Comparing Notes
A new podcast featuring Israelis and Americans in conversation around shared fields of research and practice.
Launching soon
A new podcast featuring Israelis and Americans in conversation around shared fields of research and practice.
Launching soon
Two people — same profession, different country — talking shop.
Come be a fly on the wall while scholars and practitioners from Israel and America talk about what’s happening in their fields — the breakthroughs, the challenges, and the open questions that don’t often make it into the headlines.
Upcoming conversations
David Chinitz and Joseph White on how two healthcare systems became near-opposites, the costs, coverage, and compromises that define them today, why we may have found a topic Israelis don’t argue about, and what each system genuinely gets right.
David Chinitz, The Hebrew University, JerusalemJoseph White, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
Recording August 23
In the pipeline
Sarah Feuer, PhD
Host
Sarah Feuer is a consultant on regional security affairs and adjunct faculty at Reichman University, where she teaches courses on contemporary international politics. Previously, she was a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). The author of Regulating Islam (Cambridge, 2018), Sarah has published widely on Middle East politics. Her Substack, On Balance, features analysis and ideas on Israel, the Middle East, and America’s relationships in the region. Sarah grew up in Washington DC and in 2017 made Aliyah.
The format
Each episode is a 45- to 50-minute remote conversation between the host and two guests who work in the same field — one in Israel, one in the United States. Pairings are peer-to-peer, such that Comparing Notes offers listeners something direct, substantive, and new: a window into how people in Israel and America are actually living and working today.
Your turn
Reach out to suggest a field we haven’t covered, a pair of guests worth approaching, or a question you’d want put to both of them.
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