A Cable to Jewish Life

47-CJ Hevron - "We Are Back Forever"
Dr. Jacob Bauman talks about the Jewish connection to Hevron, its place at the heart of Israel's existence, the rallying cry for Israeli solidarity, and the first city in Israel connected to the Israelites. Taking us through the history of Hevron, Bauman alerts us to the hidden dangers of the peace process.
60-CJ The Dead Sea Scrolls and Judaism
Professor Lawrence Schiffman of New York University proves to us, from the mysteriously shrouded archeological findings, that traditional Judaism and the active waiting for Moshiach have been there the way we have it now for thousands of years. Schiffman claims that it is an academic fraud to claim the scrolls have anything to do with Christianity.
73-CJ The Rebbe and Israel (14)
Rabbi Mendel Gluckowsky of Rechovot, Israel, shares some of the feelings Jews in Israel have about the Rebbe and why his popularity in Israel continues to grow. Hear about the McDonald's that went kosher because of Chabad's menorah in the mall.
82-CJ The Settlements - "Obstacle to Peace?
" Perl Witkin of Pro Israel and Rabbi Bruce Rudolph of Operation Chizuk believe that settling in the biblical cities enhances our claim to any part of Israel and guarantees Israel's security
113-CJ Kosher Historical Spain
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
114-CJ Kosher Scandinavia
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
115-CJ Jews from Arab countries (Iraq)
For almost 3,000 years, Jews, in what are now Arab countries, were hanged publicly, their property and belongings confiscated, and the mufti and Hitler cooperated in persecuting Jews in Arab countries, much before the State of Israel was created. While the world is preoccupied with Palestinian rights, Jewish survivor Dr. Heskel Hadad is demanding justice for the rights of thousands of years' Jewish heritage that was destroyed ruthlessly by the Arabs without a sound from the world community.
121-CJ Israel: Torah Says It's Jewish Land
Shmuel Sackett, co-director of Zo Artzeinu, explains the value of Eretz Yisrael. "To love Jews and to care for their security requires self-sacrifice," says Sackett. "If you act according to Torah, victory is yours, and Israel is a safe place once again."
133-CJ Don't Sell Out Hevron!
So Israel and Arafat signed a "peace"--or "pieces"--accord over a place called Hevron and you don't even know what they were fighting for--or what it physically looks like--or if the so-called peace agreement with Arafat is worth the paper it's written on. Certainly, the Oslo Accord and now the Hevron Agreement are not even legal questions, international law experts say, but political questions. Find out very good reasons why, no matter what treaty Israel and the PLO have signed, it will endanger, G-d forbid, thousands of Jews and will eventually lead to war. Herbert Zweibon and Helen Freedman, both from "Americans for a Safe Israel," will tell you why.
136-CJ Hevron Giveaway - Is It Legal?
As far as Washington attorney, Nathan Lewin, and Cardoza School of Law, Professor Malvina Halberstam, two renowned international lawyers, are concerned, "According to the Geneva Convention, Israel has no legal obligation to comply with the Oslo agreements," and their column, "Breach of Contract," published in countless newspapers around the world, spells out the legal do's and don'ts both Israel and the PLO are subject to, once they signed the Oslo and Hevron agreements, since the PLO failed to carry out its part of the deal in too many instances. Get set for an earful of legal arguments that can help prevent any massive assault, G-d forbid, on Israeli property and people.
156-CJ "This Land Is Ours!" (1)
What it is like for Jews living in Hevron, surrounded by millions of Arabs who have been taught to hate Jews--even to kill them--and go to heaven for their murderous actions--if they get the chance, heaven forbid! What sense of fairness can a Jew expect from the heads of the Hevron Palestinian forces who are named Abu Hitler or nicknamed Eichmann? Hevron citizen Baruch Marzel discusses life in Hevron, what's really going on between Jews and Arabs, and tells why Jews feel safer in Hevron than most Americans do in their own cities.
157-CJ "This Land Is Ours!" (2)
Baruch Marzel, the official keeper of Jewish monuments in the "territories" otherwise known as Judea and Samaria, takes us on the journey our forefather Abraham took from his hometown to "Israel." This same path was taken by the Israelites and Joshua as they went forth to inherit the Promised Land, and still later, as King David did, journeying from Hevron to Jerusalem to establish the house of David. The cost of your travel ticket: the price of this video!
160-CJ Discover Crown Heights
This is the very Crown Heights you've long heard about, and now you too can get a close-up view where the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, has set up his worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, after the Holocaust, to rebuild Judaism via more than 2,000 Torah, Jewish outreach, and social centers around the globe; the ideal place to raise and educate large Jewish families; with Kingston Avenue as its main commercial hub; where one of the most elegant mikvehs for women stands on Union Street; and where heaven and earth virtually come together; and much more.