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The Jewish Story Season 5: From Russia to Jerusalem – Interview with Dr. Zhenia Fleisher

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Join Rav Mike Feuer for the Jewish Story Live!

The Jewish Story Season 5

Interlude: From Russia to Jerusalem – Interview with Dr. Zhenia Fleisher

Dr. Zhenia Fleisher lived in all three of the 20th century’s major centers of Jewish life – USSR, Israel and the United States. Learn about her background as a Soviet Jewish refusenik, what life in Russia was life for a young Jewish woman, how she got to Israel in the post Six Day War era, her religious awakening in America and finally her return to Jerusalem. Tune in for her thoughts on past present and future.

 

Mike Feuer

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.

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