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About Yakir Englander
Dr. Yakir Englander is the National Director of Leadership programs at the Israeli-American Council. He also teaches at the AJR. He can be reached at: Yakir1212englander@gmail.com
NBN Episodes hosted by Yakir:
November 9, 2024
Parker Palmer on the Israel-Gaza War
In times of profound crisis, when violence and hatred seem to dominate our world, we often search for voices that can help us navigate through the dar…
October 20, 2024
Battle Before the War
A critical challenge for militaries is preparing for future, not past, wars. History shows that success often depends on accurately interpreting and h…
June 3, 2024
Kafka's Last Trial
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfill Kafka’s last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscript…
May 22, 2024
Present Woman
The book Present Woman: Our Pleasure, Our Power (2023) is an honest and rare first-person account for female seekers and curious men. A woman in her t…
May 20, 2024
God as Patient
In a broken world, in which even God Himself is in a state of deep crisis, what is required in order to mend the rupture? How can one heal God and His…
December 27, 2023
I Am Your Father
The poems in the book I Am Your Father (Pardes Press, 2019) were written during a period of great confusion and pain, culminating in the moment when …
December 24, 2023
He Could See a Bird Outside if He Looked Through His Window
From his home in Connecticut, Ran Oron observed and drew a pair of ospreys, a couple of birds of prey that return each year to the same nest. With…
October 24, 2023
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)'s Ethical Code
In the past week, the entire world has been focusing on the murderous attack by the Hamas organization against the State of Israel and Israel's respon…
December 5, 2022
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and centr…
December 4, 2022
Hamas and Ideology
Sheikh Yusūf al- Qaraḍāwī is regarded as the most influential contemporary Muslim religious figure. His best-selling book, Al-Ḥalal wal-Ḥaram fi al-Is…
November 24, 2022
The Cage
Ha-Kluv (The Cage) is a Hebrew anthology of selected short stories by Fida Jiryis, which she originally published in Arabic. The stories speak of the…
September 23, 2022
The Death of Transcendence
The Death of Transcendence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in …
April 25, 2022
In God’s Image
In God’s Image: The Making of the Modern World (Yediot Aharonot, 2021) examines the central role that the biblical idea of the “image of God” has play…
April 19, 2022
Machluta
This episode is part of a series of recordings I do with artists and scholars from Israel and Palestine. To allow people from the conflict to make the…
March 22, 2022
The Benefits of Eating White Folks
Today I talked to Leslie T. Grover about her book The Benefits of Eating White Folks (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022). The Sickness, a disease with unknown o…
December 1, 2021
Abraham the Hebrew Believer
How can it be that deeply religious poetry is being written by a committed socialist, literary revolutionary and modernist? How sacredness appears in …
November 4, 2021
Kabbalah in Print
Long before Kabbalah books lined multiple books shelves in bookstores, Jewish educators in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, thought of copious…
October 13, 2021
Beast Without Purpose
The book Beast Without Purpose: On Post-Domestication and Other Monstrous Rules (Resling, 2019) emerges from the idea of an end to human sovereignty o…
October 13, 2021
The Dawn of Redemption
In The Dawn of Redemption: Ethics and Tradition in a Time of Power (Evrit, 2021), Mikhael Manekin argues that modern Jewish nationalism--widespread to…
September 23, 2021
On Wandering Beaches
On Wandering Beaches (Pardes, 2020) is a novel of journeys, a novel of migration that conceals contradictions that summarize a whole world. Along the …
September 22, 2021
Make Room for the Rain
The poet Shachar-Mario Mordechai was born 1975 in Haifa and he currently lives in Tel Aviv. He has published four volumes of poetry, all of which attr…
September 13, 2021
The Small Literary Press
Home Press is a tiny local publishing house and press in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Uri Yoeli and Nana Ariel, a couple, established it in their apartment in 2019…
September 13, 2021
The Things We Are Not Talking About
Shlomit Naim Naor’s poetry is a unique voice in Israel. She is inviting the readers to delve deeper and engage in a dialogue with the Jewish religion …
July 19, 2021
The Prize
In 2016, the German government announces a new prize for Hebrew writers around the world, the Berlin Prize for Hebrew Literature, which will return th…