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Millennial Perspectives: Premiere with Shahar Azani
November 11, 2016
The premiere of a new JBS series, Millennial Perspectives, featuring student activists and members of the millennium generation sharing their views on Israel and issues confronting Jewish life today. With Shahar Azani, Exec. Dir. of StandWithUs Northeast and four students. Episode 1
Millennial Perspectives: Interfaith Initiatives at Baruch
November 29, 2016
On this episode of Millennial Perspectives, Orthodox Jewish students of the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College (CUNY), Josh Weiss and Dana Frenkel, discuss interfaith initiatives they are developing at Baruch. With Rabbi Yehuda Sarna of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU. Episode 2.
Witness: Paul Strassman Part 1
April 1, 2017
Paul Strassman describes his story of survival as last boy to have a Bar-Mitzvah ceremony in 1942 Trencin, Slovakia before becoming a “hidden child” baptized into the Catholic church and later a partisan fighting with the Russians. JBS series Witness.
ITN: Rabbi Blacklist – Wohlberg
July 23, 2017
Mitchel Wohlberg, rabbi of Orthodox congregation Beth Tfiloh in Baltimore, MD, responds to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s listing American Orthodox rabbis whose conversions they will not accept; and comments on the Wall controversy. With Mark S. Golub.
ITN: State Dept Report on Abbas
August 23, 2017
Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, respond to the U.S. State Department’s report asserting that Mahmoud Abbas has worked to stop incitement and violence. With Mark S. Golub
Witness: Mathilde Freund
September 7, 2017
In this episode of the JBS series “Witness”, 101 year old Mathilde Freund talks about growing up in Vienna, Austria and surviving the Holocaust.
New Jewish Cinema: Aaron Davidman “Wrestling Jerusalem”
November 1, 2017
Writer Aaron Davidman discuss Wrestling Jerusalem, the film adaptation of his one-man stage performance in which he plays both Israelis and Palestinians seeking answers to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. With Judy Gelman Myers on JBS’s “New Jewish Cinema.”
Outspoken with Brooke Goldstein-Series Premiere
June 21, 2018
Brooke Goldstein (Exec. Dir. The Lawfare Project, filmmaker) discusses going on the offense with students Ryan Yazdi (Muslim Zionist), Rudy Rochman (SSI) & Adela Cojab (SSI); Benjamin Ryberg (Lawfare); and “Stormin’ Norman.” JBS series premiere. Episode 1
Paradigm Shift: BDS In Academia
July 12, 2018
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East’s Asaf Romirowsky (Exec. Dir.) and Alex Joffe (Editor, BDS Monitor) discuss Jewish professors’ fear to take action against anti-Israel movements in the halls of academia and on college campuses. With Charles Jacobs.
Outspoken: Claims Conference
September 13, 2018
Brooke Goldstein takes a penetrating look at the failures of the Claims Conference whose mandate is to distribute funds to Holocaust survivors. With Sam Dubbin, Dr. Barbara Paris, Dr. Naomi Vilko, and survivors Zahava Stessel and Charles Srebnik. Episode 2