JUDAISM DEMYSTIFIED | A Guide for Today's Perplexed: Torah Foundations, Reason, and Tradition

Episode 34: Rabbi David Rosen "Defining Our Jewish Identity"


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Rabbi David Rosen makes a passionate case for a new (yet old) approach to building a strong, sustainable Jewish identity, and how rallying around a flag or conjuring up the holocaust must not be the determining factors of who we are. Today we are seeing a major rise in antisemitism but now it has mutated into something entirely new. The latest iteration of this phenomenon is a bigotry that aims to strip us of our identity. Like when our haters say "antisemitism isn't exclusive to Jews since Arabs are semites too" or "Jew hatred isn't accurate since we are not even the real Jews." How do we respond to Kanye West and all the Jew hatred that is coming from both the far right and far left? Also, how important is interfaith and intrafaith dialogue? What are the benefits of engaging with Christians and Muslims but also with Reform and Conservative Jews? Should Modern Orthodoxy become self-governing and break away from the Haredi-led power structure? As Rabbi Sacks pointed out, the issues confronting contemporary halakha is not due to "lack of creativity but the sociological divorce between the centers of Pesak and the centers of congregational life." Lastly, is there hope for ending the Israeli/Palestinian conflict? If there's going to be an official peace agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, will that have a trickle-down effect on the conflict? The Rabbi gives his assessment of the Abraham Accords and more.
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