Judaism

Growing Up Jewish

Four young people on the cusp of adulthood prepare for one of the biggest nights of their lives - their Bar and Bat Mitzvah - balancing culture, religion a...

Bar mitzvah | Being…

Ethan explains the different traditions involved with his bar mitzvah, including the importance of the Torah and why he is twinning with a boy who los...

3: Growing Old | A Believer's Guide to...

Ivor is celebrating his 83rd birthday in an unusual way. He is having a second bar mitzvah at the same time as his 13-year-old gran...

Bar Mitzvah | Belief File

An exploration of the Jewish coming of age ceremony, the Bar Mitzvah.

Bar-Mitzvah on Masada | Sacred Wonders

An American family travel to Masada to have their children's Bat-Mitzvah and Bar-Mitzvah.

The Settlers | Louis Theroux

Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in th...

Episode 2 | The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why her aunts left for the new state of Israel and a woman wh...

Episode 1 | The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son whose relative was caught up in Israel's War of Independence, as well as a...

Ultra Zionists | Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux spends time with ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of...

Nakba | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the Nakba, the forced removal of Arab Palestinians from their land, in the expansion of Israel....

Partition | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the British and United Nations roles in the partition of Palestine into two states, one Jew...

4: Judaism | My Life, My Religion

What does it mean to be Jewish? 11-year-old Charlie explains his religion of Judaism, it's bat mitzvah year for 13-year-old Me-Me and 10-ye...

Should there be a sacred day of rest? | Sunday Morning Live

The British Chief Rabbi explains the value of Shabbat.

Judaism: God | Belief File

Young Jewish Briton's explain and discuss God in the Jewish faith.

Issues: Belief and Homosexuality | Belief File

This programme looks at homosexuality from Christian and Jewish perspectives.

Judaism: God | Pathways of Belief

Gary and his friends in Glasgow explain the Jewish sabbath and the Jewish view of God.

Progressive Judaism | A-Z of Belief

This week’s program explores Progressive Judaism. Israeli-born performer Ofra Haza discusses her faith, followed by Linzi Brand, a Jewish...

3: Keeping the Faith | Jews

Philanthropist Jonathan Faith's attempts to reverse the decline in the observant Jewish population.

Jewish traditions | Belief File

An exploration of how different Jewish people practice Judaism differently.

My Big Gay Jewish Conversion

Following Simon Atkins, a gay Catholic man, as he considers converting to Judaism. He travels to Israel to experience views in Tel Aviv and Jeru...

Birth rituals in Judaism | Being…

Circumcision is a large part of the rituals that follow birth in Judaism, followed by the naming ceremony.

1: Trip to the Mountains | Getting High for God?

Mawaan Rizwan travels to Utah, USA, to spend time with the Oklevueha Native American Church, who use the Class A drug peyote...

2: Ayahuasca in Rio | Getting High for God?

Mawaan Rizwan travels to Rio, Brazil, to join the congregations who use the ancient Amazonian hallucinogenic substance ayahuasca ...

Lotan Baba: The Rolling Saint | Sadhus: India's Holy Men

Not many people would give up all their worldly possessions, forsake family, take a vow of celibacy, and then roll o...

A Cut Too Far

Thousands of baby boys are circumcised annually in the UK mainly for religious reasons. With some countries debating a ban on it, the programme asks: should we...

Passover | The Story of the Jews

The festival of Passover is one of the most important celebrations in the Jewish calendar.

The Torah | The Story of the Jews

The Torah has a central role in Jewish worship.

5: Return | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama examines how the Holocaust and the creation of Israel have changed what it means to be Jewish as he traces these historic events.

4: Over the Rainbow | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama explores how eastern European Jewish culture made its mark across the world, from Soviet politics to Hollywood cinema.

3: A Leap of Faith | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama examines how the Enlightenment brought the ghetto walls crashing down and how this integration ultimately stirred up ...

2: Among Believers | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama examines the story of the medieval Jews and their struggle to preserve their identity under the rule of Christianity ...

1: In the Beginning | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama looks at the Jewish story, starting 3,000 years ago with the emergence of tribal people in contested land and a book...

Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama visits the Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem where Jewish and Arab students are educated together.

Holy Land | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama investigates the forced expansion of Israel in the West Bank.

Kibbutz | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama visits a Kibbutz that he worked on and explains the Socialist Zionist background to the movement.

Nakba | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama investigates the forced removal of Arab Palestinians from their land, in the expansion of Israel.

Palestine Israel Partition | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama discusses the UN decision to create a Palestine Israel Partition in 1947.

Faisal | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama discusses the role that King Faisal of Iraq played in Jewish people settling in Palestine.

Balfour Declaration | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama explains the background to Zionism and the Balfour Agreement.

Jewish African-American Music | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama investigates Jewish African American music.

Hasidism | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama discusses the origins, beliefs and practices of Hasidic Judaism.

Hosanna | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama describes Jewish weddings in Eastern European shtetl.

Shtetl Jews | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama investigates photographs depicting Shtetl life.

Zionism | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama discusses Theodor Herzl and the history of Zionism.

Antisemitism | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama looks at the Jewish population of Paris at a time of resurgent French nationalism.

The Children of the Holocaust

Powerful animated films, in which elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors tell their stories of Nazi persecution in their childhood and how they esc...

The Last Survivors

A landmark documentary about the last survivors of the Holocaust living in Britain today, as they reflect on their childhood and how it has affected the r...

A crisis of faith | The Last Survivors

A Holocaust survivor talks about how he almost lost his faith and how he managed to reconcile his experiences with his belief in God.

Auschwitz | The Last Survivors

Holocaust survivors talk about their memories of Auschwitz.

2: The Next Generation | Jews

How the children of Holocaust survivors still find themselves carrying the inherited trauma.

Schlieben Camp | Who Do You Think You Are?

Robert Rinder visits the Nazi Schlieben Camp and discusses the conditions of life there.

Robert Rinder | Who Do You Think You Are?

Robert 'Judge' Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, as well as investigating the dark mystery surroun...

Rinder's Family in Poland | Who Do You Think You Are?

Robert Rinder visits the first ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe.

National Holocaust Museum | Songs of Praise

Two brothers explain why they set up a museum about the Holocaust in Nottinghamshire.

Finding my Family: Holocaust | Newsround Specials

In this Newsround special, Holocaust survivor Steven Frank takes his teenage granddaughter Maggie on a journey to learn abo...

Life after the Holocaust | The Last Survivors

Holocaust survivors discuss their life in Britain after the end of the war.

Stories of survival | The Last Survivors

Holocaust survivors tell the stories of how they survived the Holocaust.

Memorial ceremony | The Last Survivors

A Holocaust survivor finds evidence of his brother's death and holds a memorial ceremony for him and the rest of his family.

Maurice's story | The Last Survivors

The sculptor Maurice Blik tells the story of his younger sister who died in Belsen concentration camp. Contains upsetting images.

Artistic responses to the Holocaust | The Last Survivors

The sculptor Maurice Blik talks about how his experiences and memories of his father have influenced his art.

Second generation trauma | The Last Survivors

A Holocaust survivor and her daughter discuss the impact of the Holocaust on the children of survivors.

Survivors' stories | The Last Survivors

Holocaust survivors living in Britain talk about their memories of life before the Holocaust and their attempts to create a new life ...

School photo | The Last Survivors

A Holocaust survivor from Prague talks about the classmates in his school photo whose stories he has spent years tracing.

Memories of Dachau | The Last Survivors

A Holocaust survivor living in Britain talks about his time in Dachau and how the experience affected his life.

Grandchild of the Holocaust

Rene Salt was the only member of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. Here, she tells her grandson Adrian the full story of her past fo...

The Ten Commandments | Belief File

Jewish students tell the story of The Ten Commandments.

Babylon | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses the story of Nebuchadnezzar destroying the temple in Jerusalem and the exile of the Jewish pe...

King Solomon's Temple | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore recounts the history of King Solomon's Temple and its importance to Judaism.

King David | Jerusalem: The Making of a Holy City

Simon Sebag Montefiore explains how King David united the divided Israelites.

The story of Jonah | Belief File

Jewish students tell the story of Jonah.

Covenant | Belief File

Jewish students perform the story of Abraham and Isaac.

Introduction to Judaism | Belief File

Daniel introduces Judaism, he visits a Synagogue and discusses the Torah and Shabbat.

Judaism: The Torah | Belief File

Young Jewish Briton's explain and discuss the importance of the Torah in the Jewish faith.

The Torah | Belief File

The history and significance of the Torah.

Moses Mendelssohn | The Story of the Jews

Simon Schama talks about Moses Mendelssohn who translated the Torah from Hebrew into German.

Judaism: Torah: A Way of Life | Pathways of Belief

Jeremy is preparing for his Bar Mitzvah for which he has to study the Torah, the Jewish Holy Book. Jeremy explains the imp...