Rosner's Domain

Shmuel Rosner and Gila Vachman discuss the Ruth scroll and its meaning.

Dr. Gila Vachman studied at the Hebrew University where she received a BA in Talmud and Hebrew literature, an MA in Midrash and Aggadah as well as a PhD. She is a lecturer in Midrash and Aggadah at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and the Hebrew University. Recently she published the book "The Ruth Scroll - A New Israeli Commentary."

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Shmuel Rosner and Yaakov Katz discuss his new book, "Shadow Strike: Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power."

Yaakov Katz is Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. He previously served for close to a decade as the paper's military reporter and defense analyst. He is the co-author of two other books, "Weapon Wizards - How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower" and "Israel vs. Iran - The Shadow War."

In 2012-2013 he was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and is a faculty member at Harvard's extension school where he teaches an advanced course in journalism.

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Roberta R. Kwall and Shmuel Rosner discuss Roberta's soon to be published book, "Remix Judaism," and how America liberal Jews can integrate more Judaism into their day to day lives.

Roberta R. Kwall is a law professor at DePaul university and IDC college in Israel.

Kwall is an internationally renowned scholar and lecturer and has published over 30 articles on a wide variety of topics including Jewish law and culture, authorship rights and intellectual property. She is the author of several law casebooks that are used nationally as well as two monographs: "The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition" (Oxford U. Press, 2015) and "The Soul of Creativity" (Stanford U. Press, 2010). Currently she is working on a book for a popular audience about transmitting Jewish tradition in a diverse world.

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Daniel Dunkelman explains to Shmuel Rosner what is Eurovision, why is it celebrated in Israel and some fun facts about the biggest singing competition in the world!

Daniel Dunkelman is a Eurovision specialist and content advisor.

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Dr. Joel Rappel and Shmuel Rosner discuss Dr. Rappel's latest book (coming out in the United States soon) about the prayers to the state's peace. What makes this prayer unique? What is special about the Israeli Independence day?

Dr. Joel Rappel is a historian at Bar Ilan University and founder and director (2009-2015) of the Elie Wiesel Archives at Boston University.

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On a special episode commemorating the Israeli Holocaust memorial day, Dr. Amir Teicher and Shmuel Rosner discuss the genetical reasoning that the Nazis had for antisemitism, how it relates to science today and much more.

Dr. Amir Teicher is an assistant professor of history at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on German eugenics, the development of modern biological thinking, racism and antisemitism. He is currently a fellow in the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism. He was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Research of Antisemitism (ZfA), TU Berlin and a guest professor at the Chair of Science Studies, ETH Zurich.

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Nir Braudo and Shmuel Rosner discuss the ways in which secular Jews can "re-build" the Passover Seder.

Nir Braudo is a member of the founding committee of the Secular Yeshiva in Tel-Aviv and is now head of the Yeshiva. He founded the Beer Sheva branch of BINA and was the director of BINA's Social Action program (BINA BaShchuna) in Beer Sheva and Tel-Aviv. Previously he served as central shaliach for the WZO in the USA. Nir lives in Tel-Aviv with his wife and two children.

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Ambassador Avi Gil, Dr. Shlomo Fischer and Shmuel Rosner discuss the election results and its possible outcomes.

Dr. Shlomo Fischer, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, teaches sociology in the School of Education at Hebrew University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is also currently a research fellow at the Van Leer Institute.Along with his extensive academic research, he was the founder and Executive Director of Yesodot – Center for Torah and Democracy which works to advance education for democracy in the State-Religious school sector in Israel. He was also one of the founders and is on the Board of the International Summer School for Religion and Public Life which is based in Boston, Mass.

Ambassador Avi Gil Served as the Director General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from April 2001-November 2002. He also served as Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Regional Cooperation, Deputy Director-General of the Peres Center for Peace; the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Media Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Finance, and Executive Policy Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has been closely involved in Israel's policy-making and peace efforts, including the negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords and the peace treaty with Jordan. He is a Senior Fellow at the JPPPI and a was a close advisor to President Shimon Peres.

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On our third and final election panel, Knesset member Avraham Neguise, Gil Hoffman and Shmuel Rosner try to predict who will be in charge of forming Israel's next government, what parties will be involved and more...

Avraham Neguise is an Israeli politician and activist for the Falash Mura community. Neguise is a member of the Likud party and is the Chairman of the Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs.

Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post.

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On our second election panel, Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari, Amnon Lord and Shmuel Rosner discuss the main issue of this current election, the difference between Bibi Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, Kulanu party's future and more. Meirav Ben-Ari is an Israeli politician. She currently serves as a member of the Knesset for the Kulanu party.

Amnon Lord is an Israeli journalist with the daily newspaper Israel Hayom.

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