The Jewish Story

By Rav Mike

Crossing into Lebanon to destroy PLO started as a successful mission, and when the IDF destroyed the Syrian SAM belt in the Bekaa Valley through Operation Mole Cricket 19 it looked like victory was as... more

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The podcast currently has 221 episodes available.

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May 27, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2, Episode 35: The Warsaw Ghetto and the Rise of Jewish Resistance
By 1942 there was no escape from Europe for the Jews, and even if they had managed to run - who would take them in. This second episode on the Holocaust explores the message of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and finally brings American Jewry into the picture of the Jewish Story.
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59min
May 14, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2, Episode 34: Heart of Darkness
There are things which need to be spoken about no matter how hard, and questions which need to be asked no matter how unanswerable. This is the first of two episodes which engage the how and why of the Holocaust.… Read the rest
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1h 8min
May 05, 2019 The Jewish Story Interlude: Independence
There is no word for independence in Biblical Hebrew, and the roots of the modern word can teach us much. This might right be called the day when we celebrate 'self-actualization,' but that leaves poses the question - how do we actually become a great nation in our land?
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38min
April 28, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2, Episode 33: The Arab Revolt
The 1930's saw the hate triangle of Arabs, British and Jews explode into an unprecedented scale of violence known as the Arab Revolt. The revolt brought on yet another cycle of repression and political concessions, and it split the Jews of the Yishuv over the question of whether restraint or retaliation was the proper response to Arab violence. Meanwhile, as violence spirals in the land of Israel, and Jews argue with one another, the darkness of Nazi Germany has begun to cast its shadow over Europe.
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1h 11min
March 31, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2, Episode 32: Under Pressure
In the 1930's the ideological divides between the Revisionist and Labor Zionists grew, and cracks began to appear within the community of the Yishuv. Meanwhile, pressure on European Jewry was increasing with the rise of Nazi Germany. When you put these two processes together, the potential is nothing short of explosive.
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1h 2min
March 26, 2019 The Jewish Story Interlude: What is a Jew?
It is time to move away from the divisive question of who is a Jew to ask something more essential - what is a Jew? The first half of this episode offers Rav Mike's thoughts on the subject. The second half is a conversation on the same with R' Aaron Leibowitz, social activist and head of the Chuppot initiative offering marriage to Israelis outside of the aegis of the state rabbinate.
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1h 10min
March 14, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2, Episode 31: Interwar Jewry
Though the land of Israel is the hinge around which the Jewish Story turns, there are many Jews whose future does not lie in Zion. This episode widens the scope of our story to consider the life of Jews in the interwar period, and how they contributed to the nature of Jewishness outside of the Zionist dream.
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1h 3min
February 24, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2 Episode 30: Stories of Blood and Fire
Patterns are hard things to break, and how they come about can teach us much about ourselves. Here is a look at the cycle of riots which rocked the Yishuv in the 1920’s, and set the mold for Arab/Jewish relations … Read the rest
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1h 1min
February 10, 2019 The Jewish Story Season 2 Episode 29: The Conflict Within
Each successive wave of immigrants that came up to the land brought with them their blessings, and their challenges. As the population grew, so did the nature of power politics. In the 1920's two leaders emerged whose opposing visions define many of the political conflicts in our State today. Here is an episode on David Ben Gurion and Zeev Jabotinsky.
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55min
January 27, 2019 The Jewish Story, Season 2 Episode 28: The Challenge of Jewish Power
The return of the Jewish people to the tools of political and military power were bound up with their return to the land of Israel. This episode explores the rise of the military model within the Zionist movement, and the power of the martyrdom of Joseph Trumpeldor as an inspiration for further struggle.
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1h 1min

FAQs about The Jewish Story:

How many episodes does The Jewish Story have?

The podcast currently has 221 episodes available.