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Guilt by Identification: Jewish Pride in a Hostile Environment – with Daniel Held

JL;DR SUMMARY Faced with rising antisemitism and anti-Zionism, Jewish communities are navigating how to embrace and teach Jewish pride and identity in an increasingly hostile environment. 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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Jewish IdentityEducationJewish PrideTalmudic StudyJewish Communal LifeCommunity ResilienceResponse To HostilitySafety And VisibilityChabad Initiatives

Places mentioned

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"He is currently the chief program officer of the UJA Federation of Jewish Studies.... and he was previously the executive director of UJA's Julia and Henry Kaczynski Center for Jewish Education."
New York, United States
"they want to show their Jewishness. They may be discomfited by the fact that people are openly supporting terror organizations, or they may simply be hurting and feel ashamed because people are telling us that the Jewish state is the villain, that we're the bad guy, that we're on the wrong side of history."
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