Episodes

  • The Purim Story (Rebroadcast)

    The Purim Story (Rebroadcast)
    Mar 21 2024
    TORCH Annual Fundraiser Our organization, TORCH, does only one fundraiser a year, and that is happening right now at giveTORCH.org. This is a matching campaign and every donation will be DOUBLED. Please support the Jewish History Podcast right now at giveTORCH.org The website for the Fundraiser is giveTORCH.org Click and donate to support the Jewish History Podcast in 2024 We need your […]
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    1 hr and 39 mins
  • Ep. 84: Two-State Solution Part 2: A Century of Doomed Proposals

    Ep. 84: Two-State Solution Part 2: A Century of Doomed Proposals
    Mar 13 2024
    Straddling the Mediterranean Sea is a very special sliver of land: The land of Israel. The land of Canaan; Palestine; The Holy Land – there are a lot of names that this land is called by. This is the land to which Abraham was instructed to go to. This is the land that the Jewish […]
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Ep. 83: Two-State Solution Part 1: The Peril and Naivete of Promoting a Palestinian State

    Ep. 83: Two-State Solution Part 1: The Peril and Naivete of Promoting a Palestinian State
    Mar 11 2024
    Is a two-state solution a viable way to finally resolve the Israel Palestine conflict? Many in the international community believe that it is the only solution. After the horrific massacres of October 7th, 2023, the international community is once again amplifying the call for a two-state solution. Instead of punishing the Arabs for their violent […]
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    51 mins
  • Ep. 82: Valor and Violence: Jews and Arabs in 1920s British Mandate Palestine

    Ep. 82: Valor and Violence: Jews and Arabs in 1920s British Mandate Palestine
    Dec 18 2023
    The Balfour Declaration was a pivotal shift in the prospects of the Zionist dream. For the first time, a major world power declared their intent – in a binding governmental commitment – to work towards the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Political Zionism achieved a major strategic victory, but actualizing this plan would […]
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • The History of Chanukah: Hellenism, Heroism and Hasmoneans (Rebroadcast)

    The History of Chanukah: Hellenism, Heroism and Hasmoneans (Rebroadcast)
    Dec 8 2023
    The holiday of Chanukah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabean Revolt over the oppressive regime of Antiochus IV and the Seleucid Empire. In this podcast we tell the story of this miraculous victory of the weak over the mighty; the few over the many; the pure over the impure; and the righteous over the wicked. NOTE: This Podcast […]
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    48 mins
  • Ep. 81: Hostage Rescues and Ransoms in Jewish History and Law

    Ep. 81: Hostage Rescues and Ransoms in Jewish History and Law
    Nov 22 2023
    The Jewish people are at war. Our brethren in Israel are in midst of a fierce war in Gaza against the terrorist organization Hamas. The objectives of the campaign are the complete elimination of Hamas leadership and infrastructure, and the safe return of the more than 200 hostages captured by the terrorists on the brutal […]
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Ep. 80: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Historical Background

    Ep. 80: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Historical Background
    Nov 13 2023
    The Arab-Israeli conflict is front and center on the world stage today. The barbaric October 7th terrorist attacks – where more than a thousand innocent Jewish civilians were slaughtered, thousands more wounded, and hundreds were taken hostage by the vile Hamas terrorist organization – prompted an Israeli invasion of the Gaza strip with the express […]
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Ep. 79: The History and Development of Oral Torah (Part 3: Roman Rule and Rabbinic Reconciliation)

    Ep. 79: The History and Development of Oral Torah (Part 3: Roman Rule and Rabbinic Reconciliation)
    Apr 13 2021
    The final century of the Second Temple and the one that followed its destruction were pivotal ones of Jewish history. It was an era replete with absolute Torah giants – Hillel the Elder, Rabban Yochanan Ben Zakkai, Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh and his colleagues, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Akiva and his students, among […]
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    54 mins