Episodes Archive
TJS S5 Interlude 80s conversation with Rav Yehuda HaKohen
Here is a talk with Rav Yehuda HaKohen of the Vision Movement, the first in couple of conversations which will close our exploration of American Jewish life in the...
TJS S5E24 Meir Kahane and the memory of the Holocaust
American Jewry in the Eighties were as safe and comfortable as a Jewish community had ever been – and yet the shadow of the Holocaust still loomed large over...
TJS S5E23 The Jonathan Pollard affair
The 1980s saw many seismic shifts in the fabric of American Jewish society, and among them was the earthquake of the Jonathan Pollard affair. The 1985 arrest of the...
TJS S5E22 Soviet Jewry – the end game
Here is the third and culminating episode in a story that we have been following since season four. The Eighties saw a welding together of American Cold War policies...
TJS S5E21 American Jewry circa 1984
As we circle in toward the end of season five, it is time to check back in with American Jewry. The 1980s were a time of economic and social...
TJS S5 Interlude – Jerusalem Day with Rav Aaron Leibowitz
Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) is a time when past and present come sharply together, and have the potential to define our future. Social activist and former Jerusalem city council...
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