Joining Jason Solomons in the studio this month are Hagai Segal, Middle East politics lecturer at the New York University in London, and artist Jacqueline Nicholls.
Were the summer tent protests in Israel the inspiration for Occupy London and Occupy Wall Street? We hear from Israel-based blogger, writer and performer Robbie Gringras who witnessed the phenomenon at its peak - and we ask where Israel's protest movement goes from here.
The authentic face of modern orthodoxy uncovered in the Israeli hit TV series, Srugim, nicknamed "frum Friends". As the third series kicks off in Israel, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland met up with creator Laizy Shapira who explains how a show depicting the romantic lives of the religious struck a chord with secular Israelis – and with Arabs.
But away from the TV screens, the clash between holy and unholy is all too real. With ultra-orthodox Jews defacing posters depicting women, and ever stricter rules around "modesty", Jacqueline Nicholls, herself modern orthodox, takes on the religious establishment in her "paper cuts" series – exposing what she sees as misogyny in Judaism's sacred texts, daring to combine holy words with shocking images, some of which are drawn from pornography.
And finally, political cartoonist and artist-in-residence for the Forward Eli Valley tells Jason why he took his character Stuart the Jewish Turtle to the now-dismantled Occupy Wall Street protests, and why he loves to provoke - but draws the line at what Jason calls the classic Jewish schnoz.
