Teller From Jerusalem

TFJ Series 2: Episode 3

The British convened conferences to quell the Arab revolt and seek a lasting solution between the Arabs and the Jews. But unless the Arabs received everything they demanded, they were unwilling to negotiate. This created a pattern that was still being followed over sixty years later to the frustration of President Bill Clinton.  Because of Palestinian violence and fear that Arab dissatisfaction would have detrimental consequences upon the British empire, the British implemented a policy of appeasement with the Arabs resulting in the White Paper of 1939, which was a sellout of British promises, and locked Palestine’s door to European Jewry who so desperately needed to escape the claws of the Nazis.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker 

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TFJ Series 2: Episode 2

The Arab revolt resulted in widespread violence across the land aimed at both Jewish and British targets. British officer and Christian Zionist, Orde Wingate trained Hagana fighters how to defend themselves. These troops assisted the British in quelling the Arab Revolt. These very same troops instructed by the British would become members of a Jewish revolt against the British less than ten years later.

As the world was shocked by the atrocities performed against the Jews featured in the news after the Anschluss in March 1938, there was pressure in Washington to make a humanitarian effort on behalf of the refugees. America announced the Evian Conference to take place in July 1938 at Lake Geneva composed of 32 countries to alleviate the refugee crises. The conference was a total farce as no country, with the exception of the Dominican Republic, was prepared to open their borders and assist the refugees. This sent a clear message to Hitler that he would do whatever he wished and the suffering of millions of humans in Europe did not interest the world.

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TFJ: Series 2: Episode 1

Character Workshop

Welcome to our second season of Teller From Jerusalem. 

We are kicking things off with an episode on Character Development, focusing on Anger. 

Anger is a very destructive emotion, and accordingly we must implement a plan to ensure that rage does not usurp us from the driver’s seat, lest we say words that can destroy relationships and even marriages. Even intelligent and kind people surrender their wisdom and sense of proportion under the influence of untamed anger.

TFJ provides some nifty tips and insights that demonstrate that we can indeed control our temper, and guard our tongues from not uttering regrettable and damaging statements.

How do you react when you encounter an enraged person, what should you do if you think what you are about to do may precipitate an angry response, and how can you harness your angry emotions in a beneficial way?

All of this is addressed in our first session on Anger.

Episode 2 will drop in two weeks - subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker 

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TFJ: Special Episode!

The Haganah launched a floating underground railroad to bring immigrants into Israel after the conclusion of WW II. The British enforced their White Paper which forbade Jewish immigration to Palestine, so Holocaust survivors who were caught trying to run the blockade were incarcerated under cruel conditions in Cyprus.
In a daring move, the Haganah retrofitted an old steam liner packing it with over 5000 Jews that were languishing in DP camps and sailed to Israel in the summer of 1947. His Majesty’s Navy attacked the boat, renamed the Exodus, killing and wounding passengers. The survivors were not sent to nearby Cyprus, but to the belly of the beast they had just barely escaped, Germany. The harshness and the heartlessness of the British was a media headline causing sympathy for the Zionist cause and would ultimately be an inspiration to Soviet Jewry.

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker 

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You may have noticed that Teller from Jerusalem has been on a break for the past few weeks, while we put the finishing touches to our incredible new season which will be in your feed next week. 

We will launch Season Two with an unmissable special episode... make sure you subscribe so that it is ready for you to listen as soon as it launches - January, 19! 

Make sure to tell your friends about Teller from Jerusalem so that they too can have a new favorite podcast full of fascinating history, engaging stories and important life lessons! 

We can't wait to share our new episodes with you. But in the meantime take the time to catch up on past episodes - there are more than 40 to enjoy. Interviews with Charlie Haray, Rabbi Shmuli Boteach, MK Dov Lipman and more, not to mention unbelievable but true stories of the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel 

With fear that Rommel’s conquest of Africa may bring the German Army to Palestine, the Hagana, the prelude to the Israel Defense Forces, created an elite strike force called the Palmach. Menachem Begin assumes the leadership of the Irgun underground militia and becomes the most Wanted Man by the British in Palestine.

In order to terminate the White Paper’s restriction on Jewish immigration to Palestine, all three Jewish military forces in Israel unite to fight the British. Their efforts cause enormous interruption, aggravation and expense to the British and they retaliate with an operation that arrests 2700 Jews, many of them Zionist leaders, impound weapons and incriminating documents.

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TFJ: Series 1 Episode 40: The Birth of Israel

The very week that the British rounded up 2700 suspected Jewish underground members, the Kielce pogrom broke out in Poland. 

Despite the millions and millions murdered and maimed during the Holocaust, over a year after World War II had come to its completion, a medieval blood libel was unleashed upon scores of innocent Jewish survivors from the death camps in Kielce, Poland.

TFJ interviews 95 year-old Mr. Josef Levkovich the capturer of Amon Göth the commandant of Plaszow (Schindler’s List) who arrived with a tank and security personnel preventing the rioters from continuing their bloodbath upon every remaining Jew in the region.  

Edited and Produced by Alex Drucker 

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TFJ:Series 1: Episode 39

In these fraught times we are honored to be joined by such an prestigous and influential guest.

Former member of Knesset (Israel’s parliament) Rabbi Dov Lipman joins Teller From Jerusalem to share the work that he is doing to enable those from abroad get into the often sealed borders of Israel due to Covid 19. In the course of the interview, he shares a heartwarming contemporary tale and all of his passion regarding the privilege it is to live in the Jewish homeland.