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**Teller From Jerusalem**

The weekly podcast of ever popular author, lecturer, film producer and historian, the inimitable Rabbi Hanoch Teller, takes an intelligent and thought-provoking look at the early struggle to establish the State of Israel. Through analysis of key events of the past, insight is acquired on the present.

Every fourth week is devoted to the fundamentals to becoming a morally sensitive, dignified individual; enhancing personal character has never been so uplifting. Teller From Jerusalem is ear candy for those who seek instruction and self-improvement.

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Latest Episodes:

Anger (1) Feb 23, 2022

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TFJ: Series 2: Episode 1

Character Workshop

Welcome to our second season of Teller From Jerusalem.

We are kicking things off with an episode on Character Development, focusing on Anger.

Anger is a very destructive emotion, and accordingly we must implement a plan to ensure that rage does not usurp us from the driver's seat, lest we say words that can destroy relationships and even marriages. Even intelligent and kind people surrender their wisdom and sense of proportion under the influence of untamed anger.

TFJ provides some nifty tips and insights that demonstrate that we can indeed control our temper, and guard our tongues from not uttering regrettable and damaging statements.

How do you react when you encounter an enraged person, what should you do if you think what you are about to do may precipitate an angry response, and how can you harness your angry emotions in a beneficial way?

All of this is addressed in our first session on Anger.

Episode 2 will drop in two weeks - subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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EXODUS-1947: The Ship, the Book, the Movie, the Reality Feb 02, 2022

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TFJ: Special Episode!

The Haganah launched a floating underground railroad to bring immigrants into Israel after the conclusion of WW II. The British enforced their White Paper which forbade Jewish immigration to Palestine, so Holocaust survivors who were caught trying to run the blockade were incarcerated under cruel conditions in Cyprus. In a daring move, the Haganah retrofitted an old steam liner packing it with over 5000 Jews that were languishing in DP camps and sailed to Israel in the summer of 1947. His Majesty's Navy attacked the boat, renamed the Exodus, killing and wounding passengers. The survivors were not sent to nearby Cyprus, but to the belly of the beast they had just barely escaped, Germany. The harshness and the heartlessness of the British was a media headline causing sympathy for the Zionist cause and would ultimately be an inspiration to Soviet Jewry.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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ICYMI: Dr Rona Novick Jan 12, 2022

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Rerelease TFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop

You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week.

We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19!

Teller From Jerusalem is very honored to host ever-wise and insightful Dr. Rona Novick, the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Dr. Novick is the only one who can sound like your mother, a graduate school professor and a very astute therapist all at the same time. Everyone loves to hear her speak about effective parenting and effective teachering (Dr. Novick is not responsible for that word) and she brings all of that knowledge and Covid-coping strategy for the family on to the podcast. Little wonder she edited the book series, Kids Don't Come With Instruction Manuals.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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Teller from Jerusalem

Season Two... Coming Soon! Jan 11, 2022

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You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week.

We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19!

Make sure to tell your friends about Teller from Jerusalem so that they too can have a new favorite podcast full of fascinating history, engaging stories and important life lessons! We can't wait to share our new episodes with you. But in the meantime take the time to catch up on past episodes - there are more than 40 to enjoy. Interviews with Charlie Haray, Rabbi Shmuli Boteach, MK Dov Lipman and more, not to mention unbelievable but true stories of the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

Like and Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform. And follow the podcast on Facebook, Twitter and linkedin for more content and news. We will be back next week!

Teller from Jerusalem

Interview with Dr Rona Novick Dec 22, 2021

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TFJ Series 1: Episode 41: Character Workshop Teller From Jerusalem is very honored to host ever-wise and insightful Dr. Rona Novick, the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School at Yeshiva University. Dr. Novick is the only one who can sound like your mother, a graduate school professor and a very astute therapist all at the same time. Everyone loves to hear her speak about effective parenting and effective teachering (Dr. Novick is not responsible for that word) and she brings all of that knowledge and Covid-coping strategy for the family on to the podcast. Little wonder she edited the book series, Kids Don't Come With Instruction Manuals.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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The Underground Jewish Military in Palestine Unite to Fight the British blockade on Jewish Immigration Dec 15, 2021

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel

With fear that Rommel's conquest of Africa may bring the German Army to Palestine, the Hagana, the prelude to the Israel Defense Forces, created an elite strike force called the Palmach. Menachem Begin assumes the leadership of the Irgun underground militia and becomes the most Wanted Man by the British in Palestine.

In order to terminate the White Paper's restriction on Jewish immigration to Palestine, all three Jewish military forces in Israel unite to fight the British. Their efforts cause enormous interruption, aggravation and expense to the British and they retaliate with an operation that arrests 2700 Jews, many of them Zionist leaders, impound weapons and incriminating documents.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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Reactions in Palestine and in Poland Dec 08, 2021

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel

The very week that the British rounded up 2700 suspected Jewish underground members, the Kielce pogrom broke out in Poland.

Despite the millions and millions murdered and maimed during the Holocaust, over a year after World War II had come to its completion, a medieval blood libel was unleashed upon scores of innocent Jewish survivors from the death camps in Kielce, Poland.

TFJ interviews 95 year-old Mr. Josef Levkovich the capturer of Amon Göth the commandant of Plaszow (Schindler's List) who arrived with a tank and security personnel preventing the rioters from continuing their bloodbath upon every remaining Jew in the region.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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Interview with Former MK Dov Lipman Dec 01, 2021

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TFJ:Series 1: Episode 39

In these fraught times we are honored to be joined by such an prestigous and influential guest.

Former member of Knesset (Israel's parliament) Rabbi Dov Lipman joins Teller From Jerusalem to share the work that he is doing to enable those from abroad get into the often sealed borders of Israel due to Covid 19. In the course of the interview, he shares a heartwarming contemporary tale and all of his passion regarding the privilege it is to live in the Jewish homeland.

You can learn more about Rabbi Lipman's important organization improving the lives of immigrants in Israel at Yad L'Olim.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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Be Heartless and Blame it on National Security Nov 24, 2021

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TFJ Series 1: Episode 38: The Birth of Israel

Just as the British excused their heartless behavior by offering an excuse that no one believed, that spies might have infiltrated among the refugees and then would commit espionage against His Majesty's Government; the United States State department, with the fullest cooperation of President Roosevelt shamelessly employed the same lame and false excuse that spies could be among the Jewish refugees seeking sanctuary and therefore they posed a risk to national security and must be turned away.

The State department and FDR were determined to even violate the law to see to it that Jews did not escape to America. United States policy was so blatant that it even prompted Hitler to comment, "By what right did the US have to condemn German policy when America would not accept what Germany is disposing of."

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker

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At a Time that Every Jew in Europe faced Certain Death, the British Refused Entrance into Palestine Nov 17, 2021

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TFJ Series 1 Episode 37 - The Birth of Israel

When the British refused to allow 10,000 Jewish children to escape Europe and come to Palestine, it could not be that that they did not understand that barring their entry meant subjecting them to their annihilation. Images from Kristallnacht had been broadcast across worldwide media. And still Britain issued the White Paper agreeing to all of the Arab demands meaning that there would be no haven in Palestine for Jews fleeing for their lives and that the home for the Jews promised in the Balfour Declaration could not be realized.

TFJ examines the plight of three doomed ships from this period which vividly highlight that Jews had nowhere in the world to escape to and the establishment of a Jewish state was a matter of life and death. As the British were unconcerned about this reality, Palestinian Jewry, most notably the Haganah, the precursor of the Israel Defence Forces, worked to smuggle in what the British deemed illegal immigrants. If they were caught, the British, ironically, like the Nazis, placed them in camps behind barbed wire.

Audio Credit: The Doomed Voyage of the St Louis Documentary, History Channel

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