Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNo place like home: Israel's pioneering community research
Dr. Sara Shadmi-Wortman, chair of the community research and action programs at Oranim Academic College, discusses with host Gilad Halpern how the co…
9 years, 9 months ago
The gatekeepers: Israel's supreme court in a changing reality
Prof. Mohammed Wattad, a legal scholar at the University of California at Irvine and Zefat Academic College in Israel, explores with host Gilad Halpe…
9 years, 9 months ago
Shalom/Salam: On the benefits and limitations of bilingual education
Dr. Merav Ben-Nun, a lecturer at Oranim Academic College of Education and the founding principal of Haifa's first Jewish-Arab school, discusses with …
9 years, 10 months ago
Yad Vashem with an air force: "Hegemonic victimhood" in Israel
Ilan Peleg, a professor of government, law and Israel Studies at Lafayette College, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the recent shift in Israel's heg…
9 years, 10 months ago
Verses of coexistence: Teaching poetry in a region of conflict
Dr. Rachel Back, a poet, translator and lecturer in English literature at Oranim Academic College for Education, discusses with host Gilad Halpern th…
9 years, 10 months ago
East is East: Cosmopolitanism and Levantinism in Mizrahi thought
Zachary Smith, a doctoral fellow in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the critique leveled at the…
9 years, 10 months ago
Druze and don'ts: The integration of an indigenous community in modern Israel
Prof. William Miles, a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the challenges 21st-century Israel…
9 years, 10 months ago
Empire state builders: Architects of modern Jerusalem
Adina Hoffman, an Israeli-American writer, critic and essayist, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her new book Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architec…
9 years, 10 months ago
The Iron Lady of the Orient
Dr. Azriel Bermant, a historian and international relations professor at Tel Aviv University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his book Margaret Tha…
9 years, 10 months ago
Jo'burg on the Mediterranean: South African migration to Israel
Prof. Rebeca Raijman, a sociologist at the University of Haifa, discusses with host Gilad Halpern her book South African Jews in Israel: Assimilation…
9 years, 10 months ago