Jul 28, 2021
TFJ: Series 1 Episode 25: The Birth of Israel
During the 1995-96 academic year, Yale University altered its housing policy to require freshmen and sophomores to live in coed dormitories without gender-specific bathrooms. Four (originally five) Orthodox Jewish freshmen appealed to the administration to absolve them from...
Jul 21, 2021
TFJ: Series 1 Episode 24: Special Episode: The Birth of Israel
After the French Revolution there was a sense that the quest for liberty, egalitarianism and brotherhood were attainable, just like after the American revolution there was a sense that the pursuit of happiness was an attainable goal. Borders were changing,...
Jul 14, 2021
TFJ: Series 1 Episode 23: Character Workshop
With Special Guest Dr. David Pelcovitz
Dr Pelcovitz is a universally renowned psychologist, famed for his uncanny ability to offer advice that is always useful, unimpeachable and heavily supported by statistics. No matter what the problem, Dr. Pelcovitz, holder of the Straus...
Jul 7, 2021
TFJ: Series 1 Episode 22: The Birth of Israel
Follow me on a journey from Elihu Yale and the school that bears his name to co-ed bathrooms and dormitories and right the way back to the British Mandate in Palestine.
We will meet underdogs and authorities and question the truth of in the adage that “everyone has the...