Shmuel Rosner and Joel Kotkin discuss Kotkin's latest article for Tablet magazine, his book and more. 

  Joel Kotkin is the presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute.   

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Shmuel Rosner and Noam Gidron discuss how the differences between the Israeli and American political systems effect political and social polarization.   Noam Gidron is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science and the Joint Program in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research interests lie at the intersection of political behavior, political sociology and political economy.  

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Shmuel Rosner, Michael Caspe and Nathaniel Deutsch discuss their book: "A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg."   Nathaniel Deutsch is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his books are The Maiden of Ludmir: A Jewish Holy Woman and Her World and The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Michael Casper received his Ph.D. in history from UCLA and has contributed to American Jewish History and the New York Review of Books.  

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Shmuel Rosner continues the deep dive into Israel's new government, this time with the help of Professor Ofer Kenig.  

Prof. Ofer Kenig is a senior lecturer at the Ashkelon Academic College and a research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. His areas of research include comparative politics, political parties, leadership and candidate selection and Israeli politics.

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Shmuel Rosner and journalist Tal Shalev discuss Israel's new government.

Tal Shalev is chief political correspondent for the leading Israeli web portal Walla News. She has also worked as a news editor for the Israeli daily Haaretz and the international television network i24 News.

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A special episode for Israeli book week. Shmuel Rosner and Adam Kirsch discuss two of Kirsch's books: "The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature" and "The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century".   Adam Kirsch is an American poet and literary critic. He is on the seminar faculty of Columbia University's Center for American Studies, and has taught at YIVO.   

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Shmuel Rosner and Sergio Della Pergola discuss the latest Pew research results.

Sergio Della Pergola is an Italian-Israeli demographer and statistician. He is a professor and demographic expert, specifically in demography and statistics related to the Jewish population.

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In this episode, Shmuel Rosner and Dr. Shlomo Fischer discuss the 2020 Pew reports and its implications for the Jewish community in the United States. 

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Israel’s policy toward Gaza is fraught with dilemmas, says Brig. General (Res.) Michael Herzog. Its policy is based on containment and its current goal is to communicate a clear message that Hamas miscalculated when it opened fire on Israeli cities. Whether the Biden administration is going to give Israel the time to deliver such a message, only time will tell.

In today's podcast, Herzog argues that, up until now, no one presented a viable and practical plan that could alter the situation in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority is too weak to control Gaza, Israel does not wish to control it, and a chaos without any control would not be better than Hamas rule. Under such conditions, Israel has little choice but to try and deter Hamas from launching attacks on Israel, by making sure that such attacks result in Hamas losing more than it is gaining. International pressure makes such a goal a complicated one to achieve.

Herzog is a former IDF senior officer. He rose through the military ranks to become head of the IDF’s strategic planning division, then moved to hold senior positions in the office of Israel’s Minister of Defense, under four ministers and was the Chief of Staff to Minister Ehud Barak. He is currently a fellow at the Washington Institute and the Jewish People Policy Institute.

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Shmuel Rosner and Hanan Amiur discuss his controversial book.   Hanan Amiur is a speech writer and a founding member of the website perspective - דף בית פרספקטיבה.  

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