StreetWise Hebrew Podcast: Cute as a Button
'Hamud,' which means 'cute' or 'sweet,' could be used in several ways, depending on the context and intonation. But just like in English, calling someone 'sweetie' in Hebrew isn't always a good thing
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StreetWise Hebrew Podcast: Catch Me If You Can!
Litpos in formal Hebrew and litfos more colloquially both mean 'to catch', but the word has a whirlwind of other meanings, like to comprehend, take up space, or think highly of someone
The Promised Podcast: Russian Babies for LGBTQ Folk in Israel? Nyet
PART 3: Was Israel was wrong to acquiesce to Russia's diktat that babies adopted from there not go to LGBTQ folks?
The Promised Podcast: Will Politics Be on the Midterm?
PART 2: Israel's new 'code of ethics' aims to keep teachers from talking politics in the classroom, but is being decried by the professoriate as an attack on democracy
The Promised Podcast: Is the Man Israel Needs a Moroccan, Ultra-Orthodox Woman?
PART 1: Is Dina Dayan the future of the Israeli left?
StreetWise Hebrew Podcast: Knock Knock, a Little Profanity Here
The word 'lidfok' in Hebrew is to knock or hit. As you might imagine, it means some more explicit things too
The Promsied Podcast: Waiting for Gadot
PART 3: On whether the widespread fascination with Wonder Woman Gal Gadot’s IDF past and Israeli identity reflects some strange and unnerving psycho-sexual fetishization of Israeli Jewesses and power
The Promised Podcast: Anthologizing the Occupation?
PART 2: On the new “Breaking the Silence” anthology of essays about the occupation, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. What results might this politics-by-literature approach produce?
The Promised Podcast: Climate Change and the Jewish Question: We’ll Always Have Paris?
PART 1: On whether climate change is a danger to Israel's very existence, and whether America's withdrawal from the Paris Accord is a blow to Israel's security
The Promised Podcast: University Diversity Perversity?
PART 3: Should universities provide sex-segregated courses to ultra-Orthodox students, and prohibit female professors from teaching religious males?