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Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute cultivates innovative interdisciplinary research into publicly-significant questions, reflecting our commitment to a just, open society, well-integrated in the region.
May 10, 2024
Life's Edge
Carl Zimmer investigates one of the biggest questions of all: What is life? The answer seems obvious until you try to seriously answer it. Is the appl…
May 8, 2024
The Making of an Alliance
Laying the foundation for an understanding of US-Israeli relations, this lively and accessible book provides critical background on the origins and de…
April 14, 2024
Fragile Neighborhoods
The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we know, what resources and opportunities we have access to, the qua…
April 10, 2024
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophi…
April 1, 2024
Brothers and Sisters for Israel (“Achim Baneshek”)
How does an organization change in an instant, shift its focus and mission in response to a new reality? One volunteer organization did just that. I…
March 8, 2024
Mapping the Darkness
Why do we sleep? How can we improve our sleep? A century ago, sleep was considered a state of nothingness—even a primitive habit that we could learn …
February 24, 2024
Four Battlegrounds
An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial re…
February 10, 2024
Verified
An indispensable guide for telling fact from fiction on the internet—often in less than 30 seconds. The internet brings information to our fingertips…
February 8, 2024
Terrorist Minds
What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism chang…
January 17, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard?
Some people are good at what they do, some are enthusiastic about their work. This guest brings both to bear in his exploration of the ancient past.…
January 14, 2024
Hamas
The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Israelis and civilians from at least 25 other countr…
January 12, 2024
Assad
In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (Picador, 2023), Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, e…
December 4, 2023
The Forest Journey
A Foundational Conservation Story Revived. Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poe…
November 26, 2023
The Genius of Israel
How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and econ…
November 22, 2023
The Enlightened Donor
Motivated by compassion and hope, and the shared desire to make the world a better place, the immense amount of charitable giving stands as a testamen…
November 5, 2023
The Power of Placebos
Should your doctor prescribe a placebo for you, instead of conventional medicine? And if she did, would it work? Is the double-blind placebo-control…
October 25, 2023
Middle Eastern Maze
Navigating through the intricate web of Middle Eastern geopolitics, few are better equipped to provide insights than Itamar Rabinovich in his compelli…
September 23, 2023
The Engaged Scholar
Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity t…
August 27, 2023
Distrust
There is no doubt science is currently suffering from a credibility crisis. Gary Smith's book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on S…
August 13, 2023
Jewish Blues
Gadi Sagiv's book Jewish Blues: A History of a Color in Judaism (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023) presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual histo…