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October 2017

October 20: The Cold War's Six Hot Days

October 16: Boots on the Ground: Journeys in a War-Torn Middle East

October 13: Storming Down Memory Lane: Memory Activism in Israel and Palestine

October 9: Legal Aliens: Middle-Class Arab Migration to Israeli Metropolitan Areas

October 6: Persons of Dollar: How GDP Became King

October 2: Fences and Neighbors: A Story of Friendship Across the Divide

September 2017

September 29: The Wild West (Bank): The Allegory That Keeps on Giving

September 25: Worth a Thousand Words: Hitler and Nazism in US Editorial Cartoons

September 22: “I’m a Jewish Man in Love with a Hitler Youth”

September 18: Are You There, Allah? It’s Me, Haroon

September 15: Fast Forverts: Media and Culture in the US Jewish Labor Movement

September 11: Hebrew: The Revival of a Not-So-Dead Language

September 8: TLV1 Extra: Unconventional Views on Current Events

September 4: Between a Rock and Hard Place: Jews of Buczacz Amid Rising Nationalism

September 1: Putting South Africa Together Again (And Surviving a Bomb)

August 2017

August 28: Upper West Bank: The Story of American-Born Settlers

August 25: Badges and Gadgets: Israel’s High-Tech Army

August 21: Enemies, a Love Story: North African Jews and Muslims in France

August 18: War Before Wars: Nationalism and Violence in the Balkans, 1912-1913

August 14: No Return: Non-Jewish Migrants in the Jewish State

August 11: The Burden of Responsibility: Hamas Rule in Gaza

August 7: Women’s Rights and Human Rights: Hand in Glove?

August 4: Rebel Rousers: Why National Movements Fight

July 2017

July 31: In God We Trust? The Sociology of Religion Revisited

July 28: Stripped: Citizenship in America and the Revocation Thereof

July 24: Peddlers on the Road: Patterns of Jewish Migration to the New World

July 21: The Great Jewish-American Intellectual You Don’t Know

July 17: When in Romania, Do as the Romanian Jews

July 14: The Menorah: A Most Emblematic Emblem

July 10: The Lobbyist: Herbert Hoover and the Jews

July 7: Return to Former Glory: Sephardic Religious Culture in Israel

July 3: Down and Out in Be’er Sheba and Afula

June 2017

June 30: The Tel Aviv Review LIVE in New York: Timothy Snyder on Tyranny

June 26: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, v.2015

June 23: Is a Peaceful Peace Process Born to Fail?

June 19: Romeo and Juliet get Banned

June 12: The Middle East: Guide to the Perplexed

June 9: Unchain My Heart: Shulem Deen's Breakaway From Radical Hasidism

June 5: No Occupation Without Annexation: Israel and the West Bank, 50 Years On

June 2: Because It's There: Shifting Discourses in the 'Temple Mount Faithful' Movement

May 2017

May 29: American Exceptionalism: Why the Nazis Looked up to US Race Laws

May 26: The New Sepharad: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Salonica

May 22: Israel, Slipping Through my Fingers

May 19: Attempting to Solve the Scholem Enigma

May 15: First, Do No Harm: Rashid Khalidi on US Peace-Blocking

May 12: Portnoy and I: Philip Roth's Great American Moment

May 8: The Matriarchs: Russian, Palestinian and Jewish Mothers in Israel

May 5: Found in Translation: The Definitive SY Agnon, in English

May 1: Ruth, a Leader of Biblical Magnitude

April 2017

April 28: Shake It up Baby Now: On the Intersection Between Dance and Politics

April 24: The Plight of 'Post-Ethnic' Young Israelis

April 21: Zionism, Apartheid, Blackface: Africa in Israeli Culture

April 17: We Were the Future Once: The Youth of 1948

April 13: Is Israel Really Unfairly Singled Out in the Western Media?

April 9: Occupier's Liability: International Law of Occupation Revisited

April 5: The Name is Azoulay, Yael Azoulay

April 3: Portrait of the Intellectual as a Young German Woman

March 2017:

March 31: Japan During WW2: A Classic Case of Anti-Semitism Without Jews

March 26: Who's World Heritage? De-politicizing Archaeology in Jerusalem

March 23: From Revolution to Constitution: Law and politics in Egypt since 2011

March 20: Activism and Its Discontents: A 35-Year Journey Along the Seam

March 15: Weather permitting: Dealing with climate change in a divided Middle East

March 13: Death of a statesman: Yitzhak Rabin and the end of an Israeli era

March 9: Zionism as a Vocation: Ahad Ha'am and the Legacy of Cultural Zionism

March 6: Jaffa, the crux of co-existence?

March 3: Adieu, Jews: France and North Africa under the Nazi occupation

February 2017:

February 27: Kafka in the West Bank: The bureaucracy of the occupation

February 24: Armenia's 30-year genocide

February 20: Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States

February 17: Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia

February 13: Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies

February 10: Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism

February 6: What did Jewish rituals look like 2000 years ago?

February 2: Proto-Mizrahim: Oriental Jews and Arabs in pre-state Israel

January 2017:

January 30: Russell's teapot and kiddush cup: Between Jewish and Western philosophies

January 26: Tel Aviv Review Extra: US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump

January 23: In the footsteps of the 'Jewish Dickens'

January 18: Once more with neshama: The art of Jewish theater

January 16: Missionary positions: What the Talmud says about sex

January 13: A different kind of Tzedakah: Organ donation in Jewish law

January 9: The 11th lost tribe: Tales of Jewish Sudan

January 6: Hasidism 2.0: Breslav and the secret of its newfound appeal

January 2: The glass mechitza: Fighting for women's rights, from the courthouse to shul

December 2016:

December 30: The last fight let us face: Israeli communist commemoration of Spain's civil war

December 26: Indecision makers: How Israel forces asylum seekers into legal limbo

December 23: Lies, damned lies and scholarship

December 19: Israel's grand economic reform that never was

December 16: Retracing Zionism's liberal roots

December 12: Back when Harlem was Jewish

December 9: Two Jewish communities separated by a common affinity for Israel

December 4: The faith equation: Are secularism and scientific progress inextricably intertwined?

December 2: Sunshine State: The case for renewable energy in Israel

November 2016:

November 28: Esperanto: Undoing the curse of Babel

November 23: What have the Romans ever done for us?

November 20: Women on a mission: Tackling gender inequality in Israel

November 17: Kids from hell: Early Holocaust testimonies of Child Survivors

November 13: Occupational hazards: Moral numbing among Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

November 11: Pax Britannica? The troubled legacy of Sykes-Picot

November 6: Make yourselves at home: The integration of immigrants in the new Israeli state

November 3: Sorely missed? Martin Buber's sociology under scrutiny

October 2016:

October 30: Carlo Ginzburg on the past, present and future of history

October 24: Is conflict management sustainable? Lessons for Israel-Palestine from Cyprus

October 21: Global democracy: The future of international relations?

October 17: Violence and politics: The underpinnings of conflict

October 14: The startup lab: Israel's culture of science

October 10: Creeping Israeliness: Law and citizenship in the settlement of Ariel

October 7: The Baha'i: Yet another world religion based in the Holy Land

October 3: Academic boycotts of Israel - why all the fuss?

September 2016:

September 30: When Israel's "demographic time bomb" started ticking

September 26: Members of a Tribe: The evolution of Israel's Jewish-Ethiopian immigration policy

September 23: Edifying Zionism: Richard Kaufman, a pioneering architect

September 19: ISIS: The old new face of radical Islam

September 16: The cost of energetic independence: Israel's natural gas challenges

Septermber 12: Welcome to Slovakia's 'Jewish Pompeii'

September 9: Left out: The rise of the Israeli right

September 5: No place like home: Israel's pioneering community research

September 2: The gatekeepers: Israel's supreme court in a changing reality

August 2016:

August 29: Shalom/Salam: On the benefits and limitations of bilingual education

August 26: Yad Vashem with an air force: "Hegemonic victimhood" in Israel

August 22: Verses of coexistence: Teaching poetry in a region of conflict

August 19: East is East: Cosmopolitanism and Levantinism in Mizrahi thought

August 16: Druze and don'ts: The integration of an indigenous community in modern Israel

August 12: Empire state builders: Architects of modern Jerusalem

August 8: The Iron Lady of the Orient

August 5: Jo'burg on the Mediterranean: South African migration to Israel

August 1: The burden of spoof: Satire in pre-state Israel

July 2016:

July 29: Continuation of policy by other means: Israel and the two-state solution

July 18: Yom Kippur War: Anatomy of a (not so) missed opportunity

July 15: A fistful of shekels: Ideology and symbolism in Israeli Westerns

July 11: Post-anti-Zionism: US Trotskyites and the Jewish state

July 8: Multimedia Israel: New methods of teaching Zionism

July 4: Grey-haired mentors: How grandparents reinvigorated politics

July 1: Strategic culture: The thing national security is made of

June 2016:

June 27: Desired destination: Palestine

June 24: Hold your noses: Floor crossing, coalition shopping & politicking in Israel

June 20: Strange bedfellows: Religious belief in the age of reason

June 17: The opening of the Jewish-American mind

June 13: The 11th century Islamic modernist who preceded modernity

June 10: Literature as a gateway to Zionism

June 6: New Shtetls: Radical ultra-Orthodoxy in the 20th century

June 3: Reimagining modernity: Crisis as the genesis of progress

May 2016:

May 30: Out of the ivory tower. Academia thrust into the 21st century

May 27: Israel, African Queen

May 23: Troubled communities: Which nations are prone to existential anger?

May 19: Dig this: Community archaeology in Israel

May 16: The Shamrock and the Star of David: Irish and Jewish Nationalisms

May 13: Karaites: The first Jewish fundamentalists

May 9: Israeli idols: Neo-paganism in the Jewish state

May 5: Women of valor: The forgotten history of women in Zionism

May 2: Free spirits: New Age culture in Israel

April 2016:

April 29: Desert eagles: American foreign policy in the Middle East

April 25: Gender segregation at Israeli beaches: How did it all start?

April 21: In Philip Roth's shadow: Sayed Kashua's 'authorial network'

April 18: Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Story of Zionism, Communism & disillusionment

April 15: Postwar justice, Soviet style

April 11: The decline and fall of the kibbutz: An appreciation

April 8: We have come to make the desert fiscally stable

April 4: Ze'ev Jabotinbsky: A maverick Zionist for his life

April 1: Damned to be blessed: Jewish exile as a metaphor

March 2016:

March 28: The two-state delusion: A coroner's report of a defunct solution

March 25: Sovereignty in exile: the curious case of Kiryas Yoel

March 21: The new left: Zionist youth movements in 1960s America

March 17: Occidentalism: Travels and migration in Arabic literature

March 14: A brief history of British Jewry

March 11: Know thy enemy: Zionism in Arab discourse

March 7: Britain's moment in Palestine: Dreams, politics & damage control

March 4: A specter haunting Europe: Between Jewish past and Muslim present

February 2016:

February 29: People of the visitor book: Commemorative practices in Jerusalem's war museum

February 26: The Israeli melting pot: A grassroots perspective

February 22: A program like no other: What Birthright Israel does right

February 19: Many types of belonging: New historiography of Mideastern Jews

February 15: Just a very naughty boy: Sabbatai Zevi and C17th Jewish messianism

February 12: Weimar in Jerusalem: Is Israel on a slippery slope to fascism?

February 8: Cyriac of Ancona, Europe's first archaeologist

February 5: No laughing matter: What studying humor can teach us about life

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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 the Good Book, which seeks to establish how valid sacred texts are for the modern, rational man.

Sources: Tel Aviv Review Podcast