The Jewish History Podcast - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

On October 6th, 1973 – on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar – a coordinated, surprise attack was launch... Read more

The ancient and historic city of Jerusalem is the most contested piece of real estate on the planet. For Jews, it is the... Read more

The most significant archaeological find of the 20th century, and arguably of all-time, was made in Israel, in 1947. Dis... Read more

The turning point in the trajectory of the State of Israel was the Yom Kippur War. In almost every way, the history of t... Read more

In June of 1967, the third Arab-Israeli war, a conflict that shaped the modern Middle East, erupted. The Arabs had advan... Read more

Belief in the coming of Messiah is a critical component of Jewish faith that is enshrined in Maimonides’ Thirteen Princi... Read more

The story of the Ten Lost Tribes is shrouded in mystery, replete with legends and folklore. At its core it is one of the... Read more

David is now the undisputed king of Israel, but before him lay several key tasks: Of course the various Philistine and C... Read more

King David was anointed as the second king of Israel by the prophet Samuel and is considered the archetype of the Jewish... Read more

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Kabbalah is part of the corpus of Oral Torah – like the Mishnah, the Talmud and Halacha – that was given to Moshe at Sin... Read more

The holiday of Chanukah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabean Revolt over the oppressive regime of Antiochus IV and ... Read more

In the morning of June 5, 1967, the Israeli Air Force launched Operation Focus, an all out assault on Egyptian air bases... Read more

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The first few days of the Yom Kippur War were among the most disastrous and devastating days in Israel’s history. Thanks... Read more

The Yom Kippur War is – at least from a military perspective – a tale of two conflicts: The early stages of the war were... Read more

By the 1840s, ferocious winds of changes were sweeping through the Jewish nation, and leaving wreckage and carnage in th... Read more

The Sadducees were a sect of Jews that splintered away from the mainstream during the 2nd Century BC. They are erroneous... Read more

The holiday of Hanukkah commemorates the triumph of the Maccabean Revolt over the oppressive regime of Antiochus IV and ... Read more

After the Talmud was codified and sealed, the Jewish communities worldwide came under protracted assault. There were sev... Read more