Special Tisha Ba'av Episode   The 1903 Kishinev Pogrom was a tragic massacre, with reverberations within the wider Jewish world remaining until this very day. Goaded on by anti-Semitic newspapers with cries of 'Death to the Jews', a blood libel was fabricated and a mob was unleashed on Easter Sunday, April...

Rav Tzvi Hirsh Friedman (1808-1874), known as the Liska Rebbe, was an influential 19th century chassidic leader in Hungary. A student of the father of Hungarian Hasidism, Rav Moshe Teitelbaum, the Yismach Moshe, Rav Tzvi Hirsh was appointed rabbi in Liska (Olaszliszka), where he established his court as well. Quickly...