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Destiny Videos
by Destiny Films and Rabbi Berel Wein
The British evacuate the Galilee region, while Jews disagree over the nature of the future state.
Arab leaders promise to “liberate the land.”
The Zionist enterprise gives rise to massive anti-Semitism in Arab countries.
The impact of Zionism on Reform, Orthodox, and Sefardic Jewry.
Jewish History
by Dr. Pearl Herzog
A strikingly similar life, using her position of power to save fellow Jews from persecution.
Crash Course
by Rabbi Ken Spiro
The British promised to create a Jewish state, but served their own Arab-linked interests as millions died in the Holocaust.
by Rabbi Motty Berger
Explore 7 remarkable milestones of Jewish history that defy historical patterns and fulfill ancient prophecies.
by Avraham Broide
Publicly, Dr. Nunez was serving Church dignitaries; privately he was committing religious crimes deserving of death at the stake.
by Larry Domnitch
A horrific era when Jewish boys were forced into 25 years of Russian military service.
An Iron Curtain goes up in eastern Europe, and the United Nations seeks a solution in Palestine.
American Jewry gets behind the Zionist cause, as the British defer to the United Nations.
by Rabbi Berel Wein and Destiny Films
The ragtag Jewish underground fights back against 100,000 British personnel.
Ben Gurion brought the message of Zionism to the hopeless Holocaust refugees.
For fear of jeopardizing oil interests, the British refuse to allow Jews into Israel.
The survivors' desperate attempts to locate lost relatives.
Jewish refugees seek shelter back in Poland or in DP camps.
The flame that sustained the Jews in the darkest days.
Coming to grips with a civilization destroyed.
Liberating the camps, and the Nuremberg trials. (Viewer discretion is advised.)
Four thousand years of Jewish history at a glance.
In the final analysis, Jewish history makes no rational sense.
Since its founding in 1948, Israel has been in a constant state of war, and yet has achieved great economic success.
After the British turned away Holocaust survivors from Israel, the UN voted to partition the land.
Herzl launched the political framework for the modern State of Israel.
The re-birth of Israel is an unprecedented phenomenon in human history.
Hitler implemented his goal to eliminate all Jews from the planet.
Even in such civilized nations as France and the United States, anti-Semitism never died out.
Jews gained untold riches in America, at the cost of their heritage and spirituality.
This area of Russia where Jews were most oppressed gave rise to amazing achievements.
The amazing story of Jewish influence on the founding fathers of American democracy.
Germans emphasized their loyalty to the "fatherland" in order to be accepted in mainstream society.
The Age of Reason gave Jews civil rights, but its emphasis on a Godless society was bound to backfire.
Initially a movement largely of the poor and uneducated, Hassidism emphasized spirituality in everyday life.
In the 16th century, the Israeli mountaintop town of Tzfat became the center of Jewish mysticism.
The Reformation exposed the corruption of the Church. For the Jews it meant more bad news.
King Boleslav of Poland invited the Jews, granting them unprecedented rights and privileges.
Christian accusations leveled against the Jews were extreme and irrational.
The Crusaders came to liberate the Holy Land from the "infidels" - and woe to any Jew who stood in their way.
Spain was the Medieval golden land of opportunity for Jews.
The oldest and most stable of Jewish communities was spared the ravages of holy warriors.
Mohammed reacted with anger when Jews refused to recognize him as the last of the prophets.
Early Christianity attracted those unwilling to take on all of Judaism's precepts.
At a time of cruel oppression, splinter sects spring up in belief that the apocalypse is at hand.
The Romans sought to extinguish Jewish presence in Jerusalem by renaming Israel to Palestine.
Despite the disastrous results of the Great Revolt, the Jews revolt yet again.
Two thousand years of Jewish history at a glance.
On the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, the 9th of Av, the Temple burns to the ground.
The Jewish nation fights to save its spiritual center.
In a seemingly suicidal move, the Jews take on the mighty Romans.
In a time when many things were going wrong for the Jews, the sages Hillel and Shammai defined what was going right.
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