Jewish Responses to Adversity (1:04:25)

The late Elie Wiesel is considered a major force in breaking the silence following the Holocaust. Was silence always the Jewish response to the catastrophes that befell our people? Did those responses affect how we look at our lives and history today? This lecture took place at the 11th annual National Jewish Retreat

Professor Jeffrey Woolf (5)

 

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)