Mazal Meni was born in Hevron in 1894 to one of the prestigious families of the Jewish community, her father Malchiel Meni was the first Jew to serve as a judge in the Ottoman empire and her grandfather Eliyahu Meni was the Chief rabbi of the holy city of Hevron. According to the Meni family tradition their linkage goes back to the line of King David. In 1901 the family moved from Hevron to Jerusalem where her father would sit as a...

Leviticus Chapter 12 and 13 read by David Ha'ivri from the Hebrew Bible JPS 1917 Edition

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:   2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: If a woman be  delivered, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days;  as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.   3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circum...

Timeline - The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was ransacked and destroyed by  the Romans in year 70. Masada, the last pocket oaf Judean resistance,  was conquered by the Romans in year 73. The Jews who survived fled or  were north west, Hijaz, later to be known as Arabia in the south, Egypt  and north Africa in the South West.      The events we will speak about today are based in North Afri...

Regina Lukai a 16-year-old Jewish girl from Erbil, Kurdistan in northern  Iraq, was arrested by the Iraqi regime who found a letter in Hebrew in a  search of her home. She was imprisoned in one of the most infamous  Iraqi prisons, Nukrat al-Salman, a fortress in the desert with criminals  and political prisoners. 50 prisoners of the 162 political prisoners  were Jews.   For information on Tours in...

The year is 1938 during the British Mandate of Palestine a 43 year old British Archeologist named James Starkey is murdered by local Arabs on the road to Hebron. What was he doing there and why was he killed? The period is known as the great Arab Revolt, hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem. Hebron, Tzafat, Yaffo and Teveria were murdered or mamed by Arab rioters who were lead by Nazi affilate Haj Amin Al Husseini.

The official British as...

Hamuda Abu Al Ayniin was born to Arab Muslim parents in a village near Tzafat in 1926 during the British Mandate in Palestine at a time of servere hostilies and progroms by Arabs targeting Jewish towns. But, he chose to go to the Jewish Alliance school in Tzafat as its only Arab student. There he became intrigued with the Jewish culture and joined the Jabotinsky Batar youth movement.

His fascination with Judaism caused tension with...

Some might be surprised to learn that throughout the ages there have been remarkable women who have held top positions in leadership of the Jewish people. Dating back to Biblical times we learn of Devorah, Yael, Yehudit, Esther, Shlomtzion to name a few. Today we will talk about a women who was the leading figure of the Jewish community in Kurdistan in the 17th century.

Kabbalist Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Barzani was the head of the Yesh...

Have you heard of the Jewish rabbi from Morocco who became a sea pirate and a diplomat in the 16th century? This is the story of Rabbi Samuel Pallache. He was born in the city of Fez, Morocco in 1550 to parents who had made their home there after fleeing persecution of Jews in Spain following the Al-Ham-bra decree of March 1942. When Catholic Monarchs Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon expelled all Jews fro...

Leviticus Chapter 6

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:   2 Command Aaron and his sons, saying: This is the law of the  burnt-offering: it is that which goeth up on its firewood upon the altar  all night unto the morning; and the fire of the altar shall be kept  burning thereby.   3 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen  breeches shall he put upon his fles...

The Book of Leviticus or Veyikra in Hebrew is the third book of the Torah, the five books of Moses in the Bible. Jewish tradition is to read a portion of the Torah each Shabbat in Synagogue and complete the reading each year.

Leviticus Chapter 1

1 And the LORD called unto Moses, and spoke unto him out of the tent of meeting, saying:   2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When any  man...

In this podcast I will briefly discuss the issue of the so-called forbidden chapter Isaiah 53.

It seems that this issue pops up as paid promoted content for Jews in Israel on Youtube and probably other sites. The way that paid content works is that the people behind the promotion rig their advertisements to show up based on content viewed and keywords searched by the user, as well as demographic description on the type of people th...

Zionism is actually one of the oldest ingenious movements that has thrived throughout the ages. Yes, the Biblical story tells that the Patriarch Abraham and Matriarch Sarah came to this land from Mesopotamia, and that at time of famine his 12 sons went from there to Egypt where this family grew into clans, but, even while they dwelt there, they longed to return to the promised land. Later after the 12 tribes had returned to the lan...