Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

One of the most original thinkers in Torah literature, with a grand unusual vision

Three Weeks series

Sublime self-sacrifice, or anger-management issues

A special podcast of a 20th century story: Should have been a big Rosh Yeshivah, but instead served in the pulpit and communal Rabbinate.

The man with two (make that three) Gadol-careers

A rare opportunity to learn the history and archaeology of one of the leading Jewish communities in N. America today

You can thank Zev and Dena Raden in Boca for this re-podcast

Three weeks series

The mussarist as communal rabbi, educational-innovator, responsa-writer, Lithuanian "hasid," and ideologue of counter-modernity

From the Three Weeks Lecture Series

Some thoughts on this fifth, different, book of the Chumash, and of its connection with תשעה באב

The massacres and the mass-suicides and their effect upon Ashkenazic Jewry down to the present

A look at R’ Chaim Ozer from a cultural perspective

Is the Torah fire or water?

Hero of the masses, and the subject of many legends and "baba maasos"

Remarkable parallels to our own times

One of the two truly great Chief Rabbis of modern Israel

6/6:      Murdering Jews for Something They Did Not Do: Chimerical   Christian Fantasies and their Lethal Results in Jewish History        Series: Murdering Jews for Something They Did Not Do 

Combined with repeated Divine Intervention to suppress such challenges

Post-Tour Reflections on Rot in Judaism -  Prague, Vienna, Budapest as a Cautionary Judaic Tale Rabbi Katz discusses some worrying trends in contemporary Judaism