Jewish Life in Visigothic Spain; Commemorating October 7

This is one of the most bizarre periods of Jewish history, and that’s saying a lot.

Dropping on Sunday, September 22 at 10am ET. 70 minutes.


A Thousand Years of Ashkenaz

New Lecture Series: The Sweep of Sephardic History; Faith in Times of Crisis: Commemorating the Tragedy of October 7

New Lecture Series: The History of Sephardic Jewry

Public at 10 am ET. Duration: 72 minutes.
Channel Members: Duration 70 minutes.
Channel members: 44 minutes.

Shabbat in Silver Spring; The History of Sephardic Jewry; Jews, Wine, and Bordeaux; Napoleon’s 1808 Decree on Jewish Names

Stories of Personal Transformation for Elul


Napoleon’s 1808 Imperial Decree on Jewish Names


The History of Sephardic Jewry (Lecture, 75 minutes)

Jews, Wine, and Bordeaux (7 minutes)


A Thousand Years of Ashkenaz

Four Jewish Survival Strategies in the Byzantine Era; The Strange World of Hebrew Abbreviations; Volume II of The Jewish People: A History Online; Shabbaton in Greater Washington

Jewish Resilience after the Bar Kochba Rebellion


New Series! Cool Things I Read in the Encyclopedia Judaica


YouTube Colleagues: Volume II of The Jewish People: A History now appearing online



Napoleon’s 12 Questions to the Jews of France; Depictions of Jewish Women in the Tripartite Mahzor; Biblical Jewish History Course Revised for Fall 2024

Revised with several more videos, new online quizzes to test your knowledge of Biblical Jewish History!


Napoleon’s 12 Questions and the Fateful Jewish Answers


Depictions of Jewish Women in the Tripartite Mahzor


The First Roman-Jewish War from the Post-October 7 Perspective: Tu B’Av in Jewish History

I can’t believe the audience stayed for almost two hours.

Tisha B’Av lecture at Congregation Ahavat Torah in Englewood, New Jersey


Tu B’Av in Jewish History


Shabbaton in Washington, September 13-14


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