Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galinsky

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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Baron Wilhelm (Shimon Wolf) von Rothschild: a Rothschild who chose an Orthodox life, backed yeshivas, advised emperors—and met a tragic end. Rabbi Efraim Zalman Galinsky and Gedal ...

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Ep 6. Forgotten Founder

Ten years before Theodor Herzl attended the Dreyfus Trial, a Jewish law student from Vienna coined the term Zionism, and effectively founded the movement that Herzl later too ...

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Ep 4: Tragedy and Teshuva

If Hitler’s rise brought German Jews back to shul, and 1967 to 1973 triggered the baal teshuva movement, what does October 7 mean for Jewish faith? Join Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Galin ...

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Ep. 3 The Dayan Who Faced Down Moshe Dayan

As public pressure mounts to draft yeshiva bochurim in the wake of a war, the Israeli defense minister meets a delegation of senior roshei yeshiva. The late 1960’s encounter betwe ...

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Ep. 2 The Brisker Talmid Who Saved an Empire

In the mid-20th century, the Reform movement conquered America, yet in Britain it failed to make headway – and a key reason for that failure was a talmid of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik ...

Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Episode 1: Higher Court – The Rabbis’ Forgotten Battle for Gush Katif’s Shuls

As the police phalanxes moved in to evict Gush Katif's bereaved inhabitants two decades ago, a court battle heated up that drew in major halachic authorities and the United Nation ...