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Rabbi Daniel Greyber joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish Peoplehood, a ten part virtual course which runs from October 22, 2020 through April 15, 2021. This course is taught by Rabbi Greyber, presented by the Shalom Hartman Institute, and has been subsidized by the Jewish Federation of Durham Chapel Hill, Beth El Synagogue, Kehillah Synagogue, and Judea Reform Congregation. Today on the podcast we discuss several of the course topics (see below), Black Lives Matter, how to talk about the Holocaust, and much more.  

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Schedule: Week days 6:30-9:00pm, Sundays 9:30am-12:00pm

Thursday, October 22, 2020: From No Home to Two Homes
Thursday, November 12, 2020: The Judaism of Being & The Judaism of Becoming
Tuesday, November 24, 2020: On Universalism and Particularism
Thursday, December 3, 2020: Between Nationalism, Ultra-Nationalism, & Fascism and The Moral Implications of Jewish Nationalism
Sunday, January 24, 2021: The Israeli Nation-State Law
Sunday, February 7, 2021: Antisemitism as a Divisive Force and Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism
Sunday, February 21, 2021: The Accusation and Dilemma of Dual Loyalties
Sunday, March 7, 2021: “What’s Good for the Jews?” Identity Politics in North America
Sunday, March 21, 2021: From Family to Consumer and Shared Believers, Partners and Investors
Thursday, April 15, 2021: At-Homeness

Links discussed during today’s episode:

• First-Ever 50-state Survey On Holocaust Knowledge Of American Millennials and Gen Z Reveals Shocking Results
• Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
• Jewish Values in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Teens (Midrasha course taught by Rabbi Greyber)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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Carly Pildis joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss her column You don’t have to choose between Black Lives Matter and Israel. Pildis details the importance of standing in solidarity with black lives while reminding the Jewish community “if you aren’t at the table, you’re on the menu.” Ms. Pildis is asked how the Jewish community should consider and navigate the 2016 anti-Israel platform of the Movement for Black Lives while fully supporting black lives.

Carly Pildis is a columnist at the Forward and was named one of the Forward’s 50 most interesting and influential Jews in America for 2019. Pildis has been featured in Politico, The Washington Post, CNN, The Jerusalem Post, and elsewhere. 

Links:

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Rabbi Fred Guttman joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss how to talk to children about the Holocaust. Rabbi Guttman starts the conversation by sharing that Holocaust education for Jewish children begins with learning about Judaism and being proud of your religion and who you are. 

Fred Guttman is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Greensboro, North Carolina and is highly involved with the International March of the Living which is an annual educational program, bringing individuals from around the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the Holocaust. 

Rabbi Guttman has been the chair of the Israel/Foreign Affairs subcommittee of the Commission of Social Action for Reform Judaism and has been instrumental in helping draft several significant Union for Reform Judaism resolutions, including resolutions on torture and human rights.

Links:

• The Holocaust: A history of courage and resistance by Bea Stadtler
• World at War: Genocide (BBC)
• Number the Stars

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Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss his love of Israel, the dangers of BDS, and maintaining red lines in synagogues. Rabbi Yoffie is asked about his seminal articles Muzzled by the Minority and Synagogues, Red Lines, and Free Speech. 

Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie was President of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the congregational arm of the Reform Jewish Movement in North America, from 1996-2012. The URJ represents 1.5 million Reform Jews in more than 900 synagogues across the United States and Canada. Learn more about Rabbi Yoffie’s work by visiting his website. Read Rabbi Yoffie’s full bio here. On the podcast, Rabbi Yoffie recommends the book Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman. 

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Benjamin Ryberg, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Research at The Lawfare Project, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss its impressive victory against anti-Israel discrimination. Mr. Ryberg served as lead council on the Lawfare Project’s victory and settlement against the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), an organization in the United States that initially refused to sell advertising space in one of their publications to an Israeli organization. 

In addition to discussing this case in detail, Mr. Ryberg provides important background information on discriminatory efforts to boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) Israel. 

Read more about this settlement here at the Jerusalem Post. 

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Anat Sultan-Dadon, Consul General of Israel to the Southeastern United States, joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss Israel’s quest for peace and her important work representing Israel in the United States.

On today’s podcast, Consul General Sultan-Dadon is asked about working with allies to have states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance ‘s definition of antisemitism, the importance of standing up to antisemitism from wherever it arises, a two state solution, Israel’s quest for peace, why there is no peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the White House Peace Plan, media bias towards Israel, visiting Germany with Shimon Peres to attend his historic speech at the German Bundestag, when to speak with children about the Holocaust, and so much more. 

Consul General Sultan-Dadon joined the Israeli diplomatic corps in 2004. She has extensive experience working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has held various posts and positions in Israel and abroad. She has held positions at the Israeli embassies in Cameroon, Germany, the Netherlands and most recently in Canberra, Australia. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem she has held positions in the Euroasia Division and the Asia-Pacific Division.

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Susan B. Tuchman, Director of the Zionist Organization of America’s Center for Law & Justice, joins Peter Reitzes to discuss using the law to protect the safety of Jewish students at Duke University. 

On today’s podcast, Ms. Tuchman is asked to review the initial complaint that the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) filed in 2019 with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. This initial complaint was related to a one-sided, Israel bashing conference sponsored by UNC and Duke that included an antisemitic performance. Then Ms. Tuchman is asked about a second complaint ZOA filed in March of 2020 with OCR alleging that Duke University violated the Resolution Agreement the university signed and submitted to OCR in December of 2019 related to antisemitism on campus. 

Ms. Tuchman is asked about the tremendous fear that some Jewish students face on the campus of Duke University because of their love and support for Israel. For example, Duke students reported to ZOA sending emails to university officials stating, “I don’t feel safe on campus,” “I am terrified to walk to class right now,” and “The onslaught continues. I fear for my safety and the safety of Jewish students.” Ms. Tuchman is asked about a Duke student who recently stated on a Voice4Israel Zoom event that one or more students had been advised by the university to “watch their backs” and consider a police escort to class. 

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Jenny Aharon joins Peter Reitzes on the Voice4Israel podcast to discuss her recent column Israel, a super democracy published in the Jerusalem Post. Ms. Aharon discusses Israel’s democracy and current power sharing agreement, Israel’s impressive response to COVID-19, the White House Peace Plan, feminism and Zionism, and much more. 

Jenny Aharon is the director of Golden Gate Public Affairs and advises on EU-Israel affairs. Ms. Aharon works with European Union institutions in Brussels and spoke with Voice4Israel from her home in Belgium. 

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