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Adina and Eric Yoffie: A Different Path, Still Family [Divergence 5/5]

JL;DR SUMMARY In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, and his daughter Dr. Adina Yoffie, a Modern Orthodox editor and writer, discuss their journey as a family through ideological differences. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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