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It’s well known that the Mir Yeshiva collectively and successfully escaped war torn Europe, being stranded first in Kobe, Japan, followed by a long exile in Shanghai, China. While mostly true, there were students who were unable for one reason or another to escape together with the yeshiva, and remained behind being martyred by the Nazis and their collaborators along with millions of their brethre...

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For Erika Needleman, it wasn’t a far stretch to go from yoga to spiritual growth. What started as Erika’s passion for practicing and teaching yoga eventually turned into a deeper search for meaning and joy, something she now helps others achieve as a life coach.  This is her story. Saturday to Shabbos is a Tachlis […]

Rav Yehuda Amital (1924-2010) was a unique leader and builder of Torah of the 20th century. Born in Grosswardein, he survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the Land of Israel where he studied in the Chevron Yeshiva. While teaching at his father in law Rav Tzvi Yehuda Melter’s yeshiva in Rechovot he formulated the idea of the Hesder Yeshiva, through which the yeshiva students served in the milita...

Alex Fleksher is an educator, speaker, writer and the social media creative director for Faces of Orthodoxy and co-host of the Deep Meaningful Conversations podcast, a series of conversations with frum women. Alex has her own inspiring story to share about her journey to Jewish observance.  This is her story. Saturday to Shabbos is a […]

Jeremy Tibbetts is Director of Student Leadership for Yavneh, an organization that develops Jewish leaders on college campuses. Tibbetts’ goal is to help build Jewish communities and establish campus-wide Jewish student movements at colleges nationwide. But before he could inspire others in their Jewish journey, he had to find his own path to observance.  This […]

Rav Moshe Sofer the Chasam Sofer (1762-1839) was both a leader and halachic decisor throughout his long rabbinical career. As he confronted a changing world where traditional Jewish life faced developing challenges of modernity, his vision, brilliance and sense of responsibility led him to utilize the halachic responsa he authored as a medium through which to express the traditional response throu...

Not many people can trace the beginning of their Jewish journey to winning a writing contest. Fewer still can trace it to the grand prize they won in that contest. But that’s exactly what happened to Evonne Marzouk on her path to Israel, a writing career, Israel  and Torah Judaism. This is her story. Saturday […]

One of the enduring antisemitic tropes has been the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ forgery. Fabricated in Czarist Russia in the early 20th century, it was later exported to Western Europe and the United States. Jews have responded to Antisemitism in a variety of ways, including humor, emigration and Jewish nationalism. The early 20th century saw the rise of racial Antisemitism which had evolved...

Ed Howe has lived as an observant Jew all over the world, and even on the open seas. But his life started out very differently from where his Jewish and nautical journeys have taken him. This is his story. Saturday to Shabbos is a Tachlis Media podcast. Learn more at tachlismedia.com

The 19th century brought the rise of nationalism in European society along with the idea of emancipation and equality among the nation’s citizenry. In Western Europe the Jewish population ultimately became beneficiaries of Emancipation, but nationalism generally precluded including the Jews on an ideological level. And thus modern Antisemitism was born. Emancipation stated that Jews are now part o...

Rivki Silver is a podcaster, musician and mother. When she was younger, she was repeatedly misidentified as Jewish … so much so that she actually started exploring Yiddishkeit. And then she started fully living it. This is her story. Saturday to Shabbos is a Tachlis Media podcast. Learn more at tachlismedia.com

Antisemitism or anti-semitism or anti-Semitism or Jew hatred or hatred of the Jewish People has been around since antiquity. Expressing itself in various ways over time and place, it has remained a salient feature of Jewish history often with tragic consequences. While the Middle Ages is often associated with religious/Christian/Church anti Jewish discrimination, which often culminated in expulsio...

Before he became a rabbi, Shmuel Lynn was raised in a secular home. He became a writer in Los Angeles, a musician and a filmmaker. So how did Lynn go on to found one of the most successful Jewish learning and outreach organizations in New York City?  This is his story. Saturday to Shabbos is […]

Kylie Ora Lobell is a convert. Her husband, Danny Lobell, is a baal teshuvah. Somehow, together they’ve leapt over some difficult hurdles – a Catholic upbringing, agnosticism, rejection and a recent break in and robbery – to get to their place of Jewish observance and family life.  This is their story. Saturday to Shabbos is […]

The Chabad & Breslov chassidic dynasties have always had Mashpi’im - influencers or teachers - who taught chassidic thought and inspired their communities. In recent years there’s been a growing popularity of Mashpi’im around the entire chassidic world and even beyond. Where does the idea of a chassidic mashpia originate from? Does it have historical precedent in the chassidic movement? Is his...

John Minster is Associate Director of Ideas at the Tikvah Fund, an institution committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious and political leaders of Israel. Minster grew up as a Christian in Michigan. But now he lives as an observant Jew in Jerusalem.   This is his story. Saturday to Shabbos is a Tachlis […]

An unscripted conversation with Dovi Safier and Seforim Chatter podcast host Nachi Weinstein summarizing an amazing trip to Central Europe with the Daf Yomi Chaburah of Reb Sruly Borenstein and Eli Slomowitz of E&S Tours. This casual discussion covers the people and places we saw - Vienna, Bratislava (Chasam Sofer), Mikulov (Nikolsburg), Holesov (the Shach) & Prague. As we review this exci...

As long as there has been marriage, there has been divorce throughout history. The legal procedure of providing a ‘Get’ to terminate a marriage under Torah law, has often provided a window into the wider context of social and communal life throughout Jewish history. The intricate laws of Gittin have been the backdrop of rabbinical leadership, communal crisis and halachic creativity. In honor of th...

Dr. Henry Abramson is Academic Dean of Touro University’s Lander College of Arts and Sciences. He’s also a former ski instructor who was raised in a small Canadian town.  His unique journey to Judaism wound through ski slopes, college classrooms and a Red Lobster restaurant.  This is his story.   Saturday to Shabbos is a […]

Jewish population growth has fluctuated over the millennia. Unique circumstances of Jewish history have impacted Jewish demographics in a variety of ways, often adversely affecting Jewish growth through the ages. This episode will attempt to explore some basic elements of Jewish demographics, fluctuations as well as salient features, and examine the numbers and their significance. The great Jewish...

Pearl Gasner is Co-director at JLIC at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She’s also an Advisor at Hasbara Fellowships Canada, where she advises high schoolers on Israel advocacy. Growing up she was surrounded by all different levels of observance. A trip to Israel cemented her strong interest in a path toward Jewish observance.  This is […]

It’s not often you meet someone whose journey to Jewish observance kicked into high gear after interacting with Christian missionaries. But that’s exactly what happened to Rabbi Bryan Borenstein. This is his story. Saturday to Shabbos is a Tachlis Media podcast. Learn more at tachlismedia.com 

Tova Mordechai grew up in a home imbued with evangelical Christianity. Her father was a Pentecostal minister, her mother was an Egyptian Jew … although Tova didn’t know that at the outset. Tova Mordechai’s herself became an evangelical minister, but a Mezuzah and a trip to a synagogue inspired her to embark on a long […]

On April 19, 1943 the SS attempted the final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, with the goal of deporting the last Jews of the Ghetto to the gas chambers at Treblinka. Most entered their bunkers and the fighters began firing on the SS who had entered the Ghetto in order to commence the deportation. The SS retreated and their commander Jurgen Stroop resorted to burning down the entire ghetto which...