Join me every Sunday 1-2 pm EDT/8-9 pm Israel as I tell the story of Jewish history LIVE online. Class begins August 8th and will focus on 1945-67 through May, with the aim of unearthing the roots of...
TJS Live Survival Zionism part III
Here is part three of my live series on Survival Zionism. This episode takes us to Europe in the war years and explores the evolution of the Final Solution, which served as the great selection of...
JewliciousReads: Some Summer Beach Reads 2021
A few recommended Summer 2021 reads (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) THAT SUMMER A Novel by Jennifer Weiner Part 2 in the Cape Cod Trilogy Publication Date: May 11, 2021 Publisher: Altria Books...
The Obama Summer 2021 Playlist: No Ben El Tavori, No Butter?
WHAT? No K-Pop? No TikTok tunes? No Static and Ben El? Former U.S. President Barack Obama has released his Summer 2021 playlist. I will compare it mine, and not because I am a narcissist. Pick Up...
TJS live: Survival Zionism part I
You know about labor Zionism, revisionist Zionism, practical Zionism and religious Zionism – but have you heard of survival Zionism? Here is the first episode in a six part LIVE series on the...
Anticipated Pew Jew Study: Key Preview. Is the Average Jew...
Do you really need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing? IDK. But I do know that every American Jewish community professional has been waiting the release of the Pew Research...
TJS S4 Interlude: Yom Yerushalayim (live)
Here is a LIVE Yom Yerushalayim class given in honor of the 10th yartzheit of Fruma Raizel bat Genendel and Nehemia haKohen. It explores the relationship between Yom Ha’atzmaut and Yom...
TJS S4E16 Yom Kippur War IV: A stunning blow
As surprise blow is always the hardest to absorb, even if it’s not so powerful. The first strike of the Yom Kippur War will be massive, and it will come close to stunning the entire nation of...
The Queen’s Gornisht
The Queen’s Gambit and Jewish Exclusion By Cevin Soling, President of Spectacle Films and Xenu Records, and Harvard Academic Picture a movie about a person from Albania enduring a hardscrabble life...
TJS S4E15 Yom Kippur War III – breaking the concept
Sometimes the ideas we hold most dear are those which prevent us from seeing that which is most important. Here is an episode about the ‘concept,’ the security analysis paradigm which...