Tel Aviv Review

Prof. Csaba Nikolenyi, a political scientist at Concordia University in Canada and the director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies there, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the effects of the phenomenon of party swapping on political stability in Israel over the years. Song: Eitan Masuri - Elohim Natan Lecha Bematana This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Sam Fleischacker, a professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his latest book The Good and the Good Book, which seeks to establish how valid sacred texts are for the modern, rational man. Song: Rona Kenan - Ani Va'atsmi This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Dov Waxman, a political science, international affairs and Israel Studies scholar at Northeastern University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern his new book Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel, which explores the evolution of the Israel debate among Jewish Americans over the years. Song: J Views - Into The Light This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

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 high school students. He talks to host Gilad Halpern about Abul 'Alaa al Ma'ari, a maverick 11th century Islamic theologian and poet, whose unconventional views remain hated and admired in equal measure. Song: Gili Yalo - City Life This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Russell Berman, a literary scholar at Stanford University, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the pedagogic rationale behind his undergraduate seminar "Zionism and the Novel," and how a critical study of literature can enrich the debate about Israel and Zionism. Song: OSOG - Who Who This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Motti Inbari, a religions scholar at the University of North Carolina Pembroke, is the author of the new book Jewish Radical Ultra-Orthodoxy Confronts Modernity, Zionism and Women's Equality. Prof. Inbari discusses with host Gilad Halpern the genealogy of the two most radical examples of Jewish ultra-Orthodoxy: Jerusalem's Neturei Karta and Brooklyn's Satmar Hasidim. Song: Sharon Lifshitz - Machshavot Hakaits This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Chandra Mukerji, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego, is the author of the forthcoming book Reimagining Modernity. She discusses with host Gilad Halpern her thesis that traces the origins of modernity to the Black Death, which instigated a complete overhaul in the way society functioned and perceived itself. Song: Nechi Nech - Lamrot Hakol (Balada LePetach Tikva) This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Host Gilad Halpern speaks to Prof. Gili Drori, head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and co-chair of the international conference "Internationalization, Globalization and Governance of Academia," which was recently held at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. They discuss how universities have adapted to market forces and global capitalism with a mixture of accommodation and resistance. Song: Eatliz - Attractive This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Haim Yacobi, a political geographer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of the recently published Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (the Hebrew version was published by the Van Leer Institute). Prof. Yacobi explains to host Gilad Halpern how Israel's political and conceptual relationship with the African continent over the years contributed to the shaping of its own space and identity. Song: Karolina - Tsel Ets Tamar This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Uriel Abulof, a political scientist at Tel Aviv University, is the author of the new book The Mortality and Morality of Nations. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern the three case studies explored in his book - three national collectives that have been pathologically insecure about the validity of their identity and the viability of their polity: French Canadians, Afrikaners, and Jewish Israelis. Song: Hili Yalon - Habayit Hu Halev This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Itzick Shai, an archaeologist and lecturer in Israeli heritage at Ariel University, talks to host Gilad Halpern about the excavation of Tel Burna, in the coastal lowlands in southwestern Israel. There, he and his colleagues apply their inclusive "community" approach to archaeology. Song: Arik Einstein - Shavir This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Aidan Beatty, a post-doctoral fellow in Israel Studies at the Concordia University, Canada, is the author of the forthcoming book Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism, 1884-1938. He discusses with host Gilad Halpern the surprisingly many parallels between Zionism and Irish nationalism. Song: Dikla - Sheva BaErev This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Prof. Meira Polliack of the Department of Bible Studies at Tel Aviv University discusses with host Gilad Halpern the conceptual and theological exchanges between Islam and Judaism in the 9th and 10th centuries. Song: Adrian Younge feat. Karolina & Letitia Sadier - Hands Of God This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Shai Ferraro, a religions scholar at Tel Aviv University, explores with host Gilad Halpern the emergence of pagan rituals in contemporary Israel against the backdrop of Judaism's acrimonious relationship with idolatry. Song: Gazoz - Roni This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Esther Carmel-Hakim, a historian of Zionism at the University of Haifa, explores with host Gilad Halpern the central role women played in the Jewish national movement from its early stages, and explains why they've been marginalized by the official historiography. Song: Gal de Paz Band - The Change This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Rachel Werczberger, an anthropologist, religious scholar, and post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, explores with host Gilad Halpern the recent evolution of new forms of spirituality in Israeli society, against the backdrop of tradition and the advent of neoliberalism. Song: Shotey Hanevua - Yedia This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the University of Washington, is the author of the recently published Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East. He offers host Gilad Halpern an analysis of how the Middle East turned out to be a microcosm of American foreign policy. Song: Jango - Yoter Mehakol This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Shayna Weiss, a Jewish history scholar and post-doctoral fellow at Tel Aviv University, traces with host Gilad Halpern the origin of gender segregation at beaches in Tel Aviv, and the surprising roles that religion, propriety, and Zionism played in it. Song: Hadorbanim - Shuv Hadisco Kan This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. David Hadar, a literary scholar and post-doctoral fellow at the Open University, analyzes with host Gilad Halpern the influence, overt and covert, of the Jewish-American novelist on the much younger Israeli-Arab author, drawing parallels between their troubled literary personas. Song: Matisyahu - Sunshine This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.

Dr. Nir Arielli, a lecturer in international history and politics at the University of Leeds, UK, discusses with host Gilad Halpern the tumultuous life of his great aunt, Leah Trachtman-Palchan, a Communist activist who was deported from British-ruled Palestine to the Soviet Union only to reconnect with her Zionism decades later. Her edited memoir, Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union, has recently appeared in English. Song: Leah Shabat - Sod Hadvarim Hapshutim This season of the Tel Aviv Review is made possible by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, which promotes humanistic, democratic, and liberal values in the social discourse in Israel.