Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

The Pilgrims/Puritans and the rise of the modern State of Israel

King David is confident he can beat them in physical combat, but fears their prowess in spin!

The halacha was one thing. What they actually did was something else

The sin of Israel? מַחְלֹקֶת! The cure? Words of אַחְדוּת, not a discourse of פֵּרוּד

Lavan, ancestor of the Jewish People

Son of a big antisemite, JFK enjoyed overwhelming Jewish support. Both financially, as well as in votes

Their competition and respective popularity reflected the difference between elite & popular culture

Will Sinwar escape? Will Israel allow it?

The Temple is supposed to inspire repentance, not demand it

How have the two relationships played-out in history & in modern times?

Jews could not vote until modern times, but when they could, rabbanim tried to influence

The angels who protect our soldiers from harm, from the terrors of dark tunnels

Team Adonijah rejected Nathan's version of the David-Bsthsheba story

Ephron (עֶפְרוֹן) the real estate speculator and the possibilities of a counterfactual history of Arabs & Jews

Iran dreams of reviving its imperial grandeur by destroying Israel. The reverse of Koresh.

She had previously experienced infant mortality and miscarriages

The massacre, the Booby traps, the rockets

The first case of concern for "civilian casualties?"

The screwball relationship between Egypt and the Gaza War

How the encounter between the חֲזוֹן אִי"שׁ and Ben Gurion affects the current Israeli domestic crisis