The Jewish Story

The remarkable persistence of Am Yisrael as an ethnic entity, despite the best efforts of emancipation, is what poses th... Read more

The opening episode of the Jewish Story! Rav Mike touches his perspective on history and then tells the story of Daniel ... Read more

Here is a live interlude from Rav Mike - his annual class in memory of his father, Charles Feuer ob'm. It is an explorat... Read more

The Holocaust was so dark and vast that the Jews struggled to integrate it into their consciousness, despite the hundred... Read more

The memory of the the Holocaust is dark and traumatic enough that it threatens to overwhelm even the light of the presen... Read more

By 1942 there was no escape from Europe for the Jews, and even if they had managed to run - who would take them in. This... Read more

In part two of this exploration of Israel's seventy year constitutional crisis we take a look at the revolution of 1992 ... Read more

The origins of Ashkenazi Jewry are bound up with the rise of Christian Europe. As the kingdoms of the Middle Ages began ... Read more

Every once in a while you have to get out of the house, and even out of the box. Where better to do that than Jerusalem,... Read more

In the first two years after Israel's independence the Jewish population doubled. Such massive immigration put an almost... Read more

R' Yehudah HaNasi redacted the Mishna but he inherited its form and content from R' Akiva. In this episode, R' Mike expl... Read more

The appearance of Shabbetai Zvi evoked a tidal wave of messianic hope which swept Jews and Christians in its wake. Was h... Read more

As European Jewry was consumed by the Shoah, the Zionists in the land of Israel gradually came to see the British blocki... Read more

In 1949 Israel was in the dangerous position of winning the battle and losing the war. Though ceasefire agreements were ... Read more

The High Holy Days are also know as the Days of Awe which can be awesome, or awful. Here is a look at how to tie the wor... Read more

The institutions of the middle ages have already run their course, and the way ahead into modernity is far from clear fo... Read more

As the Jews of Ashkenaz moved eastward, they brought their customs and language with them. What they found waiting in Po... Read more

The Jewish Story is narrative therapy for a nation, but how can it also serve each of us in our quest to be actors in ou... Read more

The Rambam was the second famous Moses in Jewish History. His accomplishments in Jewish law and philosophy tower over hi... Read more

The present is always built on the ruins of the past, the only real question is - how do we integrate this reality into ... Read more