Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

They cannot penetrate our defenses unless we ourselves open a breach for them

The  pertinent observations of a Rosh Yeshiva in the City of Rome, far from "the scene of action"

When misfortune strikes, don't check your mezuzah, check your חֹשֶׁן מִשְׁפָּט!

Did Moshe harangue them in nine places? Or about their misdeeds in nine? Or in a place with nine geographical markers?

R Tarphon - Learning Torah like a businessman

Baron von Manstein and his times (Kaiser, Weimar Republic, Third Reich) 

The strange tale of Tiberius Julius Alexander, nephew of Philo, chief of staff to Titus

G-d says avenge the wrong done to Israel by Midian; Moses says avenge the wrong done to G-d by Midian

Why is it the Jews were unfaithful in times of prosperity but faithful in times of persecution?

Pirkei Avos and the language of philosophy, not Midrash

The main complainers were the "house slaves," not the plantation slaves 

Rabbi Moshe Shuvalsky and his times (chinuch)

Why is Rabbi Meir preoccupied with לשמה?

Jeremiah, Josiah, and the misguided masses

Bilam, Pinchas, and Hamas

Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and their impact on Jewish history

God's Fingers versus God's Hand

Why didn't Moshe respond to Bilam?

Bilam's עַיִן רָעָה: An incapacity for honest self appraisal?

The series will explore the controversies regarding Zionism and the political and religious spheres in the early years of the movement. Seven lectures in Baltimore