Iran, China & The New Threat To Israel with Guest Speaker Elliot Chodoff # 7 Sunset Series 

on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman 

Our Topic: 

Explosions have been going off all over Iran in the past week.  Who is responsible for them and could this lead to retaliation or a war against Israel by Iran?  Will the new agreement with China embolden Iran in ways not seen before?  Hear from a military and political expert about Israel’s greatest existential threat.

Our Speaker:

Elliot Chodoff is a political and military analyst specializing in the Middle East conflict and the global war on terrorists. His writings on have been on the recommended reading list at the US Army War College. His articles have appeared in the Washington Times, National Post of Canada, and numerous web journals. He is a lecturer at the University of Haifa and is writing a PhD dissertation in International Relations at Bar Ilan University on deterrence of terrorism.

Elliot is a major in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) reserves. He presently serves as the Population Officer in the Operations Branch of IDF Northern Command. Elliot moved to Israel in 1983 and is a founding member of Eshchar, a community village in the Galilee, where he resides.

Kabbalah & Astrology: Is My Fate In The Stars? # 4 Kabbalah 101 -Jewish Spirituality Series 

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

We all want to know our destiny, can we find it in the stars?  Kabbalistic and Jewish texts incorporate Astrology in its teachings, is there Jewish Astrology and if so when and how can we use it?

Extraordinary Jewish Personalities # 10 Elie Wiesel "The Voice of Justice" on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

From Chasidic boy to Auschwitz survivor to moral conscience of the world, Elie Wiesel was perhaps the most well-known Jew throughout the world of the past generation.  He dedicated his life to challenging mankind to remember and confront the horrors of the Holocaust in order to prevent such crimes against humanity to happen again. 

Jewish Spirituality: Kabbalah 101 # 3 -Fixing A Broken World.

The most difficult challenge to belief is suffering and evil in the world.  If G-d is good, why does it appear the world is ‘bad’, painful.   We will look at a Kabbalistic approach to the existence of evil and darkness in the world, and how we are to respond to it

Extraordinary Jewish Personalities # 9 Natan Sharansky "The Prison of Zion" on Jewish Matters Podcast

Natan Sharansky is one of the true heroes of our time.  Hear the story from his beginnings as a Refusnik to becoming a Minister in the government of Israel, and of his 9 years in a Russian Prison where he took on the Soviet system and vanquished them.  A few years after his release the Soviet Union would collapse.

The Sunset Series # 5 Aliyah & Entrepreneurship: An Inside View with Michael Berman on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

Get the inside scoop on what it’s really like to be an entrepreneur, in the US and Israel.  Michael will give his tips to success and speak about the different business cultures in the US and Israel, and how to make both work. 

 About our speaker: Michael Berman is an entrepreneur and investor working with a select group of high potential development and early commercial stage Medical companies.  He currently serves on the boards of 11 companies, and since 2000 has served on the boards of companies that have collectively raised a total of $ 900 million.  Mr. Berman started numerous companies and served as President of Boston Scientific/Scimed.  He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife.

Kabbalah 101 # 2 Actualizing Our Higher Potential on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

The Kabbalah presents 10 Divine energies/dynamics (Sefirot) which are within us.  Learn to identify our Divine qualities and how we can cultivate them to actualize our inner potential. 

On Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

The Lubavitch Rebbe "The Global Reach" The Lubavitch Rebbe is a larger than life personality; genius and scholar, builder of the Chabad worldwide outreach movement, confidante to thousands of followers and world leaders, miracle worker and controversial Messianic figure.  Who really was Menachem Mendel Schneerson and how did he become ‘The Rebbe’?

To Annex or Not To Annex -A Debate with Chuck Freilich & Eli Vered Hazon -Jewish Matters Podcast

Israel has a historic and monumental decision to make about applying sovereignty to parts of Yehuda and Shomron (the West Bank) as part of the Trump Plan.   Join us for what will be a passionate discussion/debate of the issues involved. 

Pro Annexation Eli Vered Hazon, Foreign Director of Foreign Affairs, Likud Party.

Anti-Annexation, Professor Chuck Freilich, former deputy national security adviser in Israel and long-time senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, he teaches political science at Columbia, NYU and Tel Aviv Universities and has authored many books and articles.

# 1 A Deeper Look at Reality on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

Kabbalah conjures up mysticism, deep secrets and a journey to the unknown.  What is Kabbalah, why has it become so popular, and can we understand it?  In this 4 part series we will explore the meaning of these Jewish teaching about a deeper vision of reality and how it can be relevant to our lives.