Tel Aviv Review

Why the Internet didn't kill the TV star

Jerome Bourdon, a professor of communications at Tel Aviv University, tell us about the evolution of the peoplemeter from a simple instrument accumulating data for commercial purposes to a matter of public interest, and why it remains such an important tool today.

Arizona and the Negev: An aquifer runs through them

Prof. Sharon Megdal, director of the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, US, discusses how limited water resources should be managed in arid areas like Israel and Arizona, and what she has learned from (and taught) her Israeli colleagues.

Music:

Mark Ronson feat. Robbie Williams - The Only One I KnowAlma Zohar - Shamaim AfrikaimShai Tzabari - Lavi Oti

Why we stayed: Confessions of postwar Polish Jews

Prof. Marian Turski, Chairman of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, talks about Jewish life in Poland after the end of WWII, and explains why he and a handful other Polish Jews chose to stay in their native country despite persistent attempts to uproot them.

The social psychology of the conflict

Ruthie Pliskin, a social psychologist at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, talks about the role of emotions in determining political action, and where left-wingers and right-wingers differ in this respect.

Music:

The Rolling Stones - Start Me UpAmy Winehouse - You Know That I’m No GoodThe Idan Raichel Project - She’eriot Shel Hachaim

Bottomless pit: The Cairo Geniza and the untold history of Medieval Jewry

Dr. Moshe Lavee, a Talmud scholar at the University of Haifa, tells us about the Cairo Genizah – this trove of hundreds of thousands of Jewish texts, religious as well as non-religious, that was found inside a synagogue in the Egyptian capital and documents ten centuries of Jewish life there, most of which has been marginalized by the course of history.

Imperial Capital: The capture of Jerusalem in WWI

Dr. Justin Fantauzzo, a historian at the University of Windsor in Canada, whose research focuses on the capture of Jerusalem by the British army during the First World War. It turns out that the mainstream public opinion in Europe did not catch the Jerusalem syndrome – or perhaps they did, but not for the usual reasons.

Music:

Wyclef Jean featuring Mary J. Blige - 911 ft. Mary J. Blige

The Roots & John Legend - Compared to What

Dudu Tassa - Ben Shel Aba Sheli

Mashina - Hakochavim Dolkim Al Esh Ktana

Various Artists - God Only Knows (Beach Boys Tribute)

• Lia Tarachansky, director of the film On the Side of the Road that tackles the way the Nakba – the heritage of the Palestinian defeat in 1948 – is perceived in Israeli society today.
• Prof. Motti Regev, a cultural sociologist and head of the Department of Literature, Language and the Arts at the Open University, talks to us about his new book Pop-Rock Music: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Late Modernity and about the historical event of Pop-Rock music, in Israel and elsewhere.
• Abigail Green, tutor and fellow in history at Brasenose College, Oxford, talks to us about Sir Moses Montefiore – the great Italian-British-Jewish philanthropist and virtually the first-ever world Jewish leader.

Why do Jews play a "ridiculously disproportionate" role in the sciences?

Dr. Noah Efron, the founding chair of the Program in Science, Technology, Society at Bar-Ilan University, and a fellow TLV1 broadcaster, recently published in English by Hebrew Union College Press and John Hopkins University Press. He will give his original take on a generations long question: Why are Jews so smart?

Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage

Dr. Shaul Sapir is a geography professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of several books. His most recent book, 'Bombay: Exploring the Jewish Urban Heritage,' tells us the outcome of unprecedented and meticulous research into the relatively obscure history of the predominantly Iraqi Jewish community in the Indian city.

How Israel successfully abolished the trafficking of women

Dr. Nurit Hashimshony-Yaffe, a political scientist at the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, tells us about her most recent study, which focuses on how Israel managed to clamp down on a prosperous women trafficking industry.

A Muslim and Democratic state: Lessons from Indonesia

Dr. Giora Eliraz, a Middle East scholar from Hebrew University and the IDC in Herzliya, specializes in Islam in southeast Asia – namely, Indonesia and Malaysia. He discusses the exchange between the Islamic center and periphery on democracy and religion.

Music:

Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie

Shotey Haneuva - Kol Galgal

Maor Cohen - Shir Shel Yom Hulin

John Legend - You And I

Shalom Hanoch - Rak Ben Adam

Rise and decline of civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People

Dr. Salomon Wald, senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People, tells us what the Jewish civilization, though unique in human history, has to learn from other people's mistakes.

The evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs

Dr. Itamar Radai, director of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at the Moshe Dayan Center, discusses the evolving national identity of Israeli Arabs, or 'the Palestinian citizens of Israel' – what they're called depends on whom you ask.

Music:

Hemi Rudner & Dan Toren - Imperiot Noflot Le'at

Mira Awad - Bukra

Prince and 3rd Eye Girl- Ain'tTurninRound

Alt-J - Every Other Freckle

Ester Rada - Could It Be

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 from a teaching position at the Department of History at Tel Aviv University, is probably best known for his bestselling The Invention of the Jewish People, whose final chapter, 'How I stopped Being A Jew,' just appeared in English.

Music:

Arctic Monkeys - Do I Want To Know

Hahazer Ha'achoirt - Lishrok Ba'hoshech

Yehudit Ravitz - Boei Me'ahava

Paul McCartney - New

Noa & Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way

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. Rachel Pear, teaching assistant at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Haifa, gives us a breakdown of the great variety Jewish Orthodox attitudes to Darwin's theory of evolution over the years.

Music:

Prince - Kiss

Dudu Tassa - Ani Guitara

Cardigans - Lovefool

The Who - Water

Meir Ariel - Ma Hadash Bamada

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, senior lecturer in French and Literature at Tel Aviv University and author of Foundations of the Everyday: Shock, Deferral, Repetition, shares with us the mechanisms that prevent our daily lives from becoming unchanging and monotonous.

Music:

Duran Duran - A View To Kill

Habiluim - Ballada Le'em Had Horit (Viki Knafo Item)

The Angelcy - The Call

Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans

Uzi Ramirez - Blossom