TFJ Season 5 Episode 17 The Leadup to the Sinai Campaign, Part Two
Release Date: 11/19/2025
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...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 16 How to Cope with Unexpected Challenges with Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen
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Life throws curveballs all the time, and not everyone has the consistency or the disposition to turn lemons into lemonade. Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen, previous pulpit rabbi in Manhattan, is currently the CEO of the Algemainer Jewish Media outlet. Everyone is different and everyone copes differently. Rabbi Cohen, a licensed therapist, shares with us how he has dealt with his own challenges and some of the counsel he has offered others. Credits: Shifting Great Expectations: Parenting a child with Down Syndrome | Lito Ramirez | TEDx Columbus Dr. Jordan Peterson, Why Confronting Challenges Makes you...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 15 The Road to Suez: Episode 1 - Conspiracies in the Sand
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As already explained in an earlier episode (Season Five Episode 6) the Fedayeen terrorist raiders would sneak into Israel, murder, sabotage, set fire, steal, and slip back across the border to Egypt and Jordan. This was death by a thousand cuts to Israel. And then things deteriorated precipitously when in September of 1955, Nasser announced that Egypt has signed a massive arms deal with Czechoslovakia (read: Russia) which will give Egypt an enormous military edge over Israel and enable the Fedayeen to be backed by tank brigades. Nasser openly states that he intends to destroy Israel and he...
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 14 Summer Inserts culled from “Comprehending the Incomprehensible” Lecture Series by Hanoch Teller Lecture VII Part C
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Nazi propaganda, how do we properly commemorate the murder of millions, the creation of the ghettos. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don’t forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know that that they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2025 Media Education Trust llc
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 13 Summer Inserts culled from “Comprehending the Incomprehensible” Lecture Series by Hanoch Teller Lecture V Part B
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Stories of Heroism During the Holocaust Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don’t forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know that that they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2025 Media Education Trust llc
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TFJ Season 5 Episode 12 Summer Inserts culled from “Comprehending the Incomprehensible” Lecture Series by Hanoch Teller Lecture V Part A
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Resistance during the Holocaust; Breaking the myth that Jews went to their death like sheep to the slaughter. Learn more at TellerFromJerusalem.com Don’t forget to subscribe, like and share! Let all your friends know that that they too can have a new favorite podcast. © 2025 Media Education Trust llc
info_outlineAfter 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 should have had one of the most enduring empires, had they not been victims of colonialism.
A Soviet shift in the 1950s pushed them from allies of Israel to adversaries. President Eisenhower, with the very strong support of his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, decided to be stronger aligned with the Arab side in the conflict.
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