TFJ Season 6 Episode 5 Words of Wisdom and Experience from the World Ambassador, Rabbi Abe Cooper
Release Date: 04/29/2026
TFJ Season 6 Episode 5 Words of Wisdom and Experience from the World Ambassador, Rabbi Abe Cooper
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Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. For decades he has been at the forefront of fighting antisemitism globally and promoting the cause of human rights. These efforts have taken him around the world scores of times to speak with world leaders. Thus, when he speaks, he marshals expertise and experience that has no peer. Sound credits Yerachmiel Begun and the Miami Boy’s Choir “Be a Mentsch” AQ’s Blog and Grill interview with Guy Kawasaki Hayvi Bouzo Khaleej Times podcast with Secretary Mike Pompeo The National News Podcast: Pompeo...
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TFJ Season 6 Episode 4 Eichmann Trial conclusion
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Aside from demonstrating that Israel felt responsible for the entire Jewish People, and accordingly would bring a mass-murderer to trial for an act that had been perpetuated before the State was formed, and not on its turf, extracting him from a third country half a world away, Israel’s prime minister had an educational agenda that would be accomplished through the trial. Israel’s youth had never encountered the Holocaust and were appallingly ignorant and derisive about the subject. How could Jews be so passive about their own deaths, they wondered, and they treated survivors with scorn...
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TFJ Season 6 Episode 3 Lying is Bad for You and the World (A)
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The Talmud teaches that God’s seal is truth; lying displays that you care more what your fellow man thinks than what the Lord thinks of you. A half a truth is a whole lie and partial truths should not be rationalized or legitimized. One of the attributes of The Valorous Woman that Solomon extolls is "the heart of her husband trusts in her." Trust can only be earned by being a consistently honest person, whose word is constantly reliable, and admits when they make a mistake. Everyone knows that lies travel at a faster velocity than the truth; and this was even before the digital age....
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TFJ Season 6 Episode 2 Eichmann Trial Part A
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In a daring and bold action, Israel’s Mossad captured Adolph Eichmann, the man most responsible for the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. How the Mossad managed to locate Eichmann in the Nazi haven of Argentina and secret him out undetected is described in detail in this episode. Also described are the emotions that gnawed at the minds of all Israelis. Could even a fraction of justice ever be exacted for the millions that were lost? The enormity of Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem to be tried by Jewish judges in Jewish state was lost on no one. Credits Schindler's list - John Williams - NL...
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TFJ Season 6 Episode 1 Aftermath of Sinai Campaign 1956
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Israel’s lighting campaign in the Sinai in 1956 resulted in a routing of the Egyptian forces and capture of the entire Sinai Peninsula in less than 100 hours. The threat of Egypt deploying its brand-new military hardware from the Soviet Union had been averted. But in a fluke of history, President Eisenhower, instead of siding with his natural allies, Britain, France and Israel, sided with the Soviet Union and Nasser’s Egypt and demanded immediate Israeli withdrawal in return for nothing – or else! Eventually Israel received guarantees of right of passage through the Staits of Tiran and...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 21 The Sinai Campaign: Speed and Audacity Overwhelm the Enemy (B)
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The Israeli paratrooper drop at the Mitla Pass wasn’t only military, it was also diplomatic theater. By landing troops near the Suez Canal, Israel created the pretext that the British and French desperately needed to enter the war. Regardless, however, of the diplomatic component, Israel now had to open a supply line across the enormous desert floor to reinforce the paratroopers at Mitla, deep inside enemy territory. This would entail another group of paratroopers led by the fearless young commander Ariel Sharon, to fight their way through three Egyptian fortified positions to reach...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 20 Moral Imagination with special guest Joseph Telushkin
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Way back in Season One (episode 28 – really worth listening to!) famous lecturer and New York Times best-selling author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin came on the show to explain “moral imagination.” When the opportunity arose, I sat him down to get another vital installment concerning what should be a critical component of our character. Our sagacious guest discusses a widow marrying a second husband and if this entails betrayal to her former spouse or their children? Rabbi Telushkin analyzes the dying wish of the famous Jewish ethicist Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, and how people should prepare for...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 19 The Sinai Campaign: Speed and Audacity Overwhelm the Enemy (A)
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The military operation to capture the Sinai Peninsula faced several substantial obstacles. First, there was the terrain itself, the Sinai Peninsula was 24,000 square miles of pure desolation. The desert consisted of rolling sand dunes in the north that could swallow vehicles and exhaust troops within hours. In the south were the nearly impassable mountain ranges which created natural fortresses. The second obstacle was the Egyptian military with 100,000 troops, freshly armed with the latest Soviet equipment. Against this the IDF Chief of Staff, Moshe Dayan, was betting on surprise,...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 18 The Leadup to the Sinai Campaign Part Three
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Egypt purchased state of the art weaponry from the Soviet Union that obliterated any balance of power between Israel and her Arab adversaries. Egypt would have the armament, it already had the desire, to wipe out Israel. Israel naturally turned to its trusted ally, the United States, but the days of Harry Truman were over. The new President, Dwight Eisenhower, together with his State Department which has traditionally been slanted against Israel, saw wisdom in aligning with the far more numerous Arabs. Israel desperately needed a friend that manufactured weapons, and that ally turned out to be...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 17 The Leadup to the Sinai Campaign, Part Two
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After Israel’s stunning and unpredictable victory (especially from the Arab perspective) in the War of Independence, there was a colossus of bruised pride in the Arab World. To answer the heretofore imponderable, “How could Israel have been victorious?” a narrative emerged, “We did not lose because Israel was strong, but rather because our leaders were weak.” The search began for strong military men who could restore Arab dignity, and the undisputed rising star was Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. Nasser was a pan-Arabist who maintained that Arabs were born for greatness and...
info_outlineRabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. For decades he has been at the forefront of fighting antisemitism globally and promoting the cause of human rights. These efforts have taken him around the world scores of times to speak with world leaders. Thus, when he speaks, he marshals expertise and experience that has no peer.
Sound credits
Yerachmiel Begun and the Miami Boy’s Choir “Be a Mentsch”
AQ’s Blog and Grill interview with Guy Kawasaki
Hayvi Bouzo Khaleej Times podcast with Secretary Mike Pompeo
The National News Podcast: Pompeo on the Abraham Accords
Resume 20.21 “The More you travel around the world”
VOA: Tony Perkins, Chairman The United States Commission on International Religious Rights
Inside Museum Walls: What is the Museum of Tolerance
IDF Choir: Machar
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