Jewish History

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The Yom Kippur War, 40 Years Later: Lessons for Today (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Shmuel Rosner

Audio
Nov 5, 2013

The Mystical Program of the Kabbalists in Zefat (Renewing Our Spirit 2013)

Joel Hecker

Audio
Nov 4, 2013

Rabbi Kalonymos Kalman Shapira: Jewish Spirituality and the Holocaust, Chanukah 1942

Rabbi Dr. Don Seeman

Sold with accompanying source sheets, downloadable after purchase.
Audio
Dec 10, 2012

Finding Tekhelet: An Online Lecture Series in Three Parts with Baruch Sterman

Baruch Sterman

For centuries, shellfish-dyed fabrics ranked among the most expensive objects of the ancient Mediterranean world, fetching up to 20 times their weight in gold. Huge fortunes were made from and lost to them, and battles were fought over control of…
Program
Oct 31, 2012

Rav Kook: His Life and His Legacy

Dr. Beni Gesundheit

On the 3rd of Elul, which was the 77th yahrzeit of Rav Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook, z”l, Dr. Beni Gesundheit presented an analysis of Rav Kook's ideas.
Audio
Aug 28, 2012

The Catholic Church, Gay Rights and the Jewish Community

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The mark of maturity is the ability to disagree with others respectfully; to be able to appreciate the integrity and sincerity of an argument even as you may fundamentally disagree with it. This is easier said than done, and it is truly the rare…
Article
Jun 11, 2012

Our Days Are Numbered

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Mark Steyn put it quite simply in America Alone: “Experts talk about root causes. But demography is the most basic root of all.” Prognostications about the future of any country, race or civilization must begin and end with the hard numbers. Is a…
Article
May 6, 2012

No, Israel Isn’t Turning into an Iran-Style Theocracy (The New Republic)

tim

Gil TroyThe demonizing of Israel, dismissing the democratic Jewish state as a right-wing, religious, racist project, continues. The latest storyline describes ultra-Orthodox Israelis—known in Hebrew as haredim—as medieval Neanderthals rapidly…
Article
Feb 16, 2012

Great Jewish Thinkers Series: Moses Mendelssohn: A Traditional Jew Answers the Challenges of Modernity

Dr. Edward Breuer

Audio
Feb 5, 2012

OAS

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Otta van Bismark, 19th century Chancellor of Germany, in introducing a social insurance program, set the rather arbitrary age of retirement of 65. This at a time when few people actually lived that long. Yet 65 has become sacrosanct for many.  While…
Article
Feb 1, 2012