Jew Oughta Know

On August 13, 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced a peace agreement. This is only the third time an Arab country has made peace with Israel. Here's what you oughta know!

From stealing fighter jets to stealing secrets, Israel's spies are the stuff of legend. Some ended in triumph, and others tragedy. They all played a critical role in Israel's security during the 1960s.

Israel’s innovations in water use spread around the world, helping to lift millions out of poverty and famine. The National Water Carrier brought water to every corner of the country. But water was also a source of conflict with its Arab neighbors, as Syria tries to cut off Israel’s access and border tensions rise to dangerous levels.

The police shot an unarmed member of a discriminated group, riots followed, and a social change movement spread throughout the country. Not the United States in 2020, but Israel in 1959. In the ongoing miracle that was Israel, the Mizrahi — Jews from the Middle East and North Africa — were falling behind. It exposed a fault line in relations between “two Israels.”

Hebrew, the kibbutz, the military, and politics were achieving big things and undergoing big changes, as Israel entered its teenage years in the 1960s. And David Ben Gurion, the man who personified the Jewish State, made a huge decision.

Are Jews “white” here in America? The extreme right says no, the radical left yes. The American Jewish experience has been multifaceted. And there are Jews of Color.

What does Judaism "say" about the racial justice protests of 2020? And what is the history of black-Jewish relations in the United States?

Part 5 of 5. Eichmann's trial continues with his defense: I was only following orders. The judges consider a verdict and sentence. The trial had a tremendous impact and changed Israeli culture.

Part 4 of 5. After his capture by Israel in 1960, Adolf Eichmann goes on trial in Jerusalem. Holocaust survivors capture the attention of the whole nation as they testify to their harrowing experiences.

Part 3 of 5 on Eichmann's trial and capture. In Part 3, the Israeli Mossad team is holed up with Eichmann in their Buenos Aires safe house, while trying to figure out how to smuggle him out of the country.