Rabbis Michael Knopf and Jesse Olitzky are lifelong friends, pop culture fanboys, and lovers of all things Jewish. Join them every other week for a conversation about what’s going on in pop culture from a Jewish perspective and about Judaism through the lens of pop culture.

How does one talk about, let alone resolve, the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, especially when people on either side of the divide don’t know or won’t talk to one another? That’s the challenging question posed by the new HBO Max film Oslo, based on the J. T. Rogers play of the same name, which dramatizes the secret back-channel negotiations between Israel and the PLO that led to the 1993 Oslo Accords. The question has taken on renewed urgency following last month’s violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky are joined by special guest Leah Solomon, Chief Education Officer of Encounter, to discuss the power of seeing and knowing the “other” and to explore what each of us can do to pursue peace.

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