faithful' Movement
Dr. Shlomo Fischer, a sociologist of religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's School of Education, discusses the evolution of justifications …
9 years ago
American Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws
Why did the Nazis admire America? Yale University law professor James Q. Whitman started out asking why Hitler in Mein Kampf, and other Nazis in the …
9 years, 1 month ago
The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica
Jewish history professor Aron Rodrigue of Stanford University was the keynote speaker at an international conference held this week at the Van Leer J…
9 years, 1 month ago
Israel, Slipping Through my Fingers
Larry Derfner, a veteran American-Israeli journalist, discusses his new memoir No Country For Jewish Liberals, chronicling the twin ideological journ…
9 years, 1 month ago
Attempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma
Dr. Amir Engel, a lecturer in German language and literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of the newly published Gershom Scho…
9 years, 1 month ago
First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking
America has long been viewed as the quintessential broker of Israeli-Palestinian peace. In his book Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peac…
9 years, 1 month ago
Portnoy and I: Philip Roth's Great American Moment
Bernard Avishai, an essayist and lecturer at Dartmouth College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discusses his book Promiscuous: 'Portnoy's Comp…
9 years, 1 month ago