A playlist from The Jewish Story
The Intifadas and the Wall
Episode 1 of 5
Boundary Issues part I
October 27, 2022 · 45 min · Episode page →
Almost two thousand years ago the Sages determined that Am Yisrael was bound in exile by an oath not to go up to the land "like a wall."...
About this playlist
From the first intifada to what Rav Mike calls the Oslo War, and the security barrier that came out of it. A five-part series on borders, force, and the walls a nation builds around itself.
Where this sits in the story
1987–2005 · 1 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
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