LET’S GET LIT: Shedding a different light on Hanukkah

Noam Zion, author of A Different Light: The Big Book of Hanukkah, sheds some light on what the holiday is really about, and tells us how the divisions within contemporary Jewry and Zionism emerge in the story of how Hanukkah is celebrated.

ILENE IN: On the sounds of the season in New York

Host Ilene Prusher visits New York City for the first time in five years and captures some of the sounds of the city she once called home.

Idele Ross' radio daze

Idele Ross has just retired from 40 years of service at Kol Yisrael, where she was one of the best-known voices of Israel Radio in English. She joins us in our studios to discuss some of her career highlights and to look at how the world of radio has changed.

Actors without borders bring Israeli play to Morocco

Israeli actor Guy Elhanan is starring in 'Krum,' a Hanoch Levin play that was translated into Moroccan Arabic. It’s been performed in several places in Morocco – the first time an Israeli play has been performed anywhere in the Arab world.

Young Jewish and Arab Israelis share the page

Writer Tamer Massalha is one the editors of a new anthology called Two: A Bilingual Anthology, a collection of the works of young Israeli and Palestinian writers, with each being presented in both Hebrew and Arabic. Tamer explains that this was a six-year labor of love.

Puccini's 'La Rondine' at the Israeli Opera

Michael Ajzenstadt, artistic director at the Israeli Opera, introduces us to 'La Rondine,' an opera by Giacomo Puccini that opens in early January. He describes the context in which Puccini wrote the work, and what makes it different to other Puccini operas.

'Marketing the miracle' with marvellous menorahs

Guide Eran Tirosh tell us about his tours of the Hanukkah menorahs of Jerusalem. Rabbis decided that Hanuhkah should be about "pirsomei nisa," Aramaic for "advertising the miracle," and some people take this instruction to put their lights on display very seriously.

Music:

Kendrick Lamar - I
Gidi Gov & Rona Keinan - Harikood Hamoozar Shel Halev
Mashina - Shlach Li Malach
Acollective - Stollen Goods
TV On the Radio - Happy Idiot
Marina Maximilian - Amok Batal
Vance Joy - Riptide
Elvis Costello & The Roots - Walk Us Uptown
R.E.M - Imitation of Life