Leon Charney interviews Author and former Israeli Politician Michael Bar-Zohar. In this interview, they talk about his book “Beyond Hitler’s Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews” as he recounts his experiences as a Bulgarian Jew. Rerun: January 27, 2013…
Rabbi Hartman was one of the few Orthodox voices that attempted to articulate a Jewish theology that squared a religious particularism to the circle of moral universalism. The personal tragedy of Rabbi Hartman was that he succeeded so profoundly. In…
Abraham Michael “A.M.” Rosenthal was a New York Times executive editor and columnist. Rosenthal won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for international reporting. In this episode of the Leon Charney report, A.M Rosenthal talks about his experience being a Jewish…
Theodor “Teddy” Kollek (Hebrew: טדי קולק; May 27, 1911 — January 2, 2007) was an Israeli who served as the mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993, and founder of the Jerusalem Foundation. Kollek was re-elected five times, in 1969,…
Leon Charney talks to Gizella Weishauss who is a survivor of Auschwitz, and the first complainant in the Holocaust restitution case against the Swiss banks. They discuss the case along with her lawyer Edward Fagan and Edith Edry. Anthony Bianco…