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Jewish History Lectures – Winter 2013-14
Rabbi Dovid Katz
26.03.2014
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics shows a 6% increase in immigration to Israel in January, what is referred to here as “Aliya”, Hebrew for ascending to the land of Israel. Strolling the streets of Tel Aviv, we asked Israelis why they felt many Jews from abroad make their way over here
Passover Story
27.03.2009
http://JewishHistory.org The Passover Story. The great holiday of Passover is one of the central days in the Jewish Calendar. The Jewish people came down to Egypt through Joseph. Joseph was at one point the viceroy of Egypt, but after he died, the Jewish people sink into slavery. This slavery was very harsh- both physically and spiritually, yet somehow there is a core of the Jewish people that survives and remains loyal to the ideas of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Moses is the great redeemer, who was himself raised in the Egyptian court through the Princess having adopted him. Through a series of events involving G-d miracles and plagues, Moses becomes the messenger of freedom- and the Jewish people leave Egypt.
Not all the Jews make it out of Egypt. According to a Midrash, 80% of the Jewish people stayed and died in Egypt. Whatever the Exact numbers, there was still a massive exodus- and the Jewish people (along with some others who left Egypt with them) were freed and begin their wandering in the Desert. Freedom must have a purpose, and the purpose of the Jewish people was to spread the concept of G-d, morality, charity, Monotheism, and goodness throughout the world.
In the Sinai Desert, the Jewish people receive the Torah and become a nation- the beginning of a long journey of spreading light throughout the world. The Passover holiday is re-enacted every year and tells us the value of freedom, purpose, faith, and family.
At Rabbi Wein’s Passover table- there was sometimes a span of over 300 years sitting at the table (the Rabbi’s great-grandfather who witnessed generations before him, and his great grandson who will G-d willing witness generations after him). Going back in History, it would only take 10 more tables like this to connect the Jewish people back to the time of the Exodus. This is an example of how Passover is a family holiday.
By sitting together, we testify to our past, to our commitment to the future, to our faith, to the fact that we are an eternal people. And to the fact that freedom means discipline and purpose- only a person who accepts upon themselves the yoke of Torah and morality is truly free.
The first law of Passover is to give charity to the poor so that they can also have a Seder (Passover meal).
The history and tradition of Passover
14.04.2011
Rabbi Yossi Shemtov of the Chabad House discusses in this edition of FOX Toledo Talk Back about Passover, the most holiest of the Jewish faith holidays, and the history and tradition of the seder.
Talmud Pesachim page 51 Rabbi Weisblum הרב ויסבלום תלמוד פסחים דף נ”א, Passover Pesach Torah reading Shabbat Chol Hamoed Rabbi Weisblum קריאת התורה שבת פסח
21.03.2013
Torah Reading for Passover Pesach Shabbat Col Hamoed by Rabbi Moshe P. Weisblum PhD. Torah reading is slow and clear and accompanied with the text to make it easier to follow the lead of Rabbi Weisblum. Ashkenaz Nigun. קריאת התורה לפסח שבת חול המועד .קריאה איטית ברורה ובהירה. נוסח אשכנז אשכנזי. הטקסט נמצא על המסך ומאפשר לצופה לעקוב אחרי הקריאה. צפייה נעימה!
Lecture de la Bible pour la Pâque
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This Week in Jewish History by Dr. Henry Abramson
03.04.2013
A tribute to Leslie Howard, this wonderful actor and unforgettable man, celebrating his 120th birthday.
This Day in Jewish History / British heartthrob actor is shot down by the Nazis
Haaretz
Leslie Howard’s most-remembered role is probably his 1939 performance as Ashley Wilkes in ‘Gone with the Wind,’ although it was a part he hated.
TheJerusalemCenter
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (http://www.jcpa.org) is an independent non-profit institute for policy research and education.
Established in 1976, the Jerusalem Center focuses on the main issues affecting Israel’s security and international standing in order to wage the war of ideas in global opinion.
אתר בעברית- http://www.jcpa.org.il
Français- http://www.jcpa-lecape.org
Deutsch- http://www.jer-zentrum.org
عربى- http://www.infoelarab.org
helena rubinstein biography
17.07.2013
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10.01.2014
Lost Tribes of Israel: Indian Families Make Aliya
28.11.2011
A 6 part introduction to Medieval Jewish History with JTS Professor Benjamin Gampel.
When the Jews Arrived in the Iberian Peninsula.
13.09.2013
Rabbi Dr. David Nesenoff
04.12.2007
janis joplin on the dick cavett show
27.06.2013
Dr. Aaron Kreisler of Dallas contrasts reform Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston with his orthodox counterpart, Rabbi Louis Feigon. Dr. Kreisler grew up in Galveston, where his parents settled after fleeing Poland in the late 1930s. “The Bishop” Kreisler mentions is most likely Father James M. Kirwin.
You can read more about Galveston’s Jewish history here:
http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/t…
This Day in Jewish History || The first synagogue in the U.S. is consecrated in New York City
30.01.2014
Michelle Nevius, co-author of “Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers” discusses the history of America’s oldest Jewish congregation, Shearith Israel, now headquartered on the Upper West Side. http://www.footprintsinnewyork.com
This Day, April 8, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
April 8
73(15th of Nisan, 3833): The Great Revolt came to an end today when the defenders of Masada completed their murder/suicide pact
This Day in Jewish History / A Texas rabbi and foil to the KKK is born
This Day, April 7, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
Today Charles University is the home base for a Jewish Studies program offered to American college students that examines the history of Central ..
This Day in Jewish History / Ottoman authority orders Jews to evacuate Tel Aviv
Haaretz
This Day in Jewish History / Ottoman authority orders Jews to evacuate Tel Aviv. A total of 1,500 Jewish evacuees are thought to have died after …
This Day, April 5, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
This Day in Jewish History / The record exec who signed up Janis Joplin