Jewish History With Rabbi Dovid Katz

What happens when one spouse is Orthodox and the other Reform? An "Old Baltimore" tale

Haman's spinning of the Biblical narrative to make the Jews look bad, just like Hamas propaganda today

Reading the megillah in a two-tiered fashion ( הַמֶּלֶךְ)

What provoked Schumer's speech? Do Israelis care about the USA and its interests?

R Katz suggests a chronology of the historical development of the acceptance of the holiday of Purim

Great Italiani gaon, whose rabbinical opponents tried to get him fired by his own בַּעֲלֵי בָּתִּים

Why the extra (and indeed omnipresent) cherubs and pictures of cherubs all over the Temple?

The strange history of the 71 years of הֶתֵּר הַבָּמוֹת

The bad guys are trying to change PC to say it is ok, indeed correct, to be anti-Semitic.

The first real Hebrew dictionary, dissed by jealous rivals, used by Rashi and defended by Rabbenu Tam

Solomon's pragmatism in building the Temple: Good move or bad?

The story of the three material objects: The שִׁבְרֵי לוּחוֹת רִאשׁוֹנוֹת, the עֵגֶל הַזָּהָב , and the כְּרוּבִים

What happened to the wooden box Moshe constructed for those three months?

R’ Yosef Yaabetz (1440-1508), premier Sefardi דרשן who tries to understand the Expulsion from Spain in 1492

What was the real story of the great Jewish revolt against Trajan? Who exactly were the הֲרוּגֵי לֹד?

Some Prophets are "messenger boys," others are subordinates who display initiative

Famously controversial chronicle, dissed by the historians, but beloved by the masses

Why did Moshe segregate the עֵרֶב רַב at מַתַּן תּוֹרָה? What were the consequences?

Why did the Jews build it according to the dimensions of נבואת יחזקאל הנביא ? Why does the Altar have to be in an exact spot, with no deviation?

R’ Katz explains the context of this letter and the elections to the Russian government's " Rabbinical Commission " to which R Chaim was indeed elected