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LISTEN: Talking turkey with Jerusalem’s ‘Ms. Thanksgiving’

ToI's Culture editor and children's book author Jessica Steinberg speaks about baking pumpkin pies for breast cancer org Sharsheret and celebrating in Israel

November 11, 2020, 4:40 pm

LISTEN: Borat 2 and Chicago 7 — good for the Jews? ToI’s film critic weighs in

Jordan Hoffman looks at Sacha Baron Cohen's performances in two currently streaming counter-culture movies, timed for US election season

LISTEN: Medieval Jewish ghost stories, heaven, hell, and a lot of punishment

Dr. Susan Weissman delves into the spooky side of a 13th-century moralistic Jewish text, Sefer Hasidim, written by a German sect notorious for taking repentance extremely seriously

LISTEN: Everything is kosher and nothing is unorthodox in sex, says therapist

In an extremely frank conversation, Dr. Bat Sheva Marcus busts myths and recommends reimagining androcentric ideas of what sex really is

LISTEN: Top Israeli politicians are breaking the law — and nobody cares

ToI's senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur explains why a key government transparency measure is being ignored by a third of the cabinet -- including Netanyahu and Gantz

Digging at Armageddon: Tumultuous saga of doomed search for Solomon’s Lost City

LISTEN: Author Prof. Eric Cline excavates mounds of archives to paint colorful picture of cast of characters at 1920s-1930s Megiddo dig during field of archaeology's infancy

LISTEN: Philosopher Micah Goodman on how to overcome a pandemic of polarization

Learn why the best-selling author doesn't want to be wished a Happy New Year this High Holiday season

LISTEN: Israeli band Yamma has millions grooving to ancient Hebrew poetry

World music ensemble has fleets of followers and fans from across the globe -- including President Reuven Rivlin

LISTEN: Purloined pottery from Tomb of Patriarchs gets 1st scientific study

Prof. David Ben-Shlomo speaks about new ceramics study, history of Judaism's second holiest site where Abraham buried Sarah, and findings from his recent excavations at Tel Hebron

LISTEN: How rabbis of yore fought plague with Temple rite, social distancing

Dr. Rabbi Levi Cooper takes us back in history to show eerie parallels with today's health measures, then forward - to a helicopter with a trio of rabbis blessing Israel from above

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