Baltimore Hebrew Institute's Podcast episodes:

• January 08, 2015Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 9

  January 7, 2015, Mizrachi (Sephardi) immigrants in an Ashkenazic run state

  Ashkenazi romantic and patronizing attitudes toward Mizrachim

  Waves of immigration

  Mizrachi music as Israeli culture

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• December 18, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 8

  December 17, Ingathering of the exiles; post-Holocaust dreams and realities

  Holocaust survivors in Israel

  German reparations

  New historians and the failure of rescue during the Holocaust

  Eichmann on trial

  The meaning of Yad Vashem

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• December 11, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 7

  Institution Building

  Ben Gurion's malachtiyut: the state comes before everything

  Challenges of the Supreme Court

  Rabbanoot (rabbinate): good or bad for the Jews?

  Ministry of Education

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• December 08, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 6

  Law of Return and Who is a Jew?

  Who is a Jew defined

  Judaism (Orthodox and non-Orthodox) in the Jewish state

  The Law of Return; The Brother Daniel case

  The conversion crises (1988; 1997-98)

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• November 20, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 5

  November 19 Status Quo and modus vivendi

  Religion in Israel's early days

  The status quo (religious) agreement

  Ben-Gurion's understanding of the Diaspora

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• November 13, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 4

  November 12, Building a state in the 1950s

  Armistice with Arab countries (Rhodes Talks)

  Egyptian Jew spy scandal

  Sinai War

  Building relationship with France

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• November 06, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 3

  November 5, War of Independence: road to victory and creation of the refugee problem

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• October 30, 2014Baltimore Tzion Class 2 October 29th

  The struggle for statehood (1947 - 1948)

  UN recognition and the start of war

  Resettling refugees (Holocaust survivors amidst new conflict)

  Weapons smuggling and the role of American Jews

  The bitter legacy of the British

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• October 23, 2014Baltimore Tzion, Year 2 - Class 1

  October 22, 2014

  Overview of Zionism 1897 - 1947

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• April 11, 2014Baltimore Tzion 20th class Part 2

  Last lecture of Year One.

  Plus Taste of Year Two featuring Rabbi Dr. David Starr.

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