I had a phenomenal conversation with these seven Black Jews and my co-moderator Nate Looney. First question was actually, do you even LIKE that label in the first place, and unsurprisingly, their answers were varied.
As with all of my episodes, the conversation was interesting, and a mixture of seriousness as well as laughter. I learned plenty, and hope you’ll take the time to watch or listen! Always available on Youtube and most podcast sites!
The participants:
“Shavua” is an interactive journal woven with Jewish wisdom, inviting readers to pause, reflect and add their own thoughts to an ongoing Jewish conversation.
For decades, the world’s biggest musical acts brought their concert tours through Israel: Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2, Paul McCartney, Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Rihanna and Rage Against the Machine.
The Haredi Public Party was created because the Haredi public deserves more than excuses, Israeli society deserves more than permanent confrontation, and the Jewish people deserve an Israel capable of reconciling Torah, responsibility and national unity.
For more than 30 minutes, approximately 160 delegates took turns denouncing me by name for being a Zionist, and calling Zionism racism.
Topp is departing Beth Jacob, where he has served as senior rabbi since 2009. He and his wife, Rebbetzin Jordana, are making aliyah.
He didn’t ask the audience to overlook his disability; he showed us how it could become a source of power, beauty and artistic innovation.
Rabbi Pini Dunner sees himself as sounding an alarm about what he describes as Qatar’s growing influence and ties to Hamas.
These countries plotted – or at least one of them plotted – to advance peace agreements with Israel simply to lull it to sleep ahead of a war at a more convenient time. Or so the “sources” say.
I think of how something as simple as a blanket can carry a person’s spirit, their story, their love, their hope.
Because antizionists like El-Sayed interweave their antizionism with anti-Americanism and antisemitism, every self-respecting American Jew should work even harder to oppose him.
It is crucial that El-Sayed be defeated so the Democratic Party will understand that being taken over by such extremists is the road to electoral oblivion.
The scholar’s earlier affinity for the Jewish state is worth revisiting and appreciating, reminding us in this moment of uncertainty that more positive possibilities could very well emerge between two nations, a friendship as existed decades ago, renewed.
Parenthood has a way of exposing the limits of instruction. Children do not necessarily inherit what we tell them to value. They inherit what they see us value.
The courage it takes for this father to share his son’s story and relive that tragedy is beyond words.
Political appointments systematically damage the very core of the public service. They sever the connection between office and competence, replacing professional qualifications with party loyalty.
How wonderful it would be if instead of shandas and stoopers, we had courageous leaders who refused to be part of any “big tent” that included antisemites, racists, and those who would slander and undermine the state of Israel.
Boaz gathered 14 members of the cast and crew from the Netflix show “Jewish Matchmaking,” and it was so much fun!
A new book by Alyssa Rosenheck is a call to end extremism, fight antisemitism, and reclaim moral clarity.
The Summit theme was “American. Zionist. Proud,” and Tessa Veksler, an advocate who was part of the ICC Geller Fellowship, hosted the sessions.
