UNDERSTANDING JEWISH HISTORY (PODCAST)
Rabbi Dunner reflects on the passing of the prolific journalist and author, Paul Johnson, whose seminal book “A History of the Jews” is one of the best comprehensive studies of Jewish history ever published. Johnson was very taken by the centrality of history to Jewish identity and to Judaism, and Rabbi Dunner takes up this theme and connects it to the final episode in Parshat Shemot.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) In a letter dated November 1861, General George B. McClellan — newly appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as commander of the Union Army —... Read More