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Jewish Insights: The Real West Bank with Tuvia Tenenbom
October 16, 2026
“Excuse me, is this yours?” It turns out that may be the most dangerous question you can ask in the Holy Land. Tuvia Tenenbom, bestselling author, playwright, and the journalist Die Welt called “Michael Moore and Borat in one”, spent nearly a year living in the territory some call Judea and Samaria and others call […]
Leonard Goldberg on JBS in 2014
December 17, 2019
Leonard Goldberg, Producer of Hit TV Shows, Is Dead at 85 His partnership with Aaron Spelling gave the world “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island” and many other series. On his own, he created “Blue Bloods.” Leonard Goldberg, who produced the popular television series “Charlie’s Angels” and “Fantasy Island” with Aaron Spelling in the 1970s and late […]
Name One Year of Jewish News: U.S., Israel, The World
December 17, 2015
Purpose Obtain endowment funds to help underwrite and guarantee JBS’ key philosophical programming—news and event coverage which portray the state of Israel and its actions and policies honestly and fairly; which allow Israelis to speak in their own voices; and which thereby allow American audiences to formulate informed opinions on the Jewish state. […]
Who is the Jewish Messiah? With Rabbi Ken Spiro (Pt. 1: Sukkot & Simchat Torah Special)
September 29, 2026
Every year on Sukkot, Jews around the world read the prophet Zechariah’s vision of a future in which all the nations of the earth come up to Jerusalem. Not on Passover. Not on Yom Kippur. On Sukkot — the holiday Jewish tradition identifies with the Messianic era itself. So what is the Messiah? For an […]
The Funeral of JBS Founder Mark S. Golub 1945-2023
February 10, 2023
Dear Friends, It is with a most heavy heart that we share the passing of Rabbi Mark S. Golub, the beloved founder, president and host of JBS. Mark had a profound love for the Jewish people, the Jewish tradition and the state of Israel. JBS was the fulfillment of his lifelong dream to transmit this […]
For Heaven’s Sake: Naza – When a Film is the News
September 24, 2026
Can a provocative film transform into an unshakeable weapon in the global battle over Israel’s moral legitimacy? In this episode, Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein Halevi dissect the intense cultural and political fallout surrounding “Naza,” the award-winning Venice Film Festival documentary that accuses Israel of systematically embracing disproportionate civilian deaths in Gaza. From the surreal […]
The Mission of JBS
August 27, 2014
JBS provides a free Jewish educational and cultural television network. We foster Jewish understanding, strengthen Jewish identity and inspire Jewish commitment among both involved and unengaged Jews, as well as interested non-Jews. JBS, the Jewish Broadcasting Service, is America's Jewish non-profit television network covering the panorama of Jewish life. Programs on JBS reflect and address the [...]
About the JBS Series “Jewish 101”
April 4, 2015
Dear Rabbi Golub, You blow my socks off. I enjoy your Jewish 101 series, especially the Creation stories in Genesis and the Aleph-bet series. I hope all the episodes will be made available on you tube. I wish I had known forty years ago what you have taught me now. But learning does not stop when one reaches […]
Jewish Insights: Gila Fine – Women in the Talmud
December 12, 2024
Gila Fine, author of Rabbi Sacks Book Prize winner “The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud,” and lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, shows Justin how stories in the Talmud are often not only not what they seem, but the complete opposite, using the examples […]
Streicker Center: Continuing Specter of The Holocaust
January 29, 2026
Jewish business leader Dr. Albert Bourla, whose family survived the Holocaust, reflects on memory, rising antisemitism and the shared responsibility to never forget with Richard Salomon, co-founder of the Illinois Holocaust Museum, in a program of the Temple Emanu-El Cultural Streicker Center. ______________________ *** JBS is a non-profit, Jewish educational television and multimedia channel made […]