The Jewish Mystique
by Heritage House FilmsWhat is the meaning of being Jewish?
The Exodus Ship: Miracle of Israel #10
by Rabbi Berel Wein and Destiny FilmsThe British refuse a boatload of desperate Holocaust survivors entry into Israel.
Clandestine Immigration: Miracle of Israel #9
by Destiny Films and Rabbi Berel WeinJewish refugees make a secret, treacherous journey to the Promised Land.
Jewish Response: Miracle of Israel #8
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsThe ragtag Jewish underground fights back against 100,000 British personnel.
Political Hopes: Miracle of Israel #7
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsBen Gurion brought the message of Zionism to the hopeless Holocaust refugees.
British Refugee Policy: Miracle of Israel #6
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsFor fear of jeopardizing oil interests, the British refuse to allow Jews into Israel.
Homeless and Stateless: Miracle of Israel #5
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsThe survivors' desperate attempts to locate lost relatives.
Rebuilding the Community: Miracle of Israel #4
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsJewish refugees seek shelter back in Poland or in DP camps.
Test of Faith: Miracle of Israel #3
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsThe flame that sustained the Jews in the darkest days.
Survivors & Sefardic Jews: Miracle of Israel #2
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsComing to grips with a civilization destroyed.
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Aftermath of the Holocaust: Miracle of Israel #1
by Berel Wein / Destiny FilmsLiberating the camps, and the Nuremberg trials. (Viewer discretion is advised.)
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The Seven Wonders of Jewish History
by Rabbi Motty Berger and Rabbi Asher ResnickSeven remarkable milestones of Jewish history that defy historical patterns and fulfill ancient prophecies.
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Escape from the Inquisition
by Avraham BroidePublicly, Dr. Nunez was serving Church dignitaries; privately he was committing religious crimes deserving of death at the stake.
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America and Jewish Values
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe United States was the first country to be created, from its inception, as a democracy. And the Bible played a major role in the process.
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Crash Course in Jewish History #68 - Timeline: From Abraham to the Founding of the State of Israel
by Rabbi Ken SpiroFour thousand years of Jewish history at a glance.
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Crash Course in Jewish History #67 - The Miracle of Jewish History
by Rabbi Ken SpiroIn the final analysis, Jewish history makes no rational sense.
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Crash Course in Jewish History #66 - War
by Rabbi Ken SpiroSince its founding in 1948, Israel has been in a constant state of war and yet it has achieved great economic success.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 65 - The State of Israel
by Rabbi Ken SpiroAfter the British brutally turned away Holocaust survivors from Israel, the UN voted to partition the land.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 64 - The British Mandate
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe British promised to create a Jewish state. Instead they served their own Arab-linked interests as millions died in the Holocaust.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 63 - Modern Zionism
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe First Zionist Conference, held in 1897, was a major event in the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 62 - Return to the Land of Israel
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe re-birth of Israel is an unprecedented phenomenon in human history.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 61 - The Final Solution
by Rabbi Ken SpiroHitler was mindlessly focused on his goal: the elimination of all Jews from the planet.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 60 - The Holocaust
by Rabbi Ken SpiroWhile Nazi Germany proceeded to systematically round up and execute Jews, the rest of the world closed its eyes and its doors.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 59 - The Face of Anti-Semitism
by Rabbi Ken SpiroEven in such civilized nation as France and the United States, anti-Semitism never died out.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 58 - Jewish Life in America
by Rabbi Ken SpiroJews gained untold riches in America, but lost their heritage and spirituality.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 57 - The Czars and the Jews
by Rabbi Ken SpiroIn Czarist Russia, government-organized pogroms against the Jews kept the eyes of masses off the corrupt regime.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 56 - Pale of Settlement
by Rabbi Ken SpiroAn area of Russia where Jews were most oppressed, the Pale of Settlement gave rise to amazingly good things.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 55 - Jews and the Founding of America
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe amazing story of Jewish influence on the founding of American democracy is a well-kept secret.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 54 - Reform Movement
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe German Jews who founded the Reform Movement emphasized their loyalty to the "fatherland" in order to be accepted in mainstream German society.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 53 - The Enlightenment
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe Age of Reason gave Jews civil rights, but its emphasis on a Godless society was bound to backfire.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 52 - The Hassidic Movement
by Rabbi Ken SpiroInitially a movement largely of the poor and uneducated, Hassidism introduced Kabbalah and spirituality into everyday life.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 51 - The Kabbalists
by Rabbi Ken SpiroIn the 16th century, the mountaintop town of Tzfat became the center of Jewish mysticism – the Kabbalah.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 50 - The Reformation and the Jews
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe Reformation exposed the corruption of the Church and brought about the advent of Protestantism. For the Jews it just meant more bad news.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 49 - The Jews of Poland
by Rabbi Ken SpiroKing Boleslav of Poland invited the Jews, granting them unprecedented rights and privileges.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 48 - The Inquisition
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe basic accusation of the Inquisition was that Jews who converted to Christianity were still secretly Jewish.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 47 - The Black Death
by Rabbi Ken SpiroAlthough the Europeans didn't know what brought on the bubonic plague, they had no trouble naming the cause -- it had to be the Jews!
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 46 - Blood Libel
by Rabbi Ken SpiroNothing can rationally explain the extreme Christian accusations leveled against the Jews at this time: Jews killed babies and drank their blood!
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 45 - The Crusades
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe Crusaders came to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels" and woe to any Jews who stood in their way.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 44 - The Jews of Spain
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe land of opportunity for Jews -- from the 8th to the 12th century -- was Spain.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 43 - The Jews of Babylon
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe oldest and most stable of Jewish communities was saved from the Christians by Muslims sweeping through the Middle East.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 42 - The Rise of Islam
by Rabbi Ken SpiroMohammed reacted with anger when Jews refused to recognize him as the last of the prophets.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 41 - From Paul to Constantine
by Rabbi Ken SpiroAt first, Christianity was the most successful where people had been attracted to Judaism but were unwilling to take on all its precepts.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 40 - Seeds of Christianity
by Rabbi Ken SpiroDuring a time of cruel oppression of the Jews, a number of splinter sects sprang up whose members believed that the Apocalypse was at hand.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 39 - Talmud
by Rabbi Ken SpiroIn a time of chaos, the rabbis decide that they must do the unprecedented -- write down the Oral Law.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 38 - Exile
by Rabbi Ken SpiroThe Romans sought to extinguish Jewish presence in Jerusalem by renaming it Aelia Capitolina, and by changing Israel to Palestine.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 37 - The Bar Kochba Revolt
by Rabbi Ken SpiroDespite the disastrous results of the Great Revolt, the Jews revolt again and again.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 36 - Timeline: From Abraham to the Destruction of the Temple
by Rabbi Ken SpiroTwo thousand years of Jewish history at a glance.
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Crash Course in Jewish History Part 35 - Destruction of the Temple
by Rabbi Ken SpiroOn the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, the 9th of Av, the Temple burns to the ground.
