Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMiddle-of-the-road Judaism: The emergence of Modern Orthodoxy
Middle-of-the-road Judaism
Dr. Ephraim Chamiel, a lecturer and scholar of Jewish thought in the modern era, talks about his book, The Middle Way: The…
11 years, 4 months ago
Portrait of the father of a nation
Portrait of the father of a nation
Prof. Anita Shapira, one of Israel's most eminent historians of Zionism, discusses her newly published biography o…
11 years, 4 months ago
Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence
Requiem for a bygone Jewish-Arab coexistence
Prof. Menachem Klein, a Middle East history professor at Bar-Ilan University, discusses his recent book …
11 years, 4 months ago
Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood
Palestinian students and the struggle for nationhood
Dr. Ido Zelkovitz, a Middle East scholar at the University of Haifa, talks about his new book St…
11 years, 5 months ago
How the Bible became holy
In 1948, Palestine saw Jewish refugees too
Dr. Nurit Cohen Levinovsky, a historian and author of Jewish Refugees During the War of Independence, tell…
11 years, 5 months ago
You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military
You're in the army now: How Judaism fell back in love with the military
Prof. Stuart Cohen, a political scientist specializing in diplomatic and mili…
11 years, 6 months ago
Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews
Why the Diaspora is good for the Jews
Prof. Alan Wolfe, a political scientist at Boston College, explores why so few Jews in the West acknowledge the…
11 years, 6 months ago
Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges
Political science: Early Israeli-German scientific exchanges
Prof. Ute Deichmann, a historian of science at Ben Gurion University, tells us to what e…
11 years, 6 months ago
Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star
Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star
Jerome Bourdon, a professor of communications at Tel Aviv University, tell us about the evolution of the peo…
11 years, 7 months ago
Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews
Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews
Prof. Marian Turski, Chairman of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, talks about Jewish life …
11 years, 7 months ago