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The History of The Volozhin Yeshiva Part 5: Closing Time
Episode 171
Several factors came together which forced the great Yeshiva of Volozhin to close its doors on a cold winter day in 1892. The Yeshiva had been under close scrutiny from the Czarist government for dec…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Washington Heights Part II: Rav Schachter Remembers
Episode 170
At the northern tip of Manhattan, Washington Heights is a city neighborhood while distant enough from the hustle and bustle of Midtown. Already with a Jewish presence at the turn of the century, it r…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #6 Washington Heights Part I
Episode 169
At the northern tip of Manhattan, Washington Heights is a city neighborhood, while distant enough from the hustle and bustle of Midtown. Already with a Jewish presence at the turn of the century, it …
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Making of a Godol Stories Part I
Episode 168
Meticulously researched and 1,400 pages long, the monumental work "Making of a Godol", contains a wealth of stories about great Jewish leaders of yesteryear. In honor the first yahrtzeit of the autho…
Published on 5 years, 6 months ago
Of Bombs & Money: The Desperate Attempts to Save Hungarian Jewry
Episode 167
With most of European Jewry decimated and the Red Army advancing in the east, the Hungarian Jewish community remained the last great center of Jewish life on the continent. Following the German invas…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #5: Chicago
Episode 166
When Jews blew into the Windy City, a great community in the Midwest began to rise. There may have been a World Series drought, but there was no drought of Jewish life and Torah growth in Chicago ove…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
From Shanghai to East New York: Stories of Bais Hatalmud
Episode 165
When a senior group of the lions of the Mir got together in the late 1940's, they formed one of the most unique creations in the annals of the Yeshiva movement. Bais Hatalmud evokes memories of indiv…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
A Bittersweet Victory: The 1948 Battle for Jerusalem
Episode 164
While Yom Yerushalayim is a day that primarily focuses on the Six Day War and the capture of Yerushalayim, it leads one to wonder how it was lost in the first place. For that we must return to the ba…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Great American Jewish Cities #4: Cincinnati
Episode 163
The oldest Jewish community west of the Allegheny's, Cincinnati wasn't just the home of the Big Red Machine. In the 19th century, Isaac Mayer Wise and Max Lilienthal made Cincinnati the center for th…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago
Wisdom & Dignity: The Life and Lessons of Rav Moshe Shapiro
Episode 162
Few can match the depth, breadth and wisdom that Rav Moshe Shapiro (1935-2017) had and shared through many venues to decades of students. As someone who absorbed from many of the greatest Torah schol…
Published on 5 years, 7 months ago