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An Angel Amid the Ashes: The Klausenberger Rebbe Part II
Episode 284
In honor of the yahrtzeit of Rav Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam, the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe (1905-1994), another chapter in his storied life is presente…
4 years, 9 months ago
David Ben-Gurion & the Jewish Character of the State of Israel
Episode 283
Considered by many as the founding father of the State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) had a unique vision of the Jewish character of the Jew…
4 years, 9 months ago
Rabbi Yitzchak Rubinstein & The Vilna Rabbinate Controversy
Episode 282
Though Vilna was known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania, it hadn't had an official chief rabbi since a dispute about the position ended in 1791. As a re…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Great Defender of Israel: Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev
Episode 281
One of the most legendary leaders the Chassidic movement has ever produced Rav Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (1740-1809) is a universally beloved figur…
4 years, 9 months ago
Radical Mussarites: The School of Novardok
Episode 280
The Novardok Yeshiva was both a mussar philosophy as well as a movement. Founded by Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz (1850-1919), the Alter of Novardok, in …
4 years, 9 months ago
Jews of the Maghreb: The Uniqueness of Moroccan Jewry
Episode 279
There is a certain uniqueness to the storied and ancient Jewish community of Morocco. At least 2,000 years old, it became the numerically largest Sep…
4 years, 9 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #21: Monsey Part II
Episode 278
From the early days of Bais Medrash Elyon and its prominent alumni, Monsey continued to develop both up and down "the hill". Rav Yaakov Lipschutz, Ra…
4 years, 9 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #21: Monsey Part I
Episode 277
Monsey. Rockland County. The Hudson River Valley. The image of suburbia. This small town across the Tappan Zee Bridge somehow developed into one of t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Torah for Eternity: Stories of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky
Episode 276
Rav Shmuel Rozovsky (1913-1979) was perhaps the most influential teacher of Torah in the rebuilding of the post war Yeshiva world. Born into a rabbin…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Kabbalists of Komarno: Part II
Episode 275
In keeping with the mystical leanings of the Komarno dynasty, it is interesting to note the frequency in which the leaders of the dynasty passed away…
4 years, 10 months ago