Join us for the Berkeley Institute’s Podcast Series on Israel and Jewish Identity in the Age of COVID. Throughout Spring semester, each episode was aired live, and included interactive Q&A. Listen to the full recorded series below!
Episode 1: Ha-Haydak Ha-Politi (The Political Bug)
Featuring: Prof. Roy Peled
Israel Institute Visiting Professor, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies; Administrative and Constitutional Law professor at the Haim Striks School of Law, College of Management – Academic Studies in Israel
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Episode 2: Coronavirus Lesson - How Jews and Arabs United to Fight a Plague in Ottoman Palestine A Century Ago
Featuring: Zach Foster
Project Manager @Academia; Host of Middle East Tonight; Ph.D Near Eastern Studies Princeton
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Episode 3: A Coronavirus Recession in Israel
Featuring: David Rosenberg
Economics Editor and Columnist, Haaretz; Former Israel Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News
Moderated by: Rebecca Golbert, Berkeley Institute Executive Director
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Episode 4: Democracy, Religion and State: Israeli Constitutional Law Update
Featuring: Prof. Ori Aronson; Senior Lecturer of Law; Deputy Director of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Law
In Conversation with Prof. Roy Peled; Visiting Professor, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Episode 5: Mental Health and the Politics of Trauma in Israel - A Nation on the Couch
Featuring Keren Friedman-Peleg, Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioral Science; Head of the President’s Program for Excellence, College of Management-Academic Studies in Israel.
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Episode 6: Emergency Law and Power in Israel- Where are the limits?
Featuring: Prof. Amnon Reichman
University of Haifa Professor of Law; Principal Investigator, Minerva Center for the Study of the Rule of Law Under Extreme Condition, University of Haifa;
Moderator: Prof. Ken Bamberger Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School; Co-faculty director, Institute for Jewish and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Episode 7: Technology, Surveillance, and COVID19: The Israel Experience
Featuring:
Niva Elkin-Koren, Director, Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT); Co-Director, Center for Cyber, Law and Politics; Former Dean, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
In Conversation with:
Kenneth A. Bamberger, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Shafi Goldwasser Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; Professor of Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Episode 8: On Denisovans and Neanderthals - Breakthroughs in Human Evolution
Featuring: David Gokhman, local Israeli evolutionary researcher
Doctor of Philosophy, Hebrew University Of Jerusalem (2018)
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Episode 9: Holocaust Museums and Memory
Live Podcast Episode 9: Holocaust Museums and Memory
Featuring: Stephanie Rotem, Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at UC Berkeley
Moderator: Rebecca Golbert
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
Episode 10: Borders - Why Are States Putting Up Fences?
Featuring: Prof. Ron Hassner, PhD
Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science, Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Check out Ron Hassner’s article discussed in the podcast here: Barriers to Entry
Episode 11: Haredi Communities and the Religion and State Divide during COVID-19
Featuring: Prof. Tomer Persico, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Episode 12: Talmudic Wisdom on Crisis and Catastrophe
Featuring: Deena Aranoff
Director of Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Jewish Studies, GTU
Kenneth A. Bamberger
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law; Faculty co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies
Thursday, April 30th
Episode 13: Jewish Journalism and Reporting on Crisis
Featuring: Sue Fishkoff, Editor of the J. Weekly
Moderator: Rebecca Golbert, Executive Director, BIJLIS
Tuesday, May 5th
Episode 14: Online Extremism in a Time of Global Pandemic
Featuring: Ahman Sultan, Associate Director for ADL’s Center on Technology and Society
Vlad Khaykin, Director of Antisemitism Programs at Anti-Defamation League
Moderator: Maya Shemtov, Assistant Director, BIJLIS
Thursday, May 7th