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Jewish History Moment with Ben Bresky is a podcast about Jewish and Israeli history. benbresky.substack.com
Ben Bresky hosts Israel Beat, a history show with 130 episodes published.
The 1963 March on Washington is known mainly for the I Have a Dream speech, but other speakers included Rabbi Joachim Prinz, a refugee from Germany who aided Holocaust survivors and later, aided the civil rights movement
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Is Bob Dylan’s song Neighborhood Bully a pro- Zionist anthem? Hear the inside story of the celebrated singer-songwriter’s `concerts in Israel and his 1980s song Neighborhood Bully. Is it a witty defense of a beleaguered
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Fun facts about your favorite Passover themed films, submitted by the listeners. Learn the behind-the-scenes tidbits about Cecil B DeMille’s Ten Commandments such as his Jewish connection and his prior silent movie class
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When Italian fascists invaded Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) took refuge in the Land of Israel. Hear rare audio from him and his daughter Princess Tsehai and how the Jewish community helped the exiled emperor. Gid
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Interview with Eilat Lieber, director of the Tower of David Museum who spearheaded the move to reopen the Rockefeller post-Oct. 7th and share it’s splendor with the public. From ancient menorah symbols to statues of Egyp
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On this Tu Bishvat special, meet Avi Friedman and Ariela Solomon as they talk about their inspiration for buying a tract of land in Israel’s north to revolutionize farming methods and teach a Jewish environmentally frien
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Join me as I travel to the Hasidic village of Kfar Chabad where I visited the rebbe’s office in 770 and wrote a kvitel. Learn about the etrog trees, and the humble beginnings of the displaced persons from the shtetels tu
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The ruins of ancient Beersheba attest to the importance of the city where Abraham lived. But the most intriguing artifact is the horned altar. This is one of the idolatrous “high places” King Hezekiah ordered torn down.
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Yael Driver is the editor of the new book Dance of the Fire: The Jewish Brigade in WW2: Facts, Myths, Appraisal, based on the memoir of her father Shlomo Shamir, covert commander of the Brigade. She sheds some light on l
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Interview with Cynthia Hannah of the new online course, The Land God Chose: What the Bible ACTUALLY says about Israel. Cynthia has spent over a decade studying Hebrew Scriptures and the wisdom of Chassidic, Kabbalistic,
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The diary of Glikl Bas Leib of Hamburg, begun in the 1690s, holds invaluable historic insight into Jewish life in Europe. Meet Mat and Julie Tonti who are turning Glikl’s Yiddish writings into a graphic novel for modern
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The underdogs of basketball defeated the Soviet team in a dramatic game that led to the championship. Meet Tal Brody, the American Jew who made Aliyah and led the team to victory when he uttered the now famous words, “we
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The Hasidic Jews who founded Bnei Brak on an empty plot of land near Tel Aviv in 1924 left their middle-class homes and businesses to fulfill their dream of living in the Land of Israel. Meet Rabbi Isaac Gerstenkorn, the
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Interview with musician Yativ Leucher on the Aharit Hayamim festival a “Jewish indie rave festival” held every year in Gush Etzion. He tells the story of his grandparents who helped found Kibbutz Masuot Yitzhak and were
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Learn about the picturesque agricultural community of Beit Zayit, just north of Jerusalem, founded by hard working Jewish immigrants, one of whom discovered ancient fossilized dinosaur tracks. Learn about the struthiomim
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Meet Nili Salem, author of the new book Awesome Blast: 40 Days of Shofar Intentions, Soul-Healing, and Spiritual Return. She discusses the history of the ram’s horn in Jewish tradition and spiritual religious ritual. Plu
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Israeli’s flourishing metropolis had humble beginnings as a barren sand dune. Learn about the seashell lottery which started the first Hebrew city and the personalities that built it such as Akiva Aryeh Weiss of the Ahuz
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Travel with me to a picturesque harp workshop to meet the husband-and-wife team of Micah and Shoshanna Harrari who build hand-crafted wooden harps based on the Bible. Learn about the history of the ancient Megiddo lyre,
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Col. David “Mickey” Marcus gave his life defending Jerusalem during the War of Independence. Find out how a Jewish kid from the rough streets of Brooklyn ended up a West Point graduate and part of the D-Day invasion of N
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Dr. Ido Noy was an art historian specializing in medieval Jewish art. But when COVID-19 hit, he rediscovered his childhood passion for Garbage Pail Kids and found others who grew up in the 1980s felt the same. Released i
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Israel Beat is hosted by Ben Bresky. The show is categorised under history (religion) and has published 130 episodes.
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