LET’S GET LIT: With love from Iran
Writer and translator Samuel Thrope talks about “The Israeli Republic,” a book by the Iranian intellectual Jalal Al-e Ahmad who visited Israel in the early 1960s. Also, a short report on the Palestine Festival of Literature
COMIC RELIEF: Keeping them laughing
American comedians Avi Liberman and Bobby Slayton make a stop on the “Comedy for Koby” benefit tour to crack up the crew in the TLV1 studios.
ART OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
Daphna Lahav, curator and manager of the “Under A Thousand” gallery in the Florentin area of Tel Aviv, tells TLV1 about original art you don’t have to go broke to buy.
CAFÉ CULTURE
Omer Adani of Bar-Galim, a cooperative café-bar in Haifa, talks about how the café has become the hot haunt for everyone from social activists and artists to neighborhood organizers and medical students.
ILENE IN
Israeli leaders should understand why it’s natural for Palestinians to want to unify, and might consider a wait-and-see approach towards the Hamas- Fatah unity agreement.
JEWISH SCENE: Receiving Torah, Tel-Aviv style
Secular Israelis come out in droves to participate in late-night Shavuot study sessions that were once the reserve of the Orthodox.
WOMEN WHO SCRIBE: A Torah goes to Toronto
Torah scribe and artist Shoshana Gugenheim talks about a Torah scribed and stitched together by six women in Israel and the US, which has just been completed and delivered to a Reform congregation in Toronto, Canada.
Music:
Host: Ilene Prusher
Producer: Nitzan Pincu