Teller From Jerusalem
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsThe weekly podcast of ever popular author, lecturer, film producer and historian, the inimitable Rabbi Hanoch Teller, takes an intelligent and thought-provoking look at the early struggle to establish the State of Israel. Through analysis of key events of the past, insight is acquired on the present.
Every fourth week is devoted to the fundamentals to becoming a morally sensitive, dignified individual; enhancing personal character has never been so uplifting. Teller From Jerusalem is ear candy for those who seek instruction and self-improvement.
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EXODUS-1947: The Ship, the Book, the Movie, the Reality
February 02, 2022 19:00 - 27 minutes - 42 MBTFJ: Special Episode! The Haganah launched a floating underground railroad to bring immigrants into Israel after the conclusion of WW II. The British enforced their White Paper which forbade Jewish immigration to Palestine, so Holocaust survivors who were caught trying to run the blockade were incarcerated under cruel conditions in Cyprus. In a daring move, the Haganah retrofitted an old steam liner packing it with over 5000 Jews that were languishing in DP camps and sailed to Israel in t...
ICYMI: Dr Rona Novick
January 12, 2022 17:00 - 20 minutes - 21 MBRerelease TFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week. We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19! Make sure to tell your friends about Teller from Jerusalem so that they t...
Season Two... Coming Soon!
January 11, 2022 18:58You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week. We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19! Make sure to tell your friends about Teller from Jerusalem so that they too can have a new favorite podcast full of fascinating hist...
Interview with Dr Rona Novick
December 22, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 21 MBTFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop Teller From Jerusalem is very honored to host ever-wise and insightful Dr. Rona Novick, the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Dr. Novick is the only one who can sound like your mother, a graduate school professor and a very astute therapist all at the same time. Everyone loves to hear her speak about effective parenting and effective teachering (Dr. Novick is not responsible for that word) and she brings all of ...
The Underground Jewish Military in Palestine Unite to Fight the British blockade on Jewish Immigration
December 15, 2021 21:04 - 21 minutes - 24.7 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel With fear that Rommel’s conquest of Africa may bring the German Army to Palestine, the Hagana, the prelude to the Israel Defense Forces, created an elite strike force called the Palmach. Menachem Begin assumes the leadership of the Irgun underground militia and becomes the most Wanted Man by the British in Palestine. In order to terminate the White Paper’s restriction on Jewish immigration to Palestine, all three Jewish military forces i...
Reactions in Palestine and in Poland
December 08, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 22.1 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel The very week that the British rounded up 2700 suspected Jewish underground members, the Kielce pogrom broke out in Poland. Despite the millions and millions murdered and maimed during the Holocaust, over a year after World War II had come to its completion, a medieval blood libel was unleashed upon scores of innocent Jewish survivors from the death camps in Kielce, Poland. TFJ interviews 95 year-old Mr. Josef Levkovich the capturer of Amo...
Interview with Former MK Dov Lipman
December 01, 2021 17:00 - 16 minutes - 17.7 MBTFJ:Series 1: Episode 39 In these fraught times we are honored to be joined by such an prestigous and influential guest. Former member of Knesset (Israel’s parliament) Rabbi Dov Lipman joins Teller From Jerusalem to share the work that he is doing to enable those from abroad get into the often sealed borders of Israel due to Covid 19. In the course of the interview, he shares a heartwarming contemporary tale and all of his passion regarding the privilege it is to live in the Jewish homel...
Be Heartless and Blame it on National Security
November 24, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 22.2 MBTFJ Series 1: Episode 38: The Birth of Israel Just as the British excused their heartless behavior by offering an excuse that no one believed, that spies might have infiltrated among the refugees and then would commit espionage against His Majesty’s Government; the United States State department, with the fullest cooperation of President Roosevelt shamelessly employed the same lame and false excuse that spies could be among the Jewish refugees seeking sanctuary and therefore they posed...
At a Time that Every Jew in Europe faced Certain Death, the British Refused Entrance into Palestine
November 17, 2021 17:00 - 24 minutes - 28.2 MBTFJ Series 1 Episode 37 - The Birth of Israel When the British refused to allow 10,000 Jewish children to escape Europe and come to Palestine, it could not be that that they did not understand that barring their entry meant subjecting them to their annihilation. Images from Kristallnacht had been broadcast across worldwide media. And still Britain issued the White Paper agreeing to all of the Arab demands meaning that there would be no haven in Palestine for Jews fleeing for their lives a...
The Folly of Appeasement
November 10, 2021 18:01 - 21 minutes - 23.6 MBTJF The Birth of Israel: Series 1: Episode 36 Just as Neville Chamberlain bought shame to himself and the British government by his policy of appeasement a the Munich Conference; likewise the British Mandatory Authority foolishly engaged in a policy of appeasement with the Arabs in Palestine. The policy intended to calm the Arabs and curb further violence did nothing of the sort and the untold lives of hundreds of thousands of Jews, likely millions, paid the price. The Peele Commission p...
With Special Guest: Charlie Harary
November 03, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 23.3 MBTFJ: Series 1: Episode 35 Teller From Jerusalem is very proud to host one of the most dynamic and compelling inspirational speakers of our time, Mr. Charlie Harary. As always, Charlie brings on to the show his poignant and contemporary examples of how each person can unlock the greatness within themselves. Moving from the United States Hockey Team which beat the undefeatable USSR in 1980, to how to manage the “schema of self,” Charlie grants TFJ an action-packed episode. Edite...
TFJ With Guest Shmuly Boteach
October 27, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 24.3 MBTFJ: Series 1:Episode 34 Teller From Jerusalem is very pleased to welcome “America’s Rabbi” to the show, Shmuley Boteach. Author of 31 popular books, outspoken media guru, Shmuley always has what to say and there are no holds barred. The episode with Shmuley was recorded in May 2021 during the midst of Operation Guardian of the Walls when Israel repelled the missiles fired from Gaza by Hamas terrorists. It was an opportune time to ask Shmuley about the arch Palestinian terrorist, H...
The Mufti of Jerusalem Unites with Hitler in the War Against the Jews
October 20, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 26.3 MBTFj: The Birth of Israel: Series 1 Episode 33 Al-Husseini admired the way the Nazis were exterminating Jews and conducted meetings as to how their perfected system could be imported to the Middle East. And before even waiting for Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps to invade Egypt the Jerusalem mufti joined hands with the Nazis to parachute terrorists into Israel to start and Arab revolt against the Jews and the British. Al-Husseini had the copyright and the Germans had the logistics, fort...
World Peace is Contingent on not Making Cartoons of Mohammed
October 13, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 18.8 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 32 Islam has a strong tradition of aniconism. The entire world, and Europe in particular, learned this the hard way between 2006- 2015. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. Copyright 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The Farhoud and the Termination of the Oldest Jewish Community
October 06, 2021 16:00 - 19 minutes - 22.3 MBTeller from Jerusalem Series 1: Episode 31 The rise of a pro-German government threatened the Jews of Iraq who learned in 1941 that antisemitism was not just confined to just their European brothers and sisters. The situation was exploited by Muslim leaders who made it very clear to Iraq’s Jewish community that was so integral in creating Iraqi culture, that they had no present or future in a land where they had lived for 2500 years. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Lear...
1929 was a Year of Severe Unrest in Palestine
August 25, 2021 16:00 - 11 minutes - 12.9 MBTFJ: Series 1: Episode 30: The Birth of Israel Arab mobs were riled up to commit wanton mass murder over false rumors that were fabricated for this exact purpose. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
TFJ Derives a Lesson from the Birth of Israel Regarding Opportunities Lost
August 18, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 19.8 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 29: The Birth of Israel Prime Minister David Lloyd George said that had the Jews taken advantage of the opportunity they had in 1917 with the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and become a majority in Palestine, then it would have become a Jewish commonwealth. What are we to learn when an individual and a nation err? A Jewish legion was formed in the British Army in WW I commanded by Joseph Trumpeldor. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerF...
With Special Guest Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
August 11, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 24.4 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 28: Character Workshop Teller From Jerusalem is very pleased to invite famous lecturer and New York Times best-selling author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin on to the podcast to discuss his forthcoming book about Moral Imagination. As Rabbi Telushkin clarifies, over the past hundred years mankind has made incredible advances in science, medicine, and technology, but ways of helping our fellow man have not kept pace. The breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine we...
The First High Commissioner in Palestine Made a Huge Mistake
August 04, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 20.4 MBTFJ: Series 1: Episode 27: The Birth of Israel Herbert Samuel, who was sympathetic to the Zionists, and had advocated for the Balfour the Declaration, appointed Hajj Amin al-Husseini as Mufti of Jerusalem, affording power to a man who would use every ability at his disposal to murder Jews. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2...
The Yale Five & the Conclusion of Rav Kook
July 28, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutes - 19.8 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 25: The Birth of Israel During the 1995-96 academic year, Yale University altered its housing policy to require freshmen and sophomores to live in coed dormitories without gender-specific bathrooms. Four (originally five) Orthodox Jewish freshmen appealed to the administration to absolve them from this requirement as it violated Jewish norms of modesty. Although Yale granted exemptions to others, it would not budge for the Yale Five who ended up suing the college for...
Napoleon Convened the Sanhedrin and Destroyed Jewish National Hope
July 21, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 26.5 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 24: Special Episode: The Birth of Israel After the French Revolution there was a sense that the quest for liberty, egalitarianism and brotherhood were attainable, just like after the American revolution there was a sense that the pursuit of happiness was an attainable goal. Borders were changing, maybe even human nature was changing. Maybe, maybe there was even hope that a Jewish state could be restored. To enlarge his empire and further secure his personal recor...
Interview With Special Guest Dr. David Pelcovitz
July 14, 2021 14:00 - 20 minutes - 22.5 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 23: Character Workshop With Special Guest Dr. David Pelcovitz Dr Pelcovitz is a universally renowned psychologist, famed for his uncanny ability to offer advice that is always useful, unimpeachable and heavily supported by statistics. No matter what the problem, Dr. Pelcovitz, holder of the Straus Chair of psychology at Yeshiva University, is the go to. TFJ could not be more blessed than to bring our listeners some trenchant pearls from the expert who knows best ho...
Speaking from Agenda, not from Knowledge
July 07, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 23.8 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 22: The Birth of Israel Follow me on a journey from Elihu Yale and the school that bears his name to co-ed bathrooms and dormitories and right the way back to the British Mandate in Palestine. We will meet underdogs and authorities and question the truth of in the adage that “everyone has the right to their own opinion”. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends k...
Rav Kook And The Unsolicited Opinion Of Those Unqualified To Opine
June 30, 2021 16:00 - 25 minutes - 32.3 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 21: The Birth of Israel At the beginning of the 1900s new settlers arrived in Israel who were very different from the earlier, pious settlers living in Israel. In garb, outlook and conduct the differences were vast, and it was Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, better known as Rav Kook who attempted to bridge the gap by not veering from tradition, but also not writing off the new immigrants. Rav Kook was exiled from Israel during WWI and spent the duration in London at the tim...
Dr Weizmann… it’s a boy!
June 23, 2021 16:00 - 16 minutes - 19.6 MBTFJ: The Birth of Israel: Episode 21 The issuance of the Balfour Declaration required a number of factors, several key players and significant Divine Intervention. The declaration electrified Jews the world over. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
Spies
June 16, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutes - 29 MBTeller From Jerusalem: The Birth of Israel Series Episode 19 For those concerned for the future Jewish state, it became apparent that the first priority was to wrest the land from the brutish Ottoman regime. This would entail the Aaronsohn spy ring supplying information to Allenby’s Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Dr. Chaim Weizmann developing a method to create acetone by fermenting chestnuts, and British determination that poor Jews fleeing persecution in Russia should not settle on their ...
Good Environment, Good Habits
June 09, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 23.1 MBTeller From Jerusalem Series 1 Episode 18: Character Workshop To habituate good habits, avoid an environment where they are not the norm. Disciplined people do not have heroic will power; they avoid tempting situations. This podcast is heavily based upon the instructive book, Atomic Habits by James Clear. “Habit-stacking” is a phrase that James Clear employs. Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! L...
Arrival of the New Jew
June 02, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 22.9 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 17: The Birth of Israel The new wave of immigrants to Israel at the beginning of the twentieth century were primarily secular, committed to rebuilding the land and radically different from the pious Jews that had preceded them. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The Revival of the Hebrew Language
May 26, 2021 16:00 - 20 minutes - 25.2 MBTFJ: Series 1, Episode 16: The Birth of Israel Eliezer Ben Yehudah is the father of modern Hebrew and succeeded in getting a reluctant people and government to adopt the language. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
Herzl’s Death and Resting Place
May 19, 2021 16:00 - 22 minutes - 27.5 MBTFJ: Series 1 Episode 15: The Birth of Israel Over six thousand gathered for Herzl’s funeral in Vienna. In 1949 the State of Israel honored Herzl’s request and brought his bones to be buried in the state that he envisioned. Assimilated Herzl did not appreciate the meaning of the Land of Israel to the Jews, and was more concerned about acquiring a pragmatic solution – even if it would not be in Israel. TFJ takes a look at other lands that were offered to the Jews such as Birobidzan in far-e...
Making Good Habits the Default
May 12, 2021 16:00 - 24 minutes - 28.8 MBTFJ Character Workshop – Series 1 Episode 14 The securest way to improve is not through goals, but via a system. This will entail “action” (which produces results) more importantly than “motion” (planning) Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
Funding the Jewish State and Sir Moses Montefiore
May 05, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 22.4 MBTFJ: The Birth of Israel Episode 13 Sir Moses Montefiore was the greatest Jewish philanthropist. For all of his benevolent deeds he was awarded phenomenal old age, and he utilized every day productively. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don't forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The First Zionist Congress
April 28, 2021 16:00 - 19 minutes - 45.3 MBTJF Birth of Israel Episode 12 For the first time in 2000 years Jews had gathered in one place to declare that they were no longer willing to be bystanders on the stage of world history. Representing all social strata and every variety of Jewish thought, 200 delegates convened to proclaim that the time had come to return to the Land of Israel. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The Jews Need a Home. If Palestine is not available, what about Uganda?
April 21, 2021 16:00 - 18 minutes - 42.3 MBTFJ: The Birth of Israel - Episode 11 From the Bible it is clear that Israel is the natural soil that can nourish a Jewish soul. Assimilated Herzl was unaware of Jewish tradition and how inviolate the tradition that Jews must ultimately return to their ancient homeland. Herzl got nowhere with either the Sultan or the Kaiser; he therefore turned to the British for the keys to unlock Palestine. Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusale...
The Pitfalls of Envy
April 14, 2021 17:00 - 14 minutes - 33.7 MBTeller From Jerusalem – Series 1 Episode 10 – Character Workshop Who is a hero and who is mighty? In order to be able to access our strengths we must be aware of our weaknesses. TFJ takes a look at the failing of “envy” that need not even govern the lives of athletes. Thanks: video, Eliezer Cohn; special thanks: William Goldstein, Julie Snyder, Diana Epstein. Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education ...
Kishnev Pogrom
April 07, 2021 17:00 - 18 minutes - 43.1 MBTeller From Jerusalem – Series 1 Episode 9 – The Birth of Israel For many Jewish leaders, the Kishinev Pogrom was transformative. To Herzl, Kishinev was further evidence that Jews desperately needed a home – wherever they could create it. Thus, when he spoke about Kishinev, he did not refer to it as an event or a place, but rather as a condition. Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The House of Romanov, Cantonists and Pogroms: TFJ The Birth of Israel
March 17, 2021 17:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBTeller From Jerusalem – Series 1 Episode 8 – The Birth of Israel Suffering from government-sponsored violent and lethal anti-Semitism, Russian Jews had basically once choice: to stay and endure, or to leave. The majority who left departed to America; a small fraction ascended to Palestine. Young Jewish boys under Tsarist decree had to suffer the plight of becoming “cantonists.” Song courtesy of JEP, Rabbi Yosef Golding Film courtesy of video of Rabbi Yaacov Yisroel Zuber the Rav of ...
James G. MacDonald – Tireless activist for the Jews and for the State of Israel: TFJ The Birth of Israel
March 10, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 15.8 MBFDR’s State Department, and the visa division in particular, headed by Breckinridge Long, adopted a policy of overt anti-semitism and kept the doors of the United States sealed to refugees whose life depended upon escaping Europe. MacDonald beseeched FDR to condemn the Nazi treatment of Jews to no avail. Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The Broken Window Theory of Good Character : TFJ Character Workshop
March 03, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBCharacter Workshop What is motivating your actions? Is it the Good or the Evil Inclination? TFJ takes a look at the Broken Window Theory and sees practical application in character improvement: Thanks: video, Eliezer Cohn; special thanks: William Goldstein, Julie Snyder, Diana Epstein. Photo credit: Cottonbro Pexels.com, Luis Adolfo Burgos Pexels.com, Jack Gittoes Pexels.com, Pixabay, Pexels.com, Eagle Rock Baptist Church, Steve Sack The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jewish Life Television,...
The Echo of 19th Century Anti-Semitism: TFJ The Birth of Israel
February 24, 2021 14:27 - 20 minutes - 27.7 MBBowing to pressure, in 1906 the French military cleared Dreyfuss and had him readmitted to the army. After centuries of discrimination and expulsions, Zionism becomes a revolution to afford Jews a land that they may call home. Story of the voyage of the damned: the SS St. Louis. Find Video Episodes at http://www.youtube.com/hanochteller Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com © 2021 Media Education Trust llc
The Silver Lining of Herzl’s Fundraising Fiasco: TFJ The Birth of Israel
February 17, 2021 06:00 - 20 minutes - 46.8 MBGenerous Baron Maurice de Hirsch refused to contribute to Herzl’s plan which he considered a fantasy. Eventually, as Daniel Gordis points out, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Herzl. “Better luck next time” wasn’t an option, and the need to improve resulted in Der Judenstaat. When things look catastrophic there is often a silver lining, case in point: The Auschwitz Protocols. As Dreyfuss languishes on Devil’s island, Emil Zola comes to his rescue by publishing, J’accuse. The ...
Never Trust Your Chambermaid: TFJ Birth of Israel
February 10, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutes - 54.4 MBHatikva is unique among national anthems. A maid employed by the French military found a memo in the trash in the German embassy in Paris with military secrets. The French Minister of War connected the document – despite not a shred of evidence – to a Jewish artillery captain, Alfred Dreyfuss, who subsequently was convicted of spying and denounced as a traitor. This set off anti-Jewish rioting, similar to blood libels, which also made no sense, but were lethal and costly for innocent Jewish ...
In Heaven They Don’t Want Checks; They Want Receipts: TFJ Character Worshop
January 24, 2021 08:24 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MBWhat does it take to become a good person? What is the difference between resume virtues and eulogy virtues? In this episode TFJ takes a look at man’s reputation, and how it should be developed. Thanks: video, Eliezer Cohn; initial set up: Zevi Kaufman-Cedar Media Podcasting; Special thanks: William Goldstein, Julie Snyder, Diana Epstein. Photo: Video of plane landing courtesy of GVA Spotter. Video Episodes can be found at https://www.youtube.com/user/hanochteller Learn more a...
The Hope to Return: TFJ The Birth of Israel
January 24, 2021 08:19 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBThe dream to return to the homeland and the challenges of Israel’s early settlers in the late 1800s. Visual Credits: Titus Arch: www.bnaibrith.ca, Photo of Kite: Unsplash, Squeezing citrus: courtesy of Pexels.com Pouring wine: courtesy of Pexels.com, Edmund De Rothschild: courtesy of Ramat Hanadiv, Picture of Laurence Oliphant care of FOZmuseum.com, Carmel historical photographs courtesy of Wikimedia commons, “Jews at the Western Wall 1870” Photo credit: Félix Bonfils (1831-1885). Audio ...
TRAILER: Teller From Jerusalem
November 18, 2020 22:19 - 1 minute - 2.97 MBThe weekly podcast of ever popular author, lecturer, film producer and historian, the inimitable Rabbi Hanoch Teller, takes an intelligent and thought-provoking look at the early struggle to establish the State of Israel. Through analysis of key events of the past, insight is acquired on the present. Every fourth week is devoted to the fundamentals to becoming a morally sensitive, dignified individual; enhancing personal character has never been so uplifting. Teller From Jerusalem is ear...