Jewish History with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Katz
Summary: To help support this podcast, please consider giving a tax deductible contribution here: https://go.thechesedfund.com/DyQrOD/support-rabbi-katzz-podcast --- Rabbi Dovid Katz, PhD is lauded for his extensive knowledge of Jewish History, his engaging and insightful lecture series, and eye opening historical international tours. Follow him weekly. New content released each week, including Personalities in Jewish History, Insights into Tefillah and Perspectives on the Haftarah and Parshah. Sponsorships of podcasts are available. He can be reached at the following email: rabbidkatz@gmail.com.
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"An unusual take of sukkos"
Though it may seems strange to us today, back in the early years of the State, France was Israel's best-friend, supplying the Jewish State with military aircraft at a time when even the USA declined to do so. Since the Soviets were supplying Egypt with modern weapons, France's support was vitally-needed. This lecture describes the background for this "Strange-Bedfellows" relationship, which was vital for the Israel of the Ben Gurion era.
Latest episode of Jewish History with Rabbi Katz
This lectures describes the process whereby the Russians became involved in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and turned the Arab States, which until then had been militarily weaker than Israel, into militarily powerful countries that posed a mortal threat to the State of Israel. This lecture serves as an introduction to relations between Israel and Russia, a topic much in the news today
Analyzes the state of the Arab World in the Early Ben Gurion years., The new phenomenon called "Arab Nationalism" which seemed to sweep the Arab states in those years, and which found its foremost figure in Egypt's Nasser. The conflicts between Nasser and Israel, and, unexpectedly, between Nasser and Islamists. This lecture helps the listener understand how the Middle East of today came to be.
A mini-essay on a recent event In Germany which reveals the contemporary relevance of The Nine Days
A historical analysis of the early stages of how a strange thing happened: A State founded by secularists on strongly secular liberal principles ended up becoming the number-one funder and enabler of a network of religious institutions dedicated to the very opposite of secular liberalism. How Ben Gurion put the Haredim on their feet without wishing to.
This lectures exposes the underside of Israeli Natl.-Security politics in the Ben-Gurion era. In a system in which only the opinion of one man counted, intrigues, untruths, lead to dysfunction, and to The Lavon Affair, which became the Watergate Scandal of the Ben-Gurion regime.
Latest episode of Jewish History with Rabbi Dovid Katz
The strange tale of the national-security problem Israel's early years, when Israel; had the strongest army in the Middle-East, combined with the weakest borders, implacable Arab hatred, and an Arab Refugee Problem for which no solution had been found even today(2018). A tale of violence, retaliation, and no solution
Frank talk about anti-Sefardi racism in Israel during the Ben Gurion era
Latest episode of Jewish History with Rabbi Dovid Katz
Progress Without Peace: Israel and the Jewish People, 1952-1956 --- How the new State of Israel wrestled with the question of how to relate to the Holocaust. The conflicted feelings of shame, anger, and profound-compassion came to a head in the "Kasztner-Trial" of 1954, the most controversial trial in Israeli history
