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Jacob Frank and the Burning of the Talmud (4:22)
One of the more colorful false messiahs in Jewish history, Jacob Frank made a career of conversion--first to Islam, then to Christianity, all the while leading a neo-Sabbatean movement that emphasized antinomian "purification through transgression
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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Jewish Children Forced into the Tsar's Army (10:23)
Date: August 26, 1856 Reeling from the humiliating defeat of the Crimean War, the Russian Empire decides its policy of forcibly conscripting Jewish boys into military service is counterproductive, and finally abandons the cruel decades-old policy of taking underage children into thirty-one years of military training and service.
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)
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The History, Pyramids, Secrets, Myths And Facts (23:23)
Are the pyramids testaments to the enslavement of the Jews in Egypt? Rabbi Menachem Wolf provides a history of the Jews in Egypt, and surprisingly the pyramids were built long before their enslavement.
Series: Survivor: Egypt
Rabbi Menachem Wolf (12)