The Jewish Story

In episode 3 of The Jewish Story, Rabbi Mike Feuer focuses on The Men of the Great Assembly, who lie on the other side o... Read more

The encounter between Greek and Jewish culture was love at first sight, and one of its great products was the Septuagint... Read more

In the middle of the 16th century the town of Tzefat became a new center of Jewish life. This class introduces one side ... Read more

In this episode of The Jewish Story, Rabbi Mike Feuer describes the rise of Hellenistic Judaism as the background for th... Read more

Here is a live interlude from Rav Mike – his annual class in memory of his father, Charles Feuer ob’m. It is an explorat... Read more

R’ Yehudah HaNasi redacted the Mishna but he inherited its form and content from R’ Akiva. In this episode, Rabbi Mike F... Read more

The struggle between the parochial and the cosmopolitan is a defining tension of the 19th century for Europe as a whole ... Read more

World War One brought massive destruction and great change to the world. When the smoke cleared from this great conflagr... Read more

If I asked you whether Israel has a constitution are you sure that you would know the answer? This episode is the first ... Read more

There are things which need to be spoken about no matter how hard, and questions which need to be asked no matter how un... Read more

In 1949 Israel was in the dangerous position of winning the battle and losing the war. Though ceasefire agreements were ... Read more

It is the end of an era. In this episode Rabbi Mike Feuer explores rabbinic chronology, textual evolution and socio-poli... Read more

Herod the Wicked or Herod the Great? In this episode Rabbi Mike Feuer talks about Herod’s kingdom, the final phase of Ju... Read more

By 1942 there was no escape from Europe for the Jews, and even if they had managed to run – who would take them in. This... Read more

As European Jewry was consumed by the Shoah, the Zionists in the land of Israel gradually came to see the British blocki... Read more

In part two of this exploration of Israel’s seventy year constitutional crisis we take a look at the revolution of 1992 ... Read more

In the 1930’s the ideological divides between the Revisionist and Labor Zionists grew, and cracks began to appear within... Read more

The 1930’s saw the hate triangle of Arabs, British and Jews explode into an unprecedented scale of violence known as the... Read more

As the Emperor of France spreads the ideals of the revolution through Europe, the question arises – is emancipation a ri... Read more

Patterns are hard things to break, and how they come about can teach us much about ourselves. Here is a look at the cycl... Read more