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.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) In the late 1980s, when I was a student at Ner Yisrael Yeshiva in Baltimore, I had a close friend who took night classes... Read More