The Jewish Story

The Jewish Story episodes:

• 01.25.2024

  The Jewish Heroism Project Ep. 1 – Tov: The Gate – Quest for the Good

  Discover the 26 Paths of Jewish Heroism and what it means to be a hero in Rav Mike’s newest podcast series, The Jewish Heroism Project. There are good things worth fighting for. But what is good? The first class of the Jewish...

  
• 07.25.2023

  The Jewish Story Special: A 9 Days Conversation featuring Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz

  The Jewish Story Special: A 9 Days Conversation featuring Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz The Israeli Judicial Reform protests come the same week 18 years after the Gush Katif protests and 2,000 years after the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. What...

  
• 07.13.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: The Final Episode of the Jewish Story

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 21 – The Final Episode of The Jewish Story There is no way to give closure to six seasons of a story, but you have to try! Here is an interview with Rav Mike Feuer that...

  
• 06.26.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Temple Mount Part IV

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 20 – The Temple Mount Part IV Was Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in 2000 the trigger for what the Arab community calls the Al Aqsa Intifada? Or was this a pre-planned assault orchestrated...

  
• 06.12.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Temple Mount Part III – The Narrative War

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 19 – The Temple Mount Part III – The Narrative War Why is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism a lighting rod for terrorist attacks and central to Israeli-Arab peace negotiations? Learn about how...

  
• 05.30.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6 – Future of American Zionism

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude - Future of American Zionism Rav Mike Feuer speaks at Valley Beit Midrash in an event co-sponsored by Temple Chai entitled “Is There a Future for American Zionism? American Zionism in the Era of the...

  
• 05.15.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6 – Interview with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Interlude - Interview with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Rav Mike Feuer interviews educator and activist Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz and discuss what it means to be both progressive and orthodox in the Jewish world, as well as his vision...

  
• 05.01.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Temple Mount Part II – The Status Quo

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 18 – The Temple Mount Part II – The Status Quo Should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount? Or will it inflame Muslim sensitivities? Learn the history of this debate from the Six...

  
• 04.23.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: The Temple Mount Part I – The Hinge Point

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 17 – The Temple Mount Part I – The Hinge Point Every tale has a point around which it revolves, and for the Jewish Story that is the Temple Mount. Here is the opening round in...

  
• 04.09.2023

  The Jewish Story: The Crisis of Israeli Sovereignty

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Interlude - The Crisis of Israeli Sovereignty A live webinar on behalf of for Fuel For Truth: Israel Education & Advocacy Training, on “The Crisis of Israeli Sovereignty.” First Rav Mike lays out his innovative approach to...

  
• 03.28.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Constitution Now!

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Interlude - Constitution Now! Rav Mike Feuer calls for a constructive alternative to the current mass protests against judicial reform being debated in Israel’s Knesset. Along the way he touches upon some historical context about Prime Minister...

  
• 03.23.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: The Endgame (American Anti-Semitism Part VII)

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 16 – The Endgame (American Anti-Semitism Part VII) The final installment in the series on the tri-partite part nature of American Antisemitism. This episode revisits all three forms of Jew-hatred characteristic of society in the United...

  
• 03.05.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Progressing Towards Anti-Semitism (American Anti-Semitism Part VI)

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 15 – Progressing Towards Anti-Semitism (American Anti-Semitism Part VI) Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel leftists and progressives. Learn why Jews vote Democratic, and how Tikkun Olam became the civil religion of liberal American Jews. As Jews sought greater...

  
• 02.26.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Anti-Semitism – Interview with Ken Jacobson of the ADL

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Interlude - Interview with Ken Jacobson of the ADL Is Judeophobia getting worse in the US? Kenneth Jacobson has worked for the Anti-Defamation League since 1971 and as deputy director, he shares his unique view on the...

  
• 02.23.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Antisemitism Part V

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 14 - American Antisemitism Part V This episode opens up our exploration of the third face of American antisemitism with the backstory of progressive Jew-hate. Listen in to uncover the ongoing impact of Soviet era propaganda,...

  
• 02.09.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Antisemitism Part IV

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 13 - American Antisemitism Part IV When the cracks start to open up in American race relations, Jew-hate seeps into the mainstream. Here is an episode about Reverend Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and the evolution...

  
• 02.06.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: The Inner Pressure of the Present Moment

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Interlude - The Inner Pressure of the Present Moment Sometimes you have to get out of your own head in order to know what you really think. Here is an episode where my good friend Eitan Ben...

  
• 02.02.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Antisemitism Part III

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 12 - American Antisemitism Part III Jew-hatred has two fundamental elements no matter where it manifests – one connected to the role Jews play in society, the other the role we play in the mind of...

  
• 01.19.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Antisemitism Part II

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 11 - American Antisemitism Part II In part 2 of our exploration of the new face of the oldest hate focuses on the history of Jewish response to American Antisemitism through a look at the Anti-Defamation...

  
• 01.13.2023

  The Jewish Story Season 6: American Antisemitism Part I

  The Jewish Story Season 6  Episode 10 - American Antisemitism Part I Antisemitism. It’s an old topic, but somehow seems to be making yet another comeback in America. Here is the introductory episode in my quest to understand the rebirth of humanity’s...

  
• 12.22.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Greek Wisdom and Cultural Sovereignty

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude – Greek Wisdom and Cultural Sovereignty Here is my annual Hanukkah class in honor of my father, Charles Feuer/Betzalel ben Avraham ob’m. As the end of the Hasmonean kingdom that was established after the Hanukkah war,...

  
• 12.11.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Boundary Issues Part V

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 9 - Boundary Issues Part V Uzi Dayan was national security advisor to both Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon, helping them navigate the stormy waters of the Camp David summit, the Oslo war and Operation Defensive...

  
• 12.04.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Boundary Issues Part IV

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 8: Boundary Issues Part IV Though the first intifada paved the way for the wall, the second – known as the Oslo War – brought it into being. This episode makes a bridge between these two...

  
• 12.01.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Boundary Issues Part III

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 7 - Boundary Issues Part III Violence often has an arc, and in this episode we trace how the intifada progresses together with the Israeli policies of suppression and separation. Along the way we outline the...

  
• 11.24.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: On Violence

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude - On Violence In this episode we take a break from tracking the evolution of Israel’s separation wall to consider the deeper issues of violence on which it is built. Rav Yehuda Hakohen of the Vision...

  
• 11.13.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Boundary Issues Part II – The Intifada

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 6: Boundary Issues Part II - The Intifada When the intifada erupted it caught the Israeli army and leadership unprepared. Part two of the series exploring the evolution of the separation barrier explores Defense Minister Yitzhak...

  
• 11.07.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Boundary Issues Part I

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 5: Boundary Issues Part I Almost two thousand years ago the Sages determined that Am Yisrael was bound in exile by an oath not to go up to the land “like a wall.” Now two millennia...

  
• 11.03.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: The Sukkot Interlude

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude: The Sukkot Interlude The Zohar calls the Sukkah “the shade of faith.” Here are some impromptu thoughts from me to you as I sit in the shade of my sukkah – inspired by these holy days,...

  
• 11.03.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Electoral Dysfunction Part III

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 4: Electoral Dysfunction Part III Here is the final installment in the series detailing the evolution of Israel’s electoral system. It brings us almost all the way to the present, touching on topics like the Oslo...

  
• 10.30.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Interview with Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude: Interview with Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi Here is an interview with Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi, of Hakhel: The Jewish Intentional Communities Incubator in the Diaspora, an expert on the biblical sabbatical year – shemitta. This is...

  
• 10.30.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Electoral Dysfunction II

  The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 3: Electoral Dysfunction Part II The unity government wasn’t born yesterday, it has a long history in Israel. Tune in to this ongoing exploration of the evolution of Israel’s electoral system to learn about the government...

  
• 09.18.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6: Electoral Dysfunction Part I

  Love learning Jewish history? Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 2: Electoral Dysfunction Part I Part I of an in-depth look at the historical sources of the present electoral issues facing Israel.

  
• 09.15.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 6 – Prologue: A New Perspective

  Love learning Jewish history? Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 1: Prologue: A New Perspective Season 6 of The Jewish Story has finally begun! Here is a prologue to help frame the chapter to...

  
• 09.04.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: Conclusion – An End and a Beginning

  Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 5 Conclusion: An End and a Beginning All things good things must come to an end, so here is the concluding episode of season 5. In it you will find...

  
• 08.28.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: From Russia to Jerusalem – Interview with Dr. Zhenia Fleisher

  Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 5 Interlude: From Russia to Jerusalem – Interview with Dr. Zhenia Fleisher Dr. Zhenia Fleisher lived in all three of the 20th century’s major centers of Jewish life – USSR,...

  
• 08.21.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: 80s Conversation with Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen

  Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 5 Interlude: 80s Conversation with Rabbi Yehuda HaKohen Rav Mike Feuer talks with Yehuda HaKohen of the Vision Movement about growing up as an American Jew in the 1980s. Yehuda...

  
• 08.18.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Memory of the Holocaust

  Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live! The Jewish Story Season 5 Episode 24: Rabbi Meir Kahane and the Memory of the Holocaust American Jewry in the 1980s were as safe and comfortable as a Jewish community had ever been –...

  
• 08.16.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Jonathan Pollard Affair

  Don't miss out on the Jewish Story Live with Rav Mike Feuer, starting August 28! The Jewish Story Season 5 Episode 23: Soviet Jewry - The Jonathan Pollard Affair The 1980s saw many seismic shifts in the fabric of American Jewish society, and...

  
• 08.03.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: Soviet Jewry – The End Game

  The Jewish Story Season 5 Episode 22: Soviet Jewry - The End Game The third and final episode in our series on Soviet Jewry in which Russian Jews are finally able to leave the Soviet Union. The 1980s saw a welding together...

  
• 07.25.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: American Jewry Circa 1984

  The Jewish Story Season 5 Episode 21: American Jewry Circa 1984 As we circle in toward the end of season five, it is time to check back in with American Jewry. The Eighties were a time of economic and social security for...

  
• 07.24.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: An Interview with Daniel Gordis

  The Jewish Story Season 5 Interlude: An Interview with Daniel Gordis Menachem Begin has been part of our exploration of the Jewish Story since the uprising against the British back in 1944, and the Lebanon War was the last chapter in which...

  
• 07.21.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Lebanon War Part IV

  The Jewish Story Season 5 Episode 19: The Lebanon War Part IV: Sabra and Shatila The assassination of Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel was an explosion that rocked the region, and the massacres at Sabra and Shatila which followed in its wake horrified...

  
• 07.20.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: An Interlude – Interview with Ambassador David Friedman

  We are all actors in the Jewish Story, and part of the art of becoming a main character is knowing how to seize the moment. Here is an interview with former Ambassador David Friedman which explores how he came to...

  
• 07.19.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Lebanon War Part III

  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 assured. Nonetheless as Defense Minister Ariel...

  
• 07.18.2022

  TJS S5 Interlude: On Leadership

  Sometimes a listener question can cause a whole interlude. Here is an exploration of Jewish leadership and its roots in the Jewish story. Along the way we touch on Ukrainian president Zelenskyy, R' Chaim Kanievsky and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett....

  
• 07.17.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Lebanon War Part II

  Operation Peace for the Galilee begins with Israeli jets pounding Yasser Arafat's PLO bases in southern Lebanon, but there is always a backstory. In this episode learn about the complicated history Lebanon's civil wars fought between Christians, Moslems and...

  
• 07.15.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Lebanon War Part I

  Before we can discuss the outbreak of war between Israel and the PLO in Lebanon, we must lay out the political context. As Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian liberation army were massing troops along the border, and the city of...

  
• 07.14.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: Bombing the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor

  Israel's leadership came to be part by never forgetting the principal of "when one comes to kill you, rise early and kill first." Menachem Begin's 1981 bombing of the Iraqi reactor Osirak on the distant banks of the Tigris gave...

  
• 07.13.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5: The Evacuation of the Sinai

  People like to talk about the price of peace, but they rarely define what peace actually means. This makes evaluating the price impossible. In April of 1982 Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula and for the first time destroyed established...

  
• 07.12.2022

  The Jewish Story Season 5, An Interlude – Conversation on Violence with R’ Yehuda HaKohen

  There are some conversations which Am Yisrael is just not having. As a follow up to some of the issues raised in the last few episodes Rav Mike is joined by R' Yehuda Hakohen of the Vision Movement for a...