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The Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Hakohen Kagan, was one of the most renowned and influential Jews of modern times. He did not serve in...
The Ark of the Covenant was the holiest and most iconic vessels of the Tabernacle, and subsequently the Temple. It was placed in the Holy of...
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Straddling the Mediterranean Sea is a very special sliver of land: The land of Israel. The land of Canaan; Palestine; The Holy Land – there...
Is a two-state solution a viable way to finally resolve the Israel Palestine conflict? Many in the international community believe that it i...
The Balfour Declaration was a pivotal shift in the prospects of the Zionist dream. For the first time, a major world power declared their in...
The holiday of Chanukah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabean Revolt over the oppressive regime of Antiochus IV and the Seleucid Empire....
The Jewish people are at war. Our brethren in Israel are in midst of a fierce war in Gaza against the terrorist organization Hamas. The obje...
The Arab-Israeli conflict is front and center on the world stage today. The barbaric October 7th terrorist attacks – where more than a thous...
The final century of the Second Temple and the one that followed its destruction were pivotal ones of Jewish history. It was an era replete...
The Second Temple Era was an eventful time for the Jewish People and the perpetuation of Torah. Over the course of the Second Commonwealth o...
In the narrow sense, Oral Torah refers to the interpretation and understanding of the Written Torah. The Written Torah is written crypticall...
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One of my New Year’s resolutions is to record more episodes of The Jewish History Podcast in 2021. If you may indulge me, I would like to su...
As we approach the end of December, I chose to experiment by doing something a bit different in examining the Jewish take on the Christian h...
Chacham Ovadia Yosef was one of the most impactful and transformative Jewish leaders of recent history. In Part One we discussed Chacham Ova...
Of all the episodes that I have recorded over the years, this will be perhaps the most unique one. For one, it will be released simultaneous...
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, known the world over as “Chacham Ovadia” or simply “Maran”, was one of the most important rabbinical personalities of th...
Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski was the last head of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania. He was primary disciple of the Alter of Slabodka, and his s...
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In 1933, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz – the Chazon Ish – moved to British Mandate Palestine. Prior to his departure, the recognized leader...
The destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust decimated more than the thousands of Jewish communities of Europe. Europe had been th...
The turning point in the trajectory of the State of Israel was the Yom Kippur War. In almost every way, the history of the State can be divi...
The Yom Kippur War is – at least from a military perspective – a tale of two conflicts: The early stages of the war were completely one-side...
The first few days of the Yom Kippur War were among the most disastrous and devastating days in Israel’s history. Thanks to unprecedented in...
On October 6th, 1973 – on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar – a coordinated, surprise attack was launched on the State of I...
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We pick up the story of the Judges after the miraculous destruction of the enemies of Israel – Yavin and his star general Sisera were vanqui...
After the passing of Joshua, the Jewish nation – newly settled in the land of Canaan, the land of Israel – confronted new realities that spa...
After the death of Moses, Joshua was tasked with the leadership of the people and with the invasion, conquest, and division of Canaan. Preci...
Joshua was the undisputed leader of the Jews after the passing of Moses. Even during Moses’ lifetime, Joshua played an important role as Mos...
Moses was the greatest human of all time. His resume is replete with superlatives: He was the greatest prophet of all time, both qualitative...
The oft-repeated refrain “history repeats itself” is especially true with respect to the stories of the forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jac...
The story of the Jewish people – and truthfully the story of all monotheists, Christians and Muslims too – begins with Abraham. Abraham is o...
In the 16th century, the city of Safed in Northern Israel became host to one of the greatest collections of Torah Sages ever assembled, none...
Kabbalah is part of the corpus of Oral Torah – like the Mishnah, the Talmud and Halacha – that was given to Moshe at Sinai and transmitted f...
The word “Techeiles” is mentioned dozens of times in the Torah, and is a subject that appears in many places in the Talmud and associated li...
On the 6th of Tammuz, July 4th 1976, a team of Israeli commandos flew 2500 miles undetected across hostile countries, raided the Entebbe air...
The story of the Ten Lost Tribes is shrouded in mystery, replete with legends and folklore. At its core it is one of the greatest tragedies...
After the Temple and Jerusalem were destroyed, the Sanhedrin at Yavneh became the epicenter of Jewish life. Though the pride of the nation –...
The Sanhedrin, the highest halachic authority in the Land comprised of the 71 greatest scholars in the Jewish world, was the Supreme Court o...
David is now the undisputed king of Israel, but before him lay several key tasks: Of course the various Philistine and Canaanite tribes cont...
King David was anointed as the second king of Israel by the prophet Samuel and is considered the archetype of the Jewish king who earned the...
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The Purim Story begins with King Achashverosh, the Persian king who ruled from Hodu until Cush (India until Ethiopia), making a massive feas...
Purim is a holiday celebrated by Jews worldwide on the 14th day of the month of Adar, and in Jerusalem and walled cities on the fifteenth da...
Prayer is a central aspect of Jewish life. The second mishnah in Pirkei Avos identifies the three pillars that uphold the world, one of them...
The ancient and historic city of Jerusalem is the most contested piece of real estate on the planet. For Jews, it is the center of the world...
The holiday of Chanukah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabean Revolt over the oppressive regime of Antiochus IV and the Seleucid Empire....
The burgeoning yeshiva movement today, and indeed the fact that yeshivos did not go extinct a century ago, is due to Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finke...
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