The Sunday Shiur By Rabbi Yoel Plutchok

The history of yeshu: The book

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Rabbi Shaul Lieberman: The conservative rosh yeshiva who wrote a Pirush on the entire Tosefta

The history of the Karaim: Iraq circa 800

Turkey, Year 1500: The Psak of the R'em regarding Kariam 

The origin of Megillas Antiochos: R Saadia Goan's quest to immortalize the Chashmonaim

Are we allowed to study the Book of the Maccabees? "Seforim chatzonim" in Halacha

The depictions on the Arch of Titus: What happened next?

The Peroiches and the Tzitz: R’ Shimon’s testimony

The  Radziner Rebbe’s Oddysey to find the Menorah: The Visigoths and King Alaric I

The Menorah swap theory: A child's fable that gained traction

The conscientious story behind the real gold menorah by the Kosel today 

Reb Akiva Eiger’s chassideshe Eidem and his Leichter

The iconic angled menorah of Chabad: The Rambam’s depiction

Napoleon's wars and their effect on the Jews of his time

Nittel through the eyes of the Chasam Sofer 

The pros, the antis, and the in-betweeners

Nittel - a moving target understating the calendar changes