Text-based classes on assorted Judaic topics, with a special emphasis on Jewish history.
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Latest Episodes
The Marranos’ Secret Pesach
Sometime in the mid-1400s, Rabbi Shlomo Duran of Algiers penned a remarkable teshuvah directed at a group of conversos in Spain. These individuals, who had been forced...
The Machine Matzah Controversy
In the 1850s, a groundbreaking innovation was introduced in Galicia: machines to facilitate matzah production. What followed was a fierce and dramatic conflict that sh...
The Story of the Alter Rebbe’s Script
The Alter Rebbe’s unique script for safrus has a rich and winding history. It has been inked, shelved, revived, and debated—and everyone seems to have an opinion. So, ...
Rambam, the Almohads, and the Secret Jews
In the mid-12th century, the Almohads swept across North Africa and Spain, driven by a vision of a strictly unified Muslim society. For the Jewish communities under th...
Rambam to the Rescue: His Legendary Letter to Yemen
In the 1170s, the Jewish community in Yemen faced an existential crisis: a radical ruler forced them to convert to Islam, an apostate Jew spread anti-Jewish propaganda...
