Tel Aviv Review

Under women's wings: The architecture of the  ezrat nashim Adva Naama Baram, an architect and photographer specializing in architectural photography, talks about her new exhibition, currently showing at the Architects' House Gallery in Jaffa, dedicated to ezrat nashim – the women's section in synagogues across the country.     How Shlomo Sand stopped being a Jew Prof. Shlomo Sand, who just retired...

Water laws in British-ruled Palestine: A case study Dr. David Schorr, a historian of environmental law at Tel Aviv University's School of Law, tells us about the evolution of water laws in Palestine during the mandate years, and how the treatment of this scarce resource helped shape this country's political and legal reality in years to come. Darwinism vs. Creationism: Not just for Christians Dr....

Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel Prof. Smadar Lavie, visiting professor at UCC's Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century and author of  Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture , tells us about the modalities of race and gender in contemporary Israel.   The everyday experience: Keeping monotony at bay Dr. Eran Dorfman, sen...

This week's show is a special one, because we only have one guest. But it's a very special guest: Dr Fania Oz-Salzberger, a historian at Haifa University and a leading public intellectual in Israel. She talks about the book  Jews and Words,  which she co-authored with her father Amos Oz, the famous Israeli novelist. It explores the importance of words to Jews over the generations.   Music : F.R Da...

A eulogy to a different kind of Zionism Prof. Ofer Shiff of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, author of the recently published The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel, talks about the American-Jewish leader who lost the argument for diaspora-based kind of Zionism. Airing grievances: A comparison of social protest movements Naama Nagar, a sociologist from the University of...

The price of collaboration Prof. Menachem Hofnung, a political scientist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, unveils a ground-breaking study that he has just concluded about Israel's treatment of Arab informants over the years. A time of harmonious coexistence We speak to the makers of the documentary film Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah, which explores the cordial relations between...