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The Sunset Series # 5 Aliyah & Entrepreneurship: An Inside View with Michael Berman on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Get the inside scoop on what it’s really like to be an entrepreneur, in the US and Israel.  Michael will give his tips to success and speak about the different business cultures in the US and Israel, and how to make both work.   About our speaker: Michael Berman...

Kabbalah 101 # 2 Actualizing Our Higher Potential on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman The Kabbalah presents 10 Divine energies/dynamics (Sefirot) which are within us.  Learn to identify our Divine qualities and how we can cultivate them to actualize our inner potential. 

On Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman The Lubavitch Rebbe "The Global Reach" The Lubavitch Rebbe is a larger than life personality; genius and scholar, builder of the Chabad worldwide outreach movement, confidante to thousands of followers and world leaders, miracle worker and controversial Messianic figure.  Who really was Menachem Mendel Schneerson and how did he become ‘The Rebb...

To Annex or Not To Annex -A Debate with Chuck Freilich & Eli Vered Hazon -Jewish Matters Podcast Israel has a historic and monumental decision to make about applying sovereignty to parts of Yehuda and Shomron (the West Bank) as part of the Trump Plan.   Join us for what will be a passionate discussion/debate of the issues involved.  Pro Annexation Eli Vered Hazon, Foreign Director of Foreign Affai...

# 1 A Deeper Look at Reality on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Kabbalah conjures up mysticism, deep secrets and a journey to the unknown.  What is Kabbalah, why has it become so popular, and can we understand it?  In this 4 part series we will explore the meaning of these Jewish teaching about a deeper vision of reality and how it can be relevant to our lives. 

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Yitzhak Rabin was the general and IDF Chief of Staff credited with the 1967 Six Day War victory and Prime Minister of Israel who negotiated the Oslo Peace Accords with the Palestinians.  He was a man of paradoxes, reserved yet a statesman, warrior yet a champion of a contentious peace deal who was murdered for his pursuit of peace.  Join us as we...

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman What does Jewish wisdom say about Finding Our Purpose in life?  How do I know what career is right for me, and that I will be good at?  How do we find the good work/life balance?  How do I prevent work from taking over my life?

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Hannah Senesh’s poetry has stirred the hearts of Israel since her heroic death.  After making Aliyah she returned to Hungary to fight the Nazis.  She was captured and executed, dying trying to save her fellow Jews.  Join us as we explore her heroic life and her inspiring poetry.  

Jewish Matters Podcast wtih Rabbi Jonathan Feldman What does Jewish wisdom say about Finding Our Purpose in life?  I will be sharing my own personal story of my travels through Europe, across Africa culminating in Israel where I started studying Torah, eventually going on to become a Rabbi.

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman. We have all been inspired and touched by his music, but who was R’ Shomo?   R’ Shlomo touched thousands of lives, and transformed a generation, and the endurance of his musical legacy is a testimony to the message of love and hope that he taught.  Join us as we trace his journey from Greenwich Village to San Francisco in the 60’s and Russia in th...

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Abba Kover, a real Jewish Avenger fought against the Nazis with the resistance in the Vilna Ghetto, in the forest with the partisans and then in the Israel War of Independence. But his most daring fight was after the war to bring vengeance upon Nazis officers. Join us for this little known extraordinary story of Jewish bravery and daring. He then...

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman Do we have a past and a future beyond this life?  Can we know our past lives and does it matte?  Do we have any fellow travelers through the different incarnations? How does this knowledge impact our mission in the world?  

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman The myth of lost Jewish communities has existed for hundreds of years.  Could these myths be true?  Are we in the process of finding the ‘Lost Tribes’ of Israel?  Come hear about the search for lost Jews in Burma, China, the ‘hidden’ Jews of Eastern Europe and more

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman  Golda is an icon of the birth of the State of Israel. Join us as we trace her journey from when she made Aliyah from the US in 1922 to become Prime Minister of Israel and one of the fist female Prime Ministers in the world.

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman The Soul and the Afterlife # 3 What is the nature of the Afterlife, and how do we understand the Jewish idea of heaven? Can our Kaddish prayer help the soul of the deceased? Does a person who died still have a connection to this world and does Judaism believe in Ghosts? This and more tonight.

Zoom Panel Event on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman The Sunset Series Presents:Dating After Corona: The New Normal? Josh Benjamin and Bracha Rapaport, co-founders, Corona Crush, Dr. Alana Siegel, Psychologist. Has the period of social isolation and distancing changed the way people date?  Is zoom dating more mainstream and will it remain so?  Are there advantages to the New Norm...

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Does the Soul live on after we die?  Are the accounts of the next world true?  Can we communicate with those who are gone?  What does the Kabbalah say about heaven?

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Is there a deeper part of ourselves that we can tap into? What is the Soul and how do we identify it? What happens to the Soul after we die?  Join us as we explore our Divine inner self. 

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook was the first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Israel (Palestine at the time).  He was a philosopher, poet, mystic and 'tzadik' (pious individual) who was known for his passionate Zionism and love of all Jews.  He is one of the most powerful voices in religious Zionism, can the controversial 'settler movement' be...

Why was Menachem Begin the only Prime Minister of Israel not to be buried on Mt. Herzl?  Why did he say his greatest accomplishment was preventing civil war?  How was he the one individual most responsible for the retaking of the Old City, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in the six day war?  Join us as we look at this epic figure of the modern history of Israel.  

Lag B'Omer is at the same time a holiday of obscure origns and at the same time of great popularity in Israel.  We will explore the kabbalistic origins of the holiday and how it relates to the holiday of Shavuot.  

Life always has stressors, and even more so now as the world is going through the Corona Crisis and so much about our future in unsure.  Join Lori Palatnik, superstar speaker and Founder and Director of Momentum Unlimited  which has brought tens of thousands of Jewish women (and now men) to Israel, as she shares her insights and tools to help us weather these challenging times. 

The perception is that Jews were victims during the holocaust, but many fought back. They fought back with rebellion, but they also fought back with the spirit. These are some of the stories of those who fought back. 

Podcast- What lessons are we meant to draw personally, as a Jewish people and for the world from the events happening the world today?  How can we become better as an individual and as a world? We will draw from Jewish sources to seek some insight into these questions.

Zoom Event.  The Day After Corona:  Israel, the Jewish People and the Future of Humanity  Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and he vo-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism,Jewish identity and Israel. Over a hundred Muslim leaders have participated in the unique ...