Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIsrael's grand economic reform that never was
Dr. Ronen Mendelkern, a political economist at Tel Aviv University, discusses the 1962 New Economic Policy - a plan that sought to liberalize the hig…
9 years, 6 months ago
Retracing Zionism's liberal roots
Professor Chaim Gans, a legal and political philosopher at Tel Aviv University, discusses his new book A Political Theory for the Jewish People, whic…
9 years, 6 months ago
Back when Harlem was Jewish
Prof. Jeffrey S. Gurock, a historian of American Judaism at Yeshiva University in New York, discusses his latest book The Jews of Harlem: The Rise, D…
9 years, 6 months ago
Two Jewish communities separated by a common affinity for Israel
Daniel Goldman, the chairman of Gesher, an Israeli civil society organization dedicated to building bridges and mending rifts in Israeli society, and…
9 years, 6 months ago
The faith equation: Are secularism and scientific progress inextricably intertwined?
Gabriel Motzkin, professor of philosophy and the outgoing director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, discusses the link between religion and scien…
9 years, 6 months ago
Sunshine state: The case for renewable energy in Israel
Professor Itai Sened, the founding chair of the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv University whose research, in collaboration with the …
9 years, 6 months ago
Esperanto: Undoing the curse of Babel
Professor Esther Schor of the Department of English at Princeton University discusses her new book "Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Uni…
9 years, 7 months ago
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Rabbi Burton Visotzky, Professor of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Center in New York, discusses his new book "Aphrodit…
9 years, 7 months ago
Women on a mission: Tackling gender inequality in Israel
Professor Naomi Chazan, a political scientist and the co-director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute's Center for the Advancement of Women in the Pu…
9 years, 7 months ago
Kids from hell: Early Holocaust testimonies of Child Survivors
Dr. Boaz Cohen, lecturer in history and chair of the Holocaust Studies Program at the Western Galilee College, discusses his new book Was Their Voice…
9 years, 7 months ago