Teller From Jerusalem

TFJ: Special Episode!

The Haganah launched a floating underground railroad to bring immigrants into Israel after the conclusion of WW II. The British enforced their White Paper which forbade Jewish immigration to Palestine, so Holocaust survivors who were caught trying to run the blockade were incarcerated under cruel conditions in Cyprus. In a daring move, the Haganah retrofitted an old steam liner packing it with over 5000 Jews that were languishing in DP camps and sailed to Israel in the summer of 1947. His Majesty's Navy attacked the boat, renamed the Exodus, killing and wounding passengers. The survivors were not sent to nearby Cyprus, but to the belly of the beast they had just barely escaped, Germany. The harshness and the heartlessness of the British was a media headline causing sympathy for the Zionist cause and would ultimately be an inspiration to Soviet Jewry.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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Rerelease TFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop

You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week.

We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19!

Make sure to tell your friends about Teller from Jerusalem so that they too can have a new favorite podcast full of fascinating history, engaging stories and important life lessons! We can't wait to share our new episodes with you. But in the meantime take the time to catch up on past episodes - like this one with Dr Rona Novick.

Teller From Jerusalem is very honored to host ever-wise and insightful Dr. Rona Novick, the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Dr. Novick is the only one who can sound like your mother, a graduate school professor and a very astute therapist all at the same time. Everyone loves to hear her speak about effective parenting and effective teachering (Dr. Novick is not responsible for that word) and she brings all of that knowledge and Covid-coping strategy for the family on to the podcast. Little wonder she edited the book series, Kids Don't Come With Instruction Manuals.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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TFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop Teller From Jerusalem is very honored to host ever-wise and insightful Dr. Rona Novick, the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Dr. Novick is the only one who can sound like your mother, a graduate school professor and a very astute therapist all at the same time. Everyone loves to hear her speak about effective parenting and effective teachering (Dr. Novick is not responsible for that word) and she brings all of that knowledge and Covid-coping strategy for the family on to the podcast. Little wonder she edited the book series, Kids Don't Come With Instruction Manuals.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel

With fear that Rommel's conquest of Africa may bring the German Army to Palestine, the Hagana, the prelude to the Israel Defense Forces, created an elite strike force called the Palmach. Menachem Begin assumes the leadership of the Irgun underground militia and becomes the most Wanted Man by the British in Palestine.

In order to terminate the White Paper's restriction on Jewish immigration to Palestine, all three Jewish military forces in Israel unite to fight the British. Their efforts cause enormous interruption, aggravation and expense to the British and they retaliate with an operation that arrests 2700 Jews, many of them Zionist leaders, impound weapons and incriminating documents.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel

The very week that the British rounded up 2700 suspected Jewish underground members, the Kielce pogrom broke out in Poland.

Despite the millions and millions murdered and maimed during the Holocaust, over a year after World War II had come to its completion, a medieval blood libel was unleashed upon scores of innocent Jewish survivors from the death camps in Kielce, Poland.

TFJ interviews 95 year-old Mr. Josef Levkovich the capturer of Amon Göth the commandant of Plaszow (Schindler's List) who arrived with a tank and security personnel preventing the rioters from continuing their bloodbath upon every remaining Jew in the region.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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TFJ:Series 1: Episode 39

In these fraught times we are honored to be joined by such an prestigous and influential guest.

Former member of Knesset (Israel's parliament) Rabbi Dov Lipman joins Teller From Jerusalem to share the work that he is doing to enable those from abroad get into the often sealed borders of Israel due to Covid 19. In the course of the interview, he shares a heartwarming contemporary tale and all of his passion regarding the privilege it is to live in the Jewish homeland.

You can learn more about Rabbi Lipman's important organization improving the lives of immigrants in Israel at Yad L'Olim.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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TFJ Series 1: Episode 38: The Birth of Israel

Just as the British excused their heartless behavior by offering an excuse that no one believed, that spies might have infiltrated among the refugees and then would commit espionage against His Majesty's Government; the United States State department, with the fullest cooperation of President Roosevelt shamelessly employed the same lame and false excuse that spies could be among the Jewish refugees seeking sanctuary and therefore they posed a risk to national security and must be turned away.

The State department and FDR were determined to even violate the law to see to it that Jews did not escape to America. United States policy was so blatant that it even prompted Hitler to comment, "By what right did the US have to condemn German policy when America would not accept what Germany is disposing of."

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TFJ Series 1 Episode 37 - The Birth of Israel

When the British refused to allow 10,000 Jewish children to escape Europe and come to Palestine, it could not be that that they did not understand that barring their entry meant subjecting them to their annihilation. Images from Kristallnacht had been broadcast across worldwide media. And still Britain issued the White Paper agreeing to all of the Arab demands meaning that there would be no haven in Palestine for Jews fleeing for their lives and that the home for the Jews promised in the Balfour Declaration could not be realized.

TFJ examines the plight of three doomed ships from this period which vividly highlight that Jews had nowhere in the world to escape to and the establishment of a Jewish state was a matter of life and death. As the British were unconcerned about this reality, Palestinian Jewry, most notably the Haganah, the precursor of the Israel Defence Forces, worked to smuggle in what the British deemed illegal immigrants. If they were caught, the British, ironically, like the Nazis, placed them in camps behind barbed wire.

Audio Credit: The Doomed Voyage of the St Louis Documentary, History Channel

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TJF The Birth of Israel: Series 1: Episode 36

Just as Neville Chamberlain bought shame to himself and the British government by his policy of appeasement a the Munich Conference; likewise the British Mandatory Authority foolishly engaged in a policy of appeasement with the Arabs in Palestine. The policy intended to calm the Arabs and curb further violence did nothing of the sort and the untold lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews, likely millions, paid the price. The Peele Commission proposed offering the Jews just a small sliver of land and the balance be awarded to the Arabs, but even this outrageously advantageous solution was rejected out of hand by the Arabs.

TFJ: Series 1: Episode 35

Teller From Jerusalem is very proud to host one of the most dynamic and compelling inspirational speakers of our time, Mr. Charlie Harary. As always, Charlie brings on to the show his poignant and contemporary examples of how each person can unlock the greatness within themselves.

Moving from the United States Hockey Team which beat the undefeatable USSR in 1980, to how to manage the "schema of self," Charlie grants TFJ an action-packed episode.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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