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Natan Sharansky: 'If you don't have faith or Zionism, your grandchildren will not be Jewish' (18 Questions, 40 Israeli Thinkers)

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JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician, discusses the intertwined challenges of antisemitism and assimilation facing the Jewish people, asserting that Israel is pivotal for Jewish continuity. 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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Oslo AccordsJewish IdentityZionismIranHuman RightsAssimilationNatan SharanskyMiddle East Politics

Places mentioned

Israel
"Israel is the best answer to all those efforts to undermine the future of our people."
Jerusalem, Israel
"Natan Sharansky was deputy prime minister, minister of industry and trade, minister of internal affairs, and resigned from the Knesset, I believe, twice."
Denver, Colorado, United States
"Including the Congressional Gold Medal in 1986, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2006."
Modiin, Central District, Israel
"Called Share, headed by Rabbi Dr. Benji Levy, that is hosting two phenomenal events in Jerusalem and in Modiin, January 25th at 7.30pm."
United States
"Twenty years later, it's not metaphoric. There was occupation of the campuses."
Lebanon
"The problem is that we haven't been able to provide to what extent democracy can afford polarization."
Iran
"We gave the laws like restrictive, that even in this moment, maximum what you can do, this, this and this."
Gaza, Southern District, Israel
"What do you think should happen with Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after the war?"
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"And when I ask whether you're to the left or to the right, I say that the definitions which we use here, what is left and what is right, are very confusing."
Egypt
"First time, we are called people. We are all. So, when we go out of Egypt, we go out as people, as Am."
Saudi Arabia
"We have to encourage different types of structures emerging in our region. All this, at this moment of history, the attempt now to build makes it much more difficult."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"Munich operation, assassination of the sportsmen."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"And in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2007, I was dealing, I was involved in dialogue with different parts of Iranian opposition."

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