CURIOSITIES, CRACKPOTS & CHARLATANS (PODCAST)
Once again, Rabbi Dunner explores the shadowy margins of Jewish history, presenting a range of astounding historical curiosities, including the “rabbi” who helped Henry VIII divorce Catherine of Aragon; Elizabeth I‘s Jewish Royal Physician who was executed for attempting to poison her; and the son of a British chief rabbi who published “Besamim Rosh“, one of the most notorious rabbinic forgeries in Jewish literary history.
DIVISION WITHIN IS THE GREATEST THREAT
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) On June 28, 1863, Samuel Goodwin Stout wrote a letter to his mother from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He was 20 years old and bursting with... Read More