Jewish Learning Institute: The Real Story of the Jews Under Muslim Rule

May 12, 2024 | Dive into history with Rabbi Prof. Jeffrey Woolf -- internationally known scholar, lecturer, and historian -- as he uncovers the truth about the relationship between Jews and Muslims during the Golden Age in Spain.

In this enlightening episode, discover whether ''convivencia,'' peaceful coexistence, was a reality or merely a myth. Join us as we unravel the intricacies of religious and cultural dynamics that shaped this fascinating era.

Rudy Rochman: Should All Jews Move to Israel?

ul 8, 2024 | Well, should all fish return to the sea? Yes, unless there is a positive & temporary purpose for them being there. Jews and the Land of Israel have an eternal soulmate connection, and even if some Jews have a fiery relationship with this place, they will never be able to escape being forever linked to it. So, should all Jews move to Israel physically? All Jews should move to Israel mentally, ideologically, and spiritually, knowing who they are, where they are from, and what they are meant to do, regardless of their ultimate decision of living in their house or in a hotel. | Video by @KavanaFilms

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Stephen Fry: Willem & Frieda - Defying Nazis | Channel 4 Documentaries

Apr 2, 2023 | Stephen Fry discovers why an act of sabotage by the Dutch Resistance, saving many Jews from Nazi death camps, remains uncelebrated and largely hidden to this day.

Rudy Rochman: Hamas is NOT Amalek (Worst Jewish Enemy)

Nov 20, 2023 | During hard times, many Jews tend to use the term ‘Amalek’ to describe the enemy they are currently experiencing. Amalek is the worst enemy of Am Israel, but not all enemies are Amalek. The People of Israel have faced countless ruthless nations throughout the generations who’ve sought to destroy them, but only one of them is Amalek. If we forget the difference and water down the recognition of our enemies, then we lose sight of the objective in understanding that Amalek is an enemy different than others to begin with.

How Jews from Israel Are Seeking Refuge in Hungary | Focus on Europe

Nov 19, 2023 | Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, a Jewish refugee center in Hungary has been taking in families from southern Israel. It was initially set up in 2022 to house more than 600 Jews who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion.

The Great Reconciliation / Die große Versöhnung / La grande réconciliation / المصالحة الكبرى

Let the queer community show us the way! / Lassen Sie sich von der Queer-Community den Weg weisen! / Laissez la communauté Queer nous montrer le chemin !

With special thanks to "reddit.com" for this superb photograph.
Kiss between a Jew and a Palestinian by Italian photographer Matteo Menicocci. For a large image, click here.

"I Am a Palestinian" - Golda Meir, Late PM of Israel. | #shorts

Golda Meir explains and analyses the Palestinian question.

India Is special for Israel and Jews | #shorts

Jews never faced persecution there.

Exiled Chief Rabbi Says Jews Should lLave Russia While They Can

THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Pinchas Goldschmidt warns Jewish population will be made scapegoat for hardship caused by war

Pinchas Goldschmidt also said that while Russia’s Jews faced an uncertain future, antisemitism was on the rise across Europe and the US. Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP
Moscow’s exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia while they still can, before they are made scapegoats for the hardship caused by the war in Ukraine.

“When we look back over Russian history, whenever the political system was in danger you saw the government trying to redirect the anger and discontent of the masses towards the Jewish community,” Pinchas Goldschmidt told the Guardian. “We saw this in tsarist times and at the end of the Stalinist regime.”

“We’re seeing rising antisemitism while Russia is going back to a new kind of Soviet Union, and step by step the iron curtain is coming down again. This is why I believe the best option for Russian Jews is to leave,” he added.

Goldschmidt resigned from his post and left Russia in July after refusing to back the Russian invasion of Ukraine. » | Stephen Burgen in Barcelona | Friday, December 30, 2022

Jewish in Europe (2/2) | DW Documentary

Jul 11, 2021 • What is life like for Jews in Europe today? What are their stories? How do they combine traditional and modern life? And how do they deal with marginalization and threats?

"There is an everyday Jewish life in Europe that rarely gets shown. Debates about politics, the Middle East and anti-Semitism overshadow the diversity of Jewish life. That's why it was important for us to be able to capture it, just by spontaneously going there and seeing what was happening." This was the mission statement that led Swiss writer Yves Kugelmann and German film producer Alice Brauner, both Jewish, on a journey across Europe.

The second part of this two-part documentary takes Brauner and Kugelmann to Budapest, Warsaw and Venice. In the Hungarian capital, they talk with philosopher Agnes Heller about the anti-Jewish climate that has developed under the Orban government. In Warsaw, they visit the graves of resistance fighters from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. In Venice, Italian writer and vice president of the local Jewish community Riccardo Calimani talks about everyday Jewish life in what he calls the "land of disorder".

Part 1 – (1/2) here.

Jewish in Europe (1/2) | DW Documentary

Jul 11, 2021 • What is life like for Jews in Europe today? What are their stories? How do they combine traditional and modern life? And how do they deal with marginalization and threats?

"There is an everyday Jewish life in Europe that rarely gets shown. Debates about politics, the Middle East and anti-Semitism overshadow the diversity of Jewish life. That's why it was important for us to be able to capture it, just by spontaneously going there and seeing what was happening." This was the mission statement that led Swiss writer Yves Kugelmann and German film producer Alice Brauner, both Jewish, on a journey across Europe.

The first part of this two-part documentary takes Brauner and Kugelmann to Marseille, Strasbourg, Frankfurt and Berlin. They talk about life in the Jewish quarter with Harold Weill, Chief Rabbi of Strasbourg, and ask whether he and his community feel threatened. Alon Meyer, chairman of intercultural soccer club Makkabi Frankfurt and president of the Jewish sports organization Makkabi Germany, describes the hostility his team faces away from the field. In Berlin, Brauner and Kugelmann meet the writer and dramatist Sasha Marianna Salzmann.

Jews & Arabs Kiss

Jan 6, 2016 • The Israeli Ministry of Education decided to ban from the school program a book describing an affair between a Jewish woman and an Arab man. So TimeOut Tel Aviv decided to ask Jews and Arabs to meet and to kiss.

Six couples of Jews and Arabs - male and female, gay and straight - decided to do the "forbidden deed" and express love in front of our camera.

Some of them were couples, some just friends, some had never met prior to the shoot. Jews and Arabs refused to be enemies.


The accompanying article in Hebrew here »

The Imaginary Disease – How Italian Doctors Saved Jews from the Nazis | DW Documentary

"Syndrome K" might be the only deadly disease that ever saved lives. Despite the fact that it never really existed.

This film tells the story of three courageous Roman Catholic doctors who saved Jewish lives at a hospital in Rome by means of a convincing lie: they told the Nazis their patients were infected with a highly fatal and contagious disease called Syndrome K.

This incredible story takes place during the Nazi occupation of Rome in October 1943. As Jewish people were being deported to Auschwitz, some Jews sought refuge in the Fatebenefratelli hospital. There, the doctors invented a disease to protect them. Advising their patients to fake symptoms, including coughing, when Nazi officers arrived to carry out inspections, these doctors declared the ward far too contagious for the soldiers to enter. The ruse worked.

Jewish survivors and one of the Italian doctors who carried out the plan were interviewed for this film. In combination with archival footage, these accounts make for a chilling, heroic WWII story.

’Breaking Bread’ Australian Trailer

The Australian theatrical trailer for BREAKING BREAD, the new heart warming documentary from Beth Elise Hawk.

Despite Tension between Iran and Israel, Iran’s Jewish Minority Feels At Home

Jewish people have called Iran home for nearly 3,000 years. The Trump administration and U.S. ally Israel often depict the Iranian government as composed of anti-Semitic radical Islamists bent on destroying Israel. But within Iran, many of the estimated 15,000 Jews say they're safe and happy living in the Islamic Republic. Reza Sayah takes a rare inside look at life for Iran's Jewish minority.

The Secret Jews of Berlin | World War 2 Documentary | Timeline

Meet the Jews Rejecting Israel for Berlin | Foreign Correspondent

Berlin was Holocaust headquarters — but for young Israeli Jews it’s the paragon of cool. Eric Campbell tracks one of the odder modern migrations.

Coming to Terms with a Tarnished Swiss Wartime Record

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Projections of Life: Jewish Life before World War II

Rare, intimate home movies—depicting family life, birthday parties, vacations, and more—provide a glimpse into the lives of Jewish individuals who were soon swept into the destruction of the Holocaust.

The Secret Jews of Berlin | World War 2 Documentary | Timeline

It is commonly assumed that most Jews in Germany during the Second World War were exterminated, worked to death or saved ‘Schindler style’ by Gentiles.

A surprisingly high number from one city defied the odds and saved themselves. The Jews who survived in Berlin were vibrant, devious, clever and very, very lucky. Five of them tell their stories and reveal their survival techniques. Cantankerous, egotistical and irresistible, the outstanding spirit that helped them survive is still undimmed. This programme is more than just a wartime human interest story. It seeks to show that not all wartime Jews were passive, obedient victims. They were real people who knew how to fight back.