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The Quarantine Diaries.# 6 The Sunset Series # 3: Dating After Corona: The New Normal?

Zoom Panel Event on Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

The Sunset Series Presents:Dating After Corona: The New Normal?

Josh Benjamin and Bracha Rapaport, co-founders, Corona Crush, Dr. Alana Siegel, Psychologist.

Has the period of social isolation and distancing changed the way people date?  Is zoom dating more mainstream and will it remain so?  Are there advantages to the New Normal, and will some of the changes remain?  We will speak with the founders of Corona Crush, a Facebook group meant to create couples during Corona quarantine that quickly exploded and now has over 13,000 followers, and with Dr. Alana Siegel.

Jewish Spirituality -The Soul and The Afterlife # 2 What Happens After We Die?

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Does the Soul live on after we die?  Are the accounts of the next world true?  Can we communicate with those who are gone?  What does the Kabbalah say about heaven?

Jewish Spirituality -The Soul and The Afterlife # 1 What is the Soul?

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Is there a deeper part of ourselves that we can tap into? What is the Soul and how do we identify it? What happens to the Soul after we die?  Join us as we explore our Divine inner self. 

Extraordinary Jewish Personalities # 2 Rabbi AI Kook 'The Mystical Zionist'

Jewish Matters Podcast with Rabbi Jonathan Feldman.  Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Kook was the first Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community in Israel (Palestine at the time).  He was a philosopher, poet, mystic and 'tzadik' (pious individual) who was known for his passionate Zionism and love of all Jews.  He is one of the most powerful voices in religious Zionism, can the controversial 'settler movement' be attributed to him?  Who was this mysterious figure who shattered stereotypes and whose writings are so inspiring yet so difficult to understand?

Extraordinary Jewish Personalities #1 Menachem Begin "The Freedom Fighter"

Why was Menachem Begin the only Prime Minister of Israel not to be buried on Mt. Herzl?  Why did he say his greatest accomplishment was preventing civil war?  How was he the one individual most responsible for the retaking of the Old City, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in the six day war?  Join us as we look at this epic figure of the modern history of Israel.  

Holiday Series # 2: The Light of Lag B'Omer

Lag B'Omer is at the same time a holiday of obscure origns and at the same time of great popularity in Israel.  We will explore the kabbalistic origins of the holiday and how it relates to the holiday of Shavuot.  

Quarantine Diaries # 5 The Sunset Series # 2 with guest Lori Palatnik -How To Overcome Worry, Fear and Anxiety

Life always has stressors, and even more so now as the world is going through the Corona Crisis and so much about our future in unsure.  Join Lori Palatnik, superstar speaker and Founder and Director of Momentum Unlimited  which has brought tens of thousands of Jewish women (and now men) to Israel, as she shares her insights and tools to help us weather these challenging times. 

Holiday Series # 1 Yom Hashoa: Resistance of the Spirit During the Holocaust

The perception is that Jews were victims during the holocaust, but many fought back. They fought back with rebellion, but they also fought back with the spirit. These are some of the stories of those who fought back. 

Quarantine Diaries # 1 Lessons From A Global Crisis w/ Rabbi Jonathan Feldman

Podcast- What lessons are we meant to draw personally, as a Jewish people and for the world from the events happening the world today?  How can we become better as an individual and as a world? We will draw from Jewish sources to seek some insight into these questions.

Quarantine Diaries # 4 /Sunset Series # 1: The Day After Corona with Yossi Klein Halevi

Zoom Event.  The Day After Corona:  Israel, the Jewish People and the Future of Humanity 

Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and he vo-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism,Jewish identity and Israel. Over a hundred Muslim leaders have participated in the unique program.

Halevi’s 2013 book,”Like Dreamers”  won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor,” is a New York Times bestseller. He moved to Israel in 1982 and lives in Jerusalem with wife, Sarah, and their three children.