Before October 7, 2023 there was October 7, 1944; Who were Yaakov and Levi ibn Habib?; The Sephardic and Ashkenazic Diaspora; Book Review of Klein, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

Some words of comfort and consolation from Jewish history for our challenging time.

Part III of the Series on The Shaping of the Jewish Mind

Review of Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

January 28, 2024 0

Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad; Moses Mendelsohn on Jewish History Nerds

The Medieval Akedah: The Crusades and the Shaping of the Ashkenazic Mind

The Crucible of Spain: The Inquisition and the Shaping of the Sephardic Mind

Moses Mendelsohn on Jewish History Nerds!

Click here or visit your favorite podcast provider for the first two seasons and the beginning of the third!

JEWISH HISTORY NERDS!

January 21, 2024 0

Who was Raphael Lemkin, the Jew who Coined the term “Genocide”? Season 3 of Jewish History Nerds opens with Heinrich Graetz

With all this talk about Genocide, let’s look at the Jewish person who actually invented the word.

The Jewish History Nerds are Back for Season Three!

Yael and Schwab are back! Go to your favorite podcast provider to catch Episode 1: Heinrich Graetz. Enjoy in good health!

January 14, 2024 2

Shabbaton in Plainville, NY; Between Ashkenaz and Sepharad; Who Wrote the Ve-Hu Rahum Prayer?

Who Wrote the Ve-Hu Rahum Prayer?

Please join me this week at the Young Israel of Plainview

Gaza in Jewish History and the Future of American Jewish Youth

Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: The Shaping of the Jewish Mind

Zoom link available to members of the YouTube Channel at Colleague Level, please check Community Notes

January 5, 2024 1

Shabbaton at Young Israel of Plainville, Recording of Gaza Lecture now Online

Please join me in Long Island this Shabbos!

Gaza, Israel, and the Future of American Jewish Youth

December 31, 2023 0

Tonight at 8pm ET: Gaza, Israel, and the Future of American Jewish Youth

Livestream at youtube.com/@YOFHS

December 28, 2023 1

Gaza, Israel, and the Future of American Jewish Youth (Live Lecture in Brooklyn); Who was the Poet of the Inquisition?; Update on Volume 1 of The Jewish People: A History

Thursday night at the Yeshiva of Flatbush

The lecture will be live-streamed (details forthcoming)

Who Was Daniel Israel Lopez Laguna, Poet of the Inquisition?

Update on Volume One of The Jewish People: A History

Very pleased to be past the peer-review process and now working on copyediting and especially images and maps for the book. Right now the anticipated publication date is approximately one year from now.

The fifth draft of the MS is available for last, last minute comments in the Biblical Jewish History course. I intend to close the course to new registration by March 1, so if you want to join now is the time to khap arayn (that’s Latin for carpe diem)!