Jew Oughta Know

By Jason HarrisSociety & Culture Religion & Spirituality History Judaism

Jew Oughta Know episodes

May 18, 2020 89. Israel 1948-1967: Eichmann Captured
Part 2 of 5 on Adolf Eichmann's trial and capture. In Part 2, how Israel tracked him down in Argentina, and staged the operation to grab him.
25 min
May 18, 2020 88. Israel 1948-1967: Eichmann On the Run
Part 1 of 5 on a deep dive into the search, capture, and trial of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann. In Part 1, Eichmann is on the run from the Allies after World War Two.
24 min
April 26, 2020 87. Israel 1948-1967: The Samson Option
Does Israel have nuclear weapons?
23 min
April 19, 2020 86. Israel 1948-1967: The Sinai Campaign
Israel enters the world stage in 1956 as a country to be reckoned with. Israel provokes a war with Egypt in secret cahoots with Britain and France. It was a local conflict wrapped in a regional one wrapped in the Cold War struggle for power in the Middle East.
26 min
March 29, 2020 85. Israel 1948-1967: Eulogy for Roi Rotberg
How should Israel respond to terrorism? The government was divided in its response to attacks from Jordan and Egypt: aggressive retaliation, or restraint and diplomacy?
24 min
March 22, 2020 84. Israel 1948-1967: Sde Boker
Prime Minister David Ben Gurion abruptly quits and heads off to Sde Boker, a desert kibbutz. Meanwhile, the Israeli government is rocked by political scandal, and Ben Gurion ends up right back where he started.
22 min
March 15, 2020 83: Israel 1948-1967: The Jewish State, Religious Version
Is Israel a theocracy? Or just a Jewish democracy that doesn't separate synagogue and state? And who gets to be counted as a Jew in the Jewish State? The second part of our look at how Israel put the "Jewish" in the Jewish State, this time through religion.
25 min
February 24, 2020 82. Israel 1948-1967: The Jewish State, Secular Version
How do you put the "Jewish" in the Jewish State? One way is through secular Jewish culture: the Hebrew language, archaeology, and even the Hebrew Bible itself.
24 min
February 09, 2020 81. Israel 1948-1967: Blood Money
West Germany offered to pay Israel reparations for the Holocaust, touching off a heated and violent debate over whether Israel should accept. Was it a critical windfall for a poor nation, or nothing more than blood money?
24 min
February 02, 2020 80. Israel 1948-1967: The Law of Return
Who is a Jew, according to the State of Israel? And where do you put all the new immigrants when there isn't enough housing? And what is the impact on Mizrahi Jewish refugees and Palestinian land abandoned during the war?
25 min

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