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Teller From Jerusalem

Dec 31, 2025

Way back in Season One (episode 28 – really worth listening to!) famous lecturer and New York Times best-selling author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin came on the show to explain “moral imagination.” When the opportunity arose, I sat him down to get another vital installment concerning what should be a critical component...


Dec 17, 2025

The military operation to capture the Sinai Peninsula faced several
substantial obstacles. First, there was the terrain itself, the Sinai
Peninsula was 24,000 square miles of pure desolation. The desert
consisted of rolling sand dunes in the north that could swallow vehicles
and exhaust troops within hours. In the...


Dec 3, 2025

Egypt purchased state of the art weaponry from the Soviet Union that obliterated any balance of power between Israel and her Arab adversaries. Egypt would have the armament, it already had the desire, to wipe out Israel.
Israel naturally turned to its trusted ally, the United States, but the days of Harry Truman were...


Nov 19, 2025

After Israel’s stunning and unpredictable victory (especially from the Arab perspective) in the War of Independence, there was a colossus of bruised pride in the Arab World. To answer the heretofore imponderable, “How could Israel have been victorious?” a narrative emerged, “We did not lose because Israel was...


Nov 5, 2025

Life throws curveballs all the time, and not everyone has the consistency or the disposition to turn lemons into lemonade. Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen, previous pulpit rabbi in Manhattan, is currently the CEO of the Algemainer Jewish Media outlet. Everyone is different and everyone copes differently. Rabbi Cohen, a...