In the State of Israel, the IDF is often where new immigrants begin their integration into Israeli society. Understandably, there is occasionally...
Category - Modern
What was the special relationship between two spiritual giants of the Jewish world in the twentieth century? Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the...
Issachar Zacharie has been described as Abraham Lincoln’s ‘most enigmatic intimate.’ Who was this curious Jewish figure, what drew...
Jewish life in Chicago began back when the city was founded. Since then it has grown to be one of America’s largest Jewish communities, and a...
Ancient Period, Chassidic, Funny, Medieval Period, Modern
Three Visionaries Who Revolutionized Judaism
Without these 3 visionaries who stepped up to the plate, Judaism might not have survived. Rabbi Abba Perlmutter brings history to life with his...
From Henry Ford to the Klu Klux Klan, from World War II to contemporary times: Professor Jonathan Sarna, the foremost authority on American Jewish...
Do bagels and baseball go together? What about Shabbat and sports? Professor Jeffrey Gurock pioneered the use of athletics as a metaphor for...
From Rodrigo de Triana, the Marrano sailor aboard Columbus’s ship, the Pinta, who first spotted land in the New World, to Haim Solomon, the...
In his infamous “General Orders Number 11,” written in Oxford, Mississippi on December 17, 1862, Grant excluded Jews from his department...
Nat Lewin is one of the top lawyers in the country. He has done extensive work in his field, and in particular will share with us some of his...
Relatively new on the scene, the American Jewish experience is a work in progress that has already had a major influence on Jewish and American life...
On August 17, 1790, Moses Seixas, the warden of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Yeshuat Israel, better known as the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, RI...
On August 17, 1790, Moses Seixas, the warden of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Yeshuat Israel, better known as the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, RI...
This is the first segment with Dr Sarna discussion the historic events that ocured on August 17, 1790, when Moses Seixas, the warden of Congregation...
In 1789, as the soil of Europe was transformed with the French Revolution and the ensuing Emancipation, Rabbi Schnuer Zalman of Liadi was writing a...
A century ago, Jewish immigrants arrived on these shores in quest of hope and opportunity. Along the way, they lost much of their Jewish identity...
A fabrication about the Beis Halevi, Rabbi Yosef Ber Soloveitchik, first appeared in an antisemitic Russian newspaper. It was published in an Irish...