Building Jerusalem

John Bell is an actor, theatre director, and theatre manager. He is the founder of the Bell Shakespeare theatre company, which he headed for 25 years, and has been named a National Living Treasure.

Salvatore Babones is an American sociologist based in Sydney, Australia and the author of "The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts". I had the honour of being a guest on his "Midnight in America" YouTube series.

Adam Chalmers is a software engineer and fiction writer. We talk about rationality, artificial intelligence, and Google's move towards 2-step verification.

Omar ibn Mahmoud is a Palestinian Muslim living in Australia. We talk about politics and religion.

Raphael Dascalu is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University. His research is focused primarily on Medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical interpretation in the Islamic world. We talk about approaches to spirituality after the loss of innocence.

Raphael Dascalu is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University. His research is focused primarily on Medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical interpretation in the Islamic world. This podcast is a recording of a shiur he gave on Mishneh Torah.

Nabeel Khan is a YouTube vlogger, traveller, and Islamic mystic.

Jamie Roberts is an novelist, musician, and academic. He lectures on literature at the University of New South Wales.

Elisha Ancselovits is a rabbi, teacher, and researcher of Jewish law and Jewish history. He teaches Judaism as a phronesis, or practical wisdom tradition.

Issa Jaber is the mayor of Abu Ghosh.

Shadrach is the spiritual leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Namutumba in Eastern Uganda.

Khalil is a professor of political science, and the director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

Ron is the founding director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel.

Mohammed is a Palestinian professor and peace activist. In 2014, he made global headlines for leading a group of Palestinian students on a pioneering tour of Auschwitz.

Yonatan is a nazirite and a disciple of the kabbalah of Rabbi Moshe Cordovero.

Michael is a leading figure in global inter-religious peacemaking. He has formerly held various positions in the Israeli Knesset, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; and is the honorary Chief Rabbi of Norway.

Anat is the director of Women of the Wall, and executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center. In 2017, the Jerusalem Post named her 8th on their list of the 50 Most Influential Jews worldwide.

Jared is a registered tour guide whose speciality is "text in context"- weaving together religious narratives from different faiths to build an understanding of modern political realities.

Yosef is a professor of archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is most well-known for his discovery and excavation of a Davidic fortress at Khirbet Qeiyafa.

Yanky is a childhood friend. In this extra-long Chanuka special, we have an informal chat about the apocalypse, history, religion, & 'Rick and Morty'. Chag sameach!

Father Russell McDougall is rector of the Tantur Ecumenical College in Jerusalem, an institute for theology and dialogue which grew out of the Second Vatican Council.

Aviva is a multi-talented practitioner of the healing arts, including Reiki, Access Conciousness: The Bars, and Journeywork.

Alon is one of the world's leading figures in interfaith dialogue. He is the founder of the Elijah Interfaith Institute, and has worked with religious leaders ranging from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks to the Dalai Lama.

A master kabbalist who has translated and published sections of the Zohar, one of Avraham's principal passions is the Abulafian prophetic kabbalah.

Joshua is the principal software architect at Freightos. He has worked with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute on problems of artificial intelligence, and currently organizes open-to-the-public Rationality meetups in Jerusalem.