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 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

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 David - Words Don't Come Easy Ha Hatzer Ha'achorit - Lishrok Bahoshech Robert Plant - Rainbow

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 Wisconsin Madison, was closely involved in two almost simultaneous social protest movements in 2011; in Wisconsin and in her native Israel. She draws parallels between the two. Music: Audioslave - Show Me How To Live Otis Redding - I Love You More Than Words Can Say Radiohead - 2+2=5 Geva Alon - Yam Shaket Shalom Hanoch - Bagilgool Haze

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 Jews and Berbers in Morocco that were severed when politics got in the way. Music: Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love Idan Raichel's Project - Beyom Shabat Ehud Banai - David & Shaul Incubus - Love Hurts Hatikva 6 - Od Pa'am Pa'am