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Hail to the Chief: The Life & Leadership of Rav Eliezer Silver Part II
Episode 286
In this second installment on the incredible life and accomplishments of Rav Eliezer Silver (1886-1968), his rise in the rabbinic leadership in the U…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hail to the Chief: The Life & Leadership of Rav Eliezer Silver Part I
Episode 285
One of the architects or American Orthodoxy and perhaps the greatest Orthodox rabbinical leader in that country of the 20th century, Rav Eliezer Silv…
5 years, 1 month ago
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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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…
5 years, 1 month 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 …
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 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…
5 years, 2 months ago