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About Renee Garfinkel
Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. is a psychologist, writer, Middle East television commentator, and host of the New Books Network’s Van Leer Jerusalem Series on Ideas. Write her at reneeg@vanleer.org.il. She's on Twitter @embracingwisdom. She blogs here and also contributes here.
NBN Episodes hosted by Renee:
March 18, 2026
The Joy of Solitude
Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance …
March 14, 2026
Playmakers
The untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” In 1902, Morris and Rose Mi…
February 8, 2026
Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History
A search for the meaning of one of nature's greatest riddles: why do so many creatures transform? “How many creatures walking on this earth / Have th…
January 8, 2026
Nature and the Mind
Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, body, and e…
December 13, 2025
Ancient Jewish Food in Its Geographical and Cultural Contexts
Ancient Jewish Food in its Geographical and Cultural Contexts: What’s Cooking in the Talmuds? (Taylor & Francis, 2025) is the first in-depth study of …
November 15, 2025
Possible
The author of the world’s best-selling book on negotiation draws on his nearly fifty years of experience and knowledge grappling with the world’s toug…
November 12, 2025
But There Was Love
But There Was Love―Shaping the Memory of the Shoah (de Gruyter, 2025) proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political …
November 3, 2025
The Hebrew Teacher
Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises. Ilana is a veteran Hebrew instructor at a M…
November 2, 2025
A Cold War Exodus
Winner of The 74th National Jewish Book Award: American Jewish Studies Celebrate 350 Award Reveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped fre…
October 4, 2025
On Repentance and Repair
Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards in Contemporary Jewish Life & Practice and Myra H. Kraft Memorial Award On Repentance and Repair: Making …
September 14, 2025
The Grieving Body
The Grieving Body: How the stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)by Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D. The follow-up to celebr…
September 3, 2025
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
In this first of a series of episodes on healing, we speak with Nicole Nehrig, whose book With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories (W.W. Norton…
July 23, 2025
The Triumph of Life
The Triumph of Life is Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s magnum opus—a narrative of the relationship between God and humanity as expressed in the Jewish journe…
July 13, 2025
Cybercrime
How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal…
July 11, 2025
The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion
Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often don’t recognize it while it’s happening—unless we know where to…
June 11, 2025
What Is It Like to Be an Addict?
A powerful and important exploration of how addiction functions on social, psychological and biological levels, integrated with the experience of bein…
June 9, 2025
Mindless
In Mindless: What Happened to Universities?, renowned scholar and former president of the American Association of University Professors Cary Nelson de…
May 12, 2025
Miracles and Wonder
Early in her career, Elaine Pagels changed our understanding of the origins of Christianity with her work in The Gnostic Gospels. Now, in the culminat…
May 7, 2025
Mindmasters
A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology—from the pioneering expert on psychological targetin…
May 3, 2025
Empowered or Abused
What to do when a victorious soldier lusts for the beautiful woman he’s just taken captive in an overseas war. In fact, her body already belongs to hi…
April 23, 2025
The Problem of God in Jewish Thought
The Hebrew Bible contains two quite different divine personae. One is quick to anger and to exact punishment while the other is a compassionate God sl…
April 11, 2025
Infantilised
Have you ever noticed that in areas of everyday life, rather than being addressed like a mature adult, you're increasingly treated like an irresponsib…
April 9, 2025
Democracy and Solidarity
Liberal democracy in America has always contained contradictions—most notably, a noble but abstract commitment to freedom, justice, and equality that,…
March 10, 2025
Heat, a History
Despite the flames of record-breaking temperatures licking at our feet, most people fail to fully grasp the gravity of environmental overheating. What…