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For three millennia, individuals in all walks of life have asked the same question: Is the Torah true? Entrepreneur, philanthropist and Biblical teacher Mark Gerson has found a new, unique, and only now possible way to answer that question. In God Was Right, Gerson examines the Torah on the basis of what it declares itself to be—a guidebook, which identifies, asks and answers the practical, relevant and important questions that enable us to live our best lives.

In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, “one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial.” The following year, after Lipstadt’s book was published in the United Kingdom, Irving led a...

Join the incredibly handsome Luke and Rody on Right Side of the Compass. This is a long-form discussion podcast where we discuss culture, politics, relationships, finance, and other topics that you may be interested in. We also invite guests, who, while being more well-read, will not be as handsome as us. We will also take questions from the audience.

Here the emotional journeys of two German Jewish refugees are reconstructed from a substantial collection of family material, archives and secondary historical sources, which are used imaginatively to explore and illuminate a wider history. The letters evoke how it felt at the time to be a refugee and express eloquently the distress and losses involved in exile, separation and internment, providing intense dynamic snapshots of how they managed their emotions from day to day. The author shows the complex interrelationship between personal lives and social/historical events.

“Ethan Michaeli has a gimlet eye for the people, texture, and contradictions of modern Israel. I’m in awe of his powers of observation and his ability as a modern-day Tocqueville to take us inside one of the most complex and confounding countries in the world."" — Jonathan Alter...

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld. Again and again, he wasn't afraid to risk his own life when others' safety was at risk. Nearly all of Hirschfeld's family members were murdered by Nazis; she survived in hiding - and met Heinz again by coincidence after the war was over. They married in 1946. At that time, starting over was difficult. In the judicial service, Drossel witnessed Nazis continuing with their careers....

*** NEW EPISODE EVERY FRIDAY ***We disappear. Sometimes on a day-to-day basis. Sometimes once in a lifetime.We disappear. Sometimes to ourselves. Sometimes to others.One minute we're here. The next minute we're not.I Think I Saw You is a new podcast dedicated to exploring our human disappearance. Every episode features an interview with a different person. In this inaugural season, the participants and faculty members of the program “Generation J” were recorded, each of whom reflected on their own thoughts and experiences of “disappearance.”Thank you for listening!Follow us on ...