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The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Confidence is a Key Part of God's CreationSelf Help Series: Confidence is a Key Part of God's CreationWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2516 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Gratitude StrategiesSelf Help Series: Gratitude StrategiesWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2520 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: The Importance of Not Dwelling in DarknessSelf Help Series: The Importance of Not Dwelling in DarknessWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2524 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Self Help Series: God's Secret of Coexisting - Enhance any relationshipSelf Help Series: Self Help Series: God's Secret of Coexisting - Enhance any relationshipWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2525 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Pros & Cons of MarriageSelf Help Series: Pros & Cons of MarriageWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2531 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: How to Look at StubbornnessSelf Help Series: How to Look at StubbornnessWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2528 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Managing & Transforming Pain, Part 2Self Help Series: Managing & Transforming Pain, Part 2Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2526 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Managing and Transforming Pain, Part 1Self Help Series: Managing and Transforming Pain, Part 1Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2528 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Conquering your FearsSelf Help Series: Conquering your FearsWelcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2524 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 3Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 3Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2526 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 2Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 2Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2525 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksSelf Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 1Self Help Series: Be Yourself, Part 1Welcome to The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov Saacks. Our courses range from range from Jewish practice and history to marriage, parenting and every day Jewish life. Classes are added daily! Check out our complete library: thechaicenter.com/academy
2022-05-2518 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 6The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 6 - Resilience
2022-04-0824 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 5The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 5 - Independence
2022-04-0629 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 4The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 4 - Marriage
2022-04-0631 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 3The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 3 - Values
2022-04-0529 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 2The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 2
2022-04-0527 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 1 The 6 Building Blocks of Human Development, Part 1
2022-04-0529 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's take on Happiness, Part 2Judaism's take on Happiness, Part 2
2022-03-2430 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's take on Happiness, Part 1Judaism's take on Happiness, Part 1
2022-03-2428 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's take on AnxietyJudaism's take on Anxiety
2022-03-2229 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Why pray for Ukraine, Does God not know?Why pray for Ukraine, Does God not know?
2022-03-0829 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's understanding of Death and the Afterlife, Part 2Judaism's understanding of Death and the Afterlife, Part 2
2022-03-0832 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's understanding of Death and the Afterlife, Part 1Judaism's understanding of Death and the Afterlife, Part 1
2022-03-0830 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's definition of Spousal DisagreementJudaism's definition of Spousal Disagreement
2022-03-0129 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's definition of Respect and Self RespectJudaism's definition of Respect and Self Respect
2022-03-0125 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's definition of WealthJudaism's definition of Wealth
2022-03-0130 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's definition of StrengthJudaism's definition of Strength
2022-03-0128 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Judaism's definition of WisdomJudaism's definition of Wisdom
2022-03-0129 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs 40: God's Artifacts - Lessons from the Alter in the TempleLessons from the Alter in the Temple
2022-03-0129 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs 42: God's Artifacts - Lessons from the Menorah in the TempleLessons from the Menorah in the Temple
2022-03-0131 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs 41: God's Artifacts - Lessons from the Ark & Cherubs in the TempleLessons from the Ark & Cherubs in the Temple
2022-03-0132 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs 40: God's Artifacts - Lessons from the Table in the TempleLessons from the Table in the Temple
2022-03-0128 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Why is Moses called by his Egyptian Name?Why is Moses called by his Egyptian Name?
2022-03-0131 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: What is Leadership? Part 3What is Leadership? Part 3
2022-03-0133 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: What is Leadership? Part 2What is Leadership? Part 2
2022-03-0131 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: What is Leadership? Part 1What is Leadership? Part 1
2022-03-0129 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Jewish view of HierarchyThe Jewish view of Hierarchy
2022-03-0128 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: When Bad things happen to Good PeopleWhen bad things happen to good people
2022-02-2830 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Bashert - Divine ProvidenceBashert - Divine Providence
2022-02-2830 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Atheism and Idol WorshipAtheism and Idol Worship
2022-02-2831 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The expose on Ethical Monotheism - Tikkun OlamThe expose on Ethical Monotheism - Tikkun Olam
2022-02-2824 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 7Now the heavens and the earth were completed and all their host.2And God completed on the seventh day His work that He did, and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work that He did.3And God blessed the seventh day and He hallowed it, for thereon He abstained from all His work that God created to do.
2022-01-1828 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 6, Part 2And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the sky and over all the beasts that tread upon the earth. " And God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed bearing herb, which is upon the surface of the entire earth, and every tree that has seed bearing fruit; it will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and to all the fowl of the heavens, and to everything...
2022-01-1828 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 6, Part 1And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind, cattle and creeping things and the beasts of the earth according to their kind," and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and all the creeping things of the ground according to their kind, and God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and they shall rule over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the...
2022-01-1828 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 5And God said, "Let the waters swarm a swarming of living creatures, and let fowl fly over the earth, across the expanse of the heavens." And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that crawls, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged fowl, according to its kind, and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the fowl multiply upon the earth." And it was evening, and it was morning, a fifth day.
2022-01-1824 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 4And God said, "Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to separate between the day and between the night, and they shall be for signs and for appointed seasons and for days and years. And they shall be for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the earth." And it was so. And God made the two great luminaries: the great luminary to rule the day and the lesser luminary to rule the night, and the stars. And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to shed light upon the ea...
2022-01-1827 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 3And God said, "Let the water that is beneath the heavens gather into one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas, and God saw that it was good. And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, seed yielding herbs and fruit trees producing fruit according to its kind in which its seed is found, on the earth," and it was so. And the earth gave forth vegetation, seed yielding herbs according to its kind, and trees producing fruit, in...
2022-01-1827 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 2And God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the water, and let it be a separation between water and water." And God made the expanse and it separated between the water that was below the expanse and the water that was above the expanse, and it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven, and it was evening, and it was morning, a second day.
2022-01-1829 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: Day 1And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw the light that it was good, and God separated between the light and between the darkness. And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night, and it was evening and it was morning, one day.
2022-01-1831 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksGenesis - The Course: IntroductionThe first of the Five Books of Moses, relates the story of creation and Noah's Flood, and describes the lives and deeds of the Patriarchs, Matriarchs, and the Twelve Tribes. Genesis ends with the Israelites' descent to Egypt and Jacob's passing.
2022-01-1830 min
2022-01-1432 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Good & Bad InclinationThe Good & Bad Inclination
2022-01-1229 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Just Following OrdersJust Following Orders
2022-01-1123 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Righteous GentilesRighteous Gentiles
2022-01-1030 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Sholom Bayit - Domestic HarmonyJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Sholom Bayit - Domestic Harmony
2022-01-0530 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Escorting the DeadJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Escorting the Dead
2022-01-0521 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Deeds that Merit Double RewardTwo deeds merit reward both in this world and the world to come: Visiting the Sick and Escorting a Bride. Find out why.
2022-01-0531 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Good & Bad AttributesGood & Bad Attributes and Personality Types
2021-12-3128 min
2021-12-2330 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Saving One Life = Saving a Whole WorldSaving One Life is Equal to Saving a Whole World
2021-12-2127 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Honoring (not loving) Ones Parents (2)Honoring (not loving) Ones Parents, Part 2
2021-12-2026 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Honoring (not loving) One's Parents (1)Honoring (not loving) One's Parents, Part 1
2021-12-2031 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Cruelty to AnimalsCruelty to Animals
2021-12-2027 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Gossip and SlanderJewish understanding of Gossip and Slander
2021-12-2033 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Redeeming the CaptiveRedeeming the Captive - When to help a prisoner
2021-12-2030 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Kiddush Hashem - Dying for Gd (2)Kiddush Hashem - Dying for Gd, Part 2
2021-12-2023 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Kiddush Hashem - Dying for G-d (1)Kiddush Hashem - Dying for G-d, Part 1
2021-12-1929 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Jewish Understanding of "Tzadik" and "Mentch"The Jewish Understanding of "Tzadik" and "Mentch"
2021-12-1924 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Jewish Understanding of Charity (2)The Jewish Understanding of Charity, Part 2
2021-12-1929 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Jewish Understanding of Charity (1)The Jewish Understanding of Charity, Part 1
2021-12-1925 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The meaning of Fearing G-dThe meaning of Fearing G-d
2021-12-1919 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Do Non-Jews have Torah Laws?Do Non-Jews have Torah Laws? The 7 Noahide Laws for all of mankind
2021-12-1935 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Is Your Blood Redder than Mine? Is Your Blood Redder than Mine? - A case for survival
2021-12-1924 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: The Chosen People"The Chosen People"
2021-12-1931 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: "Strangers in a Strange Land"Strangers in a Strange Land - The Jewish view of immigrants
2021-12-1921 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: "An Eye for an Eye""An Eye for an Eye" - What does justice mean?
2021-12-1920 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: "Justice, Justice you Shall Pursue""Justice, Justice you shall Pursue" - What does Justice mean?
2021-12-1924 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Do Not place a Stumbling Block before the BlindJewish Ethics & Beliefs, Episode 3: Do Not place a Stumbling Block before the Blind
2021-11-2323 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Let Us Make ManJewish Ethics & Beliefs, Episode 2: Let Us Make Man - Who is the "Us"?
2021-11-2328 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksJewish Ethics & Beliefs: Commandments vs VolunteeringJewish Ethics & Beliefs, Episode 1: Commandments vs Volunteering
2021-11-2323 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Karl MarxKarl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the British Museum Reading Room. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous in...
2021-07-2723 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Chaim WeizmannChaim Weizmann was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as president of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. It was Weizmann who convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel.
2021-07-2722 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Samson Refael HirschSamson Refael Hirsch was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed neo-Orthodoxy, his philosophy, together with that of Azriel Hildesheimer, has had a considerable influence on the development of Orthodox Judaism.
2021-07-2720 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
2021-07-2324 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Louis BrandeisLouis Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), who raised him in a secular home.[3] He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of 20 with the highest grade point average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firm (that is still in practice today as Nutter McClennen & Fish) and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes.
2021-07-2319 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Henrietta SzoldHenrietta Szold was a U.S. Jewish Zionist leader and founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. In 1942, she co-founded Ihud, a political party in Mandatory Palestine dedicated to a binational solution.
2021-07-2321 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Leon TrotskyLev Davidovich Bronstein[b] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky[c] (/ˈtrɒtski/),[1] was a Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism which has become known as Trotskyism.Born to a wealthy Ukrainian-Jewish family in Yanovka (present-day Bereslavka in Ukraine), Trotsky embraced Marxism after moving to Nikolayev in 1896. In 1898 Tsarist authorities arrested him for revolutionary activities and subsequently exiled him to Siberia. He escaped from Siberia in 1902 and moved to London, where he befriended Vladimir Lenin. In 1903, he sided with Julius Martov's Mensheviks against Lenin...
2021-07-1328 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Rav KookAbraham Isaac Kook (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק הַכֹּהֵן קוּק; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935) also known by the acronym הראי״ה (HaRaAYaH);[1] was an Orthodox rabbi, and the first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine in the Land of Israel. He is considered to be one of the fathers of religious Zionism, and is known for founding the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.[2]
2021-07-1325 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Hannah SzenesHannah Szenes (often anglicized as Hannah Senesh or Chanah Senesh; Hebrew: חנה סנש; Hungarian: Szenes Anna; July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.[2]
2021-07-1319 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Leo FrankLeo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. His lynching two years later, in response to the commutation of his death sentence, became the focus of social, regional, political, and racial concerns, particularly regarding antisemitism. Today, the consensus of researchers is that Frank was wrongly convicted and Jim Conley was likely the actual murderer.
2021-07-1330 min
The Chai Academy with Rabbi Yakov SaacksFascinating Jewish Personalities: Eli WieselElie Wiesel was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
2021-07-1224 min