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27 Dec 2024

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JL;DR SUMMARY 2024 was a pivotal year for Jewish life, marked by Israel's military feats against regional threats and significant discussions on Jewish identity and survival. 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 Identity  Diaspora  Middle East  Maimonides  Reform Judaism  International Politics  Military Strategy  Jewish Memory 

Places mentioned

Israel
"Israel's security and Israel on the global stage, and questions that help us understand the situation of the Jewish diaspora."
Gaza, Southern District, Israel
"when the government talks about destroying Hamas totally, I know some people kind of take pot shots at the Israeli government."
Haifa District, Israel
"just a few days ago with names and positions as well, not only participating in the October 7 atrocities, but being involved."
Denmark
"When I was in Yeshiva, a colleague of mine from Denmark was studying with me, was killed by terrorists."
New York, United States
"Little Jewish boys don't walk around with their hands up anymore in the face of Nazis. So it's a great, great privilege to have children who are reliving that life."
Syria
"Hamas has a well oiled mechanism of siphoning international aid destined for civilians, but then used by Hamas in order to sustain its military operations."
Washington, Washington DC, United States
"It's a suburb of Washington. And it's one of the modern Orthodox, you know, densest modern Orthodox populations in the area."
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
"It's a suburb of Washington. And it's one of the modern Orthodox, you know, densest modern Orthodox populations in the area."
Iraq
"Saddam said there's no reason for us to wait. And that being the case, he's going to. He's going to do a very daring raid on the Osirak reactor and try to destroy it. It's a preventative strike."
Damascus, Syria
"The fall of Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, and with it, the end of the Ba'ath Party, is the end of a dark chapter in the Middle East."
Central District, Israel
"when six boys were killed. Three of them were colleagues of mine. I, at the time, was in basic training, so I wasn't there. I went to a Hezder Yeshiva, so my fellow students were all in the army."
Baghdad, Basra, Iraq
"There's no guarantee. But this was a moral decision, a risk calculation in which Dagan decided rightfully, right, decided in the correct manner that we should take this preventative strike."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"Tikvah Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and Spotify. I hope you'll leave us a five-star review to help us grow this community of ideas."
Iran
"and protect the millions of citizens who live amongst the threats posed by the ring of fire that Iran has constructed around the Jewish state."
Austin, Texas, United States
"and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. We begin with a heart-rending conversation with Yechiel Leiter."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"It's a suburb of Washington. And it's one of the modern Orthodox, you know, densest modern Orthodox populations in the area."
Hamburg, Germany
"So this was a case, not where fiction follows a real person, but a real person, in this case, followed a fiction."
Farum, Capital Region, Denmark
"in the wake of the destruction of the temple, struggling to retain a connection to God."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"It's a suburb of Washington. And it's one of the modern Orthodox, you know, densest modern Orthodox populations in the area."

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