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Dr. Uta Larkey, professor of German and the Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Languages at Goucher College in the United States, discuss…
10 years ago
Hold your noses: Floor crossing, coalition shopping & politicking in Israel
Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi, a political scientist at Concordia University in Canada and the director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies there, dis…
10 years ago
Strange bedfellows: Religious belief in the age of reason
Sam Fleischacker, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his latest book The Good and …
10 years ago
The opening of the Jewish-American mind
Prof. Dov Waxman, a political science, international affairs and Israel Studies scholar at Northeastern University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern…
10 years ago
The 11th century Islamic modernist who preceded modernity
Aram Abu Saleh, a student at Jerusalem's Israel Arts and Science Academy, is the recipient of the Van Leer award for outstanding essays written by hi…
10 years ago
Literature as a gateway to Zionism
Prof. Russell Berman, a literary scholar at Stanford University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the pedagogic rationale behind his undergraduate s…
10 years ago
New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century
Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Co…
10 years ago
Reimagining modernity: Crisis as the genesis of progress
Prof. Chandra Mukerji, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, is the auth…
10 years ago
Out of the ivory tower: Academia thrust into 21st century
Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-cha…
10 years, 1 month ago
Israel, an African Queen
Prof. Haim Yacobi, a political geographer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the recently published Israel and Africa: A Genealo…
10 years, 1 month ago