TLV1's Week in Review

Host Ilene Prusher brings you highlights from some of the most important, interesting, or even absurd stories that came out of Israel this week, including the UN report on last summer's Gaza war, Druze attacking Syrians in the Golan, and a natural gas compromise.

LET'S GET LIT: A different type of life

Danielle Leshaw is a rabbi, a writer, and Executive Director of Hillel at Ohio University. Visiting Tel Aviv for the summer, she joins host Ilene Prusher to read from her story, “Just like that, my dear,” which will be published in the latest issue of the Ilanot Journal.

Scrutinizing Jewish "conversion therapy for gays"

Conversion therapy claims to “straighten” a person’s sexuality. With the first ever consumer fraud suit against the conversion therapists working for JONAH coming to a close, Amy Racs met the co-founder of Jewish Queer Youth, who are tackling this issue.

How much would you pay NOT to make Aliyah?

The "Aliyah premium" refers to the financial benefits foreign Jews based in Israel forgo just NOT to become official citizens. Niv Elis tries to quantify this premium and investigates the psychological factors that drive these decisions.

Israeli home "bio-digester" turns trash into fuel

What if you could pop your organic trash into a white box in your yard, and then have it turn into cooking fuel? Ami Amir from HomeBioGas explains how TevaGas - the first family-sized bio-digester on the market - “is as easy to use as a dish-washer.”

Travelling theater: Israel brings "Our Class" to the Balkans

"Our Class" is a play about one of the most horrific pogroms of the Holocaust. What does it mean for an Israeli production of the play to tour the Western Balkans? Laragh Widdess speaks to the director, the dramaturg and one of the actors to find out

How Damian Marley jamrocked Israel

TLV1 music man Tomer Gerhenman joins Ilene in the studio to describe the vibe at Damian Marley's first ever concert in Israel on Wednesday. He gives a little background on Damian, and explains how his music differs from his legendary father Bob's.

"Hitler: Now there was a painter!"

Recently in Nuremberg, several of Hitler's watercolors and drawings fetched 400,000 euros at auction. Sari Golan, curator and founder of the Triangle Art Space in Tel Aviv, gives Shoshi Shmuluvitz her appraisal of Hitler's lesser-known oeuvre.

ILENE IN: On my "Grammar Bitch"
Host Ilene Prusher's inner "Grammar Bitch" has been coming out lately as she corrects the work of her journalism and writing students. Particular concerns include incomplete sentences, "SMS-speak," and fear of the comma. “Punctuation saves lives. Think about it.”

Music:

Lola Marsh - Your'e Mine
Karolina, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge - Feel Alive
Maya Johanna - Born To Become
Maya Buskila - Freedom
Shlomo Gronich - Sitting Alone
Dida - Appology
Damian Marley - Road To Zion
Hayehudim - I Guess It's For You