TJS S4E6 Israel post 1967 part II – A Greater Israel
One can look at life as one long string of decisions, whether for individuals or nations. Israel had a number of decisions to make in the wake of the...
TJS S4 Interlude – Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi
This week I host author and thought leader Yossi Klein Halevi. Our conversation touches on his personal experience the early struggle for Soviet Jewry, the challenges of writing, the...
TJS S4E5 Israel after 1967 part I: In new territory
Abundance is always a blessing, so long as one has the capacity to receive it. In the weeks and months after their victory in the Six Day War of...
TJS S4 Interlude: Interview with Dr. Michael Oren
In this interlude I am joined by special guest Dr. Michael Oren, author of Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East among...
TJS S4 Interlude: Sukkot
If you feel a bit like the world might be falling apart, then look to the sukkah for how to hold it together. Here are a few thoughts for...
TJS S4E4 The early struggle for Soviet Jewry
It is a truism that struggle brings out unexpected powers from within us, and what’s true in life is true in history as well. The struggle to liberate Soviet...
TJS S4 Interlude – Ten Days of Teshuva
Here is a thought to help focus your practice during these powerful Ten Days of Repentance in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. May we all be blessed with...
TJS S4E3 American Jewry after 1967 part III, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville strike
There are stories which are turning points in a larger tale, and there are those which prove to be tempests in a tea cup. The story of the 1968...
TJS S4 Interlude R’ Yitz Greenberg and the God of History
How we chew and swallow what history shoves down our throat can define us as individuals and nations. Here is an interview with R’ Yitz Greenberg, foundational thinker on...
TJS S4E2 American Jewry after 1967 part II From Auschwitz to Jerusalem
As each decade passes, the Holocaust retreats in time and grows in memory and this is not a linear process – some years count more than others. This episode...
TJS S4E1 American Jewry after 1967 part I The Wisdom of the Moment
History is all about telling the story after the fact, but there is a particular wisdom to be gained in the heat of the moment which is easily lost...