Rabbi Mike Feuer teaches Striving for the Divine, Rav Kook, and Jewish History at Pardes. He studied at Yeshivat HaMivtar, the Mir Yeshiva, and Sulam Yaakov, where he received rabbinic ordination and later served as Educational Director. Mike’s teaching combines rigorous textual analysis with a deep love of the poetry and spirituality found in Torah.
Since making aliyah in 2001, he has been the program director of a post-high school yeshiva and taught history, Jewish thought, and Bible in several Jerusalem yeshivot and midrashot. Today, as a consultant, spiritual counselor and creator of the Jewish Story podcast, Mike is driven by the power of story to shape our world.
Discover the 26 Paths of Jewish Heroism and what it means to be a hero in Rav Mike’s newest podcast series, The Jewish Heroism Project. There are good things worth fighting for. But what is good? The first class of the…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Special: A 9 Days Conversation featuring Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz The Israeli Judicial Reform protests come the same week 18 years after the Gush Katif protests and 2,000 years after the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 21 – The Final Episode of The Jewish Story There is no way to give closure to six seasons of a story, but you have to try! Here is an interview with Rav Mike…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 20 – The Temple Mount Part IV Was Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in 2000 the trigger for what the Arab community calls the Al Aqsa Intifada? Or was this a pre-planned…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 19 – The Temple Mount Part III – The Narrative War Why is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism a lighting rod for terrorist attacks and central to Israeli-Arab peace negotiations? Learn…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude – Future of American Zionism Rav Mike Feuer speaks at Valley Beit Midrash in an event co-sponsored by Temple Chai entitled “Is There a Future for American Zionism? American Zionism in the Era of…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Interlude – Interview with Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz Rav Mike Feuer interviews educator and activist Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz and discuss what it means to be both progressive and orthodox in the Jewish world, as well as…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 18 – The Temple Mount Part II – The Status Quo Should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount? Or will it inflame Muslim sensitivities? Learn the history of this debate from…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
The Jewish Story Season 6 Episode 17 – The Temple Mount Part I – The Hinge Point Every tale has a point around which it revolves, and for the Jewish Story that is the Temple Mount. Here is the opening…
Podcast Series, The Jewish Story
Set in the Northern Kingdom of Israel during the period of King Achav, The Lamp of Darkness is a gripping story of a young lyre-playing…