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Veiled Reference Podcast
Glikl of Hameln is a familiar and beloved character to Jewish history enthusiasts. In this episode, we dive beneath the surface of Glikl’s words to deeply appreciate the forces at play for women of her era. In conversation with Professor Elisheva Carlebach. Dr. Carlebach is the Salo Wittmayer Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture, and Society, at Columbia University.  
BONUS MINIPOD: Shabtai Zvi, Birkas Kohanim, and the Path Away from the Kosel
Tzipora Weinberg
Veiled Reference Podcast
The Silent Strength of Joanna of Burgos Joanna is a name most people won’t recognize, but her story is one for the ages. This episode describes one woman’s faith under fire, in the aftermath of the 1391 massacres in Spain, and the ways women kept their faith throughout the years of the Spanish Inquisition. In conversation with Yael Krumbein. Yael teaches European History at Touro College’s Lander College for Women in New York City and Jewish history at Bais Yaakov Machon Ora High School in Passaic, NJ   MINI-POD: The Rivash and the Chasid Yavetz on women's challenges and triumphs in Spain, 1391-1492
Tzipora Weinberg
Pendulum: Chanukah 5786
With the passage of time, we clearly see how destructive wisdom becomes when not fenced in by moral constraints
Rabbi Berel Wein
The Current: Trump Strikes Back
The Secret Service has a storied past of triumph and tragedy
Yaakov Lipszyc
The Current: Trump Strikes Back
Shaken, defiant, and now professing unity, Donald Trump takes center stage again
Gedalia Guttentag
The Interior of Design
Fine, so I broke a hundred of Sarah Chana Radcliffe’s rules at once. Lock me up L ast week, I put my son in time-out. He deserved it. The guy was horseback riding on the baby’s back. There he was, having a grand old time, but heartless mother I am, I shooed him off. Once
Miri Lichtman
The Interior of Design
Fine, so I broke a hundred of Sarah Chana Radcliffe’s rules at once. Lock me up L ast week, I put my son in time-out. He deserved it. The guy was horseback riding on the baby’s back. There he was, having a grand old time, but heartless mother I am, I shooed him off. Once
Podcast: Knesset Channel
LISTEN: Join Gedalia Guttentag as he speaks to voters at the polls in Israel's key swing areas
Gedalia Guttentag
Podcast: Knesset Channel
What does MK Moshe Gafni expect from Monday's elections? What's it like to run the Finance Committee without a government? And what does Rav Chaim think about the Trump Plan?
Gedalia Guttentag
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